Anyone else feel that starting with R forearm on shaft plane feels bunched up?

[ml249]

I've been working on getting my right forearm in line with my club shaft for the past week. I'm not sure if i'm doing it correctly because i feel awfully bunched up at address. In addition, i'm standing up noticeably "taller", w/ less knee flex.

My right elbow is significantly flexed compared with my old setup. How should my left elbow be...flexed as well?

Is it supposed to feel bunched up at first?

Thanks

Video of me so you can see what i'm referring to...

(actually this was taken before adjusting my alignments some more....in the video, my forearm isn't perfectly parallel to shaft...now it feels more bunched up)

[Richie3Jack]

You don't have the right forearm on plane at address IMO. Slightly above. I think you probably need to stand a tad further away from the ball. Furthermore, *I* feel like I am bending that right elbow 'into my right hip joint.' It may also feel like you are bending it right into the right side of your abdomen. Here's a pic difference in my right forearm vs. your right forearm at address.






3JACK

[hg]

I thought this may help you and others...not the expert here...the left wrist while flat at impact looks bent post impact...it should stay flat as the left forearm swivels up to plane. Many reasons may cause this....maybe we can get the smart guys to help us out here.

[drewitgolf]

Set your Head directly between your feet. Without moving your Head at Address, slide your Hips to the left to create a little Axis Tilt. This will automatically lower your Right Shoulder and allow you to have more bend in your Right Arm, thus allowing you to establish your Right Forearm Flying Wedge. Don't do it artifically by just moving you head to the right. Right now you have too much spine lean to the left at Address.

Use a mirror or video to verify the alignments. Any time you make a change in you Geometry or Physics, expect a "different" sensation. If it doesn't feel "different", you haven't made a change. Want a "different" ball flight, then you better be doing something "different". Otherwise, we go back to the clinical definition of insanity...doing the same thing over and over, but expecting "different" results.

[KevCarter]

Set your Head directly between your feet. Without moving your Head at Address, slide your Hips to the left to create a little Axis Tilt. This will automatically lower your Right Shoulder and allow you to have more bend in your Right Arm, thus allowing you to establish your Right Forearm Flying Wedge. Don't do it artifically by just moving you head to the right. Right now you have too much spine lean to the left at Address.

Use a mirror or video to verify the alignments. Any time you make a change in you Geometry or Physics, expect a "different" sensation. If it doesn't feel "different", you haven't made a change. Want a "different" ball flight, then you better be doing something "different". Otherwise, we go back to the clinical definition of insanity...doing the same thing over and over, but expecting "different" results.

The depth of knowledge on this board by the followers of YODA never ceases to amaze me. I learn something EVERY day.

Thanks Drew,
Kevin

[ml249]

Thanks for your comments. They are greatly appreciated.

[O.B.Left]

Stick with it ml249, this alone will be greatly beneficial to your game.

It may feel awkward at first but the adjustments you need to make to get there at address are also the adjustments you would need to do to get there at impact! If it feels so weird for you at address it implies to me that your body wont want to get there dynamically at impact, as it must.

In my first lesson with Lynn we spent a long portion of the morning working on just this. In fact it wasnt until after lunch that I finally had it right and Lynn remarked something like "well there you go, that took longer than usual but this alone will help you to achieve your goals in golf". (I wanted to shave a few strokes off my cap and move into the plus side of things). Im proud to say that Yoda was correct, as usual. In fact yesterday after a few days off and no time to warm up or practice, I shot a 66 at Story Creek on Vancouver Island. A majestic course cut through an old growth spruce forest with towering trees, deer everywhere and one gleaming, LBG member and G.O.L.F practitioner.

Ob

P.S. My thought for the day? The left hand must be LEVEL at Fix (as it will be at impact as it moves from cocked to fully uncocked)

[Daryl]

In fact yesterday after a few days off and no time to warm up or practice, I shot a 66 at Story Creek on Vancouver Island. A majestic course cut through an old growth spruce forest with towering trees, deer everywhere and one gleaming, LBG member and G.O.L.F practitioner.

Ob

O.B.,

Ya have to add up all the Strokes, not just the Putts!

Congrats.............

[O.B.Left]

O.B.,

Ya have to add up all the Strokes, not just the Putts!

Congrats.............

Thanks D.

You have me there, I did add up the putts. 10 on the front nine. Scoring is easy when the darn ball goes in the hole all the time. I was picking one out of the hole, dropped it, it hit my foot and ran back into the hole. Weird.

[Yoda]

I've been working on getting my right forearm in line with my club shaft for the past week. I'm not sure if i'm doing it correctly because i feel awfully bunched up at address.

Is it supposed to feel bunched up at first?

Your inability to correctly position your Right Forearm does not lie in the Right Forearm or Elbow Bend. Instead, it is in the incorrect position of your Left Wrist. Your Left Wrist is Cocked, not Level. Then you attempt to put the Forearm in-line with the Clubshaft in its 'too low' Plane. Ain't gonna happen without the feeling you describe.

So, instead of attempting to align the Forearm with the Clubshaft, go at it the other way around. Set your Left Wrist Level -- thus raising the Clubshaft to a steeper Plane Angle -- and then, with minor adjustments in the #3 Accumulator Angle (Left Arm and Clubshaft) -- align the Clubshaft with the Forearm.

Model the Brian Gay photos I have published previously. Pay special attention to the Left Wrist alignment, and your Right Forearm worries will soon be a thing of the past.