....OF SWING FAILURE
You will NEVER reach the high level pattern until you realize that there is ONLY ONE HIGH LEVEL SWING PATTERN. And that it includes TWO engines....the hands and the rear leg....and that there is only ONE WAY to work them to produce the high level swing.
Here is the Pujols' High Level Engine on display.....
The HIGH LEVEL ABSOLUTES do not include stance, setup, handset, feet width, open, closed, front of the box, back of the box, this grip, that grip etc etc. The high level absolutes can be done with many different versions of the those.
BUT THE HIGH LEVEL SWING WILL NEVER BE ACHIEVED WITHOUT WORKING THE HAND ENGINE AGAINST THE REAR LEG ENGINE BY WAY OF SNF.
The high level swing IS ABOUT THE ENGINES.
Not until you have the torsion spring-like release, created by the two engines, that bursts suddenly.....do any of the above HITTING elements matter.
And you can not take something from HI.com....and something else from someone else....and reach the high level pattern....unless that 'something from someone else'....is the same thing taught here but with different wordage.
You can whine and complain about that all you want. You can use the word 'cookie cutter' to make your argument sound better to others.....as you and your students fail to reach the high level pattern. You can FALL FOR SURFACE FIXES.....that are so prevalent on the message boards....things like the 'look of the rear foot'....the 'elbow up'.....etc etc. Or you can start with the ONE AND ONLY WAY TO REACH THE HIGH LEVEL PATTERN....and that is to install the torsion spring engine.
Until then....your ceiling is lower than it could be.