Many years ago I had the opportunity to be around Pete
Caliendo, a baseball hitting instructor located in Chicago that worked with
Charlie Lau before he died, and he stated to me that Lau often said, "most
people never really understood the mechanics of his method of hitting"...which
was a combination of rotary and linear mechanics.
Charlie Lau helped develop numerous .300 plus hitters, and he
also INSPIRED many hitters to become much better hitters. Charlie's success for
helping hitters improve and excel came from helping them to focus on the mental
and visual aspect of hitting...not just the physical... even though he worked
their tails off physically to improve their hitting skills.
Along with emphasizing consistent contact, he stressed the
top baseball vision expert Dr. Bill Harrison's dynamic vision technique of fine
centering and soft centering visual training. This was a radical breakthrough for
hitters, and is still used today.
In conclusion, we owe Charlie Lau for bringing
bio-mechanics, physics, and dynamic vision training into the 20th
century hitting process. Without him, the advancement in hitting mechanics which
have led to the improved slot position swing used by most of the better power
hitters in the 21st century, would have still yet to be discovered.
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