[KevCarter]

OB is close!

This is Lynn's deal, if I goof on the explanation, I hope someone will jump in and correct me.

I posted in this thread, because I felt OB's ideas on flaring the left foot were a HUGE help with this drill. It is VERY basic:

Simply stand with your hands up, like OB said, and turn left to the target with level shoulders and keeping the goal posts. Feel how your weight shifted to your left foot, and your right foot came up on it's toes with your right knee facing the target? PERFECT finish position, it's that easy. It gets you to finish without thinking about your impact alignments.

If you are not very flexible in the hips, a problem of mine, it's very difficult to hold this finish if your lead foot is perpendicular to the target line. Flare the left foot and you can hold the finish much easier. Be careful, for some of us, if the left foot is flared too much, it's difficult to move your right hip out of the way of the power package on the back stroke. You need to find the middle ground where you can both turn on the back stroke, and stick your finish.

From Homer Kelley:

12-3-0 MECHANICAL CHECKLIST FOR ALL STROKES

This is a Section by Section (Chapter 8 ) checklist to improve the execution of the
Stroke and reduce the Twelve Sections to a three station Total Motion (6-P-0).
They are: A. The Address (8-0/1/2/3); B. The Top (8-6); C. The Finish (8-12).
That is – be prepared as possible before Start Up (3-F-5), as precise as possible
through The Top (6-E) and as smooth and complete as possible through Impact to
the proper position at The Finish (2-N). See 6-M-0. To the degree that every
step is improved, to that degree is the Total Motion improved.

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I am simply trying to regurgitate the teaching of the MASTER YODA. Please correct me if I have posted any incorrect information. Whenever I teach now, it's WWYD, what would Yoda do? When I nail it, my students are very happy!

Kevin