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You are also free to ignore, or reinterpret, the fact that the hands are pointing downwards and slightly backwards at impact. You are even free to believe that this appearance is due to camera distortion. However, from my personal perspective, I believe that i) the hands are "really" pointing slightly backwards and ii) that "fact" is biomechnaically incompatible with hitting up-at-the-ball.

Jeff,

In the quote above you say it's "biomechanically incompatible" for the hands to point slightly backwards and hit up through the ball.

However it is possible.

The Flying Wedges can be maintained whether they are traveling up or down, and in fact they are maintained......most player's set their right wrist bend in the backswing so the clubshaft is leaning slighly backwards as the club is traveling up back and in to the top or end of the backswing.

The player then maintains that right wrist bend and flat left left wrist down out and forward through impact.

Unless they have axis tilt......then it can be up out and forward through impact.
Axis Tilt is a function of the movement of hips (amount of slide versus turn) and the upper body's reaction to that movement.
Depending on the amount of Axis Tilt a player can hit up with a backward leaning shaft.

Take a look at 6-b-3-O The flying Wedges
and the Hula-Hula Motion
As well as Knee Action and Hip Action
(hope I qouted these right I don't have my book in front of me)

And sorry if I did not read all 33 pages of this thread before posting I am just replying to your last post.



Sorting Through the Instructor's Textbook.

B-Ray