This is amusing. You are taking this thread to new heights.
My first name is Bernt. It is a short form of the German name Bernhard and means Strong Bear. Why my parents gave me such a name is still a mystery.
I basically knew it before I moved to Texas, but I get daily confirmations that the world isn't ready for my name yet. And probably never will be. (Well, when I think of it, there are even norwegians who struggle with capturing it.) Anyway, those who need to know here in Houston are usually down and counting after we are done with the first name. And very few has made it past the second vowel in my family name yet.
My wife suggested that I reinvented myself as B5. That would be sort of taking the name after the Eyjafjallajökull volcano on Island that was nicknamed E16 by the CNN reporter because it had something like 16 syllables and was regarded impossible to pronounce. Concequently my family name would be R17.
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B5
- strong single overlap grip
- pitch / punch hybrid basic stroke
- 4 barrel swing
- Open - open plane line
- Turning shoulder with double shift
- impact fix with low hands
- Four pressure point combination
- standard pivot
- standard shoulder turn
- standard hip turn
- standard hip action
- Right anchor knee action
- Flat foot acction
- Single left wrist action
- Drag loading with additional downstroke drive loading
- Delivery path throw
- Power package assembly point: Side
- Power package loading: Full sweep
- Delivery path: Top arch and angled line
- Snap release
My original question has been rattling around in my head for two days now. I am thinking if the right forearm and right shoulder are connected then simply moving the right forearm up the plane with the hands tracing the plane line. When I get the club shaft to about parallel with the ground and with the target line, I let the right shoulder pull back and then let the forearm rotate clockwise and that seems to keep the club on plane. Pivot has to play a role in all of this as well. I am trying to turn back with the right side with minimal lateral sway.
My original question has been rattling around in my head for two days now. I am thinking if the right forearm and right shoulder are connected then simply moving the right forearm up the plane with the hands tracing the plane line. When I get the club shaft to about parallel with the ground and with the target line, I let the right shoulder pull back and then let the forearm rotate clockwise and that seems to keep the club on plane. Pivot has to play a role in all of this as well. I am trying to turn back with the right side with minimal lateral sway.
Does this sound viable? I am a mess right now.
No- but with the caviot I am learning- try this first.
Stand with a wall about 2 feet to your RIGHT, take address stance, place right hand on left shoulder left hand on right shoulder, turn your shoulders, only shoulders, keeping them level to the ground, towards the wall without moving your feet, until they stop, now allow the hips to allow the shoulders to turn more until you face the wall. move both hands to palms facing the wall at shoulder width, both hands should be at same hight and at shoulder level, DO NOT MOVE THE SHOULDERS TO DO THIS, turn the right hand palm up and at plane angle like you were supporting the plane, streighten the left arm and place the left palm on the right palm. Comfortable? if yes good if not, make yourself comfortable because you are at the TOP ( close enough for now). Stay there 10-15 minutes and memorize this comfortable position. GOOD, go back to address and with your right forearm take your hands up the plane to the position you memorized. Just do that until it is a comfortable move. Play the game in front of you, thats all.
Bear,
That sounds pretty good to me. You said something there that very interesting to me..."make yourseld comfortable". This is a great point. I sometimes get very twisted and convoluted trying to get into a good position and I am not comfortable at all. It reminds me of something that Hogan once said, it was something along the lines of golf is a pleasant game.
Sometimes I forget this. I make it too brutish trying to kill the ball.
Can you live with this informality? You can call me ICT or Pat.
Nice to meet you!
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HP, grant me the serenity to accept what I cannot change, the courage to change what I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Progress and not perfection is the goal every day!
I'm liking the clubshaft tracing the plane line, alot, btw, Bernie!
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HP, grant me the serenity to accept what I cannot change, the courage to change what I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Progress and not perfection is the goal every day!
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