I have changed my position on the Angled Hinge Clubface Fix alignment and have edited those posts accordingly. These posts are 'Open Door Policy' (March 31); 'How Closed Is Closed' (April 2); and 'Case Closed' (April 12). The 'Case Closed' post is especially important because it explains the reversal and includes extensive quotes from my personal recordings of Homer Kelley.
Sorry for any Fades that might have resulted from these posts!
Patrick - interesting point. I had similar questions myself. To add to the discussion, if vertical hinging requires a sqare face at fix with its layback only motion, why would angled hinging require a "closed" face at fix with its closing AND layback motion? Is the argument that vertical hinging is only used for short shots, and hence, the slicing tendency in neglible?
Patrick and Jaminid,
Just got back and wanted to put this up:
1. It is not the Clubface Layback of Angled Hinging that requires the Closed Clubface at Fix. It is its uncentered Motion.
2. Unlike Angled Hinging, Horizontal and Vertical Hinging are 'centered' motions. Hence, neither has a built-in Slice tendency.
Hinge Motion refers to the posssible Clubface Motions through Impact -- Close and Layback (or their simultaneous combination).
Hinge Action refers to the Flat Left Wrist producing that Motion by remaining Vertical to one of the three Basic Planes, i.e., Horizontal, Vertical or Angled.
Indeed, Clubface Hinge Motion duplicates Left Wrist Hinge Action. And vice versa.
But always...
Action is cause.
Motion is result.
This distinction is also important when considering the differing Rhythm of the three Hinge Actions, i.e., the In-Line motion of the #3 Accumulator (Left Arm and Club) and the resultant Clubhead Travel distance to the end of the Both-Arms-Straight Follow-Through.
Hybrid Mode
