The Plane of the Bat

[tom.guerry]

Good stuff !

In addition to:

"You can see his barrel doesn't align with the body until a frame or two before contact."

You could also say the body does not align with the barrell until a frame or 2 before contac.

Moreso if you can develop resistance to keep the hands/upper body back longer by turning handle first THEN tilting shoulders to support the plane the hands are setting up.

 

[ArmWhip]

Tom,

Jorgenson's golf model is all wrong, simplifying it to a 2 dimensional model distorts everything. The golf swing actually has three planes, the club, the arms and the the club head itself. At impact the arms are not in line with the club, as Jorgenson's simplified 2 dimensional model implies, the wrists have to roll. In golf you do not have flat palms at impact, the right palm faces the target and the back of the left hand also faces the target. The golf swing is substantially different from the baseball/softball swing. In golf 'release' is important, this means rolling the wrists. You can't have flat palms and roll the wrists.

Also, notice that in the videos the bat is not parallel with ground as it is in the illustrations in Ted Williams book in which he is showing the 'slight upswing'.


Here is another picture of Manny before he starts his wrist action.

http://images.google.com/imgres?img...m=1&hl=en&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&sa=N

 

[skeptic]

This is actually what many call the Magic Move

I've GOT to stop drinking liquids before reading one of Dick's posts. My monitor took another snort of coffee.

Many being a very relative term, obviously. As in 45 members on a site after two years of constant effort = "many"