Left arm only
 

Can somebody please explain to me how to swing with only the left arm ?

I think it was Mathew who suggested this was important for swinging but I just can't seem to get it. I have no control of the club when trying this. Is the left thumb used for pressure behind the shaft ?

In the Tom Tomasello correspondance video he shows this motion of the left arm with an almost acquired motion and it looks so efforltess. I have also tried the double overlap with some success.

grip down a bit for a start, and use a short club.

Using the left arm only helps to teach you how to pivot properly. If your pivot stops you can't hit the ball and will bend the wrist.

Also helps you to feel lag.

Start with a short grip and short swings, then work up...like you do with a 2 handed swing. Once you have it happening alternate 1 armed and 2 armed to get feelings to carry over.

It is a good thing to do this as it can teach you many things.

Basically if you can't hit the ball in the general direction that you want with each hand seperately, you are very unlikely to be able to do it with both.... The best advantage I have found of doing this though is that it teaches you to maintain the left flying wedge, the awareness of the hinge action and swivels. It also makes you keep the left wrist flat - you will hit it like crap without the right hand skillfully throwing if you disrupt the orbit. You will also work out that it is not left arm power either but pp4 that pushes against the primary lever assembly to drive it into impact.

This is very true.

This easier to accomplish if you simply hang on with the hand and let the pivot take your hand to it's respective aiming point.

To start - swing back with both hands and let go with the right as you start down. It can be helpful to split your grip when doing this.

As mentioned, use a short club/wedge, and begin with chip shots or better, begin with putting until you really get the feel. A great way to learn the feel for PP#2.

Another way to REALLY get the feel for what the Vertical Uncocking Motion of the Left Wrist is to just take the club in your left hand. Hold it where it is lined up with your left shoulder. And HAMMER THE HECK OUT OF THE GROUND.

That is simply the Throw Out Motion of the Swinger on a VERTICAL Plane.

Next move to Impact Fix and HAMMER ON THE INCLINED (ANGLED) PLANE. Don't worry about Rolling at this point. Just HAMMER and you'll end up hammering WAY BEHIND where the ball would be. This will give you a feel of the THROW OUT action on the Inclined Plane.

Once you get the feel for Uncocking Perpendicular Motion you can then jack it up with the Transfer Power of the Rolling #3 Accumulator and take this into where the ball would actually be on the Plane Line.

This process really isolates what it truly means to have a DYNAMIC Flat Left Wrist.

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looks like the meds are wearing off...


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but it sounds like a good drill... thanks

Naw . . . I think Mike O slipped me a roofie :happy3: .

Yeah that drill is AWESOME . . . I have seen Yoda do it. He actually demos it on the Address series on the inclined plane. But you can really get the feel by moving back and forth between the inclined and vertical planes.

If you throw it out according to Mr. Kelley you have no impetus to flip whatsoever. Throw it out and roll it through.

This has the sound of a very great truth about it...even experimenting in the house it seems that throwing the left wrist causes forces to act solely in the plane of the wristcock...you just couldn't bend the left wrist even if you wanted to !

I guess it ties in with the "prepare to roll on the plane" stuff too... because once you have thrown that left wrist uncock you have to trust that forearm rotation...it happens so fast !

I look forward to seeing what everyone else has to say about it.

One cool thing to try may be to. . .

Just throw it down behind the ball and gradually inch the contact point closer and closer until you actuall strike the ball then the turf and see what happens.

I have been fortunate enough to see Preachapokechop demo this . . . it's cool. I think the vertical hammering should give you a feel of what the #2 pressure point should be sensing. I used to try to feel like I was just holding the left wrist flat and feel it via #2. That ain't it.

If you do that hammering thing and really focus on the #2 pressure point and NOT the CLUBHEAD . . . you feel it load . . . I have come to believe that the Flat Left Wrist is more about DYNAMIC PROPER MOTION than just holding the freakin' thing flat.

Again Homer said if you THROW OUT you will not BEND. And I don't think this leads to any kind of circle path either. Experiment with this hammering deal. Do it via the left triceps ala a Non-Automatic release. Then hammer vertically by trying to drag the heel of the hand down and let CF really throw it out. You can feel the Snap Release. It's just in a vertical plane.

I love this dealie. Probably not thing for Hitters but makes a lot of sense for the Swinger.