Below are the 1st and 6th Editions: 7-19 Lag Loading. HK really seems to be trying to get everyone to understand Lag Loading in the 1st Edition; why and how and feel. The 6th Edition seems more textbook with some references and lacks the "urging" for you to understand that the 1st Edition portrays.
1st EDITION:
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7-19. LAG LOADING Power Package Assembly is not normally completed until all Lag and Loading is established. All Lag types are in danger of Clubhead Throwaway. So Lag Loading not only includes, but is, Throwaway Prevention Procedures. That is, procedures which will forestall any kind of premature or unintentional dissipation or reduction of either potential or existing Thrust or Velocity.
This is the most common cause of Power loss. Thrust and Velocity are easily generated but getting them to the ball is the stumbling block. So more detail and more emphasis than usual is given to this category to assure maximum opportunity to understand it.
The correct Clubhead Lag Pressure "Feel" is a deadweight, a status quo - a deliberate, unvarying "steady as she goes" - an unrevoked, unreversed, stable, permanent Inertia. Exactly like dragging a wet mop through Impact.
Incorrect Clubhead Lag Pressure "Feel" does not set up a steady driving pressure but a convulsive, impatient THROWING pressure, guaranteeing Clubhead Throwaway. Rolling and/or Uncocking have the assignment of doing any throwing of the Clubhead. Lag Pressure is totally inert. The slightest "pushing away" will produce Clubhead Throwaway. When you find yourself swinging fast whether you want to or not, you are contending with Clubhead Throwaway and it could be induced by improper Clubhead Lag Pressure Point action. And instead of "driving" the Club you find yourself "chasing" it - and never catching up with it. Some players find it easier to maintain the Bent Right Wrist Feel than the Flat Left Wrist Feel, especially for replacing the Cocked Wrist Feel to offset "False Feel" Wrist action during the Release.
Also, using the Pivot instead of Arm Throw to maintain Lag Pressure, reduces the possibility of losing the Lag Pressure by either "Running Out Of Right Arm" or by starting down too sharply.
Wasn't that nice? Establish the Pressure at the Top of the Swing, then nurse it down to the Ball not allowing the amount of pressure to change. If you want to hit harder, then load a little more and nurse that amount of pressure all of the way down to the ball.
6th EDITION:
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7-19 LAG LOADINGThis category recognizes the over-all control by the Clubhead Lag Pressure Point (6-C-2) and that manipulation of its Loading Procedure determines the Physics of both Hitting and Swinging (Preface). Study 6-H-0, 7-3 and 7-20.
The correct Clubhead Lag Pressure “Feel” is a deadweight inertia – exactly like dragging a wet mop through impact – constant Loading, constant direction. A careful nursing of the Clubhead Feel. Clubhead Lag can be established by three different ways:
by resisting the Backstroke motion for Drive Loading
with the Start Down motion for Float Loading
by “throwing” the Club against the Lag Pressure Point at The Top for Drag Loading
Properly manipulated, Clubhead Inertia can withstand all the Lag Pressure anyone can generate. Including Extensor Action (6-B-1-D).
Incorrect Clubhead Lag Pressure “Feel” does not set up a steady driving pressure but a convulsive, impatient THROWING pressure, guaranteeing Clubhead Throwaway. Rolling and/or Uncocking have the assignment of doing any throwing of the Clubhead. Lag Pressure is totally inert. The slightest “pushing away” will produce Clubhead Throwaway. When you find yourself swinging fast whether you want to or not, you are contending with Clubhead Throwaway and it could be induced by improper Clubhead Lag Pressure Point action. And instead of “driving” the Club you find yourself “chasing” it – and never catching up with it. Obviously, if the thrown Clubhead doesn’t pass the Hands until after Impact Fix Position (7-8 ) is reached it still complies with the Law of the Flail (2-K) but precision Timing and Clubface alignment becomes difficult and, however widely used, is still an essentially perilous deviation. Also see 6-B-0 and 7-17 regarding Swing Radius.
The “Right Arm Swing” is simply 10-3-K with the loosened Wrists (7-1) and longitudinal acceleration using 7-19-3 above. Only with this “Rope Handle” procedure can the Right Arm be said to “Swing” – and still per 1-L-9 and -10. But with the Axe Handle procedures there must be a straight line piston to avoid injury of the right elbow ligaments. So, if there is a twinge in the elbow, you are Swinging the Right Arm.
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