From impact, does the body(center of the chest) pivot with the left arm to follow through?
Depends on the pattern and the accumulators used, but yes it is far more consistent a pattern IMO if the hands and chest move through impact together as 'result'. That is the only possible way to justify saying hinge action is somewhere other than zone 3 (which is another topic all together, and one not appropriate in this thread)
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The next step in understanding hinge action is to understand how the right arm's motion effects the rate of clubface closing.
Until you can get that, it is easy to confuse hinge action and swivel.
For a swinger, using standard wrist action, the release swivel puts the face back to perpendicular to the plane, but the rate of closing, the rhythm, is determined by the straighting right arm (no matter if that is a motion caused by the pivot's throw out, or an action caused by the right tricepts thrust)
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Can hinge action be summed like so...
Horizontal= clubface closes to the inclined plane
Angled= clubface stays perpendicular to the inclined
Vertical=clubface opens on the inclined plane
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Can hinge action be summed like so...
Horizontal= clubface closes to the inclined plane
Angled= clubface stays perpendicular to the inclined
Vertical=clubface opens on the inclined plane
?
A lot of people have reduced it to this perhaps but it lacks precision. Which can be the difference between a par save and a bogey. So Id say the answer is no. You're close but its worth the effort to fully understand the alignments.
Get a ping pong paddle and stick it in your left hand and try moving it back and forth while keeping it (the paddle) perpendicular to one of the three basic planes. You'll notice also that your left hand grip can be a little turned on the paddle's handle like it would for a common golf grip. Thats a good thing, thats ok just watch the paddle, keep it as the de facto left hand. Watch the paddle , then make the same motion without the paddle and watch the left hand (still turned its the new flat or perpendicular).
You've got a good guy here in EdZ......he's got some insight on this business. You could search this using his name or Yoda's. You could buy the Alignment Golf c.d., you could check out the free videos which cover this. There are some animations somewhere....
Dont give up till you can reproduce the three hinge actions......with little chips or pitches (Basic or Acquired Motion) and then from the three ball positions (Forward, Back and Middle) and the different plane lines..... and the different face angles (open , square , closed). By this point you're going to feel Phil Mickelson good with your short shots and your long game'll seem way easier. But even then there's being able to do it Hitting or Swinging......and then the different minor basic strokes within each .....the Pull, the Paw, the Push , the Bat etc ..........this is the road to mastering the game, to having a masters level of execution and precision.
It all about precision , precision alignments reproduced by the associated feel.
Can hinge action be summed like so...
Horizontal= clubface closes to the inclined plane
Angled= clubface stays perpendicular to the inclined
Vertical=clubface opens on the inclined plane
?
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