[golfgnome]

bts,

Where do you draw the line between hitting and swinging to prevent an automatic angled hinge (hitting) as opposed to a free-wheeling horizontal hinge (swinging)?

If you propose doing both you are over-riding CF with the push and thereby getting angled hinging. Are you proposing a manipulated swing or is your definition of pushing simply extensor action?

Thanks,

Bagger,

Sorry to intrude on this thread but I have similar sensations. If my body is pulling (rotation) and my right is pushing (feel) do I not have two forces working in the same direction?

I remember working with a martial artist one time and he said that in order to throw a powerful punch with the right arm you must pull the left back just as hard. This dual motion gave more "snap" to the punch and required very little motion.

It may be just extensor action, or it may be an active right arm thrust adding to the "blast off". Either way I do not think we always need to always put angled with hitting and horizontal with swinging. The players feel will tend to determine what is occuring.

Anyway, as a plane flattens angled hinging moves more to the horizontal, and as it steepens it approaches more vertical. Obviously Hogan was flatter than most so it could be a possibility that the active right arm he so loved actually produced an angled hinge to fight off the hook. I do not know if Mr. Hogan knew if he was hitting or swinging, I do not think he would care. From what I have studied about him, he simply wanted to hit the ball as hard as he could without the hook. Just a thought.