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One of the issues I can't get past with this demonstration - and many of those posted by TM - is the action of the rear leg and how the rear foot is moving as a result. It doesn't match with what I see happening at the rear foot of Trout, Pujols, Cabrera, Correa, Turner, Donaldson, etc., etc. There are some videos of Bonds spinning on a weighted foot like that, but others he doesn't.
Part of that may be that these are dry swings with no intent of hitting a ball as hard as you can. It would seem that the force of a full swing, with a leg SNAP like TM preaches, would make it difficult to actually spin like that and not come up on the toe like you are seeing with the hitters you mentioned. Even Judge, who has similar actions as this kid, comes up on his toe without that spinning action.