[Yoda]

Yoda,
Where in the book does it say to launch the downswing with the right shoulder for hitters (make the section connections clear on this if it takes multi-section references)? Hitters using a right arm throw trigger....10-20-B says "The Right Arm (6-B-1) simply pushes the lever assemblies (6-A) toward impact with either early or late release". Does the right arm and right shoulder work in concert at the start of the downswing to create a 4 barrel power package for the hitter ....How about the swinger....with the "Shoulder Turn Throw" available to swingers (is 10-20-C right shoulder thrust???)....is 10-20-C right shoulder thrust that you have been talking about...that trigger type does not combine with 10-20-B....10-20-C combines with only one other trigger type and that is a swingers trigger type (10-20-E) see section 23 in chapter 11 for trigger type combinations.

3 barrel hitter = right arm trigger type only
4 barrel hitter = right arm trigger type and right shoulder thrust at the start of the downswing (and impact)? Does the right shoulder power the downstoke and release?

Yoda, can you clear up the use of right shoulder thrust for hitters and swingers! In section Homer says, " 6-B-4-A MAXIMUM POWER is obtained by using maximum On Plane Shoulder Turn Thrust againt Pressure Point #4 per 7-19, and maximum Swing Radius (6-B-0)." Why does Homer reference 7-19 in this section...and why doesn't Homer reference 10-20-C in this section if the "Shoulder Turn Throw" trigger type is indeed right shoulder thrust...please lift the fog on right shoulder thrust and trigger type 10-20-C. Thanks big time Yoda....


Great discussion everybody...it's a major one.

DG

DG

I'm out of town for the next week and should have been long gone. I may have Net access, but if I don't, I will answer the questions you've posed when I get back.

For now, regarding your first couple of questions, there are two references that should suffice:

1. "...consider Pivot Thrust...as supplying the initial acceleration of the Hitter's loaded Power Package..." (2-M-4).

2. "Pivot Lag (9-1) is...launching pad for Hitters..." (6-C-0).

The idea is that the Hitter's Right Shoulder functions more as structural support for the Right Arm Thrust instead of active Thrust of the Left Arm. In other words, the Hitter's Right Shoulder provides the 'equal and opposite reaction' support necessary for his Right Arm to Push against. The Swinger's Right Shoulder, on the other hand, actively Drives his 'essentially inert Left Arm.'

I'm outa here!