Hi Delaware,
thanks for ur reply.
Actually I practiced Tomasello's teaching only a couple of weeks,so I can't say I did mastered it yet. The point is I found his teaching easy to follow (even though not easy to master completely),compared with the slippery path of TGM.
The reason I'm enquiring about Tomasello is that,the first time I tested his method on a golf course I happen to hit the longest drive of my life (about 295 yards)and perfectly strait too.Quite thrilling for my age 53.
That was on the first hole. Then I did nearly the same on the third hole. Then...never again! but there must be an explanation for that. I tried many times later to duplicate the feel of those drives but with no results.
I said I founf it easy to swing Tomasello's way because I only think of swinging the amrms down and out on plane, consciously thinking of uncocking both wrists at impact in order to take a divot,that's all. No pivot,no hips,no shoulders,no wrist roll,no swivel(too many nos maybe?) If I check that swing in slow motion and speaking in terms of TGM, I see an angled hinge at impact,with the clubface laid back,very close to the vertical hinge motion . As I said all that works well with short irons,without losing any distance. I can swing well that way up to the 7 iron,but no longer clubs that that.
I've watched only Tomasello's videos I found on this site,so I miss something maybe,because he said just to forget about the pivot in those videos.
So can u tell me what else you do in your swing that i don't do,
or what u do differently. I.E.: do your long irons go strait?
Thanks
Libero
Libero
When using the "Magic of the Right Forearm", make sure you are going down and "out" towards the plane line. If you don't have enough "out" when the right arm is straigtening, you probably won't get the horizontal hinge you are trying to achieve.
When I do slow motion swings using Tomasello's procedure my right elbow appears to be just ahead of my left foot when my arms achieve the condition where they are both straight.
EdStraker
thank you,I understand what you mean,but if i do that I'm not just uncocking the right wrist (the karate chop that TT is showing in the video,but without a club in his hands). If you try to do just that with a club in your hands you can't achieve any horizontal hinge. I was attracted to that move because it looked so simple and easy to perform (infact too simple) but so all my shots are going to the right,especially mid-long irons or,if I want to avoid that,I get pulls.
So that's not the solution to build a swing on,not for me.
Ciao
May I offer a guess? By saying there is "no pivot" you may be subconsciously blocking the left hip, not letting it completely turn out of the way. He says "the body follows", but you have to let it.
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