Pull your Left Arm straight by using your Right Forefinger and Thumb. That's the Pressure Point #3 application of Extensor Action. It pulls the whole of your Primary Lever Assembly (the Left Arm and Club) taut, which may inhibit Left Wrist Cock.
Tongzilla is correct in his response regarding the use of Pressure Point #3 to create Extensor Action, especially his comment regarding inhibiting the Left Wrist Cock.
Personally, except for Extensor Action Takewaway, I find it much easier to create (and teach) Extensor Action using Pressure Point #1 (the heel of the Right Hand pushing against the Left Hand thumb).
It is particularly effective to feel this 'Right Arm Pushaway / Left Arm Stretch' at the Top. Practice daily the Start Down Waggle while applying Extensor Action 'Push / Stretch'. The combination of the two is the first Check Item at the Top in the Mechanical Checklist For All Strokes (12-3 / Section 6).
Tongzilla is correct in his response regarding the use of Pressure Point #3 to create Extensor Action, especially his comment regarding inhibiting the Left Wrist Cock.
Personally, except for Extensor Action Takewaway, I find it much easier to create (and teach) Extensor Action using Pressure Point #1 (the heel of the Right Hand pushing against the Left Hand thumb).
It is particularly effective to feel this 'Right Arm Pushaway / Left Arm Stretch' at the Top. Practice daily the Start Down Waggle while applying Extensor Action 'Push / Stretch'. The combination of the two is the first Check Item at the Top in the Mechanical Checklist For All Strokes (12-3 / Section 6).
Could it be that HITTERS ARE BETTER STRETCHING THE ARM WITH #1, AND SWINGERS WITH #3, OR IS THIS JUST A PREFERENCE? HOW ABOUT A COMBINATION OF 1 AND 3?
Moe Norman had one of the best strokes in terms of precision. When asked what was the most important thing he said "full extension back and through". When you think about it the extension is the extensor action and tracing of this point is back and through but there is another part of this where he says "full". The plane is infinate and the plane line is infinate also.... You should be trying to trace back along that line to infinity also....this way your hands will never be "out of bounds".
Tiger Woods talked alot about width when he was winning alot in 2000. I remember watching him drive a 330+ yard drive over the green to what to me looked like a super short backstroke (and woods has no flexability troubles...lol).
Jack Nicklaus said he took it straight back with plenty of width. Again this is the same thing.
I also think most people try to overload accumulator no.2 IMO. Leadbetter and other pop instructors from the golf channel have bought into this idea you need to set the wrists to a 90 degree angle yet if it wasn't for the front perspective distorting what you see, I bet you would see alot less than a 90 degree angle (more like 70ish) in historys best ballstrikers or they have a way to really stretch from the top to the end and load that accumulator to the maximum. What you are looking for is the purity of the clubhead orbit being onplane, not setting accumulators to the max. If the impact fix degree of flat and wristcock motion that is completely vertical is rigidly maintained during the entire stroke (1 of 2 ways I can see it being done) then the wristcock is also got to comply co-ordinately with no.3 with that plane because the left arm is above plane and the left flying wedge goes into the plane at an angle.... just like if you set that flail in 2k on the floor with a full wristcock and tilted it up - that clubshaft can't uncock into the floor.
Tongzilla is correct in his response regarding the use of Pressure Point #3 to create Extensor Action, especially his comment regarding inhibiting the Left Wrist Cock.
Personally, except for Extensor Action Takewaway, I find it much easier to create (and teach) Extensor Action using Pressure Point #1 (the heel of the Right Hand pushing against the Left Hand thumb).
It is particularly effective to feel this 'Right Arm Pushaway / Left Arm Stretch' at the Top. Practice daily the Start Down Waggle while applying Extensor Action 'Push / Stretch'. The combination of the two is the first Check Item at the Top in the Mechanical Checklist For All Strokes (12-3 / Section 6).
I have to agree. I've said before to use the #3 pressure point and right hand thumb, but the harsh reality is that the direction of stretch is more or less On Plane. The #1 pressure point directs the extensor action below plane where it belongs and is unwavering during the Takeaway and Backswing. The direction of pull seems always down the left arm (wherever the left arm is pointing) and, there is less confusion in the duties of the #3 Pressure Point.
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