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Can one use either in hitting or swinging...? this is the bit i am unsure of...? I thought that someone somewhere said that Yoda's hitting looks so similar to his swinging ( and hence different to Teds hitting) because he hits with tracing a straight plane line...? and a square- square set up 10-5-A...

But Ted uses 10-5-E set up and "angle of approach" is purely hitting and ,as you say, precision is less important ...

Normally someone choose either hitting or swinging depending on their own set of unique golfing talents and what works best for them. Someone like Lynn Blake, for teaching purposes, needs to be fluent in both hitting and swinging. It would simply be too complicated for him to choose optimum forms of hitting and swinging in this case because too many parts would need to swapped out, every time he switched from one form to the other. So instead of optimizing one science or the other, Yoda chooses parts that work quite well for him regardless of whether he is hitting or swingiing. The only minor problem was that for me, duplicating his downswing waggle, I didn't get the crossline hip movement that I desired. But it is now fixed and all is well.

Most places where you learn golf teach you swinging, period. Here you get to figure out whether you are a hitter or a swinger and then go from there. A huge competitive advantage for the Golf Machine, I say.