[Jeff]

Donn

You state that you don't agree with Shawn Clement's description of his "falling arms". I can understand why you may not understand his personal descriptions/perspective, because I have never really understood how Shawn Clement powers his swing, even though I have viewed all his 107 video lessons. He often uses terms like "falling arms", "club falling due to gravity", "using momentum to throw the club up to the end-backswing position" in the backstroke movement, "catapulting the arms through the impact zone". I think that I would better understand his swing if he used TGM terminology. However, I love watching him swing. He makes golf seem effortless and natural. He has an amazing capacity to swing consistently and always scuff the ground at the same point swing-after-swing. His timing is impeccable.

I agree with you that Hogan had an amazingly fast and amazingly fluid pelvis rotation speed in his early/mid downswing. However, i don't think that it has anything to do with the fact that his center of mass is near his axis of rotation at the start of the downswing. I think that the answer lies in Hogan's amazing ability to get the relevant musculoskeletal structures to perform flawlessly (He could whirl the gyroscope like a superb ballet dancer eg. Michail Barysknikov).

Jeff.