[Daryl]

Daryl & Bucket,

So the OP had a problem pulling down hard with his left arm in the downswing. Did I misinterpret drag loading, where it says to feel the club being drawn out of a quiver, and hold it until the release switches ends? So Daryl, you're saying that trying to release #4 too early causes the body to rise up? Cuz' I know for sure that I struggle with this as well.
Thanks in advance

Pulling Down with your Hands or Arms may cause the body to stand up. It will also cause trillions of other issues and will ruin your standard Pattern.

Don't Pull Down with your hands and don't pull down with your left arm. Your Hands and Arms are being Pulled down by the Right Shoulder during Start-Down Tilt-Lateral Slide. If you Pull down with your Arms, you will be pulling outward. That causes an early release of the #4 Accumulator.

The Power Package gets moved by the Pivot. That's part of the Pivots job. All of the components of the Power Package move at the same RPM. No part moves on its own. It moves as a unit, keeping the wedges and all intact. Only in this way can you put pressure on the pressure points and it stays there. If you move your arms independently, then the pressures go all over the place, disappear, re-appear, move around, etc.

Keep in mind that HK doesn't have the Left Arm get closer than 45 degrees to the chest, otherwise the flying wedges get destroyed. The #4 Accumulator from Fully Loaded to Impact only travels a few inches and then a few inches more through impact to low point. During your downswing, after your Left Shoulder is higher than your right shoulder and they are still turning, is about the time that the #4 Accumulator gets released.

The Left Arm travels down the Chest (keeping 45 degrees to it) during the Hand Acceleration Sequence. Ideally, the hands and right elbow are locked in a cast so that the downward motion is from the shoulders, leaving the Wedges intact (Yoda's Start-down Waggle). Traveling down the Chest does not cause the #4 Accumulator to Release. Moving the Left Arm Away from the Chest is the #4 Accumulator and it's this Action that Causes the Release of #2. When your #4 Accumulator releases, ideally it's when your Hands are in the line of sight to the ball. Releasing #4, 2 and 3 occur within a split second. Hogans #4 Accumulator starts to release in Frame #8. Not early for an Elbow Plane, but too early for a Turned Shoulder Plane.

I'm sitting here, writing this stuff and thinking how easy it is to explain and that it's a thousand times harder to do it.

Unfortunately, one does not go from the book to the golf course and be able to apply any of this stuff. It is very hard work even under exceptional guidance by a qualified instructor. Honestly, there are no shortcuts to practice and playing and guidance; I wish there were. It's a lifetime of commitment just to maintain your game.

My Guess?? A really good amatuer, uses Two Barrels. Most golfers only use one. Using three Barrels is what pro's and Ted use. 240 yard Drives is barely 1.5 barrels. 2 barrels is 260 and with a super fast hands and pivot maybe 275. Above that, three Barrels, 10-20 years later, unless you're a gifted 16 year old girl from Hawaii. Ok, maybe its not that hard.