quote:Originally posted by BlueDog:
May I remind that to change one's mind during a journey is O.K. to do?
I understand that and is the reason you and I get along so well. You understand and believe your position and I do mine. However, we're both big enough to discuss it without the insults. To me that makes you a valuable friend and resource. That is also the reason I'd trust you to coach my child.
quote:Originally posted by BlueDog:And, personal insults toward a Coach who does take the time to teach, and who does care, is not O.K.
Richard's charges against me and his warning to others to dismiss my posts are nothing new. I often question myself. I recall once posting about our 4 hour practices and being ridiculed by him about being inefficient and having practices that were too long. To be honest, regardless of what I taught, I didn't go to the plate to hit for them. In any other regard, Richard is wrong. Until this past 2 years, our community didn't have any players play outside of the community for any traveling teams and all of the feeder teams have been coached all winter long in my program.
I believe SIBullets can speak to this and how prepared my players are and their knowledge base since he's been able to now coach a few. I believe he can also verify that Kevin Hoef was the first player in our community to go outside of the community to play for a travel team.
quote:Originally posted by BlueDog:If we could keep our passion directed toward hitting, where it belongs, we might all learn a thing or two, who knows?
I too wish that this was the norm but unfortunately, it is not.
Regarding "torque" my interpretations of much of what one beleives to be "torque" in the hands can be attributed to the creation of "tension." When I am hitting fungos, I don't believe I create any torque per say on purpose. I do believe that I create tension. The ability to then drive a ball out of the park once in a while, by accident, when hitting fungos to outfielders (double cut situations) I believe to be driven by the core.
Finally, when one is talking about these different philosphies of what to do with the hands and then also discuss power, I know that the further my hands are away from the body and core, the weaker that they become. In order to have consistent power I believe you have to stay connected. JMHO!
Oh, I forgot, yes, Bluedog is correct when he asserted that few people in the most recent hitting guru wars use the term rotational. We're off to other arguments.