I think your primary lever assembly is well supported for a little drive loading! I like "where" your right elbow is at...at least in relation to the left arm flying wedge. I have discovered just how minor-major the axis tilt really is i.e. minor movement...major importance. You cannot manage even a couple of inches? Most people either do not do it...or overdo it. Start down waggle!
I agree - I am well positioned for starting a hitting action. However, I am a swinger and I would love to get an additional 1/4 rotation so that I can get my hands behind my right shoulder like TW and AS. It is very difficult to swing from a shortened backswing position if one doesn't use an active pivot action that increases loading pressure at PP#4. I never "feel" a sense of pressure at PP#4 in the backswing because I cannot get my left arm far enough back against the chest wall. I obviously don't "feel" any sense of pressure at PP#4 in the downswing because I am pulling the left arm down-and-out on the plane - away from the chest wall.
Jeff:
I absolutely love the analytic content of your posts....in the last two weeks, i have adopted some of your comments and they look like they're kicking in....keep 'em coming....
I agree with you 100%. Jamie Sadlowsksi has a very active pivot action. He couldn't hit the ball nearly that far using a reactive pivot action, which is a much weaker method of releasing PA#4.
Here is another link that demonstrates his amazingly efficient active pivot action.
I wish I had his degree of body flexibility. My swinging problems would be significantly improved if I had his degree of hula hula flexibility.
Jeff . . . . I think this whole hula hula deal is somewhat valid but . . . if that is your actual top . . . you could a) get your arms on a flatter plane and b) turn your hips . . . you got ZERO hip turn. Remember you have hula hula on both sides to keep your head centered. So flare your right foot some, straighten your right leg some on the backstroke and really turn your hips . . . . that will get your hands deeper. You ain't got you backfield in motion at all. YOu may not be able to turn your shoulders . . . but you can turn your ass.
Jeff . . . . I think this whole hula hula deal is somewhat valid but . . . if that is your actual top . . . you could a) get your arms on a flatter plane and b) turn your hips . . . you got ZERO hip turn. Remember you have hula hula on both sides to keep your head centered. So flare your right foot some, straighten your right leg some on the backstroke and really turn your hips . . . . that will get your hands deeper. You ain't got you backfield in motion at all. YOu may not be able to turn your shoulders . . . but you can turn your ass.
Good stuff, Bucket . . .That's exactly what I saw.
Sure helps to let that Left Heel come up, too. Check each photo of these greats. And not a golf-related knee or hip operation in the bunch!
For all the 'modern' Flat Left players, tell me these guys got it wrong.
I understand why you are offering me that advice. A bigger hip turn in the backswing allows one to get the hands deeper and further back in the backswing. I have tried that maneuver. It does help me get my hands slightly deeper and that's advantageous.
However, I have zero hula hula flexibility, and if I over-rotate the pelvis during the backswing, then I have to perform a greater amount of rotary pelvic movement during the hip squaring phase of the downswing, and that really throws my right shoulder into a roundhousing action that causes me to come wildly OTT (due to my lack of hula hula flexibility).
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