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As always, I greatly appreciate your response Lynn. I'm still not sure that I've been clear enough on my
question though, so perhaps I'll phrase it another way, as it relates to the
flail.

As a hypothetical - if you had a completely verticle plane/plane angle, with
a fixed center from which a flail swung perfectly verticle, in plane, with
two hinges below the fixed center, all hinge motion on plane:

with a pure swinging motion, even tempo, (pendulum) the flail would stay
straight, there would be no hinging and the flail would swing back and
through as if one solid radius

If you change the ratio/tempo of the backswing to forward swing to 3 to 1 by
putting a force directly against the first hinge below center you have
created hinge motion at the change of direction, you have created LAG and the
two lower sections of the flail would be out of line until a point on the
forward motion where the hinge/flail would again be straight, and eventually
pass the 'in line' condition.

The angle of the force applied would change at what point the flail would be
straight again (as does the tempo/change of direction ratio).

At what point in the circle would you/Homer consider the best place for
the flail to be straight, and what would the required angle of force on the
first hinge be?

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Thanks to Digger's 'death match' wake-up call, let me answer your question in
a way that will benefit more readers of this site:


The Golfer's Flail (2-K) will reach Full Extension, i.e., go from Level
(4-B-1) to Uncocked (4-B-3), an inch or two past Impact. The Thrust of the
Stroke will continue Downplane (toward the Plane Line) until the Right Elbow
has Fully Straightened.