Watch this video and then make comments if you wish.
I should have stated in the video, that I'm NOT saying that in a real swing, the hands do nothing, and just hold onto the bat, nor am I saying that a little "tip and rip", "running start" isn't valuable, and I DO believe that the hands torque or "snap" the bat, but they do it VERY LATE, just before contact, NOT early in the swing.
The video is simply made to show that the bat CAN get around very well without ANY hand forces being applied.
The primary objective is to make the hands/knob accelerate from the shoulder (launch position) to contact, at as high a rate as possible. Extra force from the hands that try to accelerate the batHEAD is a secondary objective, and is applied LATE, IMO.
Watch and tell me what YOU think.
It's a streaming video;
http://wms17.streamhoster.com/firstpick/notht.wmv
I should have stated in the video, that I'm NOT saying that in a real swing, the hands do nothing, and just hold onto the bat, nor am I saying that a little "tip and rip", "running start" isn't valuable, and I DO believe that the hands torque or "snap" the bat, but they do it VERY LATE, just before contact, NOT early in the swing.
The video is simply made to show that the bat CAN get around very well without ANY hand forces being applied.
The primary objective is to make the hands/knob accelerate from the shoulder (launch position) to contact, at as high a rate as possible. Extra force from the hands that try to accelerate the batHEAD is a secondary objective, and is applied LATE, IMO.
Watch and tell me what YOU think.
It's a streaming video;
http://wms17.streamhoster.com/firstpick/notht.wmv
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