Power Accumulator # 4 and a Flat Left LOCKED Wrist get thrown by the Hula-Hula motion and a nice little fade allows the ball to be found and hit again with power.
Knowing the Wizard of Oz and the Yellow Brick Road: Priceless!
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My normal tendency would be to to try the championship flight right off after the quality time I spent with Lynn some months ago, but the "B" flight, which is our largest flight, seems good enough.
Typically, I have three or four chips a round that settle to the pin with 12" and are
handed to me by my playing partners. I have been struggling with my drives all summer and recently substituted a Fixed Left Wrist with a longer pause at the top so my hip shift can really drive my Power Accumulator # 4 and arms totally off my chest. It seems more controllable and powerful so we will see.
UPDATE: RAINED OVER 2 INCHES DAY BEFORE, STEADY DRIZZLE DAY OF, SHOT A 90 WHILE LAST YEAR'S CLUB CHAMP SHOT A 77! TOP 12 SAW 6 PLAYERS WITH AN 89 TO MAKE CUT IN MY "B" FLIGHT!
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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!
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Besides chipping and putting I will concentrate on this
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Originally Posted by innercityteacher
My normal tendency would be to to try the championship flight right off after the quality time I spent with Lynn some months ago, but the "B" flight, which is our largest flight, seems good enough.
Typically, I have three or four chips a round that settle to the pin with 12" and are
handed to me by my playing partners. I have been struggling with my drives all summer and recently substituted a Fixed Left Wrist with a longer pause at the top so my hip shift can really drive my Power Accumulator # 4 and arms totally off my chest. It seems more controllable and powerful so we will see.
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Besides McDonald Drills, I need a lower right shoulder ala :
UPDATE: DOING THE MCDONALD DRILLS CORRECTLY AND THOROUGHLY PULLS THE HIPS AROUND AND THE CORRESPONDING SHOULDER DOWN AND ON PLANE. IT IS AN ORGANIC CONNECTION! THE HIPS MUST MOVE TO PROPERLY OR THE SHOULDERS WILL NOT EVER MOVE PROPERLY. THE HIPS MUST BE PROPELLED BY THE DELIBERATE MOVEMENT OF THE FEET AND KNEES OR THE ZONE 3 HANDS CANNOT BE USED PROPERLY ON A CONSISTENT BASIS! (Boy, I really hope I'm right on this! lol)
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Like a great broth, a golf swing needs time to simmer!
Ummmm...I have been simmering in a good way since last Spring's week-long visit with the wonderful Lynn Blake where I learned much more than I could appropriate in a year! I was off the grid.
Being newly divorced, in a new apartment with a new high school tech teaching job also helped me be well, occupied.
And so, while I was simmering, I was meditating on the first thing Lynn showed me which was the "Marching Drill," and other McDonald drills. I could feel something very different while with Lynn that week but could not assimilate it. I had no kinetic schema just an intellectual understanding. If you watch the videos, I was doing it, the movement of the knees, BUT I DID NOT UNDERSTAND IT! As many of you know, Lynn does not deal in "half-solutions!" He gives his students 110% or more and I was trying to appropriate what he said. I would stay in my room or go to the range practicing the moves but there was so much, I was overwhelmed.
I knew the TGM outline but I had not grasped an essential truth of the system. I did an online search for "knees and the golf swing." Eventually, I got to Mike Austin and Mike Dunaway, his protoge. Whether it was my hip surgeries (11), or my artificial hip, or my Gout, or being slow, I could not grasp what I was told in the McDonald March until I saw Mike Dunaway on a dvd five or six times. 'The right knee feels to go to four o'clock and then drives to 10 o'clock, the right hip moves out of the way, the shoulder drops on plane and the hands throw'!
This is exactly what is taught by TGM! And Mike Austin did it very well, very, very well! Honestly, it never occurred to me until then, to simply use the right knee to drive my hip out of the way to come down on plane and throw the club!!!! I think I was sub-consciously protecting my artificial left hip and the shorter left leg but by switching my focus to my right knee, I HAD NO WORRIES!!!
My last three rounds of golf at the end of October and yesterday, saw me hit 16/ 18 drives in the fairways or first shots on par 3's long 240+ and with a very slight draw, which is how I hit most of my shots, now. Though it was 55 degrees yesterday, my 8 iron was 145 yards, 9 iron was 130 ish and PW was 125 ish. Ball position is crucial. I am about to purchase a new driver to replace my senior shafted 10 year old Adam's Red Line 9.5 degree driver. (Thinking an SMT beast with an extra stiff shaft. My dad hits his 12 degree SMT with a hockey shot about 225 and has gotten thrown off the gold tees at the age of 75, lol!)
Yesterday, I was 14 over par counting every stroke. I had not touched my clubs since October's end when I shot an 89 at Hershey's East course with my buds. The greens were lightning fast and it took me several holes to believe the balls were flying as far as they were!
Now, all of Lynn's Address videos with and all the others make perfect sense! I can feel my weight fire to my front leg and am using my right arm powerfully as my right hip clears to my left pocket!
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...this morning I had four students I did not recognize jump in my room during 2nd period pretending to have guns trying to intimidate me. I do not know who they were and Mrs. S... was helping someone else on the other side of the floor. I called the office but there was no answer. I have no walkie.
This afternoon after 7th period, a student crawled into the ceiling and stood or knelt in the ceiling disturbing and resetting the tiles. The student left when I called the office on my cell phone to report it (I also picked up a wooden dowel and moved away from the tiles in case the student fell or jumped through them).
During advisory, a student assaulted me.
Four weeks ago, a fire was started and staged in room 320 across the hallway complete with accelerants (Pine Sol and boxes of wood and paper). With the help of the two janitors, we put the starter in a plastic bucket avoiding a fire which would've damaged the building possibly injuring or killing people.
Every day, Hallway # 2 reeks of pot.
Mrs. S... has partnered with me to move students along as soon as they try to congregate. She is a great lady and sometimes we have officer B....help us.
Why are all the school police on the first and second floor where we have cameras? Should we file a grievance with the union for the sake of the safety of the school and our fellow union members and student safety? The third floor is unsafe and unwatched.
Please advise.
So have things gotten better?
Hi. While talking with Mrs. S.... today and trading information, I was informed that she encounters several kids during the week who come from the third floor commons inner circle into the third floor hallways. She also mentioned smelling pot in several locations where no student or person seemed to be standing.
Our guess is students ride the ceiling like people ride the bus. They hide there, steal laptops, get high and jump into other rooms. That would explain why lights are on with all the doors locked when no one uses the rooms and other incidents we have had.
10 minutes ago I chased a student out of the hall who had put a pair of beige slacks in a locker. They are still there. he didn't think I knew which locker he used. It was the middle of the sixth period. I called several people to inform them.
I know the principal mentioned zip-lining the lockers on Friday after the ceiling incident. I think that is a good idea. I'm sure there are others. I would like a walkie to keep people informed of what is happening up here. I think a memo should be sent to all staff to give people a heads up. I will be happy to give service during a prep to help Mrs. Stevens on a daily basis.
I am worried about a ceiling fire, or a student falling through the ceiling and breaking their neck, or falling on staff or taking working laptops over a weekend. Mrs. S.... mentioned a series of robberies in the new townhouses built near 45th and Market using the same M.O. as th e houses were connected by a common duct-work system.
Thanks.
When I say that this is the hardest teaching post I have ever had, I am not kidding. How I long for Lynn and Cuscowilla and Green Haven and Gerrry's fine family and Kevin's great encouragements!
I am not getting married either! LOL!
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Jeeeeeepers Man. Any chance of getting out of there next year? That really puts controlling a little white ball in a different context. I feel bad for you my friend!
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I could be wrong. I have been before, and will be again.
I was off the grid.
I did an online search for "knees and the golf swing." Eventually, I got to Mike Austin and Mike Dunaway, his protoge. Whether it was my hip surgeries (11), or my artificial hip, or my Gout, or being slow, 
I could not grasp what I was told in the McDonald March until I saw Mike Dunaway on a dvd five or six times. 'The right knee feels to go to four o'clock and then drives to 10 o'clock, the right hip moves out of the way, the shoulder drops on plane and the hands throw'!
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