LynnBlakeGolf Forums - For Lee Dietrick or anybody who cares to answer

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Originally Posted by libero

Lee hi! thanks for ur reply.

1st
youre right abt TT pivot motion and I understodd what he means. maybe I didn't express it correctly. What I meant was that I don't have to start the downswing with hips but with arms motion which will pull the body into impact,followthrough and finish,not that the pivot must not move!

2nd
the motion of the right hand he is showing (exactly a karate chop
looking motion) is not the same he is showing when holding a club.
At least this is what I see in the videos. If I try to perform the karate-chop-like motion of the right hand and think (as he says) of hitting only down and out I always find myself with an
angled hinging of the left wrist actually closer to a vertical hinge than horizontal.
For what I understood he saw that your shots too had the tendency of going to the right and he was suggesting you to think of swinging the hands forward,past your left side,in order to straiten or even drawing your shots. Infact he was showing that in such a way the toe of the club (but well past impact),was pointing to the sky.With Media Player I cannot watch the videos frame by frame so I don't know how is the clubface at impact. Anyway if you think of just swinging your arms past your left side that's also hitting forward,not merely down and out,no
karate chops.
So I would like to make it clear: karate chops or not?
In the end did u follow TT advices and how are u swinging nowadays?

many thanks Lee

Libero

I highly advise doing the extensor action drill from the Tomasello Australia video series...I believe it's in the "Arms" video. That's very very very important drill for ANY golfer...it's the drill where Tommy puts his left hand into a fist...and takes his right hand and places it above his left wrist. Make a backswing with the drill....stop at the top of backswing...with your right forearm try to hit out on the downswing and see what you feel...you should feel an over top move/condition...do it slowly...and I think you'll see what I mean...so, I believe you will see the only motion at the start of the downswing is down with the right forearm....read 7-3 where Homer writes...."On Plane Right Forearm shows the percise up-and-down direction it and the Clubshaft must take throughout the Stroke (2-J-3)". Now reference Tomasello's 1991 interview..."The upward and downward force is provided by a straight-up folding and unfolding of the Right Forearm from its address position."

DG