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The kid did indeed start the swing (if you call it that) with the bat in the 'loaded' position. He would get it to the hitting zone and just stop - resulting in holding the bat out front of his body (as they do in machine pitch when they are setting up the machine before the game starts).
I was pretty amazed he could do that - stop the bat in the zone and still make contact. The fact that he stopped the bat resulted in him hitting so many foul balls. The bat was stopped and had no momentum to fight the velocity of the pitched ball.
That was part of my original question. I looked at the rule book and I could not see where it defined what a 'swing' was. My thought is that it has something to do with momentum through the hitting zone.
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