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Old 03-03-2010, 07:32 PM
O.B.Left O.B.Left is offline
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Homer was a tennis player as well. Ive always thought his Right Arm Flying Wedge , his Frozen Right Wrist, the Bat Minor Basic Stroke etc reminded my of tennis, not that I know too much about tennis. Using the right side, freezing the right wrist was far from normal when he first published. Still is maybe even after all these years, despite the fact he had it right to my mind. In that way Id say TGM is a good fit for a tennis player taking up golf, be you a Hitter or a Swinger.

You have a lot of great stuff going on there. Forget about positions and stick with motion and alignments ............thats how those positions were achieved by the pro's in the first place. And dont worry about shallowing out your plane around here..........though some have a preference for the Elbow Plane there are options and to each his own.

If I may, Id suggest taking a look at "Extensor Action" . Also research how its possible , indeed ideal to cock the left wrist with Right Elbow bending and the right wrist held frozen in its impact fix degree of bend. So just the Left Wrist cocks, not the Right. It wont be easy but if you have the well trained Right Forearm Flying Wedge like I think you do, it'll seem familiar to you and it'll be something you will never give up once you get it down. The golf swing only appears to be rubber wristed, so dont entertain any actual rubber wristed techniques. Keep your right wrist tennis like frozen, your grip firm, you'll have longer lever that way. From Left Shoulder to Ball instead of Left Wrist to Ball. On film it'll look otherwise, but the ball will know the difference.

Once last little thing. Try little chips where you get a "Both ARms Straight" or "Follow Through" position when the club shaft is about 45 degrees to the ground or so. This will mean that the Left Arm is straight and the Right Arm bent at Impact. There is a little magic to be had compression wise when you get it right. This is the proper Orbit being completed. When you get both those arms straight, you'll start to feel like you're just nutting these little shots right on the sweetspot. Something you'll want to take to the rest of your shots. The left arm is like a piece of string but you have to stretch it taught with the Right side or/and Centrifugal Force. "Extensor Action", its weird but wonderful and it'll allow you to feel a lot of TGM things suddenly turn on, like the Left Wrist getting cocked by the Right Elbow for instance.

Good luck with it.

O.b.

Last edited by O.B.Left : 03-03-2010 at 07:48 PM.
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