[david sandridge]

I am glad you have your own forum. It is certainly interesting. However most of your questions have already been answered in TGM world. Any authorized instructor, or Lynn Blakes student fully understands what they are going to do with the hands because they are already educated. There is no mystery. Mine go back to turned shoulder plane at the top, cause I can't get to the end I don't worry about any curves. Then hands and shoulder go down plane to ball. they can do that because my hips have cleared(hula, hula, axis tilt) Aiming point and ball location worked out on range and may vary with my timing and rhythm. It works very well. All of the pretty photos, stobe shots, tracing hands etc are not helpful in performing the motion required. Greg McHatton(a very cerebral guy) has on his site the Blobman computer program of a golfer that allows you to isolate any part of the golfer anatomy and see what it does. If photos of me showed my hands describing an arc I wouldn't care - to me it is a straight line. It should be obvious that it you take the backswing to the end you have to have an initial curved path and certainly at the release point the hands are going to go away from that straight line.