I have strong hitting tendencies and try to adhere to a standard drive loading pattern with the following exception:
Since I am quite flexible and swing slightly upright, I am very comfortable with a swingers “end” style power package assembly point. In other words, pp#3 is under the shaft at the top. Is this incompatible with hitting? Recommendations on starting down a hitter’s motion from here would be appreciated
Avoid the Swinger's End Location (10-21-C) and the automatic Drag LoadingAction (10-19-C) that will be produced by the Re-Tracing back to the TopLocation (10-23-A). While a Hitter can utilize it if he knows exactlywhat he is doing, it adds nothing to the Drive Loading Basic Pattern(12-1-0) and unless fully mastered can produce significant complications.
The problem is that you are disturbing the 'back-of-the-Shaft' Loading thatis so necessary for Hitters. And it is that unvarying Loading together withthe Right Wrist Frozen in its Bent and Level Impact Alignment that produces thetrue Joy of Hitting. Plus, you are setting yourself up for thewrong Loading Action (which should be 10-19-A or possibly 10-19-B).Finally, the Motion is entirely too long for a Hitter, whose Cross-LineProcedure (Angle of Approach per 2-J-3-B) demands a Shoulder Turn that is lessthan that of the Swinger using the On Line Procedure (Arc of Approach per2-J-3-A). This shorter Shoulder turn is necessary to effect the arbitrarilyrequired 10-5-E Closed Plane Line and steeper Plane Angle.
The solution is to use Delayed Hip Action (10-15-B) as a 'governor' toautomatically stop your Stroke when the Hands have reached the Top (10-21-A)and not the End (10-21-C). This Pre-Turned Right Hip is useful forSwingers -- who are using the Arc of Approach Procedure (2-J-3-A) -- and whoare Tracing the Straight Plane Line of 10-5-A. However, it is essentialfor Hitters -- who are using the Angle of Approach Procedure (2-J-3-B) --and who are Covering (not Tracing!) the Straight Plane Line of 10-5-E.Unless the Hip is Pre-Cleared -- as opposed to Clearing it in Start Up-- the Hands "won't buy it" (as Homer used to say). Instead, theywill 'go around' the Hip and in so doing destroy the proper orbit of the Club.
In the Start Down, use the Drive Loading of 10-19-A for the Hitter'sproper Loading Action. And from the Top, make sure you execute yourDownstroke using the Angled Hinge Left Wrist Action (10-18-C-2) and not theSwinger's Turned Left Wrist Procedure of 10-18-A. In other words, as youmove through the Downstroke and into the Release and Impact, your Left Wristwill not remain turned and cocked on the face of the Plane -- theSwinger's Procedure -- but will instead begin to gradually Roll to the Left(with the Rhythm of Angled Hinging per 2-G). This will produce the Hitter's SimultaneousRelease of Power Accumulators #2 and #3 (4-D-0) as opposed to the Swinger'sSequenced Release.
Finally, it should go without saying that for Clubface Control (2-G and 7-10)through Impact, the Hitter should use the Angled Hinge Action (10-10-C)that is naturally produced by the Right Arm Thrust (6-B-1-0). But I'm going tosay it anyway because if you do choose to go to the End Location of theBackstroke, you will have Loaded for Horizontal Hinging (10-10-D). Andif that is the case, unless you have pre-planned and compensated in Impact Fixper 2-J-1, you will soon be singing the words to that great Duke Ellington Jazztune:
Hybrid Mode
