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Your geometry and visual thinking is really good, do you teach it? Or art maybe? I do perspective drawings , studied architecture and art way back when , see lines, curves geometric shapes in all things. Often more curves to my golf shots than I want but.

Homer said that the Relationships could be described by a 2 D geometric figure.......that lies on an inclined plane. The clubheads orbit is a circle, the concept of the Right Elbow cocking the left Wrist is a triangle which sees the shortening of one side increase the angle opposite. Etc etc etc. One end of the club or the other points at the Plane Line unless the club is parallel to the ground, reminds me a vanishing point (although in that case even the parallel to the ground club would see the end point to the vanishing point on the horizon line) Thats the way I see the Plane anyways. Homer did say to always imagine it as having four corners each at 90 degrees. I see it in perspective.

I totally agree that drawings, animations even are needed. Maybe some day. It would be "ah now I get it" kinda deal for most all of us. From some GSED's on down. I have a few things Id like to see drawn out, that for sure. I wonder if Homer had some drawings that didnt make the book??? Homer at first thought the 1-L Machine diagram was all that was needed to convey its implications. It wasnt until later that he included the 21 point list. Which I have learned to love. I imagine the machine and the circle when reading though it.

You say "Impact Line". Referring I think to the Impact Plane Line. But remember, Impact and Separation are not the same point, there is an Impact interval , however short, less than an inch. In the diagrams Homer assumes Separation to be at Low Point (but it often isnt for balls more than an inch back of Low Point I would assume). The point is that the Impact Interval , that period when the ball is acquiring all of the information that the club will provide it, exists (some scientists assumed separation to be instantaneous) and that is not, despite first appearances, governed by a Linear Force concept. Given that the Circle lies on an Inclined Plane. See 2-C-0 if you havent already. This is what the book is all about to my mind. Three Dimensional Impact. For maximum compression the point of contact between the ball and clubface stays together ("as if welded together") and is taken Down , Out and Forward . Down and Out , literally for straight line Plane Lines. The ball leaves at right angles to the face at separation so the face at impact must be .....open. Horizontal Hinging required.

I went to the range last night and hit some 12-5 stuff as I always do and remembered the Neeman tape of yours. Id forgotten about the "chip, pitch, punch , punch with swivel" thing. Thanks, thats a great Yoda drill to work through. It reminded me of Mr Yoda's remarks from the Premium video he did with Jeff Hull. Cant remember which one but they both really good if you havent seen them. Anyways, the "punch" is additional force or Lag Pressure applied to the same length of swing, Acquired Motion be you hitting or swinging. Stopping at Both ARms Straight ensures that you have competed the orbit something often missing when you swing past there , especially for Swingers. It feels so simple, so powerful even despite the abreviated motion. Yoda notes how its only 5 or 10 yards short of full distance. That going from Acquired with its parallel to the ground right arm to Top ( Right Shoulder high), Total Motion is only a few more inches......... That Allan Doyle Acquired Motions his way around the course.

We tend to overdo Total Motion , its only a few inches and a Finish Swivel past Acquired to get to full distance. Getting to Both ARms straight is a must prior to Swiveling to Finish. Something you wont read in other forms of instruction. But the Orbit it completes, drives the crap out of the ball. In the Neeman tape Yoda chuckles to himself.........."hear those compressions?" I did, in person , thats why Im here right now. Starting to to hear it more often in my own shots too. I was four under on the back nine of my first game down in Florida. Two over front , four under back with a bogey on 17.

Thank you Yoda , Ted and Homer. Got a ways to go though. More work to be done.