[Par71]

I am a Swinger. But I want to learn how to hit.

Unfortunately, I find that not at all easy to do.

When I am Swinging, I have a nice Pivot, my mind is in my Hands and my Pivot does all the work (as Ben Doyle likes to say). Beautiful.

But when I am trying to hit, a voice inside me says: "Hit the ball hard with your right arm." When I listen to that voice, my mind is no longer in my Hands. It is in my Right Arm. My Right Arm moves fast, even violently. And my Pivot on the Downstroke is poor. The stroke feels somewhat powerful, I guess, very Right Arm. Like a lot of hard work. It does not feel controlled. Awful.

Now, 10-19-A says that for Drive Loading you should have a slow Startdown and that Clubhead Throwaway with Drive Loading is usually due to over-acceleration.

When I try to thrust my Right Arm in a SLOW, deliberate manner (consciously trying not to exceed the RPM of the Pivot), I can have my mind in my hands again and I am able to perform a nice Pivot even with Drive Loading. But that stroke does not feel powerful to me. I does not feel like "firing" the Right Arm at the ball. It is more like a heavy, steady force. The clubhead moving through space does not WHOOSH. The clubhead moves in complete silence to Impact. No noise that I would associate with velocity.

Is this how Hitting is supposed to be? A slow, deliberate right arm thrust (even through Impact) with a silent clubhead?

And where does the Power in Hitting come from? The Pivot? Or the Right Arm?