YodasLuke:
The reason I asked about hitting successfully with horizontal hinging is that I am having a heck of a time performing angled hinging. I guess it's because I taught myself to "release" by rolling my right arm over the left. Of course, because of the weather here I havn't been able to hit real balls anyway.

Is angled hinging a result of little or no clockwise rotation of the lead arm on the backswing?
Thanks
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