[innercityteacher]

Thanks!


Naturally, If you try to trace the inclined plane with your forearms your pivot will get in the way of your hands and vice versa. Tracing the plane with your clubshaft (and therefore the hands) is what you want to do. Not the forearms, not the elbows, not the shoulders.
Ok, that makes sense.

Your left forarm is above the plane from address and a long way into the follow thru. Your right forearm will be under the plane between address and impact. The only things that really are on plane here are the club and the forces you swing it with.Check, very logical. Sort of a "plane sandwhich," made with forearms. Are we starting with an address position?



It is when the elbow gets above the plane that you are in trouble. I'm not sure how I could do that.


Here's how I do my vertical hinge: I wait with the pivot and swing my hands forward and eventually past the pivot so there's minim lag beetween hands and shoulders at impact. A very gradual, slow and almost amputed release of accumulator #3. And I try to maintain good hands speed to past low point. That keeps the clubface open.

For a horizontal hinge I do the opposite. I let the pivot lead and pull the arms through. I find it easier to accomplish this with more hip turn. And to the extent that I do any roll with the forearms it is in the opposite direction for a while - to keep the clubface open longer and delay the hinge action as long as possible. And when the time is right I let Accumulator #3 release. The A#3 release is the part where the club head goes from open and trailing to closed and leading. The hands speed is very moderate when that happens. The rate of forearm rotation can be very quick.

Centrifugal force will do it for you. But you must let your hands work like a passive hinge to make it work.

The more I lead with the pivot, the more I trail with the hands and the longer I keep the cluface open before A #3 is released - the more dual horizontal it gets. It is very important to keep the left arm stretched throughout, while at the same time keeping thos hinges oily. Pure rope handling + oily hinges.

No deliberately hands and forearm effort to square up the club. It may be very counterintuitive to begin with.

There's a lot of light bulb material in letting the dual horizontal happen. A key to move past steering tendencies lies there. I will have to take this to the range and see if I can get all this. I did find EdZ's drills for HH and I will let you and everyone know what I experience with all this. Thanks for taking the time to help!!!

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