[innercityteacher]

Innercityteacher,

1) I push mostly on pp#1 initially. There will be more pp#3 towards the ball of course.

But remember we're talking about educated hands here, they know where they need to go and how to get there.

Then there's a "catch me if you can" game between the driveloading and the pivot. A game that the driveloading should never win in my stroke pattern. It catches up with some of the pivot lag but it never overtakes the pivot lag pressure. The lag pressure from the rope handling is maxed at impact.

1.5) Monitoring:

Impact is in the spotligth of my monitoring system. It's in the middle of my mind all the time. The further away from the ball, the more blurred the monitoring is. In two ways. More focus on the impact zone than the transition and follow thru, and more focus on the club than the hands. And more focus on the hands than other body parts. The hands are possible the most important monitoring device.

This is certainly an area of shades of gray and semantic traps. It is very easy to get reductionistic when discussing this topic, too easy to paint the dark grey parts black and omit the lighter gray parts altogether. The brain works in hierarcic ways. I believe you can basically monitor everything that conserns your golf stroke in real time. Further I believe that good players have greater awareness (monitoring skills + intuitive understanding) of what happens in their stroke than the rest of us.

2) Distance hasn't anything to do with my issue with offset. The offset carries an illusion of a closed clubface that is really disturbing to me when I stand over the ball. I see the shot better with a clean leading edge.

The offset also carries a small amount of added loft but that part is insignificant to me.

Semantic traps indeed! Some people live for them which means they never quite got over the sound of their own confusion!

One of the many nice things to say about LBG and TGM generally. There is something to say and discuss and so we use specific terms to "grab" an important issue and hope our candles and Lynn's 10 million watt floodlight do the trick.

I'm thinking you have a large floodlight of your own as do many others here. I'm feeling like a package of birthday candles, myself, but it's a start! Whoopee!

So then, I glide along with the Pivot, sipping my Gin and Tonic, slowly, due to my Gout, and as I approach the ball I drive # 1 PP through China and that's it!

It was late last night and I was reading OB, somewhere, and he was mentioning driving the right shoulder. I would love to RFT/EA /Hula and drive my right shoulder DOWN and OUT (which TGM has turned into a positive). We are talking about the same thing, correct, as hitters, but not as Swingers?

ICT