....this drawing is SO BAD....



The only way one can swing as shown above is to swing 'around the spine'. And no high level hitter's swing plane is 'around their spine'. How do we know that? Because the barrel in the drawing is level with....parallel to....the ground....and stays that way....while moving upward.

The high level swing plane is established by the barrel's arc 'AROUND THE HANDS'....as shown here....



Point #1: Notice the barrel is angled downward....diagonal....from the handset downward through the ball....not horizontal.
Point #2: Stare at the hands. Notice how THEY....turn the barrel....to create the swing plane.
Point #3: Notice there is very little hip rotation.
Point#4: Notice THE APPEARANCE of the barrel 90 degrees to the spine....BUT....how can rotation about the spine be generating the power....when....there is very little rotation.

Another clip.....showing the diagonal nature of the swing plane....



Again, incomplete hip rotation....yet....the ball left the park. Stare at JUST the hands....notice the hands creating the swing plane by turning the barrel.

Ted was right. And...the drawing is junk. And the drawing is an attempt to reconcile Ted's words with the "hip rotation" school of thought. Commonly called cya....cover your ass.

There is very little interest in the truth. But there is great interest in protecting egos.

Hip rotation, defined as using the muscles that rotate the hips, simply can not produce a video match of the high level swing of the great hitters. It is IMPOSSIBLE. Yet....they continue to teach it. When you realize that assembly of bones that they call 'the hips'....is used to RESIST ROTATION....which causes THE LEG to become the driver....will you begin to understand how the high level swing works.