As with the golf swing you create a certain amount of club/bat lag once the the body starts the forward rotating motion. You start the swing by rotating the back hip which in turn puts the hands in a position to hammer the ball much the same as you do in the golf swing. the backswing in the golf swing, in this position the hands are close to being in the same position in both cases. With the baseball swing you start with the bat and hands over your back foot, Ie. Paul, as Darrell has said on many occasion if you were to take the golf club and hands up to about waist level and use the technique he talks about, you would have a reasonable baseball swing. As with a lot of us golfers the young players don’t go anywhere near finishing off their swings and I’ve found by getting them to think about having the bat traveling faster after hitting the ball does the trick. One other thing you talk about is the power point, I’ve also incorporated this into my teaching as a means to get the the young hitters to finish off their swing. Thank you for putting the the hammering notion out there, a great piece of simple advice. I’ve found that by demonstrating the hammering motion of the hands when we go to hit the ball gives the batter a better idea of how the hands work in the hitting of the ball. You got me thinking on how I could use that term in my teaching of the baseball swing to young (10/11/12/13 year old) baseballers. In relation to your use of the word hammer in describing how the hands work in the golf swing. This could also be shown as a disk tilted to simulate a swing plane. I think it would be good for you to create an illustration with a dot on a circle to show the power point. If you visualize the swing as the club head moving through a circle (similar to the orbit of an e!electron around the nucleus of an atom ,or one of the hands on face of a clock) the power point is somewhere between 7 and 8 o’clock. We control our ball flight by the amount of leverage we apply with the hands as we swing through the ball to the power point. We reach the bottom lock as we swing past the ball to the power point, striking the ball. Both wrists lock at the extent of their motion range both on upswing and down swing. We lead the snap down with the last 3 fingers of the top hand. Then we snap the hands down to the point where they lock again in the down position creating a lot of leverage. Ths is our set point at the top of the swing. There is a point in the up motion of the hands where the wrists lock. The hands work up and down in the golf swing like a hammer motion.
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