Bagger really showed me to things. One was the feeling of the right wrist at start-up and then also how to fan the club to the top. It feels very strange to me. It feels like I must be opening the clubface wide but when checking the mirror it is dead on plane. I played again today and had my partner watch it and he confirmed it is dead on plane at the top. So I know what that feels like now and will get used to it. I struggled more today with the rolling through impact and pushed many shots right. I suspect it is because I'm not rolling hard enough as Baggger mentioned. I need a lot of work on this, it's all new to my motion.
This is interesting stuff. I have heard so many pros who are on a hot streak say something like, "I can now fully release the club without worrying about hooking it".
We LBG followers might take their "release" to really mean horizontal hinging with an undisturbed down and out club head orbit as opposed to steering, in our terms.
It was getting confusing to have these posts in the Tomasello thread so I moved them here. Toms move is much different that what I'm trying to describe after my trip to the Swamp.
The start up I'm describing is more of a lagging clubhead takeaway, down the planeline, with a full left wrist turn to fan the clubface.
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This is interesting stuff. I have heard so many pros who are on a hot streak say something like, "I can now fully release the club without worrying about hooking it".
We LBG followers might take their "release" to really mean horizontal hinging with an undisturbed down and out club head orbit as opposed to steering, in our terms.
The other thing I should mention is I'm a converted hitter (sorry Ted). My tendency is to hold on to an angled hinge through impact.
Yoda said, "this left wrist is your bullet-proof vest..." or something like that.
Long ago, like many others I'm sure, I would rotate my left forearm in imitation of Hogan's 5 Lessons. It always was on plane and sometimes, when I imagined the plane guiding the shot, I could hit two or three shots in a row. That was 15 years ago. I had no guide so I could not repeat the process. Now, thanks to TGM, I think I understand that the rotation of the left hand combined with horizontal or any of the hinges, allows a slightly angled or flat left wrist to act as a shield or insurance for the hitting motion. I believe Yoda said this here:
"Bagger really showed me to things. One was the feeling of the right wrist at start-up and then also how to fan the club to the top. It feels very strange to me. It feels like I must be opening the clubface wide but when checking the mirror it is dead on plane. I played again today and had my partner watch it and he confirmed it is dead on plane at the top. So I know what that feels like now and will get used to it. I struggled more today with the rolling through impact and pushed many shots right. I suspect it is because I'm not rolling hard enough as Baggger mentioned. I need a lot of work on this, it's all new to my motion."
I believe that there is no need to roll coming down, just hinge. Is that correct?
Patrick
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Last edited by innercityteacher : 07-01-2010 at 12:03 AM.
You can only Hinge and Trace so much. Through impact really. Assuming Horizontal Hinging say, you need something to get your Left Palm off the Inclined Plane and over to a place where it is perpendicular to the Horizontal Basic Plane.
For some it is a feeling of a long continuous Swivel. You cant align a long continuos Hinge Action for full swings. You can only align the Left Hand perpendicular to a Basic Plane whilst aligning the shaft or sweetspot to the Plane Line for so long. Short shots you can do it, it is the ideal, in fact. But not long.
Long ago, like many others I'm sure, I would rotate my left forearm in imitation of Hogan's 5 Lessons. It always was on plane and sometimes, when I imagined the plane guiding the shot, I could hit two or three shots in a row. That was 15 years ago. I had no guide so I could not repeat the process. Now, thanks to TGM, I think I understand that the rotation of the left hand combined with horizontal or any of the hinges, allows a slightly angled or flat left wrist to act as a shield or insurance for the hitting motion. I believe Yoda said this here:
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