Right (Trail) Wrist Cock
 

Chicken Wing
 

VERY late elbow fold, wrist cock
 

Take Away?
 

Hogan's Swing
 

PP1 and PP3 feel
 

Position of the left thumb for hitting?
 

Body Type/Hitting or Swinging?
 

Extensor Action Question
 

#4 Pressure Point
 

Flywheel Question
 

Does a Swinger to anything to square the face?
 

Roll - Hinge - Swivel
 

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TIMEOUT

my 2c: if I remmeber well the wrist would be fully uncocked at followthrough. Hastening the uncocking could throw the club head away from the plane.

Exactly :)

And not uncocking it (more than level) is also a problem?

Ideally one establishes the wedges, angle of approach, level wrists etc at Impact Fix, not returning to this at impact compromises the quality of impact.

I guess one could choose to have the wrists slightly cocked at Impact Fix but if one assumes that the left wrist is still fully uncocked at Follow Through then it changes the rate of uncocking through the impact zone and I don't know if one can maintain the sweetspot on plane in that case. :scratch:

I still have a tendency to bend the LW / straighten the RW. My understanding is that the only(?) way to avoid this, is to get the vertical down movement going - for one can't go horizontal and vertical in the LW at the same time (?). So I have to get more down - and therefore uncocked in the followthru... I think.. That means that the level condition at impact/fix is an uncocking wrist still in movement downward?

yes and yes (at impact). I think a good setup to get the feel would be a plane board dug into a fluffy sand bunker: one could slowly rehearse the feel of maintaining the sweetspot on plane past the ball, into the sand to low point and still uncocking to follow through.

The Bent Right Wrist (4-A-2)
 

4-B-1 Level
 

Some Things Never Change
 

2-P Wrist Cock
 

Where is the back of right palm facing at the top
 

Role of the Right Shoulder
 

Under plane
 

Dumping the Lag Early
 

Pre Cuscowilla thoughts..
 

As some of you already know, I'm off to Cuscowilla for the third time in a couple of weeks.

What do you think I should use my time on (both now and then)?

Yoda knows of course, but I think it could be usefull to have some thoughts on this.

I'm a swinger (when not a hacker). But I have to learn a hitting technique as well in order to do angled hinging and punch shots - right?

I'm not sure how much time should be used to train on vertical hinging? Maybe none?

I have noticed that Jeff Hull says he even uses horizontal hinging in the bunker and that he can hit soft flop shots (on grass) with horizontal hinging and a 6 iron if he wants (!),so it seems you can accomplish a lot without learning to use vertical hinging?

I guess it's important to know about the 45 alignments - what they are and how they are done? All of them in detail?

And to know what kind of stroke pattern you (should) have?

I should have a good preshot and address routine and that may need some work?

Any other thoughts?

Difficult to say as I know know your game but I'd be working on the foundations: Impact Fix, establishing the wedges, Extensor Action and basic Curriculum (in particular identify the plane and how it feels to stay on plane) with the 3 hinges. From that you'll be able to pick up quickly with the adjustment Yoda will introduce and have a good basis for bringing it to Acquired and full motion.

Thanks - I hear you.

Can you Align the Flying Wedges at Right Angles to one another? This SHOULD be your first Alignment.

FYI, the #1 Alignment is the Flat Left Wrist; after the Flying Wedges............................

The flat level LW (and the LAFW) and the level bent RW (and the RFFW) together just like clapping the hands (but gripping the club)?

No,,,,,,,,,,not even close........

Have Yoda show you the Alignment.

Without the Right Angle Alignment, you'll almost always have more or less Left Wrist Bend at or after Impact. The Right Angle Wedge Alignment is the Only Alignment that makes "Magic of the Right Forearm" possible without Cocking the Right Wrist (which is the MOTRF). Also, Hinging will always be difficult because you're forced to add a little swivel for each Impact. That means, steering, etc, etc.

You should understand this very critical Alignment and why it's so important. You can only "Learn" this Alignment at Impact Fix.

Did you notice the use of "BOLD" and "Capitalization". Have you ever seen so much emphasis in any other paragraph in the entire book?

I must have misunderstood the Alignment Golf DVD then, for I thought I heard Yoda make this point of the hands /rackets coming together in that fashion when he was explaining the Flying Wedges. But I'll certainly ask him about it - if he doesn't clear it up here in this thread...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3C1__L5usM

Here he goes again. Notice, please notice that "the Flying Wedges’ alignments, as always, never waver." in the 2nd paragraph.

Notice that this statement is directly followed by "maximum Swing Radius (10-19-C) are resistances to Impact Decelerations" and that this is followed by "each must establish before – not during – Impact (2-M-1)."

Confused
 

In the Flying Wedges video the rackets come together like Yoda shows. It's possible to do this motion without rackets just using the palms of the hands (FLW + BRW). That would be the R.hand making the motion up and down like clapping the L hand staying in place just like the the racket in the L hand. What's wrong with that?

You can Swing and angle hinge and/or hit punch shots. But learning to Hit them would be good too if you're ready for it.

Horizontal is good for bunker shots ... longer ones in particular . You have to use the bounce and a Sweep Release Id say, get the shaft vertical at address and at impact. Luke Donald comes to mind. You don't have to cut it with Vertical all the time. Vertical is great for the short ones though where you need spin to stop the ball.

Are you sure Jeff said 6 iron flop shot with Horizontal? Rotated Plane Line and Vertical I can see but Horizontal? Jeff's a magician , so I won't bet against it.

Have fun Air.

Thanks.
Jeff is doing this with the necessary adjustments. Just for show. Cut shot - open, open.
Do you have any remarks to what Daryl is trying to teach me and where I have gone wrong?

The Flying Wedge alignments are real and this (I believe) alignment is key to almost everything else in the Golfing Machine. I tried on different occasions to explain the Alignment in different ways. In one thread I used red dots on the wrists, in another I explained how to swing a bucket and keep its Top edge horizontal to the ground, and finally in another I designed and made "Hinge Sticks" which, if used would align the wedges at Right Angles or at least the Right Forearm Wedge would "Finally" be On-Plane for Impact. I'm giving up on the written word with drawings as the best medium to explain things. I think that some things need something more visual as with video or face to face communication.

Until then.....