LynnBlakeGolf Forums - View Single Post - Air-time Thread: Air-time View Single Post #3894 07-20-2012, 03:39 AM airair Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Norway Posts: 5,930 Bucket's Question of the Week: I smell #2. http://lynnblakegolf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2426 Accommodation http://www.lynnblakegolf.com/forum/s...?t=1940&page=2 http://lynnblakegolf.com/forum/thread4004.html http://www.pga.com/golf-instruction/...-putting-video http://www.lynnblakegolf.com/forum/s...?t=1275&page=4 #34 http://www.lynnblakegolf.com/forum/s...ead.php?t=2696 http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=QL_6M_xZvq0 http://www.lynnblakegolf.com/forum/thread5442-5.html #50 Where It Starts LOREN: The learning curriculum starts with Basic Motion, two feet back and two feet through in learning what the arms do. It’s pivot-less, one source of power, right shoulder or right arm, no wrist cock, zero out the roll power accumulator, which is the angle of the shaft to the left arm. Then from 3 feet back up to a max of right forearm parallel to the ground is called Acquired Motion because we are acquiring more power sources, wrist cock and roll. It’s learning what the hands and wrists do. It’s still relatively pivot-less, little body involvement, mainly clearing the way. The finish is follow-through, defined to be both arms straight, clubhead still below the hands. Look at the clubhead toe attitude to see the effects of hinge action. (Control Your Clubface). Feel a roll, feel no roll, or create a reverse roll. At this level you can also practice punch shots and add the finish swivel to some of those. The Finish Swivel is the bridge between follow-through and finish. The left elbow folds down and the left forearm swivels counter clockwise to lay the sweet spot back on plane and keep the lag, flat left wrist, bent right. Ideally, lag is never lost. Whenever the clubshaft, the flat left wrist, and the sweet spot get on plane, the right wrist bend is correct for impact and should be frozen and maintained from then on. See the flashlight drills in the Golf School Articles, Plane series. You won’t “flip” the left wrist if you hit down. Feel the #1 pressure point instead of PP#3 or in addition to #3 if you’re flipping it. Extensor Action will keep it together. Golf School article Keep the Left Arm Straight. Then, up past right forearm parallel to the ground and on up to Top (right shoulder high) we’re working on pivot, the body, balance. It’s still not an uninhibited full-out swing. It’s just Total Motion, adding Body to Arms and Hands. All parts working, just not full-bore. Same remarks regarding the bent right wrist. Fix The Fix as a studied, distinct Stroke Section (8-2) does not exist in today's Golf World. It does, however, exist to one degree or another in almost every good player and is brought to an art form with the great players. For example, the #1 and #2 Impact Alignments are the Flat, Level and Vertical Left Wrist and its complement, the Bent, Level and Vertical Right Wrist. Rounding out the Big Three is the On Plane Right Forearm and Clubshaft. Do the great players assume these alignments in an Impact Fix? Maybe not. But, they know exactly what these alignments are and how they feel, and they often assume them at times you might least expect. The next time you see the Bobby Jones videos, look carefully as you see him standing around talking to the gang with his Hands and Club waist high. You will see his Left Wrist Flat, Level and Vertical; his Right Wrist Bent, Level and Vertical; and his Right Forearm and Club shaft On Plane. Now, to be sure, it's on a horizontal plane -- not an inclined plane -- but the Impact Alignments are clearly in place and their Feel established. This is the sole purpose of Impact Fix, and when you've got it...you've got it. All that remains to be done is replicate that Feel on the Inclined Plane of Motion. Watch Sam Snead as he lectures to the camera, and you will see the identical Impact Alignments in place. Chi Chi sets his Grip and Impact Alignments while behind the Ball and looking down the Target Line. Except for an over-the-Topof- the Ball Waggle, they never change until the Club leaves the Back of the Ball. Watch any group of Tour players as they wait on a Tee. You'll see Flat Left Wrists and #3 Accumulator Rolls, Right Forearm Tracings and even Downstroke Waggles. Lee Trevino's Address Routine is pure artistry. Away from the Ball, he rehearses the Total Motion with a Practice Swing. He then walks into the Ball with the Club shaft in the Cup of the Right Hand and with the Shaft running up his On Plane Right Forearm. As his Feet settle in to their accustomed positions, he soles the Club with the Ball just off its toe. His Left Wrist joins the fun in its Flat, Level and Vertical Position (10-2-B Grip). His Flying Wedges align to the Ball and Line in a choreographed sequence worthy of a Fred Astaire dance routine. He lasers in on the Plane Line. He Waggles. His lower body moves into its Impact Alignment as his Left Foot tap, tap, taps. At the last instant, he Turns his Left Hand on the Grip -- he just made it a 10-2-D -- Forward Presses and with his Right Forearm takes the Club immediately Up, In and Back on an Open- Open Plane Line. And then, almost always, he stripes it. This may not be the 'academic' version of Impact Fix, but it's Lee Trevino's, and a glance at the Record Book proves that it works. Big time. No, the Tour players don't fit neatly into Section 8-2, Impact Fix. But you can bet your boots its function has been met: They know Impact. They Feel Impact. They live for Impact. It's what they do. At Impact Fix: 1) Given a specific Golf Club length and Ball Location on the Plane, e.g., on a tee or on the ground; 2) With the Left Wrist Flat, Level -- remember, this is a 'High Hands' partially Uncocked Condition per 4-B-1 -- and Vertical; 3) With Extensor Action applied to the Left Arm and Club shaft through the #3 Pressure Point establishing the Flying Wedge Alignments; and with... 4) The Stationary Head Position established by the desired Knee Flex and Waist Bend (standing to the Ball 'in halves' with as straight a Spine -- the body's backbone that does not include the Neck (that joins the Head and Body) More : http://lynnblakegolf.com/forum/thread7767-307.html http://www.lynnblakegolf.com/forum/s...ad.php?p=26206 Drills: http://www.lynnblakegolf.com/forum/s...ead.php?t=6364 http://www.lynnblakegolf.com/forum/thread6404-6.html http://www.lynnblakegolf.com/forum/thread4521.html http://www.lynnblakegolf.com/forum/thread7034.html http://www.lynnblakegolf.com/forum/s...ead.php?t=2667 http://lynnblakegolf.com/forum/thread7767-263.html http://lynnblakegolf.com/forum/thread7767-265.html http://www.lynnblakegolf.com/forum/thread2721.html http://www.lynnblakegolf.com/forum/s...ead.php?t=2224 http://www.lynnblakegolf.com/forum/thread2734.html http://www.lynnblakegolf.com/forum/s...ead.php?t=7962 http://lynnblakegolf.com/forum/thread2463-2.html http://www.lynnblakegolf.com/forum/thread6158.html http://www.lynnblakegolf.com/forum/thread7404.html http://www.lynnblakegolf.com/forum/s...ead.php?t=6071 http://www.lynnblakegolf.com/forum/s...ead.php?t=4570 http://www.lynnblakegolf.com/forum/s...ead.php?t=1673 http://lynnblakegolf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2809 http://lynnblakegolf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=56251 __________________ Air Last edited by airair : 11-08-2012 at 04:10 PM. airair View Public Profile Send a private message to airair Find all posts by airair