[phillygolf]

Dear Phillygolf,

Release Motions 4-D-0. Acc #2 is a Wrist Motion, #3 is Hand Motion. Sequencing the Uncocking of the Left Wrist (Wrist Motion) then Rolling the Clubface (Hands). Forgive me for stating the obvious, but if the Clubface is already square to the Plane Line (Facing the Ball during the Release) Then the Hands have been Rolled prior to (#3 before #2) Uncocking the Left Wrist. Possibly, your confusion comes from thinking that individual Wrist and hand motions and Pivot are the same thing. Allow me to explain. Stand erect with your right arm extended in front (palm facing the target and thumb pointed toward the Sky) of you at shoulder height and parallel to the ground. Move your arm and hand to the right until it is parallel to the base line of the inclined Plane. Your Hand is Turned because of the Pivot. Step 2, Stand erect with your right arm extended in front of you at shoulder height and parallel to the ground and Turn your Hand so that the Palm is facing up (Thumb is pointing Right). Move your arm and Hand to the right until it is parallel to the base line of the inclined plane. Your hand is Turned and “Turned”. Turned because the Pivot turned it and “Turned” because your hand rotated palm up. The first demonstration is what Hitters do, the second is what Swingers do (Standard Wrist Action). The Second way needs a Sequenced Release. The First example demonstrates that Pivot is Rolling the Hands while at the same Time (Simultaneously) the Left Wrist (and only the Left Wrist) is Uncocking.

I don’t know of any Pros that Keep their Right Wrist Level throughout the Swing. Who am I to say they are wrong? I’m not telling them how to earn a living. Please see JR1 Acquired Motion Video. Please notice that JR is hitting Beautiful and graceful pitch shots with only a five yard spread at 75 yards. Awesome for sure. He Cocks his Right Wrist on every shot. I’m not saying he should change. However, if you compare the trajectory of each shot, each shot is slightly different and some of them very different. But the result is still extremely impressive. He is using hand-eye coordination and Timing the Impact. Highly developed. His apparent Roll after Impact is due to the Pivot. JR is one of the finest Golfers in the World and to ever play the game.

My wife has dragged me around the Country on weekend trips for twenty-Five years. That means that I arrive at the Golf courses at 6:00 am with no-one to play with. Invariably, someone in the Proshop or bag room agrees to play with me. Almost all of the time, after the round, the conversation goes like this “How long have you been a scratch Golfer?”, he replies “before I started working here, I couldn’t play very well, but I go out with the guys almost every day after work and I hit balls all the time and I’ve gotten really better.” I reply “Oh, how long have you worked here?” and he replies, “two years” and I reply “Oh”. I should write a book on the subject but it would only be one page long.

Yoda, I promise not to make an issue of this during the next Seminar. I’ll shut up. I won’t be argumentative. You have the floor. It’s your Seminar.

Darly,

Great post!

However....is not 4-D-0, per TGM ( and I could be wrong - again - have no book, etc) Release Motions - meaning, accumulator #2 and #3?

If so, I do not believe (could be wrong), Homer never refers to clubface in this regard.

Again, going on memory, but....clubface is irrelevant.

Ok, now.....I dont know about turned, not turned, etc.

But...

Sequenced release occurs because of centrifugal force.

Simultaneous as a result of thrust.

So - please, lets forget about clubface, or pivot driven, etc.

......

Point is, sequenced and simultaneous are different. Why?

Cent force and thrust.

Love the enthusiasm,

but my friend,

no confusion here.

Patrick