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Originally Posted by tgmgolfer2k2

You said pivot thrust can drive acc. 4 through impact. What would this motion "feel" like? I gather that it is more or less a turn of the body into and past impact. If this is true, how is that not "pivot controlled hands" procedure?

For Swingers utilizing "Body Power" per 2-M-4, Pivot Thrust must drive Accumulator #4 through Impact. For Hitters, it is optional. They can (1) Use the Basic Hitting Pattern (per 12-1-0) with its Three Barrel Stroke (Right Arm Thrust driving the Lever Assemblies via the #1 Accumulator and Pressure Point); or (2) use the Four Barrel Stroke (10-4-D) with its Right Shoulder Thrust driving the Lever Assemblies via the #4 Accumulator and Pressure Point.

The Geometry of the Stroke is the same in both Actions. Only the Physics change, i.e., you can either Pull the Club through or you can Push the Club through. In both instances, however, it will still be a Left Hand Stroke (1-F) unless the Right Elbow replaces the Left Shoulder as the Center (10-3-K). The "describable feel" (1-J) you seek will be dependent on the Physics (1-F) of the procedure employed.

That said, the true Swinger "lets the Club do the work." Among other things, he uses the Standard Left Wrist Action (10-18-A) and actually Swivels his Hands and Forearms (a true rotation) from Release (8-9) into Impact. He then executes the "full roll" feel (2-G and 6-B-3-0) of Dual Horizontal Hinge Action (8-10 and 10-10-D) before Swiveling out of the Follow-Through (2-G and 8-11) and into the Finish (8-12). As a result, he will feel much more "Wristy" than had he used -- your words from the quote above-- "more or less a turn of the body into and past impact."

No doubt your descriptive phrase also meant that the rotating Body and the orbiting Arms (per 2-G) were responsible for the Rotation of the Hands, i.e., there was no actual, independent rotation of the Arms and Hands themselves. And that is correct. Through Practice, that correct Mechanic -- the substitution of a Hinge Action Feel (per the last paragraph of 2-G) from the Top through to the Finish for the "Two Swivels and a Hinge Action "previously described -- can be translated (per Chapter 3) into a"describable sensation" per 1-J, i.e., describable to and by the individual player.

Hitters, on the other hand, do not allow "the Club to do the work." In fact, the Hitters I know dearly love to control the situation!

"To heck with Centrifugal Force doing all this stuff for me; I want to do it myself!"

"You want to pull? By golly, I'll push!"

In fact, Hitting was Homer's preference:

"Both procedures are equally accurate," he told me, "but I just like to control all that flying around!" And if ever a "control"guy ever lived, it was Homer Kelley!

Now, if you choose to "control" -- and Swingers can do it, too, given the appropriate adjustments -- then you will be "Feeling" what you described as simply "turning the body into and past Impact." With that "Feel" (of the Pivot Motion turning back and through from Release through the Follow-Through, the Acquired Motion of 12-5-2), you will have substituted a Hinge Action of the Hands -- the Flat Left Wrist remaining Vertical to one of three desired Planes of Motion, i.e., Horizontal, Angled, or Vertical -- for their Swivel Motion.

As a result, it is not only possible that you will Feel "less Hands," it is probable. In fact, when I asked Larry Nelson how he got so good so quickly -- he broke 70 a year after he started playing at age 21-- he said, "I took my hands out of the swing." Now, this is Pure Golf Machine:

Per 2-M-3, "the Hands are strong, educated, adjustable Clamps attaching the Club to the Arms for control of the Clubface alignments. By themselves, they are actually able to drive the ball only a relatively short distance. Even the Wristcock is not properly an action of the Wrist muscles.So, the only absolutely essential muscular contribution of the Wrists is "holding on." [Italics mine.]

Okay, if the Hands aren't the Power (and they are not), then just what do they do? The answer is that they control the crucial geometric alignments of the Golf Stroke, that's what. And per Chapter 5, it is your job to educate them properly.

Each of the Three Zones (Body, Arms, and Hands per Chapter 9) has its respective assignment. Zone #1 provides Balance, On-Plane alignments, and the initial Thrust so necessary to the Power Components located in Zone #2. But it is Zone #3 -- the Hands -- that control the entire operation, not only the sequencing and alignment of the employed Pivot Components of Zone #1, but also the Accumulation, Loading, Storage, Delivery, and Release of Power in Zone #2.

And it is within their own Zone #3 that the Hands execute that ultimate simplification of The Golfing Machine, the Star System Triad:

The Three Imperatives controlling the Three Functions (Face, Head, and Shaft) through the Three Stations (Address, Top,and Finish).

Each of the Three Imperatives is monitored and controlled directly by The Hands:

1. The Clubface is controlled by the Flat Left Wrist executing its Hinge Motion (2-G, 7-10, and 10-10);

2. The Clubhead is controlled by the steady-as-she-goes drive of the #3 Clubhead Lag Pressure Point; and

3. The Clubshaft (or more accurately, the Sweetspot) is controlled by the Right Forearm tracing with the #3 Pressure Point the Straight Plane Line.

Thus, per Chapter 5-0, you must "Learn to Swing the Hands. Monitor the Hands...until the Hands no longer consciously Monitor the Clubhead or Body -- only themselves -- and automatically dictate total Component compliance with Delivery Path (6-E) and Delivery Line (2-J-3) requirements (7-23)."

Lets put it this way:

If you control your Hands, you control the Club.

If you control the Club, you control the Ball.

And if you control the Ball...

You control the Game.