I slipped my left arm out of its sleeve and did this little drill during my 2011 PGA Teaching and Coaching Summit presentation. To get the concept and feel of Extensor Action and its right arm participation, try it yourself!
Address
Pinch the Armless Sleeve with your right thumb and forefinger. Make sure you have a nice bend in your right elbow and a nice stretch of the sleeve. (Lefties substitute left for right throughout.)
Top
Use the Right Forearm Takeaway to take the hand to a Top position (Right Shoulder High or beyond). Use only as much Pivot as required: Let your Hands control and imitate what you see! Your palm should be face up to the Plane. Keep that sleeve s-t-r-e-t-c-h-e-d. Let go of the tension -- relax the sleeve -- and notice how "flimsy" your Power Package just became!
Impact
Use your Pivot to deliver your Bent Right Arm deep into Release and Impact. Do NOT simply unbend your right arm from the Top. This is Throwaway!
Follow-Through
The Pivot has done its work. Now, stay Centered and now continue the Delivery with Independent Arm Motion until the Right Arm is completely straight. Remember to drive toward the Baseline of the Plane (and not toward the Target!). This momentum -- once spent -- will pull the Body into its compliant position at the Finish.
When you are able to perform this drill correctly without thinking -- shouldn't take long -- you are well on the way to the next level of your best golf.
There is more to this than first meets the eye, I believe: "Use only as much Pivot as required" , "use the Pivot to Deliver your Bent Right Arm deep into Release and Impact", "the Pivot has done its work" etc
Lynn, amongst all the procedures/concepts alluded to you chose to italicize "Independent Arm Motion". Im thinking: MacDonald drills, Hands controlled Pivot, Divergent Vectors, the "blast off" ...etc, perhaps? Its a huge concept and central to cracking both golf and G.O.L. F. to my mind.
Would you care to expand upon Independent Arm Motion? This might be a slight thread jack but not one that couldnt be bridged perhaps.
Lynn, amongst all the procedures/concepts alluded to you chose to italicize "Independent Arm Motion". Im thinking: MacDonald drills, Hands controlled Pivot, Divergent Vectors, the "blast off" ...etc, perhaps? Its a huge concept and central to cracking both golf and G.O.L. F. to my mind.
Would you care to expand upon Independent Arm Motion? This might be a slight thread jack but not one that couldnt be bridged perhaps.
Study the Pivot Stroke Delivery (6-K-0) of the Loaded Power Package to Release. No "independent motion" of the Arms occurs until the Delivery requirements of the Pivot have been met. When that has been accomplished, the Arms continue the Delivery (independent of the Pivot) through Impact to the end of the Follow-Through.
Study the Pivot Stroke Delivery (6-K-0) of the Loaded Power Package to Release. No "independent motion" of the Arms occurs until the Delivery requirements of the Pivot have been met. When that has been accomplished, the Arms continue the Delivery (independent of the Pivot) through Impact to the end of the Follow-Through.
Thanks for this Yoda.
It reminds me of this video. Sorry I tried to link the LBG version perhaps it been taken down?
I believe Mr Hogan is talking Delivery here, that is to say the delivery of the Fully Loaded Power Package from its Assembly point to its Release Point.
Which ties in nicely with the book literalist definition of Startdown, the Period of Shoulder Acceleration, the TSP, Standard Shoulder turn etc etc. A period where the Pivot is dragging the Hands downplane (although the hands are still directing , Hands to Pivot, its a free ride but they are backseat drivers).
Lynn would I be correct in thinking that other than in Delivery the Arm Motion is always Independent, in the ideal? Take Startup for instance: There's some independent Arm Motion there too isnt there? The Right Shoulder turns Flat Back , the Right Forearm Picks Up . Two vectors that net out with the Hands riding the selected Plane Angle. Ah cant do that very easily with a hanky under the arms either.
Hybrid Mode
