LynnBlakeGolf Forums - View Single Post - Compression? Thread: Compression? View Single Post #7 11-08-2010, 11:35 PM O.B.Left Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 3,433 Originally Posted by John Graham O.B., Am I understanding this quote correctly that when employing vertical hinging the clubface loft is increasing from impact to separation? JG Yes. Vertical Hinging is layback with no closing. Continuously. Although the collision does wreak havoc upon the underlying geometry and obscures things. The ball hits the face as hard as the face hits the ball. Reverse it for horizontal .....closing only no layback. Two extremes. Two different ball responses. I do believe it effects ball response. Though the interval is short the dynamics are still present, you'd have to get impact to 0 seconds for it to not have an effect. Sort of like what part of curve is straight or .... Hey man I wanna know about Aimpoint sometime. Regards OB. Last edited by O.B.Left : 11-08-2010 at 11:46 PM. O.B.Left View Public Profile Send a private message to O.B.Left Find all posts by O.B.Left