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Thanks L

Great pictures. Your point is more than well taken. Please note however:
Picture 6: obviously jammed, note no arm extension, and chest high contact made.

picture 3: Obviously outside, note contact made over the plate.

Picture 2: ditto.

picture 7: notice again chest high contact made.

The other pictures are quite convincing on those hitters on that hit. Thankyou, sincerely.

Now I must go back to square one. Picture four happens what, a couple of hundredths of a second after contact?

Note two: In four of the six pictures, the batter is hitting a ball ABOVE WHAT WOULD BE A CALLED STRIKE, SEVERAL INCHES ABOVE WHAT WOULD BE A CALLED STRIKE IN ANY LEAGUE. It's sort of like the "hucabuck pictures" in football where the guys imitate swivel-hips somebody with the knee up and to the side. It makes a good picture and is part of the mantra we all get caught up in. Me too, by the way. I had to experiment a LOT to be sure I wasn't messing the kids up with the concept of allowing the natural rolling of the wrists.

I finally decided that trying to segment their swing into hundredths of a second was stupid. Also that trying to get them conscious of hand position during a hopefully fluid and naturally flowing progression, was going to hurt them. I genuinely felt, and do feel that teaching them to concentrate any attention on the point of contact would do nothing except allow them to say subconsciously to themselves:"job over, I can quit now."

Instead, I want them following through with that natural rolling action so beautifully illustrated in picture four.
I want them driving THROUGH the ball.

On the chest high balls being hit in several of the pictures, the roll is going to happen very late, since the swing is and must be an uppercut.

L, thank you so very much for these pictures in the discussion. I am too computer illiterate to know how to get them there. Thank you also for picture four it was especially honest of you to include that one.

Highest regards
Kenneth Bean