I read in an earlier thread that the traditional "door knocking knuckle "alignment may not produce the best bat speeds. I have been teaching the Mike Candrea hitting style to the best of my ability. Can anyone shed any light on this?
You are correct. Englishbey and many others are on my reading list. So you don't like the idea of skipping a rock across the pond with the back hand. I do like the frisbee with two hands. I only use the rock skipping with the real young ones, when I'm showing them to lead with the back elbow . That is why I like the hammer drill the best.
When you watch Candrea describe/use the cue, he is careful to show that what he means involves not getting the elbow too far ahead or behind the hands, but he likes the elbow leading a little which IS typical of MLB swings.
So lets not misrepresent the cues/interpretation.
One more knew thing that has not came up yet is what we call the bucket drill and stepping on the inside of the lead foot on a flex front legg into the side of a bucket filled with concrete or sand. This was another way we have found to improve that Don and Sue were testing and has not been posted yet.