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Bad choice of words?

I don't think "preferred" is a good choice. Unless there's a breakdown in the Primary Lever, the Primary Lever behaves as though the Left Shoulder was a Hinged joint rather than a Ball Joint (one end of the Primary Lever). This is because the Left Arm rotation is restrained by the Right Forearm Wedge and its Elbow Location, which Holds and Moves the Flat Left Wrist aligned to a Vertical, Angled or Horizontal Plane.

So you're puting clubface control under the Right Forearm Flying Wedges job description? But with the left shoulder as centre. Fine by me. But not what Homer settled on . Maybe he was thinking Swinging when he wrote this? More Flail action than right side. You can for sure hinge when swinging with just right arm for instance.

Tell me , do you tend towards Angled when using this swinging procedure D?

About Hinge Action its merely a description of the attitude of the face through the impact area in 3 Dimensional space. There are three basic planes . None of this did Homer invent. Its just logical. As such you could swing a golf club with your right arm only or attached to dogs tail and it would describe some sort of path through the ball. Homer just liked the left shoulder and the left side.

Re the dogs tail etc it would no doubt promote an inconsistent rate of face closure . Compliance with a basic plane (horizontal, verictical or anything in between , aka angled ) guarantee's a constant rate of face closure . No spikes or valleys on the rate of closure graph so to speak. In this regard Homer in the audio tapes suggested that grooving a Hinge Action (any one of em) for putting was the secret to consistent putting . That you didnt need to practice putting as much or as often when you could effect your desired Hinge Action and get your ball positioned consistently. Of note is that he didnt even seem opposed to Vertical Hinging Straight Back Straight Through aka Steering , non shaft planar motion, covering the target line. If you could do it consistently you'd produce consistent results. But he acknowledged the difference in ball reaction ...... not as much ball travel , a tendency to loft in the first few inches given layback of the face .

So ya to have a Hinge Action you need to be compliant with a basic plane and there are mechanical alignments that promote that. A centre to the arm motion , a constant radius , a delivery line to watch/ monitor, a ROLL feel. YOU SEEM TO ROLL THE RIGHT FOREARM WEDGE.. WHY NOT? And for this you must prepare. At Top . They form your intentions.

But I digress. My apologies to ICT . Uh can you repeat the question? Bueller ?