[innercityteacher]

You're catching on.

And, that Right Elbow - away from the Body - at the Top or End, allows the "Hands" to accelerate rapidly and fully. This defines the "Hand Acceleration" phase of the "Down stroke Acceleration Sequence", necessary to bring a Lagging Club head into the Impact interval. Without it, Lag decreases, and the Shaft whips the Club head ahead before Impact.

It is so cool to have the complete Power Package drop on a ball like a cruise missile on a terrorist, but the question comes in training the Pivot to do the firing with full power and malice!

As President Romney said "we can't kill our way out of the problem with terrorism," and we can't always kill the golf ball but a solid smash every couple shots is a beautiful thing.

To that end:

Sequencing the Start Down
Originally Posted by Andy R View Post

Am I correct in assuming that this 'dynamic' weight shift is mandatory for full shots? Or in other words, when looking at video of me hitting a Driver, must there be a visible shift to the left 2-4 frames prior to the hands starting down, and if I'm not doing this, am I not shifting your weight properly?

Yoda's response:

That's right, Andy. In Pivot Strokes, the Down stroke begins at the ground (the Feet) and sequences upward through the Knees, Hips and Shoulders. The Hip Action (Hips pull Shoulders) shifts the weight and maintains the On Plane Right Shoulder during the Start Down. This Body Action pulls the Arms, and the Arms pull the Hands (which have experienced a momentary static period that defines the Top).

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So a steady reversing pull of the body stops the hands and fires them down plane.

Woo Hoo this is fun.

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