Posted by: Paul (paul.stein0@gmail.com) on Sat Aug 20 07:30:36 2011

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> HI Paul
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> If all coaches (and Dads) followed your interpretations of linear cues, I would have little problem with them. However, this is not what I find in far too many cases. I receive countless frustrated e-mails from my students complaining their coaches teach linear mechanics (many of them are college coaches) and demand they conform to their teaching -- "Their way, or, the highway."
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> Paul, from the number of e-mails I receive on this topic, the problem is much greater than I had once thought.
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> Jack Mankin

Jack,

It's more of a problem than I thought it was. Especially among coaches above the Babe Ruth/Little League level.

This is a video I found on YouTube attached to your "Lead Shoulder Rotation" video: Keeping Your Shoulder In

Apparently this is still being taught. This is really unfortunate because it ruins hitters every day. It isn't that tough to get your hands on slow motion video today (Right View Pro, or some other program), yet coaches continue to teach what are (and what were) inherently flawed mechanics. People are still teaching "swing down for backspin", but it never occurs to them that the ball is traveling down about 4-10 degrees. If you swing down, you're going to

1. Pop up
2. Hit a ground ball
3. Miss the ball entirely
4. Hit the ball so that a "knuckleball" line drive results (only about 5% of the time)