[innercityteacher]

City,

I think the Umbrellas keep the sun off the ice.

That's a very sensible response, Daryl. Every response I've read of yours, on this forum, is sensible.

I had a very sensible lesson last Saturday from my GSEB, John Savage, of South Hampton, PA.

When John hits the ball, he swings and his ball starts low, sizzles and bristles with sound and power, seems to climb an invisible mountain very gradually, gets to a peak and then seems to drop almost straight down.

There is usually a group of us standing around hold our breath and say "wow!" I have to go shopping now and will finish this later, or my wife will be cross with me and hurt my feelings.

Ok, back, with basil, oregano (it's real, Jerry, not like the stuff you try to plant on golf courses) and African Violets (I never dated her, and I wasn't with Lawrence Taylor that night!).

Seriously, though, the question that I asked John was about my ball flight. Part of it is greed on my part. I am able, now, to live on or near the plane with my golf swing. That has helped my hcp. go from 21 to 17.6 on the index. (Yesterday, I used the uncocked left wrist and primary lever drive on every shot except the putt. I felt like I could shoot par or better on every hole. I had 12 birdie putts and missed all of them to shoot an 85.) I think that the "right" ball flight would give me the ability to stop the ball on the center of each green and increase my chances to go very low.

John is a generous teacher. I have had a terrible experience with Golftech, and John is the opposite. He answers every question, demonstrates his teaching, monitors my efforts with iron/wood/driver/wedge. He is superb. It takes me weeks to implement the changes he suggests.

His first point was my takeaway. When I turn my hips to initiate total motion, my RFW is too deep and needs to stay more in front. RFT however, is perfect at the top. John has explained the starting move before, as a slight horizontal move, a "downrange" move followed by the hips turning straight back.

To feel and do the move correctly, John had me practice the turning of my front obliques. It feels as if I am sliding a bit and then turning straight back. The shape of the ball flight looks different and the carry increases. The ball keeps rising, even with the driver, and lands softly.

Is that same flight possible with a hitting motion?

12 piece bucket
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Originally Posted by Jeff
When one talks of blasting the left arm off the chest with the downswing pivot action thereby releasing power accumulator #4, doesn't the left arm have to move both downwards (towards the left foot) and outwards (towards the ball-target line), and isn't the direction of left arm movement determined by the movement of the conjoined hand unit, which is itself directionally moved by the right forearm/PP#3 which traces the straight plane line and also moves towards the aiming point?

Jeff.

Jeff . . . I'd agree with you. The left arm is blasted kinda toward the left foot as well as out to the ball. Homer preferred a hand controlled pivot (procedure) for sure. BUT there's only so much the hands can do to overcome a faulty start down. If the pivot doesn't move precisely with the plane requirements, the hands get drug OVER or UNDER the plane and have to fight hard to recover . . . no matter how much "mind in the hands" or "monitoring #3" or "tracing" you do. You can only trace as good as your pivot allows you to trace.__________________

Patrick