The Bent Right Wrist

[Mike O]

Horizontal Hinging is the result of holding the wrist (or something) vertical to the Horizontal Plane.

Hold your left arm out parallel to the ground without a clubswing it out to about 45 degrees from your left shoulder to the left of you . . . now drop it down on an inclined plane . . . looks like it's a roll but it's really just keeping the wrist perpendicular to the horizontal plane BUT on an INCLINED PLANE. That is why it is called DUAL HORIZONTAL HINGING. It's dual because you must have a "strap hinge" to drop the lever on to the Inclined Plane.

Now do the same thing with a club in your hand . . . parallel to the ground then drop it down . . . look at the toe . . .

There used to be a picture out here that Yoda took of Homer swinging a wooden clubhead on a rope . . . so obviously it had to be "true" CF Swinging. As such, CF is aligning BOTH the clubshaft (in this case rope) AND the Clubface. So CF is throwing out the shaft and the Clubface as it turns about the longitudinal center of gravity (sweet spot).

The rub is . . . it is really easy to override CF on the face because it's not that great because the radius about the center of rotation is small (small moment arm I think is the term) . . . so you can hold of CF on the toe. The Shaft however is a different story.

This is why Homer called it Manipulated Hands Swinging. You simply bring your wrist Flat Level and Vertical at any point along the plane line at which you place the ball (ball position) thus overriding CF on the face. With true swinging you leave it all up to CF and there is only ONE straight away ball position . . . if you don't get it in that straight away ball position for that club . . . then you are at the mercy of CF's alignment of the face . . . with manipulated hands swinging YOU pick where you want to be flat level and vertical . . . and thus the formula for draw/fade is the same as for Hitters (back for hook & up for fade).

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