[alojoo]

Not true. Hinge action itself is not power control but ball control. Angle hinging is no more or less powerful than Horizontal. And both control ball flight when the player understands what they do. Angle hinging naturally produces a fade- it has a natural power leakage as the ball rolls up and off the face because the clubface lays back a little and produces a cut. A player can close the face alignment and ball position and produce a different ball flight.

Same with Horizontal hinge action. HH naturally squares the face due to the throw-out of the clubhead. The ball leaves the face at 90 degrees, so where the ball is prior to square produces a flight pattern of the ball.

Either hinge action should control the ball to where the player wants it to go after they know how to do it.

Vertical- I don't use it much at all.

I take the risk of being right or wrong, but examine this:

Chapter 2 - Hinge Section:

The KEY to this Rhythm is the #3 Accumulator (6-B-3-0). As part of the above drill, hold the 45 degree Arm position while rotating the Hands and the #3 Accumulator through the three Hinging positions, over and over until you see that each position changes the LOCATION of the Clubhead. The Point to note here is that with each Hinge Action the #3 Accumulator has a different “In Line” motion – Dual Horizontal Hinging having the longest travel and Dual Vertical the shortest. This agrees with the “Roll Characteristics” discussed in 7-10 and must be so executed to produce proper Rhythm. Doing the above drill with Zero Accumulator #3 (6-B-3-B) will show that then, all Lag Loading and Hinge Action have Angled Hinging Travel AND Rhythm. So – intentional use of Zero Accumulator #3 can be useful while unintentional use can be hazardous.

The point I wanted to make in the previous post is that with horizontal hinging the clubhead will be have more kinetic energy at impact time.


My opinion is that hinge action is ball control but it is quite related to power.

6bMike, please explain why you said "Angle hinging is no more or less powerful than Horizontal" in comparison to the words Tom Tomasello in one of his videos says " 90 percent of the golf swings are horizontal hinging. That is the one you really need to master. To hit the golf ball straight, fall left, TO GET YOUR MAXIMUM DISTANCE." Roll power is involved more with horizontal hinging, than .. lets say vertical hinge action . In horizontal hinge action while the ball is compressed the clubhead continues to move toward the target. Looking impact interval while having the hands as reference point (not the left flying wedge) and with maximum nº3 accumulator.You can see that in horizontal hinging the clubhead moves ahead of the hands(as in the end of follow through) which means the clubhead having more velocity than the hands(mantaining a flat wrist).

And with vertical/angled hinging the clubhead does not pass the hands position at impact or after impact (eliminating finish swivel from this experiment). So vertical/angled hinging will have a clubhead moving forward with less velocity related to the hands velocity, than horizontal hinging's clubhead.

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