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Old 10-13-2010, 04:33 PM
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Originally Posted by John Graham View Post
I'm hoping this will help me understand Hinge Action/Motion (sorry, as I'm still working on my terminology).

If two players wind up at impact separation with the clubhead, face and shaft in the exact same alignments all at the same speed and hitting the ball in the same spot on the face with every other alignment matching with the only difference being that one player arrived there after a Horizontal Hinge action and other player arrived there after a Vertical Hinge Action.

Which shot has better compression and why?

I think they would be the same.
Great question, and I look forward to hearing the answer...

My first thought was that you can't create the same amount of club-head speed with vertical hinging as you can with horizontal hinging, but I always confuse horizontal hinging with the #3 accumulator... just can't get my head around the difference sometimes, and I know the difference is huge. See ya later, gotta go do a little studying myself, I shouldn't be this far behind!

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