Posted by: above&beyond () on Sun Sep 23 09:30:47 2007

> what does it mean when a hitter's front leg is straightening well after contact??

Your front leg can assist the pop in your waist. There is a lot of power in the torque of your waist. The front leg pushes back to the catcher and the rear leg pushes forward toward the pitcher. Watch some pro hitters in slo mo. The front leg is bent at first. Then just before contact the front leg straigtens out assisting the rear leg in the waist poping action. That is the key ingredient in the rotational power of the body. If you straigten out your front leg after the contact, you are missing some potential power by not applying the push of the front thigh back to the catcher for the full torque of the waist. That rearward action in rotating the waist is just a matter of straitening out the front leg along with your rear leg action.