[jerry1967]

Hey Jerry

Kinda sorta. It can feel that way to some folks but on its own your statement is not quite correct.

It is possible to over Roll , to Swivel through Impact. It is possible to Roll like all heck and bend the left wrist via Throwaway etc. Rolling alone wont guarantee a Flat Left wrist but not Rolling at all can break the left wrist down. So Rolling is key. Let me explain.

There's three kinds of Steering:
-holding the Clubface square to the Target Line
-holding the Clubhead on the Target Line.......covering the Target Line as opposed to Tracing the Plane Line with its accompanying Visual Equivalent the Arc or Angle of Approach.
-holding the Clubhead on a level or upward path. Not hitting down in other words. "Scooping" as its known commonly.

Compare these three forms of Steering with 2-C-0 and drawing 2-C-1 The ideal application. They are near opposites! This is the heart of the book's main message to my mind. As an aside, I heard Johnny Miller talking about Dustin Johnson's swing at the Open and describing a "5 inch section where the clubface remains square to the target". I think Homer might have rolled over in his grave after that one. That would be type one Steering.

The last two listed forms of Steering disrupt the clubhead's circular orbit, (geometry of the circle) and ruin the shot. The first one, the one to which you allude deals with the face angle and makes total compression impossible as the ball slides off the face as it would for a lob shot, Vertical Hinging. A great thing when you need it but not something you want for total compression.

The three forms of Steering are common logic, "seems as if" it should work notions , that dont work at all given that golf is a side on game played with hook faced instruments. Golf and pool are not alike in terms of the geometry of impact. No Sir.

But, as Yoda so eloquently states in his video about the Swivel, Rolling the Flat Left Wrist "will take you immediately to the next level." Homer put unusual emphasis on the preparation to Roll in 12-3-0. Section 6-The Top. pt 22. DELIVERY LINE ROLL PREP. So Rolling is a key, no doubt.

In my lessons with Yoda , he introduced me to what I consider to be a near Imperative, Both Arms Straight, Follow Through via a lot of work in Basic and Acquired. But then for Total Motion you need to make it all the way to Finish without bypassing Both Arms Straight .........something that is easy to skip. (This may have beens Moe's secret by the way, for there was a man that passed through Both ARms Straight on his way to Finish in Total Motion). The way out of Follow Through, is the Finish Swivel, the Rolling of the Flat Left Wrist back onto the Inclined Plane.


So, I believe, first you learn to execute Impact as a Hinge Action, Horizontal Hinging ideally for total compression, with a clubface that is square at Separation only (1-L-17). Then you learn to get to Both Arms Straight , which means you have completed the circular orbit (1-L-9 and 2-C-0) and Thrusted all the way Down (1-L-15) etc. Then you learn how to get out of Follow Through by Rolling a Finish Swivel. But its not just any old amount of Rolling its precisely Aligned Rolling that maintains the clubshafts alignment to the plane line. (1-L-6). All of which may remind you of 12-5-0 which would not be a coincidence.

You cant just roll the heck out of it and expect other things to fall into place. But for the golfer who has done some work in 12-5-0 The Basic Motion Curriculum it may seem like that. But he has executed Impact as a Hinge Action and maintained his Impact Hands and their associated Flying Wedge Alignments all the way to Both Arms Straight and satisfied the 2-C-0 impact geometry requirements and and and.

wow-thank you very much, a lot of good information