Fly swatters and bats, what if.....

[Bobby Shirer]

What if the movements of the body have nothing to do with bat speed?
What if all the body does is align the swing plane to the ball?
A heavy bat only weighs 26oz in women's fast pitch. Grown men swing 26-30 oz bats in slow pitch and pro baseball. MOI aside.... Only a portion of the weight is in the barrel.
Why can't the arms/shoulders/lats/traps move that one pound weight all by themselves?
Let's take it to an extreme....a fly swatter doesn't require a whole body movement to smack that zippy little fly.
Some bats are drop 11 and 12... short little fly swatters themselves.
How much does a bat have to weight before we need to start cheating and using extra body movements to swing it?

 

[julray]

Short little fly swatter to you.. how about for 8-11 year old kids? Doubt it feels like a fly swatter to them.

I view cheating the other way around.. if you aren't using your body appropriately.. then you are cheating yourself.

 

[radness]

if you aren't using your body appropriately... then you are cheating yourself.

!!! Impact Statement !!!

 

[Rolling Hard]

What if the movements of the body have nothing to do with bat speed?
What if all the body does is align the swing plane to the ball?
A heavy bat only weighs 26oz in women's fast pitch. Grown men swing 26-30 oz bats in slow pitch and pro baseball. MOI aside.... Only a portion of the weight is in the barrel.
Why can't the arms/shoulders/lats/traps move that one pound weight all by themselves?
Let's take it to an extreme....a fly swatter doesn't require a whole body movement to smack that zippy little fly.
Some bats are drop 11 and 12... short little fly swatters themselves.
How much does a bat have to weight before we need to start cheating and using extra body movements to swing it?

What if the movements of the body have nothing to do with bat speed? But they do!

What if all the body does is align the swing plane to the ball? That's called a bunt!

 

[julray]

What if the movements of the body have nothing to do with bat speed? But they do!

What if all the body does is align the swing plane to the ball? That's called a bunt!

LOL.. too funny. That's what I was thinking.

@Bobby Shirer .. is there some kind of hidden agenda behind this thread? Can you please elaborate where you are going with this?

 

[Bobby Shirer]

LOL.. too funny. That's what I was thinking.

@Bobby Shirer .. is there some kind of hidden agenda behind this thread? Can you please elaborate where you are going with this?

Barry Bonds talks incessantly about his top hand.
All the posts from many here talking about hands and hitting down.
Trout, ARod, Yelich, etc... all talk about hit down, not much talk about the legs or core. Tewksbary talks about TTB. Mankin, THT and BHT, Miggy and palm up. Who's talking about the core and legs?
The bat weighs 26 oz or so, forget a 8 year old. Grown men swinging 26oz 33 inch bats in mlb. How much muscle does it take?
Chop chop or TTB both capable of creating the bat speeds necessary.
If the barrel can enter the zone with early bat speed.....we've all seen the blur as the barrel accelerates rearward.
Why not?
How's that for a hidden agenda? Next we talk about area 51.

 

[julray]

Barry Bonds talks incessantly about his top hand.
All the posts from many here talking about hands and hitting down.
Trout, ARod, Yelich, etc... all talk about hit down, not much talk about the legs or core. Tewksbary talks about TTB. Mankin, THT and BHT, Miggy and palm up. Who's talking about the core and legs?
The bat weighs 26 oz or so, forget a 8 year old. Grown men swinging 26oz 33 inch bats in mlb. How much muscle does it take?
Chop chop or TTB both capable of creating the bat speeds necessary.
If the barrel can enter the zone with early bat speed.....we've all seen the blur as the barrel accelerates rearward.
Why not?
How's that for a hidden agenda? Next we talk about area 51.

Strap yourself in a chair where you can't move your legs and core. Post a video of you hitting a ball like that.

 

[Bobby Shirer]

Not much body rotation here.

 

[Bobby Shirer]

Strap yourself in a chair where you can't move your legs and core. Post a video of you hitting a ball like that.

Good point except that I'm not using the obliques. Just tTB.
Video soon.

 

[Bonesaw]

What is the small t in tTB