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Originally Posted by tgmgolfer2k2

So then the "feel" for impact should NOT include a right arm thrust? - for a 3 barrel swinger? I'll answer my own question and say yes, it should NOT include a #1 acc. thrust. What then does impact feel like? Are the hands simply moved and the body responds?

Is this like "Yes, we have no bananas?"

You are correct, R2DU! With your Active Right Shoulder driving the #4 Accumulator you will not sense Active Right Arm Thrust. You will, of course, have some Right Triceps activity to maintain your Extensor Action (6-B-1-D). However, that activity will be a minimal, below Plane stretching action, and not an Active On Plane Driving Action.

The characteristic Feel through Impact (8-10 per 7-8 and 2-J-1) will be a continuation of the Clubhead Lag Feel initiated and sustained from the Top. Namely, per 7-19, Hit or Swing, the Feel of a deadweight inertia -- exactly like dragging a wet mop through Impact -- constant direction, constant loading, a careful nursing of the Clubhead Feel.

The amount of that Constant Inert Pressure applied is the Player's option. And the Clubhead's inertia is capable of sustaining all the Lag Pressure we humans are physically able to exert. When Homer was discussing this Start Down maximum Lag Pressure Loading potential with our 1982 GSEM class, he made this statement:

"I have at times felt that if I had been just a little stronger, I would have been able to lift both feet off the ground."

Now, that's Sustaining Lag Pressure!

To assist you in your own pursuit of The Secret, Homer offered this advice (6-C-2-0). Establish your normal pressure, and then learn to vary it in five-yard increments. Work on this first with your scoring clubs, especially the Wedges. If it's possible at your facility, put markers out in those five yard increments. I've used everything from range buckets -- I've seen Tom Kite do that -- to towels to little piles of golf balls already on the range.

Challenge yourself to move back and forth between these "+ or -"five-yard targets. You can get really deadly with this, and your short game should improve dramatically. Once you've got the hang of it with your Wedges, do the same thing with your Short, Middle and Long Irons. Finally, move into the Metalwoods. It's fun to use your ability to vary Lag Pressure Loading and land that Driver five yards short of a target or five yards long of it.

Not only that, for the real ball beaters out there, you'll start playing a game I call "Poleys". This is where you keep score in every practice session with how many times you actually hit the flagpole. Believe me, you get zeroed in on this at the range -- "Taking Dead Aim," as Mr. Penick used to say -- and you will begin to surprise yourself. I am not bragging, and I am not kidding! It may be only one or two a session -- but you'll get'em -- and when you do, you'll sing out for all on the range to hear:"POLEY!"

Remember to keep the Ball back per 6-E-2 on the Short Shots and the Hands well-ahead through Impact (7-8 ). From the Top, direct your Thrust directly toward the Aiming Point (6-E-2) and take the heavy, Loaded Lag Pressure Feel Down the Delivery Line; Down through the Smash of Impact; Down through the Aiming Point (probably a bit in front of the Ball); Down through the Low Point; and then continue to Feel the Down Plane Motion into the Both Arms Straight Position of your Follow-Through (8-11).

Go back and count all those 'Downs.' After Impact, you've still got three more 'Downs' to go! So don't Quit (Second Snare 3-F-7-B)! Keep going! Where? Down!

I remember watching a video of Sam Snead at a clinic where some Golf Digest guys were also participating. First one guy would talk about the Forward Swing, and then another would talk about the Forward Swing. Forward Swing this and Forward Swing that. Melnyk and Kostis still do it today from the broadcasting booth. Not Snead though. All he could talk about was the "DownSwing." and over and over "Hitting the ball on the Downward Blow. He liked that term and used it a lot: the "Downward Blow."

Then he demonstrated a little high pitch, and turned to the gallery and said,"On that one you've got to go Down and Up at the same time!" And then, chuckling, "Guess that's pretty hard to do, isn't it? But that's what you've got to do." And, of course, the gallery laughed, having absolutely no earthly idea what he was talking about. After all, Down and Up at the same time? Guess that is kind of funny!

But what he was talking about was that the Clubhead continued Down on its way to Low Point as the Clubface began to Lay Back with his near-Vertical Hinge Action. Hence, Down and Up at the same time! That is the way you have to describe things like this when you don't have the precision terminology of The Golfing Machine!

But in our Star System, these are distinct Mechanics that we have names for and that produce Describable Sensations that can be Translated into Indentifiable Feels (1-J and 3-0/A/B) one-by-one. And once Translated and integrated into your Basic Stroke Pattern (12-1-0 or 12-2-0) they become your 'Open Sesame' to a lifetime of better Golf.

I'll soon have more to say on this subject. We need to explore the two very separate identities of Accumulating and Releasing Power versus sustaining the Clubhead Lag into the Finish. There remains much Fog on these subjects.

And like Indiana Jones hated snakes...

I hate Fog!