Gosh saves the queen. At some points, science is really overcooked!!!
For me, it's quite straightforward. you throw something into a thin piece of metal, it bounces that thing back. After that it still vibrates hence we see it "flexing" and hear the metal sound. A blade works pretty much the same. It bounces out the ball and keeps vibrating (either by flexing its head or by compressing / decompressing its surface continuously, or actually both). And hence we "feel" the contact. I player with good techniques never change a stroke while they are feeling that stroke itself. It's too late. The stroke is done when you started it (right after backswing). But such a player always changes the next stroke based on the feedback, deliberately or subconsciously. (The better you are, the more deliberate it is). It's that dead simple.
Science and engineering (experiments and measurements) come into the complicated bits here and there. Like you can make a bat with high frequency of vibration (hard feel) and still slow or a bat with low frequency of vibration (soft feel, wood feel) and still fast. Or a bat that has low frequency of vibration (soft feel) but vibrate in a small amount / shorter time (dead feel) so that you still feel soft when hitting hard (not too shaky). blah blah blah. (All these examples are reverse of the norms btw)
Also, a bat that helps you distinguish variations at contact is easier to spin with. Because spin is very sensitive to how you contact the ball. And also, how you feel the vibrations depend on how you hold the bat. Because bats vibrate differently and different points. And a thicker handle makes you hold the bat differently, hence you feel the vibrations differently.
A practical player is not going to speak this language. He's going to say - that bat is spinnier (in actuality that bat is PROBABLY easier to spin with for him), this bat has more dwell at high impact shot (in actuality that bat PROBABLY gives him softer feel when he hits hard). I wouldn't expect a practical player to correct these pieces of speeches. Trying to feel these things is already quite a bunch of work already. And also, by the time he has corrected everything to be so scientifically-corrected, I wouldn't be able to understand a thing!!! 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
For me, it's quite straightforward. you throw something into a thin piece of metal, it bounces that thing back. After that it still vibrates hence we see it "flexing" and hear the metal sound. A blade works pretty much the same. It bounces out the ball and keeps vibrating (either by flexing its head or by compressing / decompressing its surface continuously, or actually both). And hence we "feel" the contact. I player with good techniques never change a stroke while they are feeling that stroke itself. It's too late. The stroke is done when you started it (right after backswing). But such a player always changes the next stroke based on the feedback, deliberately or subconsciously. (The better you are, the more deliberate it is). It's that dead simple.
Science and engineering (experiments and measurements) come into the complicated bits here and there. Like you can make a bat with high frequency of vibration (hard feel) and still slow or a bat with low frequency of vibration (soft feel, wood feel) and still fast. Or a bat that has low frequency of vibration (soft feel) but vibrate in a small amount / shorter time (dead feel) so that you still feel soft when hitting hard (not too shaky). blah blah blah. (All these examples are reverse of the norms btw)
Also, a bat that helps you distinguish variations at contact is easier to spin with. Because spin is very sensitive to how you contact the ball. And also, how you feel the vibrations depend on how you hold the bat. Because bats vibrate differently and different points. And a thicker handle makes you hold the bat differently, hence you feel the vibrations differently.
A practical player is not going to speak this language. He's going to say - that bat is spinnier (in actuality that bat is PROBABLY easier to spin with for him), this bat has more dwell at high impact shot (in actuality that bat PROBABLY gives him softer feel when he hits hard). I wouldn't expect a practical player to correct these pieces of speeches. Trying to feel these things is already quite a bunch of work already. And also, by the time he has corrected everything to be so scientifically-corrected, I wouldn't be able to understand a thing!!! 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄