The TALY and right forearm tracing the plane line
 

Just got the TALY and it really is the business for a flat left wrist and sensing clubhead lag pressure (especially if you also train with the pure ball striker).

Thats two imperatives, leaving just the straight plane line as the thirrd and final imperative.

I was wondering if one could use the TALY as an aid in tracing the straight plane line. I think I read Yoda somewhere saying that one could fix to the inside of the right forearm but I was wondering if it could be used in the normal left arm position also.

Hope you guys can help me with this last tricky element!

The Gateway
 

For my students and me, the Taly is all about keeping the clubhead behind the 'clown's nose', i.e., behind the Hands and the Flat Left Wrist, through Impact and all the way into the Follow-Through (Both Arms Straight position).

If you do this, then Lag Pressure becomes a 'given', and Plane Line Tracing virtually automatic.

:salut:

Yoda,

I have a problem with the Taly that you haven't touched on in your videos. With all the snow outside, I would like to practice basic motion inside with my Taly. It doesn't work for me at all. No matter how hard I smack him with my wedge, my wifes cat keeps chasing the little red ball on the end of the Taly. When he catches it, I totally lose my lag pressure as he just pulls too hard. I could probably just whack him harder, but I don't want to clean up the blood after killing him. Any idea on how to off Kitty without ruining my marriage?

Sincerely,
Kevin

Kev -

Keep the electric can opener running. Of course, this may lead to the cat's head exploding.



3JACK

Kevin - this sounds like a job for MikeO - The Cat Whisperer

Wacking your kitty won't solve anything and will make matters worse. As Mike will tell you, you have to hypnotize it first, then change its behavior.

You need to act quickly so you can get back to Basic Motion work.

Hehehe, Thanks guys!
:golf:
Kevin

throwing a dart
 

I had a lesson today with my TGM instructor. He showed me the concept of throwing a dart (or ball) at the golf ball in the address position.

I was amazed at how far to the right I was actually throwing the ball, i.e. flat and from the inside.

This dart throwing exercise seems a a good way to trace the plane with the right forearm, any contributions to this idea?

EXlag the cat!
 

Step 1 - slip some laxative into kitty's chow
Step 2 - put kitty in spouses' car
Step 3 - wife will take care of kitty

I heard this is how Bucket's Dad, got Bucket's Mom to get Bucket to leave home at the tender age of 26!

Great 600th post, huh?

Another example of getting the most thorough, real world explanations on the web! :)

Thanks,

Anybody want to buy a slightly used litter box? :laughing9

Kevin

Hey Crawford

Tracing and the thrust of the right arm (be it passively or actively , swinging or hitting) are related but different concepts. You need to master both. The Tracing of the Delivery Line of the clubHEAD being a Visual Equivalent to the on plane Delivery Path of the hands.

Your dart throwing is perhaps the more important of the two however in that it is the hands or more specifically the pressure points that we ultimately are swinging, directing or driving down plane and not the clubhead. Also the straight line thrust continues down to both arms straight. That is still "down" even though you are past impact, past low point. All the way down and if on plane "out" as well. Three dimensional impact. Both arms getting straight at follow through. The ball responds to this geometry in a very positive way even on the smallest of chips.

Check out the free videos in the Lynn Blake section of the Gallery. One called "Wedges and Dowels" one called "Hitting vs Swinging".

ob