Angle of Approach Procedure & Right Forearm

[plgolfer]

Thanks Yodasluke. Just came back from the practice range using the angle of approach. Experimenting with hitting I'm more accurate with hitting. I looked at the video of you with Lynn, and noticed that your left shoulder barely moved at start up and then left arm loads against the chest during the backstroke(pp4 loading). At start down do you feel pp4 loading increase? This is what I felt and thought I should clarify whether this is compatible with hitting. This site is really great.

[gmoney_69]

Here's how I've been doing it:

- Setup with 10-5-A Plane Line.
- Ball Position set with Clubface aligned for Angled Hinging.
- Visualize straight line Angle of Approach through Impact and Low Points.
and extended in both directions.
- Grip taken in Impact fix with, per 7-2-3, back of Flat Left Wrist and #3
PP facing down the Angle of Approach.
- Right Forearm "On Plane", Turned Shoulder, and facing down the Angle
of Approach, showing precise Cross-Line direction of Thrust through
Impact.
- Machine setup adjusted per 7-2-4. Flat, Level, and Vertical Left Wrist
with Club soled and aligned for Impact.
- 10-5-A Plane Line evaporates leaving 10-5-E, ONLY, to cover with the
Clubhead
- Make Total Motion with Clubhead covering the Angle of Approach. The
covering creates the steepness of the new Plane. The Delivery, is
then the Wheel Track Motion, with the Right Forearm and #3 PP tracing
the Delivery Line.

I believe this is accurate. This should have alginments set, and verified, per 3-F-5, Forward Press. Grip per 7-2 and Right Forearm alignment per 7-3. And the Delivery per 7-23 Wheel Track Motion.

Please let me know if I'm missing anything.

[golfbulldog]

Here's how I've been doing it:

- Setup with 10-5-A Plane Line.
- Ball Position set with Clubface aligned for Angled Hinging.
- Visualize straight line Angle of Approach through Impact and Low Points.
and extended in both directions.
- Grip taken in Impact fix with, per 7-2-3, back of Flat Left Wrist and #3
PP facing down the Angle of Approach.
- Right Forearm "On Plane", Turned Shoulder, and facing down the Angle
of Approach, showing precise Cross-Line direction of Thrust through
Impact.
- Machine setup adjusted per 7-2-4. Flat, Level, and Vertical Left Wrist
with Club soled and aligned for Impact.
- 10-5-A Plane Line evaporates leaving 10-5-E, ONLY, to cover with the
Clubhead
- Make Total Motion with Clubhead covering the Angle of Approach. The
covering creates the steepness of the new Plane. The Delivery, is
then the Wheel Track Motion, with the Right Forearm and #3 PP tracing
the Delivery Line.

I believe this is accurate. This should have alginments set, and verified, per 3-F-5, Forward Press. Grip per 7-2 and Right Forearm alignment per 7-3. And the Delivery per 7-23 Wheel Track Motion.

Please let me know if I'm missing anything.

That sounds like a good "how to" list - thanks! Helps me alot.

[gmoney_69]

YodasLuke,

With 10-5-E and the steeper Plane causing the Clubshaft to be almost vertical at the Top do you find the loading of #3 PP feels different than when using 10-5-A?

Also, I just wanted to say that your posts here in the Hitters forum are a great help. They really help to give me an understanding of the mechanics and feels of the Hitting Stroke.

Thanks again.

Greg

[YodasLuke]

YodasLuke,

With 10-5-E and the steeper Plane causing the Clubshaft to be almost vertical at the Top do you find the loading of #3 PP feels different than when using 10-5-A?

Also, I just wanted to say that your posts here in the Hitters forum are a great help. They really help to give me an understanding of the mechanics and feels of the Hitting Stroke.

Thanks again.

Greg

I'm happy that I could help in any way. I just want to be a conduit for the information. Lynn helped me beyond measure. And, I'm sure that he would agree that Homer helped him beyond measure.

The feel of the #3 is different for each. When the club is on a steeper Plane, it feels lighter.

[Yoda]

I'm happy that I could help in any way. I just want to be a conduit for the information. Lynn helped me beyond measure. And, I'm sure that he would agree that Homer helped him beyond measure.

Absolutely, Ted. We stand on the shoulders of a giant.

Homer Kelley left The Golfing Machine to us in his written and recorded words.

The torch is there.

For those who would pass it...

And accept it...

The legacy lives on.

[Amen Corner]

Been listening to the recordings, reading the book and the posts here. Still some confusion.

Let me start with that I do understand ( I think) the different procedures - Feelwise.

But the geometrical/mechanical aspects are disturbing me. And I wonder if Homer, unintentionally, mixed mechanics and feelings in chapter 2.

So please comment my thinking.

The Right Forearm always Traces -- points at -- one of the three selected Delivery Lines (2-J-3):

1. The True Geometric Plane Line (usually the Target Line);

2. The Arc of Approach;

3. The Angle of Approach.

The Clubhead may Trace -- point at -- the True Geometric Plane Line and simultaneously cover the Arc of Approach. Alternatively, the Clubhead may simply cover -- not Trace -- the Angle of Approach.

So here we go;

It took some re-readings to see that Yoda higtlighted clubhead and not clubshaft.

If I trace with my right forearm the Geometric Plane line ( A straight Line ) - The clubhead will cover the Arc of Approach, so the blur makes an arc

also,

With my right forearm tracing the Angle of Approach ( which also is a straight line) - the clubhead will cover the Angle of Approach.

And here comes my thoughts of Mr. K´s mixing.

The feel should be that the clubhead blurs in a straight line, but the blur is in fact making an arc since we have an inclined plane.

The only time the blur does not make an arc and moves in a straight line is if the plane is striktly vertical.

or am I totally wrong here?

[Yoda]

Here's how I've been doing it:

- Setup with 10-5-A Plane Line.
- Ball Position set with Clubface aligned for Angled Hinging.
- Visualize straight line Angle of Approach through Impact and Low Points.
and extended in both directions.
- Grip taken in Impact fix with, per 7-2-3, back of Flat Left Wrist and #3
PP facing down the Angle of Approach.
- Right Forearm "On Plane", Turned Shoulder, and facing down the Angle
of Approach, showing precise Cross-Line direction of Thrust through
Impact.
- Machine setup adjusted per 7-2-4. Flat, Level, and Vertical Left Wrist
with Club soled and aligned for Impact.
- 10-5-A Plane Line evaporates leaving 10-5-E, ONLY, to cover with the
Clubhead
- Make Total Motion with Clubhead covering the Angle of Approach. The
covering creates the steepness of the new Plane. The Delivery, is
then the Wheel Track Motion, with the Right Forearm and #3 PP tracing
the Delivery Line.

I believe this is accurate. This should have alginments set, and verified, per 3-F-5, Forward Press. Grip per 7-2 and Right Forearm alignment per 7-3. And the Delivery per 7-23 Wheel Track Motion.

Please let me know if I'm missing anything.

Add a little Lag Pressure and a Top Top (10-21-A) -- Hands Right Shoulder high per 10-21-0-1 with a 'high' Clubshaft (pointing toward the sky and nowhere near horizontal). Then, with all due respect to my British friends:

By jove, I think you've got it!