[innercityteacher]

Mr. Kelley defined hitting as pushing and swinging as pulling....however...you gotta define WHAT is being pushed/pulled....in the case of golf it would be the sweetspot or the longitudinal cog....from there you gotta select your method and determine HOW would you best accomplish the selected pulling or pulling procedure...the how has is basis in the various "components" relationship to the object being pushed or pulled...hands are attached to the club and hands are attached to the forearms which are attached to the humorous bones via the elbows....

thus inorder to align the hands (and their pressure points) to push or pull...you must align the right forearm to the sweetspot and thereby aligning/positioning the right elbow to the loading procedure .... if you were PULLING an arrow out of a quiver on your back your elbow would lead and your forearm would align to the procedure respectively....if you were hitting a slapshot (pushing) you would align your right forearm and therefore elbow to support a pushing motion....

In addition the sweetspot must be oriented to the shaft and plane of motion in away to be PUSHED or PULLED....a hockey slap shot will have the blade of the stick aligned essentially perpendicular to the plane of motion and thereby oriented to be PUSHED down the face of the plane....on the other hand if the sweetspot is going to be pulled it will be aligned differently to the plane of motion and the shaft...thus laying on the face of the plane of motion and oriented "in line" with the shaft rather than shut looking....

The pulling of the sweetspot and pushing of the sweetspot require different loading procedures and release motions to be most effective....swinging pulling alignments necessarily lend themselves to pitch elbow and sequenced release due to the selected loading and acceleration method of the sweetspot...right forearm aligned to pull....left wrist uncorking then rolling sequentially.....hitting aligns the sweetspot in a different way to the plane of motion to be pushed thus the right forearm must be oriented to PUSH...punch elbow...with the sweetspot oriented to the plane to be pushed...thereby dictating a simultaneous release of accumulators #3 and #2 which define the release motion according to Mr. Kelley.

bottom line to orient yourself to this procedure get a hockey stick...instinctively you will align your forearm elbow pivot etc. to push the hockey blade/puck...with the rectangular shaft your mind "knows" to take the blade back "shut" and to use your pivot and right forearm to "gather" and push the blade down the plane....you would look like a spazz from planet dingleberry if you turned your hockey blade to the face of the plane of motion....

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So cool! Someday, after I master dragging the lag like a battering ram, I will drive and fire the lag at the little ball like a missile aimed at the forces of fascism in this world but I digress...

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