[kamandi]

@ Daryl, thanks again. I was thinking that maybe hitting just didn't provide as much distance as swinging, but I guess a hitter can get good distances. On a related note, I only recently found out how to hit my driver properly with the hitter's aim point approach, and it's getting some good distance.

@ O.B.Left, wow, learned a ton from your post, thanks.

I used to use a swinging pattern, and I used to intentionally try to hold the wrist lag until the latest moment, and it used to get me a lot of distance. At the time, I didn't really understand or know about the other sources of lag, or the power accumulators, or the pressure points.

I've moved to a hitting pattern, and it's made me a purer ball striker, but I've lost a lot of distance. I did read about the pivot driving the right shoulder down the plane, but your post confirms it.

I really like your idea of everything going slowly and smoothly, then a hard, right arm throw, the later the better. I was experimenting with speeding up the throw from point A to point B, but it was too wild, and I wasn't consistently accelerating at the right point, maybe because I was starting too fast at too high a point. I guess the right or better way is to slowly drive the right shoulder down the plane, maintaining the right elbow bend as long as possible, then a hard thrust at the latest possible moment, releasing power accumulator #1. It sounds like it could be repeatable, even with the hard thrust, since the distance from the right palm to the ball would now be much closer. I'll definitely work on it.

Again, thanks guys. Much appreciated.

Btw, I'm assuming with the right shoulder driving down the plane through the use of the pivot, that the inner right leg is driving, while the left leg is (violently?) turning the left hip out of the way. Does that sound about right?