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Oh Im hitting .. fer sure . Active right arm is active right arm. Hitting is not defined by the club head blur.

Thrust by definition is always straight line . A swinger is said to have non active, passive right arm straight line thrust. (Which incidentally might be THE missing ingredient or insight that goofing with hitting can lend to a swingers normal procedure). Straight line thrust does not produce a straight line club head blur directly .. The club head does not in fact move in a truly straight line of flight although under one specific condition it may appear to be doing so. "Appear" .

If you thrust the Primary Lever which is centred at the left shoulder the club head will describe a circular orbit . Sorta like a patio door closer ... the cylinder pistons , extends and contracts in a straight line but the outside edge of the door describes a circle on the ground given that its centred at the hinges. Imagine the mechanical changes necessary to get the doors edge to travel in a straight line? How would a golfer accomplish the same? Answer : He doesn't! Not at full speed anyways although it is possible when putting. Straight back , straight through putting with the club head staying at a particular height off the ground. Steering.


This one specific point of view where a circular orbit can appear to be a straight line to the golfers eye lends itself to hitting far better than it does to swinging . Almost exclusively to hitting , or more specifically a highly manipulated , non shaft plane compliant form of hitting. Using any other club head plane or the adoption of a clubs haft plane does not forgo hitting but does forgo the illusion of a straight line club head blur.

Here's a photo that I stumbled upon .... .just a coincidence but it does a nice job of describing the geometry necessary for seeing a straight line when viewing a circle. This golfer is seeing a straight line , as does the camera . A straight line wheel track is made by a circular wheel. When looking at the circumference of the circle or the wheel rim, to continue with Homers analogy , you see the curved nature of the wheels rim which appears more or less circular in accordance with the relationship between the plane the wheel sits and your eye line. If you lowered the explanar in this photo so it laid flat on the ground this golfer would see the max amount of curve possible through the impact area. The other various possible plane angles between these two extremes (although it should be noted that the circle pictured is not truly vertical but "almost vertical " , as Homers said in the audio tapes when describing the angle of approach's club head only plane angle) would produce varying degrees of curvature to the golfers eye.