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The power of the baseball swing comes from how fast you rotate around a stationary axis. Imagine a metal pole coming through your back and out your butt into the ground. Rotational Mechanics of the swing are what all the great hitters use to generate batspeed. Many people, and coaches have misconceptions that arms need to be real strong to generate batspeed and to bring the bat to the point of contact, but they are wrong. The muscles that are used to create great bat speed are the legs, shoulders, and abdominal muscles. So you should begin your swing with an inward turn, which adds power, and torque to the swing. To do this you simply reverse rotate so that your lead shoulder and hip should be pointing in the direction of the second basemen, but you dont want to go back too far where it restricts your vision of the pitch. Many people also think that having a barred arm, or near straight arm is bad, this is not true. The pitcher should not be able to see your hands. The swing is started with the hips and followed by the shoulders. A hitter should start the swing by pulling the front shoulder. This should get the bat moving in a circular hand path, which all the great homerun hitters have used. Be sure to have flex in both legs, because creating great batspeed requires the push of both legs to power your rotation around a stationary axis. For middle in pitches your back arm should be in the power L position forming a 90 degree angle. For any questions on the art of hitting you can email me at
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