[KevCarter]

In regard to Mr. Doyle, in my recent lessons he did mention the swinging to first base. He definately emphasised a "sit and tilt" action. When we looked at my video he saw my right shoulder way too high and looked like he had seen a rattlesnake. "We gotta fix that, it won't work, your out of right arm".

And work we did, work work work.

A few nuggets:

Use left shoulder to set right arm(over right shoulder)
first move sit and tilt, draging the club off the roof, then in the gutter (feel #3 pressure point)(but end of club toward first base)
Left shoulder toward left ear
Right arm down toward belt buckle
then "fire with pivot" till wrists "kiss"
maintain flexibility in neck, ankles, wrists

A lot of other stuf too of course, but i think that captures the basic Doyle version of the first base stuff.

I'll bet it is a huge thrill just to meet Mr. Doyle, just like it was for me meeting YODA. It would be the same for Mr. Sloan and several others. A shame it's too late for us newcomers to meet Mr. Tomasello, so important to keep all their work alive!

Kevin