Acquired motion question

[yodeli]

Awesome post OB!

A must read for all newcomers to TGM: this is the true curriculum and a great lesson – basic motion will reveal the true flaws that plague your game and will allow you to find the way to correct them.

A few years ago I too suffered from over acceleration. Like GarageFan I hit a ton of basic motion that saved me and helped to clearly understand all the fundamentals of a solid GOLF stroke.

Basic motion is a true Gem GarageFan! Trust all the fellow TGMers here: use and abuse of it, you'll do a great favor to your game!

[garagefan66]

I'm digging basic motion now. I can finally do it. The right arm only drill helped a lot. Also the address, top, finish positions with no attempt to hit at the ball were gold! My next question is "how do I create more lag pressure without trying to accelerate?"

[yodeli]

I'm digging basic motion now. I can finally do it. The right arm only drill helped a lot. Also the address, top, finish positions with no attempt to hit at the ball were gold! My next question is "how do I create more lag pressure without trying to accelerate?"

Over acceleration of the clubhead is a race between the hands and the clubhead.

If your hands decelerate prior impact, the clubhead won’t and they will win the race...

To make your hands win the race:

• continue to accelerate your hands to both arms straight - stopping your effort at impact is not enough (REALLY driving to low point will also help).
• slow your stroke to give a chance to your hands to go at least at the same RPM as your clubhead (this is the SLOW and HEAVY concept you already know). Don't worry, you won't lose yardage because you will replace clubhead speed with clubhead mass. ONLY THEN you'll be allowed to go faster with YOUR HANDS (not the clubhead) for tour pro yardage

Now, talking about Lag Pressure, I'm so crazy about it that I felt the urge of setting up a blog around it! Feel free to give it a look, you may find something helpful - but I don't want to threadjack or steal visitors from Lynn and I encourage you to search the forums here first on this topic because you'll also find a ton of great information on this subject.

[garagefan66]

Ha! I never knew your signature was a link. How cool! I have bookmarked your site. It looks great. I hope to check it out tonight or tomorrow morning. So more lag pressure is acceleration of the hands and as long as I keep accelerating them to low point I shouldn't have throwaway.

[O.B.Left]

The thrust of the Hands is Down and Out all the way to Both Arms Straight (Follow Through). Way past Low Point.

The thrust is still going Down while the clubhead is coming up post Low Point. One really good reason to monitor the hands instead of the clubhead.

Implicit in this is that the Right Arm is bent at impact. Leaving it to Thrust actively (hitting) or passively via the pivot (swinging) through the ball. Like the boxers punch, you want to reach impact with a bent right arm and then extend it. A straight arm impact having no thrust left to offer. In TGM this is referred to as "running out of right arm".

Do this right arm extension thing with the right wrist frozen in its Impact Fix degree of bend. "Golfs unique move" according to Mr Kelley.

Hey, you're asking some great questions. Next you'll probably be wondering how to get the bent right arm from Top to its Release Point? Well your just going to have to figure that one out for yourself, Buster cause there's no way I'm telling you about the "On Plane Right Shoulder". OOPs.

How could Homer Kelley's insights have been ignored by the greater golfing world for 35 years? Its as much of a wonder to me as the book itself.

[yodeli]

You're on fire OB, hot and boiling !

OB is right GarageFan, low point is not enough and you must go to both arms straight.

Again, you remember the example with the driver: nowadays with those 460cc heads we are told to hit the ball on the way up. So, low point in this case would be before the ball.
A common fault would be to think that because the clubhead has passed low point there is no more need to go “down” in the stroke.

Wrong!

The thrust continues down and out even after the clubhead has reached low point.
It is only because of the left arm acting as a leach that the clubhead goes up and in while you continue to direct the thrust down and out until both arms straight.

[garagefan66]

Hey, you're asking some great questions. Next you'll probably be wondering how to get the bent right arm from Top to its Release Point? Well your just going to have to figure that one out for yourself, Buster cause there's no way I'm telling you about the "On Plane Right Shoulder". OOPs.

Would that be the start down waggle (left hip slide)? Mine kinda happens naturally when I try to create pressure in my #4pp. That is usually my downswing thought when I'm using my swinging stroke.

[yodeli]

Would that be the start down waggle (left hip slide)? Mine kinda happens naturally when I try to create pressure in my #4pp. That is usually my downswing thought when I'm using my swinging stroke.

Right on the money!
Hip slide moves the right shoulder down plane and gives you enough right arm to do the good stuff.

[yodeli]

Ha! I never knew your signature was a link. How cool! I have bookmarked your site. It looks great. I hope to check it out tonight or tomorrow morning. So more lag pressure is acceleration of the hands and as long as I keep accelerating them to low point I shouldn't have throwaway.

Yes, that is one of the ideas to generate lag pressure.

Accelerating the hands is the goal and this translates into a constant/steady pressure feel in #3PP (which is the one to closely monitor).

I love the sport car analogy: Think of a car accelerating evenly: as long as it accelerates you feel pressure of the seat in your back. When the car reaches its maximum speed, there is no more acceleration and no pressure in your back.

Overacceleration would be like flooring the gaz pedal: you are violently struck in your seat, the car reaches maximum speed quickly: But, even if the car goes 200mph you don't feel pressure in your back anymore...
This is good to win a car race and very bad in a golf stroke!

It means that you must not reach the maximum speed your hands are capable of going early in the downswing or you won't be able to keep them accelerating to both arms straight.

[siksta]

I think one of the greastest ways to learn is to play a entire round of golf with acquired motion obviously the longer clubs from 6 iron on up would demand patience but it would be like Tiger hitting knock down shots yrs ago when he made his 3rd swing change forget the score get caught up into what the hands are doing and the pressure points.