Posted by: BMill (brumil2@hotmail.com) on Tue Jan 28 21:50:02 2003

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> > Can you explain the "seeing the ball hit the bat" problem?
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> There is actually two problems, one caused when the hitter turns the head to "see" contact, this, (according to Epstein), causes rotation to stop at a point related to where the hitter is looking. Two, the most obvious, the hitter cannot actually see the bat hit the ball.

Why would you have to turn your head to see the ball unless you are an arm swinger with no hip rotation. I noticed in Ted Williams book that he has a slight downward look as the ball approaches the bat. I'm sure his eyes were following the ball into the hitting area. So where do you tell the young player to look if not at the ball. I agree you can't actually see the ball hit the bat but it seems you have to try.