I'm a little surprised that someone who advocates for Rich's techniques would post this clip as a swing example. If anyone shifts her weight forward into a balanced position prior to launch, it's SR. And look at her point of contact - looks to me like hands/knob to the ball all day:
I'm a little confused on the relationship between turning the barrel rearward (which shoots the knob of the bat skyward) and then subsequently rolling over the hands (i.e., pushing the top hand past the bottom hand at some point). Are those two things consistent with each other?
A couple of years back, I stumbled across this video made by Board Member (who I believe used to post here often) addressing TM's swing methods:
Did TM ever address this binding of the wrist issue discussed by Board Member? That issue alone makes it difficult for me to buy into TM's swing...
So you’re saying about a 3% increase (in bat speed)? A 100-foot hit would become 103 feet; a 200 foot hit would become 206? Or would a 3% increase in bat speed result in a greater (or lesser) increase in ball distance? I’m not sure exactly how bat speed correlates to ball distance.
But if you viewed that swing from a different angle - e.g., slightly in front rather than slightly behind - you would probably think it looks like the elbow is in front of the hands and call it bat drag.
A while back, someone - I believe it was @fanboi22 - posted an idea that I believe works better than simply "elbow in front of the knob/hands" to help define bat drag. The idea was to run an imaginary line between the front part of the shoulder and the knob of the bat. If the elbow crosses...
W=W, do us all a favor and take another video of your daughter hitting, this time with the camera slightly behind her rather than slightly in front of her. We'll see then if the bat drag crowd still thinks it looks like bat drag.
I think your view of bat drag directly contradicts your view of elbow slotting. You continually say that the hitter must slot the elbow before pushing the arms/hands away from the armpit. Thus the elbow must drop and move forward relative to the hands, which are locked at the armpit.
Then...
To me this looks like a camera angle issue. I don't think her elbow was in front of her hands in either picture. The top pic kind of looks like it but, I think, that is simply due to the angle of the camera in that shot. Trying to conceptualize 3 dimensions based on a 2-dimensional picture is...
Here's a simple example of why I think it's relevant. I would argue that:
1. If you hit a specific spot on the ball that is 5 degrees below the equator/center line of the ball (relative to the ground), then the ball will launch at 5 degrees. That, I believe, would hold true regardless of...
I agree with your conclusions. The fact is, pool balls are not completely round either. They merely get you closer to the ideal. Due to the infinite nature of what we call reality, a perfect sphere exists only in imagination. Nevertheless, understanding the underlying mechanical and...