[Delaware Golf]

Unfortunately, Homer Kelley can no longer answer our questions regarding the logic behind the move of Hinge Action from Zone #3 (the Hands Lane) in the first six editions to Zone #2 (the Arms Lane) in the 7th. However, his words live on in the recordings of his three Golf Stroke Engineering Master Classes conducted during 1981-1982. I have personally transcribed the direct quotes below to help us understand the rationale behind this radical shift.

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-- "Hinge action is the result of angular motion on an inclined plane."

-- "The hinge action is not a motion of the hands. It's a paddle[wheel] motion of the pivot and the arm swing, and it is the result of an angular motion...a circular motion...and it takes place on an inclined plane."

-- "Hinge action is not a wrist motion. It is an arm and pivot motion. The hand only is positioned [vertical to one of the three associated planes] and then takes on its arm and body rotating motion."

-- "The hinge action is not a hand motion, a hand action, or a hand anything except position. It is the position that has been set up to be vertical to one of the three basic planes."

-- "The thing is...the pivot and the arm motion produce the hinge action. It is not a hand motion except in the position in which you are maintaining it...vertical to an associated plane."

I agree with Homer....when Chuck and Lynn first started their websites, I always talked about hinge action with Right arm motion and left wrist motion (but got blasted for it)....you control the hinges with the arms and monitor the exection of hinge through the hands, preferably the left wrist. It's still a hands controlled pivot.

Geezz, this makes for another good Tomasello video reference...again, I believe this proves that Tomasello was again teaching from the 7th edition (notes)....in the Australia video, when talking about the horizontal hinges, Tommy repeatly said horizontal hinging produced the most distance out of all three hinge actions. So, it's not surprising that hinge action has been incorporated into the POWER lane of the three lane highway, The "Arms Lane"...there is an element of power in the hinges.

Some really great lines by Homer on page 125 (7th Edition).

-So mastery of "Release Motions" (4-D-0) is essential, indispensable, mandatory and imperative.
-Good Golf is Power Golf...ya got to love that one.
-Remove all pressures against "Power First".
-Power techniques are Power Control.
-As "Power" is acquired, "Direction" will improve until Zone #3 becomes mostly "Finesse" control.

Wisdom in the true Yoda fashion.

DG