So, it seems that it is the opposite of my normal technique of laying the club flat and skimming. The blade would have a more normal profile as it enters.
Thanks!
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More square face or more forward shaft lean. The key is to assure that the leading edge keeps carving sand through impact.
I have decided to choose my components a bit and rely this week on my RFT or left knee to the ball, slowly, and then a slow right knee at the ball as my only swing thoughts, that and the "Impact Waggle" so I can KNOW my ball flight.
I am feeling tremendous balance with RFT and right knee trigger! This week, I will manipulate the club face open to avoid any draw whatsoever.
Thanks to BerntR's wet sand TQ "I will not fear the valley of wet sand for my pitching wedge or 52 degree wedge or are with me and my Higher Power loves me and has a sense of humor!"
Plus I have been to Cuscowilla and the Waffle House as well as had good fellowship with KevCarter, JerryG, and RodgerDodger.
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As with Hogan's right knee move - when you take the 'slack' out, you have in a very real way "lengthened" the lever - in fact at both arms straight I can often literally feel the 'full line' of the train - from my right foot, all the way through my body, to impact. Supporting impact along the 'entire' train. A good drill is to move from impact fix to the finish with 'high hands' - trying to get your hands as far away from your right ankle as you can, such that you have a bit of 'Saturday Night Fever' - a diagonal line from your hands to your right ankle.
Choo, chooo...... all aboard! Drive that train - from the ground up, just like a pitcher does.
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As with Hogan's right knee move - when you take the 'slack' out, you have in a very real way "lengthened" the lever - in fact at both arms straight I can often literally feel the 'full line' of the train - from my right foot, all the way through my body, to impact. Supporting impact along the 'entire' train. A good drill is to move from impact fix to the finish with 'high hands' - trying to get your hands as far away from your right ankle as you can, such that you have a bit of 'Saturday Night Fever' - a diagonal line from your hands to your right ankle.
Choo, chooo...... all aboard! Drive that train - from the ground up, just like a pitcher does.
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"we have no friends, we have no enemies, we have only teachers"
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Ok, great to be on the range esp. as the school year is running down. Lots of tech stuff including 20n stolen laptops as Principal decided to send kids unsupervised to computer labs over the last 5 days!
Of course I warned him and the teaching staff 2 months ago...
Anyway post rain shower, rainbow, awesome 70's and low humidity...great day to hit a few started with RFT Basic Motion and right knee to inner quadrant of ball controlling distances 2ft back, pitches, 130 yard goalposts, and Acquired Motion from Impact Fix. Did lots of irons, hybrids, woods, always near or through goalposts or on line 50 yards. 100 yards, 130 and full shot. Very balanced.
Realized after one bucket I could trust my right knee as an automatic trigger so much that I should reallly fire it through the ball and let it carry me around with full force! Impact Waggles showed me ball flight and 9 irons were bouncing at 135-140 yards and straight. Bounced the driver at 240 and had rollouts to 250. Kept Left wrist flat but kept carrying it back higher and higher with no wrist roll and creamed the ball!
Hit about 50 balls Tracing with Extensor Action as opposed to Impact Fix covering.. If I drove my right knee all the way through the ball and controlled the face by opening, I pounded the ball one more club and flight was more penetrating. But balance with Covering and right knee trigger was awesome!
Hope to shoot a 75 on Saturday! Right thumb on left part of shaft pinching PP# 3 (better feel of being on Sweet spot plane), Impact Fix, waggle opening face, RFT and Right Knee.
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Last edited by innercityteacher : 06-08-2012 at 12:01 AM.
But the RFT helps me feel balanced. I do have to open the club-face as early as my full (now flies about 130 yards) PW to guarantee a straight shot or a fade.
You're correct Etzwane. I love that simple automatic firing.
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But the RFT helps me feel balanced. I do have to open the club-face as early as my full (now flies about 130 yards) PW to guarantee a straight shot or a fade.
You're correct Etzwane. I love that simple automatic firing.
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A strong single action grip, stationary head, and level left wrist allows for a much quicker vertical wrist cocking and quicker and easier movement of the club-head. Here's the obviously TGM influenced Australian golf teacher on video:
Add to that Lynn's lifelong teaching of the importance of training all three zones, Pivot, Arms and Hands.
Every item Lynn teaches is a distillation of years of thoughtful insight into G.O.L.F. I can't tell those reading this how hard Lynn works to communicate with his students. First day, grip adjustment (strong single action) and MacDonald Marching and every day Lynn just blows you away with insights you might never figure out in any other way!
Further study and practice however, as any teacher knows, is essential for mastery. In the last several weeks I have hit some good scores but in doing so I became aware of the limits of my technique.
"Effortless Power" demands solid technique. Pros and talented amateurs work hard for years mastering efficient techniques to get that "effortless power." I might shoot par someday on a hard, dry golf tract with every good bounce possible, but I simply could not hope to deliberately and realistically shoot par on a bad day and several under on a good day. My technique was limited.
In order to shoot my lowest scores, level left wrists in putting and chipping, as Lynn taught me, pretending my chips were putts, were essential.
Sure enough, as OB described and Lynn teaches, the road to consistently great golf starts with MacDonald marching for either Swinging or Hitting. The right grip allows the correct "intentionality" to take effect. "Wheel Rim" = Swinging or "Paddle Wheel" =Hitting, which is easier or most effective? Lynn says both and the trick is to do them.
Left knee to the ball, right knee to the ball gives all the power and wrist cocking a person could use and so much potential power is available!
Intending to drive the "Paddle Wheel" from true Impact Fix with a strong single action grip means the right wrist has to to be bent and frozen and the left wrist flat. Covering is almost automatic. Adding left knee and right knee allows me to feel a deeply powerful delivery DOWN, Out and Forward of the Power Package. Left wrist is vertical and Bent right wrist is frozen bent stiffening the right forearm. The right knee moving to the ball leads the Power Package DOWN and that Angle Hinge demands a manipulated closed club face but all the power needed is available TIME AFTER TIME! Instead of being fatigued after 30 balls, I felt refreshed AS LONG AS MY SET-UP WAS CORRECT.
Intending to spin the "Wheel Rim," from Mid-Body hands. Tracing is almost automatic. Left knee right knee and throwing the left wrist through the Forward Swivel feels like cracking the whip and the Horizontal Hinge really closes and really powers the ball strongly. On Sunday, I hit some of the longest drives of my life exactly where I wanted to and was 50 yards ahead of some of drives hit by my playing companions. It almost felt today like I could open my face of my driver almost 45 degrees and then a little less and really let fly at the ball and still hit a straight shot or slight fade or draw. Again, no fatigue due to the MacDonald Marching. The club felt like it was coming from well behind me with lots of extension and power. It seems like even the slightest left knee bend toward the ball fully cocks the left wrist and gives me lots of time to bend the right knee toward the ball and slower seems very balanced.
Thanks guys. The TGM system is comprehensive and is built from the ground up!
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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 : 06-11-2012 at 11:07 PM.
A strong single action grip, stationary head, and level left wrist allows for a much quicker vertical wrist cocking and quicker and easier movement of the club-head. Here's the obviously TGM influenced Australian golf teacher on video:
Add to that Lynn's lifelong teaching of the importance of training all three zones, Pivot, Arms and Hands.
Every item Lynn teaches is a distillation of years of thoughtful insight into G.O.L.F. I can't tell those reading this how hard Lynn works to communicate with his students. First day, grip adjustment (strong single action) and MacDonald Marching and every day Lynn just blows you away with insights you might never figure out in any other way!
Further study and practice however, as any teacher knows, is essential for mastery. In the last several weeks I have hit some good scores but in doing so I became aware of the limits of my technique.
"Effortless Power" demands solid technique. Pros and talented amateurs work hard for years mastering efficient techniques to get that "effortless power." I might shoot par someday on a hard, dry golf tract with every good bounce possible, but I simply could not hope to deliberately and realistically shoot par on a bad day and several under on a good day. My technique was limited.
In order to shoot my lowest scores, level left wrists in putting and chipping, as Lynn taught me, pretending my chips were putts, were essential.
Sure enough, as OB described and Lynn teaches, the road to consistently great golf starts with MacDonald marching for either Swinging or Hitting. The right grip allows the correct "intentionality" to take effect. "Wheel Rim" = Swinging or "Paddle Wheel" =Hitting, which is easier or most effective? Lynn says both and the trick is to do them.
Left knee to the ball, right knee to the ball gives all the power and wrist cocking a person could use and so much potential power is available!
Intending to drive the "Paddle Wheel" from true Impact Fix with a strong single action grip means the right wrist has to to be bent and frozen and the left wrist flat. Covering is almost automatic. Adding left knee and right knee allows me to feel a deeply powerful delivery DOWN, Out and Forward of the Power Package. Left wrist is vertical and Bent right wrist is frozen bent stiffening the right forearm. The right knee moving to the ball leads the Power Package DOWN and that Angle Hinge demands a manipulated closed club face but all the power needed is available TIME AFTER TIME! Instead of being fatigued after 30 balls, I felt refreshed AS LONG AS MY SET-UP WAS CORRECT.
Intending to spin the "Wheel Rim," from Mid-Body hands. Tracing is almost automatic. Left knee right knee and throwing the left wrist through the Forward Swivel feels like cracking the whip and the Horizontal Hinge really closes and really powers the ball strongly. On Sunday, I hit some of the longest drives of my life exactly where I wanted to and was 50 yards ahead of some of drives hit by my playing companions. It almost felt today like I could open my face of my driver almost 45 degrees and then a little less and really let fly at the ball and still hit a straight shot or slight fade or draw. Again, no fatigue due to the MacDonald Marching. The club felt like it was coming from well behind me with lots of extension and power. It seems like even the slightest left knee bend toward the ball fully cocks the left wrist and gives me lots of time to bend the right knee toward the ball and slower seems very balanced.
Thanks guys. The TGM system is comprehensive and is built from the ground up!
ICT
46, 44, 43, 39, 40 in the last five "9's." So what? The goal was " 75 " last week and this weekend will be consistency of a Swing pattern. I'm looking for full-throated Horizontal Hinges with either an open or standard club-face and a lifting of both heels from a Mid-body Hands/Stationary Head Anchor position. On some holes though, I will slip into a Paddle Wheel Angle Hinge to keep away from trouble.
Level Wrists for putting and putting chips and steep "v's" in front of me (not too inside) for sand escapes should help me escape "80 something scores."
We'll see!
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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!
46, 44, 43, 39, 40 in the last five "9's." So what? The goal was " 75 " last week and this weekend will be consistency of a Swing pattern. I'm looking for full-throated Horizontal Hinges with either an open or standard club-face and a lifting of both heels from a Mid-body Hands/Stationary Head Anchor position. On some holes though, I will slip into a Paddle Wheel Angle Hinge to keep away from trouble.
Level Wrists for putting and putting chips and steep "v's" in front of me (not too inside) for sand escapes should help me escape "80 something scores."
We'll see!
Pivot fully engaged on every, every shot, Stationary Head, knee knee, Paddle Wheel, Wheel Rim, no problem. Chips, Pitches, knee knee no problem. I realized that I need to fully drive my right knee through the ball to really get full accuracy and power but I can do it slowly and deliberately on balance! With my driver, Paddle Wheel, stiff right wrist, the full, deliberate, heavy drive of the right knee produces a very straight, very high, 230-240 yard carry that falls to the right with no club face adjustment. The Wheel Rim needs a very open club face for a straight, more penetrating shot.
I believe my artificial hip and front leg shortness demands a full drive of my right knee that actually seems to balance me out. Was it Homer who said that "Power golf is precision golf?" It is so good to feel relaxed, head down and moving freely beneath myself to paraphrase Mr. Jones.
One of the things I did well last Sunday was get every hip and pitch into the air albeit too short most times. This week, I will really try to get each chip and pitch into a three foot circle. I have to remember what Lynn showed me about using the club that will get me to the edge of the green than run all the way to preview the putt and get it close.
Level Left wrist adds simplicity and dependability to the plane on ever shot especially the chips and putts! Necessary for a straight chip or putt!
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Hitting Down (And Other Matters)
Originally Posted by mabramb
As much as I've tried I can't seem to get the hang of hitting down on the ball during the full swing (have pretty good success in chipping and punch shots).
My question is this... would aiming my hands to a location and not aiming the clubhead "at the ball" assist me in striking down on the ball during a full swing. The aiming point concept is something I find vague but I believe has (or could have) tremendous value. I'm very frustrated in the quality of contact with my full swing and lose a lot of distance and have a higher than "should be" ball flight because (I believe) of my inability to consistently hit down on the ball.
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Welcome aboard, Michael, and thanks for this first post. Keep'em comin'!
Your problems -- lack of 'Down', Distance and desirable Ball Flight -- are due to Throwaway (6-D-0). And there is a high probability it follows the usual sequence: Hand Throw from the Top followed by Over-Acceleration in the Downstroke and Quitting through Impact (6-D-1/2/3). The cure, basically, is learning to swing the Club correctly.
My guess is that you have Off Plane Shoulder Rotation in the Start Down combined with the aforementioned early Hand Throw Release and Wrist Bend (a Horizontal Motion) through Impact. You need to substitute an On Plane Start Down of the Right Shoulder and Hands; a positive Lag Loading; and a strongly Downward Left Wrist Uncocking (a perpendicular motion) through Impact.
So, conceding the constraint of an unseen Stroke, do the following:
1. Leaving your Hands at the Top, begin your Start Down with a slight Hip 'bump parallel to the Target Line. This move will correctly Load your Left Wrist (and the Lag) On Plane.
2. Drag this Loaded Left Wrist directly toward the Target Line in the Downstroke.
3. Then, sensing the Throw-Out Action of Centrifugal Force in Release, Throw the Club strongly Downward -- directly toward the ground -- with a vigorous Uncocking of the Left Wrist.
These moves are not a band-aid cure. Instead, they are fundamental to a sound Swing. With a little practice, your Swing will improve, and when your Swing improves, your Shots will improve.
That's the way it works.
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Last edited by innercityteacher : 06-14-2012 at 10:28 PM.
Instead of being fatigued after 30 balls, I felt refreshed AS LONG AS MY SET-UP WAS CORRECT. 
The goal was " 75 " last week and this weekend will be consistency of a Swing pattern. I'm looking for full-throated Horizontal Hinges with either an open or standard club-face and a lifting of both heels from a Mid-body Hands/Stationary Head Anchor position. On some holes though, I will slip into a Paddle Wheel Angle Hinge to keep away from trouble. 
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