[Burner]

"I really cannot take seriously all this stuff regarding TENSION OF THE LOWER BODY causing the upper body to move and am greatly surprised that, in these enlightened times, anyone else does."

Burner,

The tension which tugs the Shoulders into action is in the MID BODY.

Hogan's words - "he(the golfer) wants the mid-section of his body to be tightened up."

Here is Hogan doing a slo-mo demo of this "stuff", which you don't take seriously -

http://www.megspace.com/sports/moeto...demo_clip.html

This is a small bite of a video with sound in which Hogan is showing and telling how the hip turn initiates the shoulder thrust because of this "tension connection" between the hips and the shoulders.

MJ,

I hear you; and I see Hogan, in slow mo' with the full range of clubs.

Mid-body tension does not do anything other than cause discomfort. Like I said earlier, if you create tension and then relax there is no generation of force or initiation of movement; just relief from tension.

The musculature that is contracted in powering the backswing merely relaxes once that motion is completed and further effort in that direction is no longer needed; their opposing equivalents then contract in order to power the forward swing.

Muscles create tension (contract) to do their work. Release of that tension, slackening and thus restoring the muscle to its pre-stressed length, has no elastic or propelling effect.