[innercityteacher]

City,
I'm thinking sometimes you might be living from time to time in a parallel universe.
Are you still able to play in Philly? Are you putting more focus into pp#1?

I'm writing this while a southern warmfront pushes our temperature and trash cans into the air! 65 degrees tomorrow and sunny/windy. We are talking dirt range and the Schnauzer, Anna-Louisa!

After I trace the BLP (Base LIne Plane) by "tossing," "flicking," or "pointing " my # 3 PP at it , letting it pull my arm to shoulder height with slight Extensor Action, I am aware of two things which I count to myself as a check list.

Do this at horizontal level and incline gradually with your practice swing. Extend your right arm, fully with club in the middle of your right forearm. Snap your right wrist back for exaggeration of the feeling of LAG crashing against your # 3 PP and your right /back elbow bending. Then forget about the LAG and concentrate only on your bent elbow which you will shoot out at the imaginary horizontal ball/target.

By rapidly accelerating your Bennding Right Wrist/back wrist, you have plasterd the LAG against the # 3 PP and your opposite elbow straightening will keep it there until you come to your left/frontside ear. Fire the elbow and (sooner or later) the # 3 PP will go through the ball at speed.

Playing with this approach gives me good distance until I start to get nervous and forget to fire my elbow. If I haltingly cast a fishing line, it get's messed up. Ditto for the club! Cast the # 3 PP at the ball or throw it or....

My hope is to make this casting automatic and forget all the underlying essential instructional geometries and simply play golf which must be the state of mind the greats played with in competition, imho.

I want a player's mind when playing, not an engineers.

I will let you know how it goes, you can be sure.

ICT