LynnBlakeGolf Forums - View Single Post - Pulling many shots, why? Thread: Pulling many shots, why? View Single Post #38 11-20-2009, 11:41 AM EdZ Lynn Blake Certified Instructor Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: West Linn, OR Posts: 1,645 Originally Posted by gmbtempe 1. Natural move is more of a hitter? Can you explain why you say that, I am very interested. 2. I don't know what crossline hip motion means, but I will hit the search function. 3. When you say right hip has not cleared, is this more having the hip open, a la a Vijay Singh or are you meaning getting that weight more moving left after the "top" is reached like Hogan? In your first video's, you take the club back without any startup swivel (keeping the face pointing at the ball, or more square to its arc). Doing that will put your right elbow into more of a hitter's punch elbow position, and lead to loading the 'side' of the shaft - a hitter's loading - at top. By 'clearing the hip' - it means quite literally getting that hip out of the way so that you can take the club back, and through, on plane. So the hands path doesn't colide with the right hip. On the backswing for a hitter that means moving the right hip 'back' - the feel of sitting on your right cheek, getting your weight to your right heel. As a drill to feel the right hip out of the way, setup with your right foot well behind your left, up on the toes, so that you are mainly on your left leg, and take some swings for 1/2 shots. On the downswing that means getting the hands more down plane before the right hip moves 'out'. Although the easiest way I've found for that is to simply focus on sending the right shoulder down the plane towards the ball (which should also help prevent those pulls). Think of your right hip moving back and forth on a line that is at 45 degrees to your targetline for a cross line hip motion. All of that said, in the later videos, you have a nice swinger's startup and you would certainly not want to have that cross line move in that case. The startup swivel allows your right elbow to be in a pitch position (like skipping a rock), and to load the 'top' of the shaft (getting under it at the end of the backswing). In that pattern you'd want your hips to move in a more circular fashion, on line, rather than cross line. __________________ "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