[KevCarter]

I have decided I need to rebuild my swing to get to the next level. I have always struggled with a few common faults so I have headed back to basic motion to try to begin to sort these out.

That has lead me to a couple of questions about basic motion.

From my reading there is no pivot at all for basic motion. One of the problems I have is that my pivot stalls a bit through impact which I think leads a bit to me running out of right arm. Do you feel like basic motion encourages an “armesy” swing. Or should I just forget about that issue for now and deal with it once I get to acquired motion.

Also another issue I have is I tend to roundhouse a bit with the shoulders going over the top and therefore never getting the right forearm on plane. Where should the right shoulder be set when going through basic motion? Is it basically go to impact fix and that will dictate the position?

Finally as a swinger I should be pulling the club given there is no pivot does this pulling basically consist of loading #4 and releasing it. I.e. moving right arm across the chest then firing it off the side of the chest through the ball. I worked on all this a bit last night into the net and felt a few things that got the mind ticking over, but didn’t really get solid compression on any shots, wasn’t crisp, but that may just take time.

Thanks for any and all help.

Toolish,

I'm going to leave he meat of the answers to the pros, I will look forward to reading them as well. But if you don't mind, I'll add my rookie thoughts.

IMHO you need a little pivot, even with basic motion. Without a little pivot leading your arms and hands on the down stroke, it's very hard to keep your impact alignments.

Second, if you spend a little $$$ it will be the best instructional cash you have ever spent. Go into Yoda's Pro Shop and buy Alignment Golf. In fact, don't walk, run! It has, among other things, a good solid hour of basic motion instruction by Lynn Blake and VJ Trolio. You will understand basic motion 100% after watching this, and you will watch it over and over again.

http://www.lynnblakegolf.com/cmps_in...p?page=proshop

Good luck man, I'll look forward to some replies for you from the experts.

Kevin