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Where Batspeed REALLY Comes From
Force Vectors, Pursuit Curves & Other
Confusing Subjects
by Coach Preston Peavy, Hitting Coach for VSI
Baseball
Well, let's just upset everyone who
teaches archaic methods once again.........I am going to try &
keep this as simple as possible, while still filling
you in on the important details.....
My
High Speed Video Motion Analysis Studies & InfraRed
Batspeed Measurements have shown to my satisfaction that
batspeed does NOT come from an overactive TOP HAND.......See
articles at
www.peavynet.com/news.htm
Rotational Alone Does NOT Work Effectively!
It goes directly against good physics & biomechanics.....Per
my earlier articles,
Swing Poisons-Back Foot Hitting and others
at
www.peavynet.com/news.htm, when you attempt to rotate
around a rear pivot point & rotate the top hand early, you kill
any initial leverage you have through casting the top hand away
from your body early, putting the bat into a completely
un-leveraged acceleration position-you CANNOT overcome a 7 to 1
or up to a 10 to 1 leverage ratio on the bat-the weight of the
barrel simply cannot be overcome efficiently when you cast it
out early in the swing with the negative leverage present in a
32" plus bat........the bat is an INEFFECTIVE LEVER
when you attempt to force acceleration via an early top hand
rotation! There is NO POWER because there is
NO LEVERAGE in the rotational forces you have
available!
Bat resistance has the leverage!
Here is where it get's a bit confusing, but
follow me..............REAL
BAT TIP SPEED comes from LEVERAGED ACCELERATION
of the bat for initial INERTIA accumulation &
resultant EFFICIENT FORCE VECTORS to
MAXIMIZE CENTRIPETAL FORCE to provide ultimate bat
rotation AT THE RIGHT TIME through
EFFECTIVE PURSUIT CURVE movements with the hands, made
possible by BOTTOM HAND DOMINANCE & BOTTOM HAND
EFFICIENCY with an end SUPERCHARGER EFFECT
given by the application of SHARPLY APPLIED hip
power LATER in the swing, more
EFFICIENTLY APPLIED through a FLAT TOP HAND
at approximately 70% to 75% of the swing..........
Did you get all that?....If not, don't
worry...you will....SEE FOR
YOURSELF! I have done a
Motion Analysis of a top major league swing as viewed from the
top. It is available on our
VSI Baseball Video Downloads Page,
as well as with larger images at
www.peavynet.com along with
my past articles on hitting.
FORCE VECTORS in this case are
simply the SUM of the forces applied to the
bat.......essentially through a fairly complex PURSUIT
CURVE motion with the hands.......(Yes, I know math
fanatics will pick on me for purity in this analogy, but give me
some poetic license for description).....Because
CENTRIPETAL FORCE is maintained (the force towards the
center of the varying radius, complex rotation) the
INERTIA that is built up in the bat through
LEVERAGED early acceleration (pulling the knob to
accelerate the bat-NOT rotating early in an unleveraged manner)
is REDIRECTED into that "Pseudo or Non-Force"
we non math types like to call CENTRIFUGAL FORCE....(remembering
for the math whizzes that it is not really a "force" at
all...but non math whizzes can think of it that way-learn why it
is NOT a force at
http://regentsprep.org/Regents/physics/phys06/bcentrif/centrif.htm).
Look at this hitting motion & notice the HAND PATHS
& how they are NOT CIRCULAR nor are they PURELY LINEAR but
instead are semi-circular in nature or more like a math
PURSUIT CURVE.
 
You can see and work with a GREAT example of a VARIABLE PURSUIT
CURVE at:
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/Java/Pursuit.html
Learn & work withVARIABLE FORCE VECTORS at
http://www.walter-fendt.de/ph11e/resultant.htm
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This information isn't meant to
confuse........Here is the BOTTOM LINE:
The baseball athlete is pretty
incredible.......he is doing the most difficult thing to do in
sport.....
......and we need to help him.....
HOW?........BY TEACHING HIM MODERN
TECHNIQUE based on good science, such as proven through our
VSI Baseball HIGH SPEED Video Motion Analysis.....
PRO LEVEL BATSPEED & CONTROL is an ACQUIRED SKILL & TRUE
ART......learning the PURSUIT CURVE movement with the most
efficient FORCE VECTORS which is championed by BOTTOM HAND
DOMINANCE to effect the most efficient LEVERAGED ACCELERATION &
ULTIMATE BATSPEED simply requires INFORMED COACHING with
TRAINING TOOLS that WORK WITH THE ATHLETE, not against
him.............
Have your athlete Train with VSI
Professionals, like Coach Preston Peavy in Atlanta, Georgia to
learn the RIGHT STUFF.......
www.peavynet.com
smarty1@mindspring.com 404-909-8020
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