Clearing the right hip... if your hips don't turn just a little bit first, your educated hands will have a difficult time taking the club back on plane. They will want to fight with right hip that is blocking their path. Thinking X-Factor is NOT a good thing.
David Orr has a wonderful video called the Walrus and the Indian, or something to that effect. It shows how their must be equal parts of the tomahawk and the walrus, vertical and horizontal. To much of one and not enough of the other can be a nasty snare. The shoulders are only quiet at startup, then they must turn and go where the hands are directing them. Think about reaching up and behind you. Your hand knows where to go without concsious thought, and your shoulders follow, also without thinking about it.
Hips - a little pre-turn on the backstroke, combined with a little hula-hula to start the downstroke. This little bit of motion both ways clears a path for your hands to take over.
Kevin
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Stand erect, right hand like a traffic cop. Move your right hand back to a position over your right heel. Where are your shoulders? Thats right, turned 90 degrees and you did'nt even think about them. Hands controlled pivot. Sit in a swivel chair, reach behind you as if to grab something behind your right shoulder. Your hand moves back and you swivel in the chair. Hand creates movement not body. A preturned right hip, makes sure you don't take the hands too far out. Jack Grout taught Jack Nicklaus to reach for the sky in his backswing. This is the same concept, it has been taught for decades. Look at Mcdonald drill with a dowel across right shoulder. Hand pulls dowel, what happens to shoulder? If you use a hand controlled pivot, pre-turn the right hip, what happens with your head? Stays rock steady, right between the feet. As Yoda says, there is magic in the right forearm!
Man, these UpNordt TGMers are getting serious! I cannot wait to get to a dome with this bunch and work on hands controlled pivots.
Of course, with the recent snow and freezing temperatures we could be meeting later this week.
Here are a couple of Daryl's pictures I meant to post earlier, but didn't have on my work computer.
1) The man on the left is where we are starting.
2) The man on the right represents the exaggerated "feel" we need to start our new takeaway.
3) This picture represents where we want to get to at set up, setting the right forearm on plane. From here we can simply take the club directly up then down the plane line. This is as close as we can get to the elusive, and some say mystical "One Plane Swing."
Kevin
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Sasquatch, I forgot one more thing. I don't mean to sound like a salesman, but nobody explains this stuff like YODA.
ALIGNMENT GOLF DVD - LYNN BLAKE & V.J. TROLIO
I watch this over and over. Learn to understand fun stuff like: Flying wedges, Power Accumulators, Pressure Points, stuff you read about and go WTF, if all you have is the little yellow book. These DVDs make learning about it fun, and you will become a great chipper just from watching V.J. Trolio!
These two DVDs would be INVALUABLE for your journey. Alignment Golf for learning the book. Brian's Fundamentals for applying what you learned in Alignment Golf. There is no faster way to learn. This is the second best money I ever spent on instruction. The best money I spent was seeing YODA in person with three of my friends.
Kevin
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