I think there is a geometry problem that is answered in the swing.
He turns the barrel at launch which is after the pause in the clip. Prior to that is untipping and getting on plane.
A guy like Brett turned immediately because he was already pretty much on plane with his handset
I would agree that pauses in gifs are usually bad to see the full action and understanding of the motion. But in this case I think they were used to show the action of the load in ' turn the barrel'. Since it's such a small and quick part of the swing .imo.
I think there is a geometry problem that is answered in the swing.
The pauses are bad when Im 'feeling' the action in the video.
Bonds seems to be loading past the pause in the video.
You start a ton of threads and ask a bunch of questions. If there is a geometry question you will figure it out.
Ok. The first Bonds clip is the turn the barrel portion of the swing before the pause. The rest of the swing is loading , but not in the context of this thread topic. The second clip there is not a pause , instead there is a yes/no meter. Which I think you might appreciate since there is no pause. Same effect. All the Gifs in this thread are to show the mechanic 'turn the barrel' . Which is a loading of the barrel so the barrel can be whipped . Like I said I usually don't like pauses. But for the topic of the thread it will help someone identify what 'turn the barrel ' actually is. Rdbass thanks for the gifs. Way to show paused and fluent swings that accentuate 'turn the barrel'.
To be clear, I think there is math and physics in the swing which could supply some of the answers. For example they could be setting up the forces and how they directed into the initiation of the swing.
I think there is a pretty hefty prize for anyone who can make a mechanical model of the baseball swing.