[YodasLuke]

Well spoken RWH. A rose by any other name would still smell as sweet or something like that. But I still observe such friendly debate among TGM students and AIs concerning the inherent meaning attached to so many of Mr. Kelley's words. For example, your words explain the essential passivity of the right arm during the release interval in Swinging versus the conscious deliberate muscular triceps thrust during Hitting's release interval. But I read in TGM and often hear from students and instructors that extensor action is ever present in the Swinging and Hitting procedures. In other words the right triceps is always trying to straighten the right arm in Swinging. That doesn't sound like a very passive right triceps. Is it just that Hitting's triceps activity is conscious and deliberate while in Swinging you don't know it's going on?

Sincerely, Cooper Osborne, GSEM, PGA

Cooper,
I, for one, really appreciate your insight and the quality of your posts.

I agree with Tongzilla on this one, and I'll give you another example and one of the ways I use to explain it:

Imagine a person leaning against you and you're keeping them at a constant distance with the triceps of the right arm (extensor action for Swinging and Hitting). I can keep you at that given distance with a constant pressure, but at any time, I can choose to actively employ the triceps to push you away (muscular drive out for Hitting).