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THOUGHTS ON HITTING & SWINGING
LYNN BLAKE
10-19 SWING OR HIT? DO YOU FEEL WHAT I FEEL?

The Computer requires Five Programming Routines to do its best work (Chapter
14). The first of these is the Feel of your Total Motion -- your Basic Procedure.
This 'one' Feel is actually a composite of the many Feels you have learned and
mastered separately during your G.O.L.F. journey. Each of these Feels maintains
their separate identity and yet always relate harmoniously to the whole.
What I will describe are my Primary Feels -- themselves also a composite --
that govern my Stroke and that I can depend upon to reliably reproduce the
Mechanics patiently and deliberately acquired through the Star System Process
of 1-J and 3-B.

Swinging:

My Lower Body leads and my Upper Body and Power Package lags.
This Start Down Motion causes my Wrists to Cock a bit more and the Club head
Lag to Load against my #3 Pressure Point (Right Forefinger). Since Start Up, I
have been aware of a definite Extensor Action (against the #1 Pressure Point --
heel of the Right Hand against the Left Hand thumb). The Lead-and-Lag Start
Down Motion accentuates that Feel. I sense a Gyroscopic Motion as I Pull the
Club Down Plane until it is automatically Thrown-Out by Centrifugal Force in
Release. I am very aware of the Left Wrist Throw through the #2 Pressure Point
(the last three fingers of the Left Hand sensing the Centrifugal Left Wrist Uncock
per 10-20-E). And -- from The Top (Station Two) to The Finish (Station
Three) -- I Trace the Straight Plane Line with my Right Forearm and #3 Pressure
Point.

Hitting:

Except for the Lag Loading (Drive versus Drag) , the Feel is essentially
the same as above until Release. Then, the Club is Driven-Out by Right Arm
Muscle Power. I am very aware of the Right Elbow's Drive against the #1
Pressure Point per 10-20-B and my Right Shoulder acting as a Launching Pad
for that Drive. As with Swinging, I Trace the Straight Plane Line with my Right
Forearm and #3 Pressure Point. However, because I am Actively Thrusting, I Feel
the Pressure Point Combination (the Active Muscular Drive against #1 and #3)
much more strongly than when Swinging (with its Passive Centrifugal Drive
against #2 and #3).