Reply to "Timing pitcher's stride"

younggun5,000+ posts

BOF, I'm not trying to debate here because I don't have the info to back up anything I'm saying. But I wouldn't think the .1 sec would equate to 1 mph. It's not a linear progression. The result (ball leaving finger tips) is further from the source (trunk rotation after front foot strike). Think about cracking a whip. The tip of the whip is breaking the sound barrier to result in the "crack". That is 760 mph. There is no way your arm or hand is traveling anywhere close to that. So the farther away from the source of the motion, the resulting speed will be exponentially greater. I just don't have the physics background to explain this any better.

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