[Mike O]

Dookyball . . .

Try it . . . get your club make a SLOW startdown . . . when your left arm starts moving towards parallel to the ground . . STAND UP out of your posture . . . your pelvis or hips or whatever go toward the plane line . . . like when you "help the goats over the fence" . . . watch what the shaft does . . . it "lays down" or "flattens out". . . and the butt of the club is raised up. From there you have to do something weird with your hands to get to the ball . . . like flip or have less #3 angle that you intended. . . with less #3 angle the face rotates FAST . . . if you stand up out of your posture early you probably will have a tendency to hit blocks, fast hooks and face pulls.

In my psycho mind:
If you "come out of a shot" - which to me means standing up on it- the ball flies off to the right. If you stand up- it's one way to slow down the rotation of everything or stop the face from close. When you increase the lie angle of the club more vertically the face points more right.

I got the shaft laying down or flattening part but "with less #3 angle the face rotates FAST"- doesn't make any sense to me but you may be looking at some context that I'm not seeing and could be right on - after all there are all of factors that are involved that we're both assuming or are not analyzing.

Now, if you just look at the #3 accumulator by itself- and have no #3 accumulator - and sitting on a chair and just rotate your arm/forearm - all that moves is the face- no clubhead movement- and if you have a large number three accumulator then that same forearm/arm rotation means more clubhead travel and a longer time for the clubhead and the clubface to make their rotations compared to a zero number three. In that example- I would see exactly what you are saying i.e. with no other variables in play. But in the golf swing if you stand up and your #3 accumulator is reduced- there are more things going on such as the pivot slowing it's rotation, etc. etc. etc. so the simple #3 accumulator excercise doesn't flow through to the golf swing.

Just my thoughts and assumptions based on my own personal experiences. Let me know if was right in understanding the context in which you see the smaller number three accumulator creating a face that closes more quickly.