Ask a Pro how he swings the Club and you'll get 10 different answers........from the same Pro.
The Backstroke and Downstroke are very different. I don't doubt that the Pendulum Marching Drill is useful for something but bear in mind that the Impact Alignment, by necessity of the Pendulum is a Swivel.
Swiveling and Hinging are Apples and Oranges. It took me forever to learn the difference. My first Golf Instructor should be in jail. I've searched for a very long time in books, the internet and Golf DVDs and I'm convinced that none of the instructors know the difference (present company excluded). And yet, every Pro I watch, and in Slow Motion, HINGE through the Impact Interval. Good Ball Strikers don't use the Pendulum when they swing a Club but they do apply the geometry while Putting.
I helped Innercityteacher understand the difference between Swiveling and the Right Forearm Angle of Approach. If he would comment on the difference, it would help if he noted if he ever heard or learned of this before and when he reviews the swings of Good Ball Strikers if he sees them Swiveling or Hinging.
Homer Kelley discovered this 50 years ago and writes in great length about it. I'm very SHOCKED, Shocked and more shocked that it isn't standard Golf instruction. If you don't learn it here at LBG.com you'll never learn it. How can anyone call themselves a Golf Instructor without understanding these simple Alignments. I'm completely Shocked. I need a Drink.
Drryl,Your words are whirling through my head at this moment,hinging and swivelling......for me,they are 2 seperate componants occuring in the downswing and follow through but also simutaneously.Correct me if Im not right ,My swing for what its worth is pretty much fully automatic snap release ,I completly rely on centrifugal force,should I really be taking any notice of either of these componants,what I mean here is simply that whenever I make an effort to "DO" anything other than cen force allows ie uncocking or hinging,it all goes pear shaped,the hinging is rehearsed pre swing if I need it one or the other but I engrain that into the shot before I hit it..,but that is pretty much reliant on the computor.
So long as I pivot my swing as good as I can all these alignments seem to take care of themselves,the one handed plane drills....for me are reinforcements of what should be happening with 2 sides left and right,as Tom T said,"if you want to hit with a "heavy" club hold it "lightly"...this is the feeling I get swinging with left side levers,and the right lever also gets the feel of getting down to sweet spot plane.
Now thats a rant....hope you can follow and understand my writings cheers BM
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