[coophitter]

Thanks for the reply Yoda. I think you cleared up my confusion about Extensor Action in Hitting but not Swinging, yet maybe I'm still confused about both. 6-B-1-D says the exclusive steady effort to straighten the bent right arm stretches but doesn't move the left arm. So when a Hitter begins to move the left arm with triceps acceleration, does Extensor Action end, and if it doesn't, is there now a dual force that both stretches and moves the left arm?

And what about THE MAGIC OF THE RIGHT FOREARM description that reads "Bending and Straightening the right elbow will Raise and Lower the Left Arm and/or Cock and Uncock the Left Wrist... Does the "and" of "and/or" apply only to Hitting and the "or" only to Swinging?

I'm not sure what most AI's will say when asked what moves the left arm away from the right shoulder to allow the right arm to straighten during Swinging per 6-B-1-0 so I'd like to hear from you in that regard.

Lastly, I think the folowing excerpts from an early TGM edition points out that Kelley may have struggled with this whole issue as well. "The 'body' is considered herein, primarily as transportation, guidance, and launching pad for the Power Package, rather than a power 'source'. An attempt to hit a ball using nothing but Body motion, and hitting a ball with with no body motion (Non-Pivot), will point up the correctness of this contention.... So Power Package Muscle Power is ideally 95% Right Triceps. The Right Triceps and Pectoral can handle the muscle requirements of the Downstroke and need no help from those on the left, whose feeble contribution makes any such thing as a true Left Arm Power source pretty much a myth."

I wonder if anyone has all the editions and can find this quote. I'd like to know if Kelley was referring only to Hitting when he wrote this. I don't think he was.