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Yoda
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Fooling Mother Nature
Originally Posted by YodasLuke
Horizontal hinging has such a different rhythm, I'd never be able to apply it in a hit. I was originally taught to be the opposite of that before I met Yoda. I was taught to be a swinger with angled hinging. It had terrible consequences.

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Horizontal Hinging -- the Vertical-to-the-Ground Motion of the Flat Left Wrist and its consequent Closing Only Motion of the Clubface -- is the natural consequence of Centrifugal Force. Swingers should remember this and not try to 'fight City Hall' unless absolutely necessary.

It is not just a matter of "Oh, I did Horizontal Hinging on that one, now I'll do Angled Hinging on this one." According to taped lecture of the late Homer Kelley, a golf club moving at 100 MPH generates 107 pounds of Centrifugal Pull during the Release Interval. And that Pull is doing everything it possibly can to align the Clubface -- indeed, the entire Primary Lever Assembly (Left Arm and Club) -- for Horizontal Hinging. Attempting to override Centrifugal Force and make the Club do one thing when it wants to do another, is the recipe for inconsistency -- if not disaster -- on the links.

The same is true of the simultaneous Close-and-Layback of Angled Hinging. This Vertical-to-the-Plane Motion of the Flat Left Wrist and Clubface is the natural consequence of the Drive-out of Muscular Thrust. Attempting to make the Clubface Close Only (Horizontal Hinging) when the Driving Thrust is making it Lay Back is also to thumb one's nose at the Laws of Force and Motion. You can get away with such arrogance some of the time, but sooner or later you will learn the hard way...

It's not nice to fool Mother Nature!
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YodasLuke
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Originally Posted by MizunoJoe
"A draw is simple enough if the clubface is closed in the grip, and the machine is adjusted to the right."

You can't draw the ball with a closed clubface, which can only contact the outside of the ball. You are describing a pull hook with respect to the adjusted machine. The "prior" aspect of this procedure does not insure it's "precision". I can Horizontally Hinge more precisely than "guesstimate" how much to close both the clubface and stance.
Sure you can...(infinite doubt inserted here)

If you had read the previous post, you would have seen that the clubface was square to the target, not closed to it. The clubface is closed to the grip but not to the target. Additionally, the club would have to be swung off plane to hit the outside quadrant of the ball with the machine aligned to the right. With this body line, the inside quadrant is the only part of the ball that could possibly be struck, for those of us that don't like plane shifts.
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