Do You Feel What I Feel?
 

The Computer requires Five Programming Routines to do its best work (Chapter 14). The first of these is the Feel of your Total Motion -- your Basic Procedure. This 'one' Feel is actually a composite of the many Feels you have learned and mastered separately during your G.O.L.F. journey. Each of these Feels maintains their separate identity and yet always relate harmoniously to the whole.

So, in answer to your question, what I will describe are my Primary Feels -- themselves also a composite -- that govern my Stroke and that I can depend upon to reliably reproduce the Mechanics patiently and deliberately acquired through the Star System Process of 1-J and 3-B.

Swinging: My Lower Body leads and my Upper Body and Power Package lags. This Start Down Motion causes my Wrists to Cock a bit more and the Clubhead Lag to Load against my #3 Pressure Point (Right Forefinger). Since Start Up, I have been aware of a definite Extensor Action (against the #1 Pressure Point -- heel of the Right Hand against the Left Hand thumb). That Feel is accentuated by the Lead-and-Lag Start Down Motion. I sense a Gyroscopic Motion as I Pull the Club Down Plane until it is automatically Thrown-Out by Centrifugal Force in Release. I am very aware of the Left Wrist Throw through the #2 Pressure Point (the last three fingers of the Left Hand sensing the Centrifugal Left Wrist Uncock per 10-20-E). And -- from The Top (Station Two) to The Finish (Station Three) -- I Trace the Straight Plane Line with my Right Forearm and #3 Pressure Point.

Hitting: Except for the Lag Loading (Drive versus Drag) , the Feel is essentially the same as above until Release. Then, the Club is Driven-Out by Right Arm Muscle Power. I am very aware of the Right Elbow's Drive againt the #1 Pressure Point per 10-20-B and my Right Shoulder acting as a Launching Pad for that Drive. As with Swinging, I Trace the Straight Plane Line with my Right Forearm and #3 Pressure Point. However, because I am Actively Thrusting, I Feel the Pressure Point Combination (the Active Muscular Drive against #1 and #3) much more strongly than when Swinging (with its Passive Centrifugal Drive against #2 and #3).

Why Johnny Can't Read
 

Powerdraw,

Things must be cold up North-of-the-Border. You have way too much time on your hands! But we're glad you are using it constructively: Namely, to post. Thanks! :D

To your questions:

1. Regarding the Takeaway, remember that Extensor Action (the Left Arm being stretched by the Right via the #1 Pressure Point) is an action totally separate and distinct from the Right Forearm Takeaway. Recall from my post above: The Feel of your Total Motion is actually a Composite of many separate -- but readily identifiable -- individual Feels.

2. Regarding the Swinger's Gyroscopic Action and the Right Shoulder's participation, go back and look at the Hitting Vs. Swinging video in our Photo Gallery. Especially the Swinger's Start Down Motion -- "Spin, spin, spin! And the Club Throws Out!" The Right Shoulder does indeed Thrust -- but not violently as the 'T' word might imply...more like a gentle, Leading Turn (toward the Ball) . But remember: This is a Hands-Controlled-Pivot System -- not vice versa -- so the Pivot's underlying Motion is motivated, sensed and controlled by the Hands. You don't have to 'try' to do this: This is the way you have functioned -- naturally! -- every day of your life.

And that brings us to the root cause of so many of our Golfing problems: We have replaced our innate naturalness with learned, unnatural procedures. That does not mean that 'naturalness' should be allowed to 'have its way' willy-nilly. Far from it! It must be trained, just as you learned to walk....and to tie your shoes...and to drive a car.

But you cannot substitute Learned Unnatural Procedures for Learned Natural Procedures in pursuit of Golfing Technique. Yet that is exactly what people do! And that is why they'll rock along with a new 'thought' -- for example, 'Elbows strapped together' per Hogan's Five Lessons -- and things go well for a Hole or two. Then they blow it fifty yards right. Why did that happen? Because the Mechanic was wrong! It was an Unnatural substitute for the correct Natural Procedure.

"Why would someone continue to do something so obviously Unnatural?" Young Yoda asked Homer.

"It is habit executing its ignorance." said he.

Is it any wonder the great majority of us play so poorly?

Three And Four Barrels Of Fun
 

I use Three-Barrel Swinging (Power Accumulators 4/2/3). That is:

Four. Radius Power. The Left Arm; as Accelerated by the Downstroke Right Shoulder Turn -- Rotary Body Power); followed by Sequenced Release (4-D-0) of...

Two. Velocity Power. The Left Wrist Uncock (#2); and...

Three. Transfer Power. The Left Hand Swivel and Roll (#3).

All as driven by Centrifugal Force.


I use Four-Barrel Hitting (Power Accumulators 4/1/2/3). That is:

Four. Radius Power. The Left Arm; as Accelerated by...

One. Muscle Power. The Driving Right Arm and Elbow with the Right Shoulder providing the equal and opposite reaction (Launching Pad Body Power); followed by the Simultaneous Release of...

Two. Velocity Power. The Left Wrist Uncock; and...

Three. Transfer Power. The Left Hand Roll (but no Swivel).

All as driven by the Right Arm Triceps and Pectoral Muscle Power.