by Mark H » Thu Apr 07, 2016 7:10 am
If the hysterical slap fight is over, wonder if Inkrush could summarize what a good swing consists of? The part about reviewing lots of video of the best in the world piqued my interest enough to read the whole thread much to my eventual chagrin.
Don Slaught based his whole program on comparing hitters to elite hitters. He only thought in two dimensions and did not understand momentum so his understanding, while much better than was common in fp before, was incomplete and thus partially incorrect. But kudos to Don for getting Sue and Mike on video saying the fp swing is the MLB swing. HUGE step forward for the sport. My point, lost a few sentences back, is we can all look at video of elite hitters and yet come to different conclusions depending on our existing paradigms and our prior training. Mark McGwire looked at slow motion video of himself turning into the ball and told a fellow I know "yeah, that's what I mean-throw the knob at the ball".
So to finally finish, good for IK's people for studying video of elite hitters. Means not much though till we hear the conclusions. It's really not that hard to describe a good swing. The tricky part is knowing how to fix the inefficiencies. If IK can describe a good swing, I'd be happy to say this may very well be a good place to send your kid.