Posted by: Jack Mankin (MrBatspeed@aol.com) on Mon Jan 20 14:47:33 2003

>>> 4)Mo Vaughn and some other thicker body types fold at the middle - front shoulder toward front knee, then drive the hips forward through that hip/shoulder line with emphasis on the back hip. It is a combo hip thrust and twist. This is a very powerful and quick movement. Bonds does a more elegant version of this.<<<

Hi Major Dan

We are on the same page. But in your above analysis, I think they (especially Bonds) uses the extension of lead-leg to drive the lead-hip around and back toward the catcher more than driving their back-hip forward. So I would say they emphasis the front-hip more (or at least as much) than the back-hip.

Jack Mankin