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More of a statement than a question, maybe some other insight on my thoughts from the experts.

Last week I had a lesson with an AI and learned a lot of things that I had never considered regarding the uncocking of #2 on the downswing.

While some people have issues with uncocking of #2 I did not, I just did it out of sequence. As it was explained to me as I uncocked #2 it happened to early, it was a very pronounced release of #2 followed by the release of #3. When #2 uncocked too early it shut the face down and this caused my body to hold off and not release.

I had worked very hard to stop hitting hooks unfortunately it was just a compensation that developed with my body to keep the face square.

We worked on proper sequence of #2 and #3 getting the closer together. If I did this correct it would allow me to add the proper body rotation into impact to square the clubface. If I did this before it would have been left city.

Moral to this post is

1. Why the ball is doing what it does, why the body is doing what it does in your particular swing might be a little more complex than some Trackman machine saying the face was closed to the path. That was obvious to even this dolt. The fix was not.

2. Get with an AI that knows what they are doing, fixing a complex issue might be a little more simple than you think it is.

I have been swimming in a sea of compensations and feel like someone has thrown me a life presearver.

Of to the range

Hey gmbtempe

So he wants you delay your Release of #2 is that what your saying?

#2 then #3 is sequenced which to me means the #2 uncocks while the left hand is still turned flat to the inclined plane. This uncocking can be automatic or a non auto Release Trigger. Me, I like a Left Wrist Throw for that business. We're talking Swinging here. Hitting typically would see the #2 and #3 Release overlapped, non sequential in that the Active Right Elbow , Non Auto Right Arm Throw Release Trigger for me, pushes the left hand off its flat to the plane alignment as the right elbow extends.

Either way to Delay Release until a later Release Point you must take the bent right arm down plane in Startdown and the only way to do that is to take the Right Shoulder downplane. (because if the right shoulder hangs back in Startdown the right arm will extend , which'll trigger Release of #2 angle) So whether its Active left Wrist or the Active Right Elbow take the Right Shoulder with the intact fully loaded power package downplane in Startdown.

This will add some longitudinal acceleration, some rope pulling , drag loading to the swing. I feel like my right shoulder starts down before the club has really settled down going back. Sort of like a fly fisherman's rod....you dont go back and stop , you toss it back and add inertia , lag pressure by dragging it down while its still got some momentum going back. Try to sustain this pressure with smooth acceleration instead of freaking out and throwing it away like a hot potato. Thats key for me.

It makes it hard to run out of right arm like this. The other trick is simply shorten the backswing. Stopping at Top instead of going all the way to End can make it way easier to get your fully bent right arm and right shoulder down closer to the ball.

I dunno. Thats what I've been doing lately for what its worth. Homer said we'd all eventually feel like we were hitting the ball with our right shoulder.....Im starting to really feel that. Like there's a golf club head right on top of my right shoulder that I hit the ball with , if that makes any sense. Actually Drew shared a drill where you lay a club across your chest with the face on the right shoulder and then take it at the ball in Startdown. You cant really get the right shoulder all the way down to the ball but the Arms only need a free ride in Startdown anyways. The arms and hands make the journey , go the rest of the way after they separate from the torso.

Speaking of compensations......when my back is bad I cant get the right shoulder down plane , I run out of right arm , flip it closed and tend to compensate with a Steering of the face , like a reverse roll almost. Its not something I do consciously its a last ditch effort to keep the face from flopping closed. Ill come into impact with two straight arms and an arched left wrist. ugly ugly stuff. Sometimes I just go to my sore back swing which is basically hitting ......heck if you cant turn somethings got to accelerate the club so it may as well be that right arm. Sort of like its going to straighten early anyways so why not fire the thing like Im throwing a stone side armed.