[Daryl]

What is Hook-Face?

Get a Hockey Stick.

1. Place the bottom edge flat on the ground, heel-toe, as possible and square the leading edge to the target while the shaft and face are aligned vertically. Easy, right?
2. Lean the shaft forward without disturbing the Leading Edge Alignment of square to the Target and level to the ground.
3. Note that the Shaft Plane has Flattened by a large number of degrees.
4. If you raise the Shaft to the original plane, then the face will open substantially.
5. Close the face by rotating the shaft counterclockwise until the leading edge is again, square to the target and level to the ground.
6. You have learned to change the Hook-face of the Hockey Stick.
7. Normally, when the shaft is level to the ground on the Backstroke to level to the ground on the follow-through, the face rotates 180 degrees. That means that for about every inch of Clubhead travel, the Clubface closes about one degree (guesstimate).
8. But, when you change the inherent Hook-face, you change the Clubface Closing Ratio. From parallel to parallel, the Clubface may rotate (close) 220 degrees.
9. This can accommodate the wider Angle of Approach from Playing the Ball back in your Stance.

In my video of "Right Forearm Participation" I'll demonstrate all of the essential alignments. It's too difficult to explain on paper because you have to see how the Right Forearm Angle of Approach seeks out Low-Point and not the Ball.