It sounds like "Practice Range Syndrome". Your components re-adjust to make the Ball go straight. I'm afraid that this isn't something you can take to the course. It sounds like you're hitting too many balls rather than practicing alignments. For example, look at the following Hip Alignments for a Standard Pivot. If it changes from day to day, then your component variations will change day to day. (look up, First Wobble)
The Illustration below diagrams pivot Hip travel/Path. A key alignment guide is the Red Line. Your Left Hip slides to the Right during the Backstroke and your Right Hip Slides Toward the Target on that Line during the Downstroke.
If your Left Hip (yellow circle) crosses the Red Line during the Backstroke, then it's difficult, if not impossible, to make the correct Hip Turn Back to the Ball for 3 reasons. (1) You will move OFF the Ball or lose Posture, (2) your Slide will be toward the Target Line, not Parallel, (3) You won't clear the Hips in either direction.
10-14-A STANDARD
10-14-B SLIDE
With this procedure, you have much less Turn in either direction.
I have to print this and work on the range! Thanks!
Originally Posted by Daryl
Yo, City,
It sounds like "Practice Range Syndrome". Your components re-adjust to make the Ball go straight. I'm afraid that this isn't something you can take to the course. It sounds like you're hitting too many balls rather than practicing alignments. For example, look at the following Hip Alignments for a Standard Pivot. If it changes from day to day, then your component variations will change day to day. (look up, First Wobble)
The Illustration below diagrams pivot Hip travel/Path. A key alignment guide is the Red Line. Your Left Hip slides to the Right during the Backstroke and your Right Hip Slides Toward the Target on that Line during the Downstroke.
If your Left Hip (yellow circle) crosses the Red Line during the Backstroke, then it's difficult, if not impossible, to make the correct Hip Turn Back to the Ball for 3 reasons. (1) You will move OFF the Ball or lose Posture, (2) your Slide will be toward the Target Line, not Parallel, (3) You won't clear the Hips in either direction.
10-14-A STANDARD
10-14-B SLIDE
With this procedure, you have much less Turn in either direction.
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HP, grant me the serenity to accept what I cannot change, the courage to change what I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Progress and not perfection is the goal every day!
It sounds like "Practice Range Syndrome". Your components re-adjust to make the Ball go straight. I'm afraid that this isn't something you can take to the course. It sounds like you're hitting too many balls rather than practicing alignments. For example, look at the following Hip Alignments for a Standard Pivot. If it changes from day to day, then your component variations will change day to day. (look up, First Wobble)
The Illustration below diagrams pivot Hip travel/Path. A key alignment guide is the Red Line. Your Left Hip slides to the Right during the Backstroke and your Right Hip Slides Toward the Target on that Line during the Downstroke.
If your Left Hip (yellow circle) crosses the Red Line during the Backstroke, then it's difficult, if not impossible, to make the correct Hip Turn Back to the Ball for 3 reasons. (1) You will move OFF the Ball or lose Posture, (2) your Slide will be toward the Target Line, not Parallel, (3) You won't clear the Hips in either direction.
10-14-A STANDARD
10-14-B SLIDE
With this procedure, you have much less Turn in either direction.
HK was a genius! So simple and logical! Thanks!
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HP, grant me the serenity to accept what I cannot change, the courage to change what I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Progress and not perfection is the goal every day!
It sounds like "Practice Range Syndrome". Your components re-adjust to make the Ball go straight. I'm afraid that this isn't something you can take to the course. It sounds like you're hitting too many balls rather than practicing alignments. For example, look at the following Hip Alignments for a Standard Pivot. If it changes from day to day, then your component variations will change day to day. (look up, First Wobble)
The Illustration below diagrams pivot Hip travel/Path. A key alignment guide is the Red Line. Your Left Hip slides to the Right during the Backstroke and your Right Hip Slides Toward the Target on that Line during the Downstroke.
If your Left Hip (yellow circle) crosses the Red Line during the Backstroke, then it's difficult, if not impossible, to make the correct Hip Turn Back to the Ball for 3 reasons. (1) You will move OFF the Ball or lose Posture, (2) your Slide will be toward the Target Line, not Parallel, (3) You won't clear the Hips in either direction.
10-14-A STANDARD
10-14-B SLIDE
With this procedure, you have much less Turn in either direction.
Do good golfers feel the tilted 40 degree angle going back and at impact. I'm sure they feel the slide.
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HP, grant me the serenity to accept what I cannot change, the courage to change what I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Progress and not perfection is the goal every day!
Because of the Stationary Head, the "Turn" "Feel" is much more than "Feel" of "Tilt".
Daryl, I think I just put it together with the Alignment DVD drill of "shooting the plane line." Your last post was too subtle for me. I'm sorry, could you unpack it?
I know the RFT sets the pivot and that is a subtle move in comparison to my lumbering sways and thrusts. I know the RFT takes the hip back and shoulder correctly.
Are you saying that if I keep my head still, as Yoda stresses, and Armour and Hogan...I will feel more like I'm turning than tilting?
Speaking of feelings, the forward lateral hip bump will feel small and the shoulder thrust or underhand toss should feel huge, right?
Thanks again. I realized yesterday, that I had really ignored my pivot!
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HP, grant me the serenity to accept what I cannot change, the courage to change what I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Progress and not perfection is the goal every day!
Last edited by innercityteacher : 05-24-2010 at 11:44 AM.
Daryl, I think I just put it together with the Alignment DVD drill of "shooting the plane line." Your last post was too subtle for me. I'm sorry, could you unpack it?
I know the RFT sets the pivot and that is a subtle move in comparison to my lumbering sways and thrusts. I know the RFT takes the hip back and shoulder correctly.
Are you saying that if I keep my head still, as Yoda stresses, and Armour and Hogan...I will feel more like I'm turning than tilting?
Speaking of feelings, the forward lateral hip bump will feel small and the shoulder thrust or underhand toss should feel huge, right?
Thanks again. I realized yesterday, that I had reall ignored my pivot!
I meant that I (me personally) feel more Turn than Tilt. I'm Tilting, but I feel the Turn more than I sense the Tilt. I know my Hips are Tilting because my knees are Bending.
Keep your Head Still.
Lastly, if your Left Hip, stays on the Red Line During the Backstroke, you WILL feel the Stretch that Hogan Talks about.
Put a little more weight on your Left Foot at Address. Then as you pivot, your right Hip will be withdrawn as your Left Hip moves down the red line as your weight shifts.
Then, during the downswing, since most of your weight is on your right foot, your left hip will travel back down the red line as your right hip comes back to the red line. As your right hip continues down the red line, your left hip will withdraw to the rear. see illustrations. Your weight remains on the rght side during the sit-down and only begins moving left as your left hip withdraws.
Impact should occur about the same moment that the weight shifts to your left foot. Which is at the end of the left hip turn.
So....you don't shift the weight to the left, and then hit the ball. Impact should occur as the weight hits the left foot.
Daryl, you are the best.
If I had any type of organisational ability I would be printing them and putting them in a binder for future reference. I'll count on City for that, though.
Great posts, D. Thanks mucho.
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Daryl, you are the best.
If I had any type of organisational ability I would be printing them and putting them in a binder for future reference. I'll count on City for that, though.
Great posts, D. Thanks mucho.
g
D, I'm impressed.
Patrick
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HP, grant me the serenity to accept what I cannot change, the courage to change what I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Progress and not perfection is the goal every day!
Hi Daryl, Jerry, Kevin, OB, and Bucket and readers across the world and to all our brave soldiers everywhere!
As we all know, terrorists don't always wear tablecloths. We all fight monsters everyday. We fight by protecting the innocent and by building better lives based on freedom and the enjoyment of simple pleasures, like G.O.L.F.
(I have permission to introduce my new elementary school to the First Tee program and believe that golf does teach great lessons.)
You all have to know that for years, I have been regarded as the best 20 hcp. at my club. I have an artificial hip and metal rod and walk with a pronounced limp. Happily, there are lots of gimpy old fatmen at my club and everyone is very tolerant and (mostly) honest about their hcps.
Being pretty straight and hitting my drives 200 yards was not enough for me, however.
Over several months, John, my GSEB, has been showing me that I had wrongly trained my hands and arms to assume various positions trying to imitate "conventional golf wisdom." None of those positions made any sense or had any real logical relationships to each other. So, I had no power and no precision in my game.
I have had lots of help from people in this website, esp. with RFT and the use of hips in the pivot. In each of my lessons, though, John had to break me of part of my 10 years of bad habits and bad videos and silly instructors. He had to isolate a bad habit and help me begin to correctly put power and precision in my game.
Yoda's "Alignment Golf" is particularly excellent at connecting TGM dots on what to do positively. But, only a TGM instructor working with a serious student can really teach G.O.L.F. and expose and undo bad habits.
Today, John showed me how I was still pushing my left hand to an off-plane position and missing the plane in the downswing. without the plane, there was no power. John had me work without the club.
I interlaced my fingers and pulled my left arm up-plane. Because I was not clearing my hip, John showed me to blend a back shoulder turn with the left arm pull. However, I was doing the RFT incorrectly. John had me do the Atlanta Braves tomahawk chop with my right arm. (It was hard for a Phillies fan.) I had to feel the correct elbow bend!
Then John showed me how the elbow bend goes to the top of the back shoulder. To me, this felt like chopping with my right hand at 45 degree angle. I was still bending my left wrist and using my hands to manufacture my sense of the plane which was not the plane.
Eventually, the elbow exercise took hold and John reminded me of tracing the baseline of the plane keeping the right elbow more in front and using the blade to stay straight back from the ball longer in the take-away.
And there it was! The RFT in all it's simplicity and precision.
I clicked 5 straight PW's straight and about 110 yards. "Better, but why not use your hips?"
Back elbow to endless belt, pp #2 and # 3 to endless belt, pressure points to front foot, turn the belly button and turn the sternum all worked!
The pw's clicked and went 130 yards. "It is not down, but down-range!" Linear Force! Click, click, click
The driver bounced once before climbing up the 250 yard net down range often. I had it teed low and the noise scared me.
More to come!
Patrick
Originally Posted by innercityteacher
Do good golfers feel the tilted 40 degree angle going back and at impact. I'm sure they feel the slide.
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HP, grant me the serenity to accept what I cannot change, the courage to change what I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Progress and not perfection is the goal every day!
Last edited by innercityteacher : 05-24-2010 at 01:12 AM.
Hi Daryl, Jerry, Kevin, OB, and Bucket and readers across the world and to all our brave soldiers everywhere!
from the ball longer in the take-away. 
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