[YodasLuke]

YL,

Using your definition, "Manipulation = something unnatural or a deviation from it's normal application.", it strikes me that Hitting is a manipulation because a natural law, The Law of The Flail, is present in every stroke until preempted by thrust.

That aside, are you actually equivalencing by inference, teaching clubhead throwaway and teaching Hor Hinge Hitting? The one cannot produce an effectively struck golf ball, while the other most certainly can and does.

"My way" IS NOT "The way." I don't expect any of my students to do it exactly the way I do it. Additionally, I have no doubt that you can create some sort of effective stroke pattern (that I'd like to see under the heat of competition) with horizontal hinge hitting. BUT, when Homer Kelley (genius) says that the driving force of the right arm "creates angled hinging," I will not attempt to re-invent the (paddle) wheel.

I just played with one of my Tour Players today at Big Horn in Palm Springs. I could have employed a horizontal hinge action with my hitting and spent all day in the cacti and rattle snakes. Or, I could take the 70 that I shot (74.8 course rating/141 slope rating & first time seeing the course) using angled hinging. I'm simply telling you my perspective from my own personal experience and success.