FiveFrameSwing
Banned
Cool, good discussion.
I look at "release" just as a different term for the old word - I've heard, and used from my youth - "extension"...which IMO is an effect, and not a cause.
Although you say you "don't believe in attempting to 'hold' a hinge angle" when I hear someone use the word "release" wrt the swing, I have to ask..."what" are you holding that you have to "release", and exactly "how" and "when" do you know to release it?
In my mind, I'm swinging/launching the bat with all I've got from the "launch position", and let the force/momentum of the bat take the barrel into the ball, and then into extension or "release") of it.
Now I may try to stop or "check" my launch into the ball, but that's usually for naught because I'm launching/swinging with all I've got, and not metering my "swing" forward with my hands to maybe or maybe not "release" it once my hands have traveled out front to the ball. Just my "take" on it...pun intended.
Thank you MB.
As I tell my hitters ... let the barrel do the work.