10-20 Downstroke Triggers

[12 piece bucket]

Bigwill, Thank you very much for your well thought out
responce to may question about my student. You spent
a lot of time with a solution for me. My thinking has been
mostly along the lines that you mentioned. Most of the
problems, the student has had with pulling with left arm
has been over-the-top moves and/or not getting off the
right side. He watched Yodas swing and felt that Yoda
stayed mostly on the left side on the backswing and therefor
figures that by trying to immulate Yoda that he does not
need to make a shift to the left on the downswing. I try
to explain that Yoda does favor the left side on the backswing
but that does not mean that Yoda does not move left on
the downswing with a hip turn. You are certainly correct
in that a students preception is a big key.
Thanks again, Donn

Donn . . . . Tell the dude to go to the top and stop. Have him spin open and show him how the club shoots out over the plane. Then take him to the top and push his hips left and show him how the club doesn't fly out. He has to learn how to move his hips laterally down the stance line. If he wants to spin open you could flatten out his arm swing and get him to take his hands IN more too. That way when he spins his hands have farther to travel to get out and over the plane. Ultimately . . . gotta go left with the hips. Maybe stick a shaft/dowel in the ground at an angle a few inches out side his left foot and say "Try to make your hips go to this dowel." I struggle with this myself.