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What an excellent and thoughtful post...thank you ...it was an enjoyable read

Without wishing to appear impolite or contentious, the post in question fails not only for the vice of uncertainty but because it is just plain wrong.

Coops post is built upon the premise that a reaction force can be precipitated - "precipitated" in this context meaning

pre·cip·i·tate Pronunciation (pr-sp-tt)
v. pre·cip·i·tat·ed, pre·cip·i·tat·ing, pre·cip·i·tates
v.tr.
1. To throw from or as if from a great height; hurl downward: "The finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below" Thornton Wilder.
2. To cause to happen, especially suddenly or prematurely. See Synonyms at speed.

- that is simply not so. A reaction is a result and not a cause.

There is no natural force on the good Lords planet that can start from the ground up and defy, let alone be made to override, gravity. This, so called, upward generated, "ground force" is simply the equal and opposite reaction to the force the golfer exerts when swinging his club downwards. Newtonian laws apply, where every action has an equal and opposite reaction.

Simple test. Address a ball, make a back swing and without further interference from yourself use force from the ground up to bring the club down.

Right, you've got it; it just 'aint possible. The club stays up until you physically exert a force that brings it down , thus causing the upward "ground force" reaction.

DG is not the bad guy in all of this and receives, in my opinion, less than generous consideration from some for his efforts in conveying his understanding of Mr Tomasellos's teaching to us.

DG is merely passing on the message/knowledge given to him and should not be called upon, mostly unfairly, to justify the help that he is trying to give us when so doing.

We should be grateful for his generosity in this regard rather than seek to use him as a "whipping boy" should we hold contrary beliefs.

Delaware Golf, thank you for making available to us your knowledge of Mr Tomasello and his teachings .

Whether members agree or not with what you bring to the forum in this context, your generosity in making this material available to us cannot be denied.

Thank you.