C77fastpitch wrote:Pdad- Please start a new post on the softball issues you would like to discuss. My thoughts on this post are very clear! However, I truly don't Know what we could discuss that you would know something about, and your logic is so simplistic it hurts my head.
No, your thoughts on the OP aren't particularly clear at all. You seem to be making the point that the OP's "claims" indicate that they don't know how to teach hitting. There are at least two major issues with you argument:
- A
guarantee and a
claim are not equivalent terms. If you were a lawyer, as you claim, you would have known that.
- Silly guarantees on performance does not necessarily equate poor hitting instruction. This connection seems to be the crux of your argument. It is possible that a lack of sophistication in marketing/business indicates a lack of sophistication in teaching swing mechanics, but not necessarily. To determine whether that was the case here, you would first need to establish what good hitting instruction consisted of and then compare that to what these instructors were providing. Again, if you really were a lawyer, as you claim, this kind of logic would be second nature to you. You are totally unwilling to articulate what you think a good swing consists of, or how it should be taught.
Since this is a softball discussion board, it would seem that this discussion could be valuable. Rather than using your omniscient and unquestionable expertise to protect a handful of local kids (who probably aren't reading this thread) from these supposed charlatans, you could actually provide some insight into hitting that would help anyone reading your posts.
You've been given a couple openings to do this, but you haven't yet, so let me give you another opportunity - let's start with what a good swing consists of. If you want a head start on how you to establish this, try googling "The Hanson Principle". A warning, though - it is very simple logic and will certainly make your head hurt (guaranteed), but it's a good place to start for the rest of us (Occum's razor, and all of that). Applying some more simple logic (you might want to wait until after the first headache subsides), and you might figure out why
Mark H responded to this discussion the way he did.
Of course, when I suggest that you do this, I really mean anyone else but you who might actually have an interest in hitting and how to teach it.
