[MizunoJoe]

YL,

Using your definition, "Manipulation = something unnatural or a deviation from it's normal application.", it strikes me that Hitting is a manipulation because a natural law, The Law of The Flail, is present in every stroke until preempted by thrust.

That aside, are you actually equivalencing by inference, teaching clubhead throwaway and teaching Hor Hinge Hitting? The one cannot produce an effectively struck golf ball, while the other most certainly can and does.