How terribly close is hitting and swinging?

[6bmike]

I understand your point.

Though Mike...

The trigger finger of a swinger is more of a " ? ' Hook shape.. while a hitter more flat , Different Feel and slight different look. BUT same relationship.

I don't think one stroke type dominates a certain finger shape. The only important part of pp#3- The King of All Pressure Points!" I like to say, is that it located on back of the shaft (as are PP1 and PP2) somewhere on that lower fat pad of the finger and hand and that you can sense Lag Pressure from it. It is the clubhead since we monitor and hit the ball with our Hands.

This "where is PP#3" and what up with this "feel' of a rotated 1/4 turn had been debated and pondered since I first stepped in the TGM world- long before Yoda even. A long list of well respected TGM aficionados all had asumptions as to what that was. We had a lot to learn.

[nuke99]

Mike.. I think it makes sense to me at least for the finger to be Hooked for swinger..

Due to the Pitch elbow. and Karate chop... the Hook trigger finger places the PP 3 directly behind the Plane of action ... or the ARC of Circular motion.

While for a Hitter , the right hand is relatively more Perpendicular to the plane of action. also caused the PUNCH elbow and the "primary lever assembly" ... if assembled together. Put the pp3 behind the Angle of Thrust ..

Like a Jigsaw puzzle.. One puzzle fit to another puzzle..and it all made more and more sense.

[6bmike]

Mike.. I think it makes sense to me at least for the finger to be Hooked for swinger..

Due to the Pitch elbow. and Karate chop... the Hook trigger finger places the PP 3 directly behind the Plane of action ... or the ARC of Circular motion.

While for a Hitter , the right hand is relatively more Perpendicular to the plane of action. also caused the PUNCH elbow and the "primary lever assembly" ... if assembled together. Put the pp3 behind the Angle of Thrust ..

Like a Jigsaw puzzle.. One puzzle fit to another puzzle..and it all made more and more sense.

Study 10-18 and 10-2. The shape of the finger has nothing to do with how or who uses the Lag Pressure of pp#3. It is the Action of the Left wrist that is being used in the stroke.

It is not the positions you want to create they are useful but how they form with proper alignments- not the same thing. Horse and cart kind of thing.
I would concentrate of using the components Homer listed in 10-1-0 and 10-2-0, add the correct Action and forget about what position something needs to be in. The alignments work. You will find the puzzle fits fine.

[nuke99]

Remember, with Swinging, Pressure Point #3 must have a Feel of being rotated a quarter turn at The Top with Standard Wrist Action (10-18-A), just and only because of the Loading Action direction-no actual movement of anything. So from The Top to Release, the Loading puts the top side of the Clubshaft against the first knuckle of the forefinger. But with Hitting there must be NO change whatever.

Mike , I understood in what your saying about wrist action, grips etc. Also part of the puzzle.

The above quote in 10-11-0-3 PP 3 meant nothing? why did he have to Remind us ? I agree its not how PP is used.. But to me its more like because of the Elbow position and Loading that there is such mini difference.

[6bmike]

I'm out of the answers you want.
I do know that when you put (Action) the correct alignments in Motion, it all works.
I'm not Homer, I'm not Yoda. They are the teachers, I'm just a student with a loud typewriter.

[Bagger Lance]

Mike.. I think it makes sense to me at least for the finger to be Hooked for swinger..

Due to the Pitch elbow. and Karate chop... the Hook trigger finger places the PP 3 directly behind the Plane of action ... or the ARC of Circular motion.

While for a Hitter , the right hand is relatively more Perpendicular to the plane of action. also caused the PUNCH elbow and the "primary lever assembly" ... if assembled together. Put the pp3 behind the Angle of Thrust ..

Like a Jigsaw puzzle.. One puzzle fit to another puzzle..and it all made more and more sense.

Nuke - As long as you have a pressure point 3 in the right place, the shape of the right index finger around the shaft doesn't matter in hitting or swinging. It can be helpful to have it hooked if you prefer a lagging takeaway.

As Mike mentioned, Lynn explains pp3 loading very well in the gallery.