[Daryl]

Ok, I'm sorry if this sounds like an Innercityteacher post.

I don't have the background in 'Mechanics' to expand the subject of Horizontal Hinging as outlined and described by Homer Kelley. I can only add some personal notes that probably won't be useful to anyone that hasn't experienced Horizontal Hinging with compression.

Most of us have been to a practice range and hit different pitch shots to a green with Horizontal and Angled Hinging. The effects of the two different Clubface motions through the Impact interval are easily identifiable. In fact, it's so simple that almost anyone here can teach almost any golfer to use a full roll feel or half roll feel through the ball. And after a few attempts, he can apply either procedure and witness the results for himself (including innercityteacher).

If anyone thinks that the above, is Angled and Horizontal Hinge Action "Ala Homer Kelley", then I've got some really bad news for you. It is and it isn't.

With Horizontal Hinging, the ball travels with the Clubface for the split second that they're in contact. The Impact Point and Separation Point are the same (or almost the same). The High Pitched Click sound of nearly perfect compression results from this kind of strike along with that very heavy feel of the Ball being stuck onto the Clubface. The Rate of "Closing only", and Swing Radius seem perfectly matched and perfectly even.

I'm not saying that for 99% of all golfers that the ball doesn't roll up the face of the club before separation. I say for them, it does a lot. I've played golf with over a thousand people in the past ten years and I've only heard that kind of compression maybe 5 times. Listen to VJ Trolio hit the ball.

The Clubhead is accelerating through Impact. The Hinge Radius, although it's at the Left Shoulder for the Primary Lever, it goes way beyond that for the stroke radius because the shoulder is moving too. Homer Kelley may say that the Radius extends all the way to your Feet. In that split second, every alignment and motion is perfect.

I know maybe 3 swing Patterns. I can produce that kind of compression in only one of them. One of three. So not every Pattern is going to produce those results. I know two people that do it everyday on every shot. I know one guy that has compression with his putts. 3 foot putts too. That's freaky.

I've experienced the full meaning of Hinging, not only the feel. So, anyone who says that Hinging doesn't matter, I say great, play without it because even if you wanted it, you may never get it anyway. I'm saying that you can practice for it for ten years and not be able to produce it. It's that hard to perform perfectly. If some people just "Have it", then they don't know how lucky they are.