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Heres a real rough doodle I just did of the players view of Steering (two forms of it) . Took a photo of it emailed it to myself , fixed it up a tad in Iphoto and posted it. Took about 10 minutes ... no scanner available to me right now. Guys please draw some doodles if the spirit moves you, let it groove you. We need drawings , even bad ones... like this and worse.

Please correct it where you see fit. Ah crap just noticed I forgot to label the curve as the Arc Of Approach , the players unique view of the circular clubhead orbit . Also that elbow plane solid line is the straight on view of the circle ... it looks like a line ... I should have extended above his head a bit more.

We're still talking about the geometry of the circle model here , stick man , 2D perfect circle , constant centre and radius etc. Like the stick man has himself in a giant hoola hoop. What circles look like from various perspectives although we added a clubface . Enter a whole bag of considerations with that one.

That curved Arc of Approach is approximated. Probably exaggerated somewhat for illustrative purposes . The to scale version the actual arc might even seem trivial but it isnt!

Notice also that the Steered clubhead (#1) still has some OUT to its orbit . Its not going to compress the ball very much but it does have some 3 dimensional impact to it. Not the ideal , not much but some. If the player got his eyes right over the ball things would be different just Down and Forward , no Out whatsoever. true 2D impact. Small point but since we're here. Imagine trying to articulate that in words....thats why I believe drawings are necessary when discussing geometry.