LynnBlakeGolf Forums - View Single Post - 'Swinging With the Feet' 7-17 Thread: 'Swinging With the Feet' 7-17 View Single Post #2 03-28-2009, 11:47 AM EdZ Lynn Blake Certified Instructor Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: West Linn, OR Posts: 1,645 Originally Posted by Richie3Jack Per 7-17 I understand the halting the backstroke motion and 'swinging from the feet' part, but I don't really understand maximizing the swing radius. Can somebody explain? 3JACK Basically, utilizing the entire body as a big 'lever'. Easy enough to see the club length and left arm as a lever, the primary lever, but what isn't so obvious is that when you make a golf stroke, that lever you can see really extends throughout the body, based on how you use the power accumulators. If you just swing the left arm alone and zero out the body, you've got a fairly short radius/lever. As you make a bigger and bigger swing, more components, more parts of the body, get involved, and the longer the lever gets. 'swinging from the feet' - when all of the components, hips, knees, legs, are being utilized to their fullest - as long as you maintain lag pressure - meaning as long as you are in the right sequence - from the ground up. Assuming you have fully used all of the body, and are in sequence with lag pressure, you have effectively made that lever not just the left arm and club, but from the clubhead, up the arms, through the body, and all the way down to the ground. A significantly longer radius - radius power - swinging from the feet. __________________ "Support the On Plane Swinging Force in Balance" "we have no friends, we have no enemies, we have only teachers" Simplicity buffs, see 5-0, 1-L, 2-0 A and B 10-2-B, 4-D, 6B-1D, 6-B-3-0-1, 6-C-1, 6-E-2 EdZ View Public Profile Send a private message to EdZ Find all posts by EdZ