12-3-0 Mechanical Checklist for all Strokes
 

How should one use the 45 item checklist?

I think this is one area where Lynns time with Paul Bertholy greatly influenced his application and teaching of TGM. Slow motion drills and/or held positions while performing visual checks (look , look , look) to confirm the proper alignments being a superior form of training compared to merely hitting a million practice balls. They both work but one is faster and you can do it indoors.

Sort of like Tai Chi for G.O.L.F 'rs not that I know anything about Tai Chi.

I also have a feeling Lynns personal version of the RFT has a dash of Bertholy's "rod and claw" to it. Maybe, well amongst other influences ...... Billy Casper , Robert G MacDonald, Wild Bill Melhourne, Nelson and Hogan etc etc. Lynn Ive been admiring your takeaway for three years now and I think Ive "cracked its code" . As you did Billy Caspers.

It smacked me right between the ears er eyes yesterday. Its revolutionized not only my backswing but rippled through my entire swing, the plane of my left wrist cock, my Finish position , my release .......Look ma I'm free wheel'n. With no rubber wristed "slop" either.

Getting off topic sorry.

Start Up Lag and Drag
 

From Start Up to Finish, every Golf Stroke encompasses Three Zones.

Zone 1 / Body:

Body Control . . .

Pivot.

Balance.

Zone 2 / Arms:

Club Control . . .

Power.

Force.

Zone 3 / Hands:

Ball Control . . .

Purpose.

Direction.

In Start Up, Clubhead Lag is established by the Body Pivot and transmitted to the Arms. Educated Hands distinctly sense this delayed Clubhead movement as Drag and keep its movement On Plane.

As I say on my Pit Bull video . . .

"Lag back, and lag through. Lag, boy . . . lag!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejgoFG_iIyA



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Thanks for your kind reply, Lynn

This is exactly what Im feeling. I could write 5 pages on how Im doing it but that pretty much sums it up. I imagine it as a mix of MacDonald drill #11 ( the Pivot , golfs basic rotor like action , which establishes the Lagging Clubhead Takeaway from Adjusted) combined with the Right Forearm Pickup ( via the middle two fingers of the right hand in a Bertholy "rod and claw" like manner). #1 Pressure Point for Extensor Action and the Pickup ensuring the club stays on plane, Hands to Pivot. A pure Vertical Left Hand wrist cock plane of motion, no arching Horizontal Hand Motion, the Clubhead free wheeling , swinging up the plane. I can feel it! Swish, swish BLAMMO.

Id been close at times but now I own it. Id been trying to Lag the club away with my Hands! To get it , I had to rid myself of any latent left arm push away or steering of the face square to the ball stuff from my junior years. Pivot turns Back and around whilst the RFT takes the Hands Up the Plane. Lagging and Dragging, giving up control to gain control.

Im Swing'n like Count Basie.

Excuse me?

One should use the mechanical checklist to ensure they are prepared as possible before startup, as precise as possible though the top and as smooth and complete as possible through impact and to the correct finish position. Use the mechanical checklist to nail down all zone2 and 3 components. Double check all listed items through the address top and finish. Notice that extensor action is repeated always maintain extensor! The checklist is a list of things to monitor, awareness of the location, condition, etc. The mastering of stage three total motion. Find your stroke pattern and use the corresponding components for the listed items, you will adapt the checklist to monitor your specific components through the twelve stations.


Great questions usually come with great knowledge, I wonder if the poster is testing us.... Bring it on....