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Apr 11, 2015
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Guessing here
1. Shoulder chassis
2. sweet spot of the barrel
3. hands
My list is very much different, but that doesn't matter. It's simply an analogy for conceptual purposes for folks to think about and use if it helps.

But let me just ask you this. Do the shoulders ever really stop once they start coming forward into and through contact...except in a check swing?
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Oct 13, 2014
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I see it a bit differently. The entire body is used like a whip. There is no dragster imo.

if you look long and hard at some gifs you will see the body decelerating body part by body part all the way into and through contact. Of course earlier on outside pitches .the exact same way a whip works. The better you can stop, the more force and control you have through the ball strike. The brakes matter more than the engine. The analogy Smith used in his video about a crash test dummy is how I see it. When the car crashes, the impact throws everything In the car forward. Don’t agree with the body parts as much. Think the back hip and leg are the primary ‘brake’.

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Feb 25, 2020
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Hip extension. If you can see past all the obliques contracting and forearms rotating youll see how hip extension causes the ENTIRE body to go into a straight line in a fraction of a second. Look at these pics where the club is going 150 mph and then just take a second and think of which way this force works in a softball swing.

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Apr 11, 2015
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The analogy Smith used in his video about a crash test dummy is how I see it. When the car crashes, the impact throws everything In the car forward. Don’t agree with the body parts as much. Think the back hip and leg are the primary ‘brake’.

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Whether you agree the hips and legs are body parts or not....at least you're very close in what parts have "dragster" parts in them that needs to slam the "brakes" on into contact, so other parts can fly by them. (y)
 
Oct 13, 2014
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South Cali
Hip extension. If you can see past all the obliques contracting and forearms rotating youll see how hip extension causes the ENTIRE body to go into a straight line in a fraction of a second. Look at these pics where the club is going 150 mph and then just take a second and think of which way this force works in a softball swing.

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there’s a time constraint. No time to separate til the cows come home like this guy. Different constraints. Heck these contests have very few constraints. Hence the BIG LONG UNDISCIPLINED ACTIONS. Creating force in very LARGE windows. Couldn’t hit . 300 in 16u like this.
 
Feb 25, 2020
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there’s a time constraint. No time to separate til the cows come home like this guy. Different constraints. Heck these contests have very few constraints. Hence the BIG LONG UNDISCIPLINED ACTIONS. Creating force in very LARGE windows. Couldn’t hit . 300 in 16u like this.

I would bet dollars to doughnuts that his time to contact is less than Tiger woods. Prove me wrong.
 

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