[innercityteacher]

Hey sky72

For me personally it was a big big discovery courtesy of Lynn Blake that the Pivot and the Hands go in different directions in Startup. The RFT fans and bends (at the elbow , the "pickup") The right elbow lifts and lowers the Hands the Power Package up and down the Inclined Plane. Lifts and lowers, the Hands, (the #3pp, the entire Sweetspot Plane even) up and down the Inclined Plane while the trunk as you call it , the Pivot turns back or around.

Two vectors which netout with the Hands and Clubhead traveling on Plane. For me I clear my Right HIp back to a predetermined position where it semi locks , the first few inches of clubhead travel is motivated by this right hip clearing as my clubhead is hovered slightly off the ground. Lagging takeaway too. The pivot is the giant rotor of the golf swing, producing its angular or circular basic motion, its CF. After these first few inches of travel I immediately RFT (fan and bend) with the Right Elbow bending and lifting the Hands UP. It might be more common for a golfer to do them both at the same time but after experimenting I like to feel as if the hips move the clubhead just a tad. It gets rid of my old hands only forward press which arched my left wrist a tad.

Right Hip back, right elbow lifts up but only so far actively as the Hands sort of glide the last bit to TOP. No excessive lifting in other words. Momentum can do the last bit......well it must do the last bit for a good transition (sliding left while you take out the slack in the left arm whilst the left wrist is still cocking and the pressure point is getting loaded). The Hands and the Pivot (the Right Shoulder) though they travel different directions in Startup meet up on the same Inclined Plane at Top. A prearranged meeting place where the Right Shoulder and the Hands meet on the same Inclined Plane Angle. A TSP angle by definition and the perfect alignment from which the Right Shoulder can pull the Hands (sweetspot etc) Down Plane in Startdown .......all the time with a fully bent Right Elbow. To start the hands down on their own is a death move and the hackers tell tale startdown move.

This whole business might be Homers greatest insight, to my mind. For me it is anyways and it starts with that little clearing of the Right HIp and the two vectors of startup. The clearing of the Right Hip isnt so popular these days in golf instruction books or common golf literature but it is the stuff of Jones, Snead, Hogan etc etc etc. Not a frozen right hip in the bunch.

The Hands , the Right Shoulder they may seem oblivious to each others movements but they have a secret rendezvous arranged like......... Strangers in the Night.

Thank you Lynn for my very first lesson, when you showed me the Arm Set, the Cleared Hip and the Lagging Takeaway. The last 8 lessons werent too shabby either. More to come.

Lots to work on there, OB. Very helpful and interesting. Thanks.


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