Basic Motion alone, in my opinion, will teach you how to deliver the power package through the ball on the intended line. It is a godsend.
After you have become very comfortable with basic motion you can move onto Acquired Motion. I firmly believe you will begin to understand the proper alignments to deliver the power package in such away as to not do that OTT maneuver.
I hope you are right. It would certainly have been easier if I started with golf now, but I have 21 years of OTT demons to overcome...
First, I think the flat left wrist/bent right wrist concept.
Then the confirmation and focus on each of the pressure points in the hands. I found the more downward I pressured the shaft with 1 and 3, the better the compression. Like City says, "straight to China."
Then the concept of the Power Package and dumping it right down through the ball.
I think those for starters and that's without much thought. Others could very well add and of course correct me here.
First, I think the flat left wrist/bent right wrist concept.
Then the confirmation and focus on each of the pressure points in the hands. I found the more downward I pressured the shaft with 1 and 3, the better the compression. Like City says, "straight to China."
Then the concept of the Power Package and dumping it right down through the ball.
I think those for starters and that's without much thought. Others could very well add and of course correct me here.
COMPRESSION
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First, I think the flat left wrist/bent right wrist concept.
Then the confirmation and focus on each of the pressure points in the hands. I found the more downward I pressured the shaft with 1 and 3, the better the compression. Like City says, "straight to China."
Then the concept of the Power Package and dumping it right down through the ball.
I think those for starters and that's without much thought. Others could very well add and of course correct me here.
All that is good. You found some new feels. And learned something about the geometry and physics involved.
But did you strike the ball better after doing the basic motion practice? Longer? Straighter? Better trajectory? More FIR's and GIR's?
All that is good. You found some new feels. And learned something about the geometry and physics involved.
But did you strike the ball better after doing the basic motion practice? Longer? Straighter? Better trajectory? More FIR's and GIR's?
Jerry accomplished all of the above, along with his handicap dropping big time.
Air...
The "scientists" don't agree with the "Line of Compression."
I don't care what they think.
It's a personal thing. It's a feel, it's a sound, it's mystical. When you feel it, you know what it was, you want to feel it again. Without TGM, we had no idea how to recreate it... it was fleeting.
Now it's real. You can feel it, you can hear it. You can hear when others achieve it. When you don't feel it, you know why, and you work harder.
The great players shots make a different sound, can't describe it, but you know it's there...
Practice basic motion with a friend. It can make you giggle like a little girl. When you hear your partner's compression it makes you smile. You feel his joy. You know why he's smiling. I have to feel it again!
Science and art, can't have just one. Homer Kelley was a scientist and an artist. You can see it in his work. He wants us to feel what he learned. YODA wants us to feel what he learned... win a debate, who cares? I want to help people feel compression. I do it with basic motion. That's what Homer and YODA taught us.
Listen to Bobby -- THE IMPACT ZONE -- thats what it's all about!
I may sound goofy, I don't care. It is what it is, and it works in the real world.
Kevin
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Just be careful doing basic motion with Taly, right Kev? Seriously, every time my alignments are off, basic motion brings it on back. Key is down, if you don't know whether you hit down, you did'nt. Trackman shows pga tour players hit every shot, including drivers, with the club moving downwards. Interesting what happens when that is your intent from the top of the backswing, when you swing down, not forward, no roundhousing. Nothing better after a wedge shot than walking ten yards up to recover that divot that looks like a beaver pelt.
Just be careful doing basic motion with Taly, right Kev? Seriously, every time my alignments are off, basic motion brings it on back. Key is down, if you don't know whether you hit down, you did'nt. Trackman shows pga tour players hit every shot, including drivers, with the club moving downwards. Interesting what happens when that is your intent from the top of the backswing, when you swing down, not forward, no roundhousing. Nothing better after a wedge shot than walking ten yards up to recover that divot that looks like a beaver pelt.
LOL
That still gives me nightmares Roger!!!
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Is that the same as sustaining the lag (and not throwing it away from the top?)
Order one of those 'Pure Ball Striker' thingies!
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Om een van die 'Pure Ball Striker' dingetjes!
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In whatever languages you wish to use, buy one of those half rubber ball things and use it for a month or however long the sun is up on one of your nights and report back. I'm buying one next week in prep for my Cuscowilla adventure!
If the LBG folks allow it, here is some info for you!
I'm buying this thing:
The Pure Ball Striker
The PBS is adapted to be grasped by the "trigger finger", against the sweet spot plane. This allows the user to better sense the motion, grip pressure and alignment of the golf club. The PBS can be used from the shortest putt to the longest drive.
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Pure Ball Striker
PBS on mukautettu on tarttua "liipaisinsormi", vastaan sweet spot tason. Tämän avulla käyttäjä voi paremmin mielessä liike, pito paine ja yhdenmukaistaminen golfklubin. PBS voi käyttää sekä lyhimmän putin ja pisin drive.
YBGF
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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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