[O.B.Left]

Just a "guess" from me. It feels like the face is being aligned bu cf but the face is held by the flat left hand. the left wedge - #3 accumulator- move through inpact with RHYTHM. to me this is rhythm and feels good but is a result of educated flat left hand and your hours of looking and practicing.

HB

A feel based thing then , something learned , ingrained . I can see how it could be so intellectually but I still believe otherwise in my golf brain. Magical thinking maybe ..

Just trying to think of the implications to all of this. What it means to other things we hold as truths.

The free flowing , rolling with rhythm flail produces the fastest club head speeds and more face rolling. A farmer would never flail with a vertical hinge it being less speedy , less effective , more injurious , more effortful too perhaps. Compression does require the higher rates of face closure IMO. But there is a rate which is too much! To find the exact rate of closure that is ideal in the absence of cf producing it would require even more skill than Homer thought necessary. Hogan might concur with this line of thinking as he believed that as a golfers swing (flail) improved the natural by product was a hooked shot and so he held off his #3 rotation somewhat. There's some irony there perhaps as he possessed the worlds greatest flail and in the end held it off on occasion , to varying degrees.

HB what about Horizontal then ? Is it the ideal compression wise ? Or are the various basic planes "arbitrary" so to speak? Mere bench marks?