LynnBlakeGolf Forums - View Single Post - Air-time Thread: Air-time View Single Post #3474 05-22-2012, 12:03 PM airair Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Norway Posts: 5,930 These were my notes after my first trip to Cuscowilla: -I had to leave my belief of being a hitter - and that meant that the adjusted address position has come in instead of impact fix at address. -There was a lot of aiming with sticks at the baseline (the magic right forearm and flying wedges?) -We did some Taly training. Let the arms and hands do the work, not the wrists. -Do not waggle over the ball with the wrists only - waggle both flying wedges just like when training with the Taly. -Then learning the finish. The arrow thru the ears (shaft) must be at right angles to the baseline, not pointing backwards to the right of it. -A stronger 3 knuckles grip. -Learning to have my left shoulder pointing more to the right at set up. -In my case it's advisable to have a somewhat closed stance to the baseline. -High hands, but avoiding to have the left wrist uncocked at address. -Don't just do this with the longer clubs, but give yourself space also on the shorter shots with a wedge. -The right arm bent with a limber right elbow - not sticking out too much. -Learn to drag the wet mop in both directions, so that the takeaway also has its lag in the mark time rhythm of the MacDonald exercises/brush- brush technique. -At impact let the shoulders be square to the target line instead of moving to the left. Right shoulder lower than the left. -Then the tricky part for me: The rolling of the left arm in the downswing/thru stroke. -The importance of the last 3 fingers of the left hand and downtoning the right index finger. -A better position at the top. -The down stroke waggle -A lot of club throwing.(real throwing of clubs on to the range - I'm pretty good at it) -How to start down. -Learning to kick in the right knee in the downstroke/thru stroke to get the ball in a better path and to get the weight a lot more into my left side than I have been doing.This is especially important for me because I had problems performing the left hip bump. -A somewhat more rounded backstroke. -Trying to avoid hitting straight down the target line but have a feeling of going a little accross it , but just the opposite way that I had always done (avoid OTT, out-to-in) -Then extensor action and a lot training: shot after shot with different clubs - a lot of drives. And corrections and comments when I didn't get it right and trying to do it more and more correctly. -Keep the head stationary. Don't let it be drawn to the right when doing extensor action. -With the driver the ball is more forward than I was used to. Peg the ball up so that half the ball is over the head of the driver on the ground. -Also chipping and pitching. The short bread and butter shot, cut shots, knock down shots, bunker shots, putting. -If the divots are too deep - move the ball more forward in the stance. -And a geometrical slideshow and some practical shot making on the course. To mention some of the things I needed to work on. .... I might add: I suppose I'm using a RFT with a little drag to start with + EA. I'm still having problems with OTT, so the startdown waggles need more work. Probably not enough hip slide and axis tilt. I'm not sure I have enough DOWN (uncocking of the LW) starting the followthru. I don't always feel that I'm rolling the LW enough. Sometimes it feels like I'm blocking the ball. I now stand closed to the target line, but try to be parallel to the plane- and delivery line in order to manipulate the shot so it goes straight instead of starting left and curving back to the right (slice). Recently I have seen the importance of a complete finish - arrow thru the ears. It gives a lot better drives than when I just give it a mighty heave and leave it at that. I fear that Plane and Tracing are things that I should have more focus on... Sorry I can't sum this up in a more TGM like manner. __________________ Air Last edited by airair : 05-22-2012 at 02:01 PM. airair View Public Profile Send a private message to airair Find all posts by airair