Why Hitting?
 

I think I heard/read that Mr. K preferred Hitting to Swinging. Something like harder to learn but easier to execute.

Why is Hitting better from a Golfing Machine perspective and a human machine perspective?

my $0.02: CONTROL

-hcw

my .02 cents
 

For me it means less moving parts to have to worry about and a bit more control.

Technically speaking I believe 90 degrees is a horizontal hinges. Where as anything from 1 to 89 degress can be considered an angle hinge with the ideal being a 45 degree angle.

Easier to create a more predictable ball flight.

I'm not TGM certified so don't take this as the holy grail.

Sorting Through the Duffer's Bible.

B-Ray

By the way 12 Piece I was dissapointed I didn't get to meet you at Campbell a couple weeks ago.

Thanks for the reply! Wish I could have been there. Heard it was fantastic! D is a great guy and great instructor.

Hopefully I can get there the next go round . . .

Until then cyberspace.

bucket sharing
 

I think we all wanted to chow down with some chicken (pig ribs for me- LOL) with you 12 piece. It would have been a highlight to the weekend. Next time for sure.

Good lord! If I'm the highlight of the weekend . . . you guys gotta get out more! I would have loved to have been there. From the videos you have put up . . . looks like a missed some humdingers!

Next time . . . we shall consume dead chicken carcasses soaked in buttermilk dusted with flour and fried in lard.

Until then fare well my Koolaid drinking compadre.

his preference
 

It was his preference for his own pattern. Let's be clear that it wasn't something that he preferred for everyone to do. I would guess it was the hinge action that he preferred.

His quotes were, "Hitting is just so darn accurate." And, "Swinging is like shooting ducks in a pond."

Oh. I didn't know he was referencing HIS pattern. Clears that up. Sorry about that. I was thinking it was the preferred pattern, period.

Cool.

Did HK say something to the effect that he wished he had more body mass? When hitting he felt the downward blow lifted him off the ground??

Little Homer
 

I don't know. But if Homer said it, Yoda would know. Homer was a tiny man.

I remember reading it . . . something to the effect that lag pressure could be so strong that he could raise himself up off the ground.

Collards!

Sounds like hovering to me.
 

While Mr. kelley did not differentiate between hitting and swinging when communicating the following, he did say that sometimes he felt the LAG PRESSURE was so strong, that if he were stronger, he could lift himself right off the ground!

EC

Standin' On the Clubhead Lag
 

Eddie's got it right.

Swingers Drag the Lag. Hitters Drive the Lag. And the Clubhead Inertia (Clubhead Lag) can handle all the Pressure any human being is able to generate.

Bobby Jones wrote about the Pulling Pressure he felt during his Swinging Start Down. He said there was nothing to pull against except his own muscles, but he was wrong...

He was Pulling against the Clubhead Lag.

The Physical Homer Kelley
 

I would not describe Homer Kelley as being 'tiny.' He certainly was not a large man, but neither was he much smaller than average. And as a young man, he was strong enough to climb hand-over-hand up and down on a rope suspended from the gym ceiling. All in all, a pretty good specimen.

You gotta love these little random facts about Homer.