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Alignment Golf vs. Position Golf

Dave-- To understand Alignment Golf vs. Position Golf:

1. Throw a coin to the floor three or four feet in frontof you.
2. Reach down to pick it up.
3. When you touch the coin, stop.
4. Examine your position: Your front leg has extended, your knee has bent, and your weight is now loaded on your front foot; your head and shoulders are down and forward from your standing position; your arm is extended; your fingers are touching the coin.
5. Reflect on the fact that at no time did you consciously assume that position. Instead, your entire focus was on picking up the coin. To do that, your hand correctly made a straight line path to the coin.

In making the motion, the Three Zones (Body, Arms, and Hands) each had their respective assignments. But, the Hands (under the direction of The Computer) were at all times responsible for the precision of the procedure -- in this case the movement to the coin -- and coordinated and controlled the entire action. And that is Alignment Golf.

Now all (!!) you've got to do is to teach your Hands the correct alignments for a given Stroke Pattern. Unfortunately, because many of those other pesky (but necessary) components have no clue as to what to do, and because their ignorance will sabotage the precision execution of the Hands, you'll have to educate them, too. [For example, if the Right Hip fails to clear (in a non-zero Pivot Stroke) then the Hands will simply go around it, and take the Sweet Spot off-Plane in the process.] But, in the end, the Hands control, and your Game will reflect the quality of their education and real-time ability to execute.

http://www.lynnblakegolf.com/forum/s...ight=the+pivot #31

"Active" Pivot = Pivot-Controlled Hands.

"Reactive" Pivot = Hands-Controlled Pivot.

In both cases, the Pivot -- its Motion (7-12) and Action (7-15) -- is the same. The only difference is control.

Unfortunately, I don't think that was your intent. From your post, you clearly meant:

"Active" Pivot = Pivot leading Hands

"Reactive" Pivot = Hands leading Pivot

All of which begs the purpose of the Pivot itself:

Does the Pivot set up the circular motion of the stroke, and, coincidentally, Transport the Power Package . . . or does it not?

Does the rotor of a ceiling fan or heliocopter spin the blades . . . or does it not?

Does the body of the ice skater spin the arms . . . or does it not?

This argument has nothing to do with Power versus Accuracy. It has everything to do with Sequencing. And once the Body has entered the equation, its Components (Feet, Knees, Hips and Shoulders) must be sequenced within the overall Motion.

And that motion is sequenced Body-Arms-Hands -- Zones One-Two-Three -- NOT Hands-Arms-Body (Zones Three-Two-One).


Hope this clears the fog.