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With fear and trepidation, I venture to ask a question about hinge action. Forgive me Daryl if this is the wrong thread to ask this question!

Can some one describe the relationship of the right and left arm flying wedges to hinging? Is hinging another way to describe the movement of the arms from impact to end point (both arms straight)?

I ask this question because, given the discussion in this thread, it seems to me that hinging is much complicated than simply the closing or the laying off of the clubhead through impact. I have heard many people talk about closing the club face, e.g., by rolling the forearms or rolling the wrists, but those "methods" don't seem to be getting at hinging, or at least, not at a full description of what is going on with hinging mechanically.

Daryl's at a wedding in Seattle so you can relax till monday.......

Wiki answer follows:

The Flying Wedges are at Right Angles to each other. The LAFW aligned to plane of the left wrist cock , a purely perpendicular or vertical to the ground plane of left hand motion. The RFFW to the plane of the right hand bend a pure horizontal plane of right hand motion. (Gotta read 6-B-3-0-1 and 4-B-0 Perpendicular vs 4-A-0 Bent). Another way of thinking about this ......somewhat simplified ......imagine a thin line of tape running up the top of the shaft and another running up the aft of the shaft. These strips of tape representing the two planes of the Flying Wedges and where they intersect with the shaft. They are 90 degrees to each other when viewing the butt end of the shaft in section. K?

So lets say we're a Horizontal Hinger and we're in our downswing, we've slid the left hand, palm down to the inclined plane to our Release Point. The left hand starts to come off the inclined plane (release swivel) it swivels over to an aligned to the Horizontal Basic Plane position. All the while as goes the left hand so goes the LAFW and also the RFFW. So the wedges are rotating too , all the while maintaining their at right angles to each other relationship. Then we Hinge Through impact, the left hand remaining perpendicular to the Horizontal Basic Plane (the ground) Then after Both Arms straight we swivel the left hand back onto the Inclined Plane. The wedges rolling along with it and all the while maintaining their own separate alignments and relationship to each other.

Thats my take on things, Id welcome any corrections to this, treat it as a Wiki answer.....whoever feels so inclined please fix it.