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Hey gmbtempe

Yes TGM is all over the Right Elbow position at Release, the Delayed Release, the power it provides, how you need to clear a path for the Right Elbow so it can get all the way there to Pitch or Punch even etc, etc. For sure. Its really interesting to me that your shanks went away too. I tend to shank when I get too "army" and have found I can cure them with a proper 6-M-1 downswing sequence, swinging from the feet so to speak. Shanks with no sense of Lag Pressure or even total "downswing blackout" vs proper sequencing and lag and drag in all its forms. Gmbtempe, Im wondering if in trying to get your Right Elbow all the way to Pitch, you lit a fire under your Pivot? Which got you 6-M-1 ing and back on track.

Which relates in a round about way to the topic at hand the Downswing Waggles (although I think the term is more correctly Startdown Waggles). In an actual golf swing the proper sequence would go feet, knees, hips before the shoulders have their turn taking the arms and hands down. In transition prior to startdown, for full power swings for me anyways the Hips slide with a delayed turn 10-14-B to shift the weight left prior to the hip turn of 6-M-1 which precedes the Right Shoulders move towards the ball 10-13-A. And so in a Downswing Waggle you must either incorporate the Hip Slide or start with your weight already left, then turn the Hips. I can tend to do Downswing Waggle with just a Right Shoulder move which is not quite right, Im thinking. You wouldnt want to practice an incorrect sequence or a shorten radius see 6-M-1. How do you guys do the waggles?

(By way of trying to invigorate this oh so important thread ,Im now going to ask a totally gratuitous question about Ben Hogan which is always a good lost leader, maybe Ill throw the "secret" around too)

In the Shells Wonderful World of Golf demo Ben Hogan maintained that the movement of the lower body was the most important thing in the swing for him. He then went on to demonstrate what he meant with something pretty darn close to a Downswing Waggle or Startdown Waggle or what ever. Now VJ Trolio thinks he left out the Slide with the Delayed Turn (his secret) which we just discussed but otherwise is he talking to us about Startdown, 6-M-1, 6-K, Lag Loading etc? Isnt he? Homers Startdown Waggle, Harvey Penicks Magic Move, Hogan's "most important thing in the golf swing"?