You're right, Dave. That's the beautiful thing about Extensor Action:
Drive as you might -- with Centrifugal Throwout Action (Swinging) or Muscular Drive Out Action (Hitting) -- you can't get the Right Arm straight until the end of the Follow Through.
Result?
Perfect Rhythm.
The Right Arm driving the #3 Accumulator (the In-Line Left Arm and Club)...
Through Impact....
The same way...
Time after time.
I think Tomasello also emphasizes that point at 4:30 into Chapter 3 on Hands:
"You fire that right hand out. Try to undo the bend. You won't be able to undo it....because your left hip will be pulling behind you....you see?
(Chuckle) You wont be able to undo it! ...as long as your left hip clears, your eyes follow the ball...you CANNOT possibly do what we call "throw it away"! But there is the power my friend that most of you have been missing perhaps all your golfing lives."
I am all over this stuff because I DO throw-it-away and precisely because my left stops turning.
I turn back, return to center and swing my arms straight along target but get "stopped up" because I quit turning to my left (or more likely my body is really turning but arms are outpacing).
Great stuff.. I am hoping to get that feeling Tomasella descibes "the club will feel like its trying to pull YOU down the line".
I am such a newborn so lots of really simple questions.
Doesn't the concept of extensor action in the backswing for the most part, contradict most conventional teachers, who say that a soft left arm is preferred?
It may be just the terminology but the left arm does not extend on it's own. EXTENSOR ACTION is all right arm .The left arm is "inert" it is being pulled.As for "conventional"-who has explained the golf swing ( or hit)?..".complexity is far more acceptable and workable than mystery is"
I am such a newborn so lots of really simple questions.
Doesn't the concept of extensor action in the backswing for the most part, contradict most conventional teachers, who say that a soft left arm is preferred?
I am hoping that the answer is yes!
JP
What is soft? Slow? Long, or Full? Conventional instruction is full of ambiguous terms that mean different things to different people at different times. And they complain about TGM precise terminology- go figure.
Extensor action is tugging on the left arm- it stretches and straightens. It de-slacks. It by no means stiffens the arm. Whether you feel it as a pull of the arm or a push on the left hand, it is the straighten action that is important.
Is it soft? It isn’t a stiff board or stick. More like a pulled guitar string- soft but ready for business.
I'm 'twanging my number three accumulator tomorrow at Sand Barrens GC in south Jersey. Going to be in the mid 70's, its November and winter rates. Life is good.
Soft usually refers to slightly bent. I am thinking then that extensor action with the right arm pulls the left arm straight(er)?
Or maybe taught would be a good term???
JP
straight(er) implies that there is some degree of bend.I am not expert in TGM but I would say that extensor action is SUPRISINGLY firm.When I visited Yoda&Ted,Ted had me grip the club with just my left hand,he then applied his right hand in place of mine .Big shock ...the pressure of extensor action..even at address.. was suprisingly strong,and I did not have any bend in my left arm pre-lesson.I don't want to overemphasise the force of extensor action because feel is subjective...I would hope a "Skywalker" or other revered expert ..maybe even the Master himself..would comment.All I would say in parting is that during my lesson ,after Ted showed me extensor action ,Yoda did it again during day 2...and it suprised me again ..even though I thougt i'd been using it!.Iwould definately use the word TAUGHT.That's what I was taught
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