Posted by: Joe (joe.flowers@nofreewill.com) on Sun Mar 6 07:24:13 2011

OK,

So I went in the back yard swinging a 32" 20 oz., bat at the Swing Speed Radar and was getting 68-70 mph swings using rotational mechanics as best as I could and then tried it with linear mechanics as best as I understand it and my linear mechanics values were usually around 5 to 10 mph slower. But, I'm biased toward rotational mechanics and don't know how much of one type of mechanic was creeping into the other. I tried my best.

I'm curious to know what others get?

By the way, "daw" <???@????.???>, I would like to be able to use this quote ("Anyway Ted said throughout the day: "Hitting is a turning
motion, not a lunging motion".") from your previous post but I need more reference info that just "daw". Can you supply that to me, please?

Thanks!!!


> I haven't been on this site for awhile so I'll rehash my Ted
> Williams story. In 1977 I was a college baseball player and got to
> attend a hitting clinic where Ted Williams spoke in the afternoon.
> He was the best speaker ever and it remains one of my best sports
> memories. Anyway Ted said throughout the day: "Hitting is a turning
> motion, not a lunging motion". Somebody asked him when he shifted
> his weight "from back to front" and he said "I don't shift my
> weight at all. My weight is balanced between my legs at all times".
> Ted's coaching point was rotating the hips, not the shoulders, but
> he was talking "rotational". I don't recall him talking about
> anything that could be called THT.

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