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Old 02-02-2010, 11:31 AM
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The Road to Success is Paved with Good Intentions
Originally Posted by 12 piece bucket View Post
I do the same thing . . . but worse than you . . . . If you spine is getting vertical to soon may want to do some drilling OVERCOOKING the opposite. Get in the mirror and do some start down stuff where you actually increase your waist bend RADICALLY. Kinda like you were gonna squat down and pick something up in front of your left foot. Hips sliding forward and bootox going back toward the wall behind you and chest going down. From there imagine that you pick up a big rock and you is gonna sling it way up in the air out infront of you. That'll save the goat from what you were gonna do and the rock deal will let your hips go up and keep turning . . . no more stall.
I deal with this issue with Swingers all the time. Your "Intention" should be to take your stroke to both Arms straight at Follow Through (6-A-4, Section 8-11). Only then will you be able to "swing through the ball, not at it" as Ken Venturi always stressed. To break a board in half karate style with your fist, you must take your force through the board, not at it.

When the player’s intention is to hit at the ball, the Pivot stops moving, the right arm (third side of the triangle assembly) straightens too soon, and low point bottoms out before the club gets to the ball. If you tried to break a board that way, you may as well call the emergency room and tell them to expect you shortly.

The computer between the ears won't allow you to continue to hit the ground behind the ball so a) the center must move away from the ball (getting to really know your Goat) or b) excessive Throwaway is employed.

Takes a few old golf clubs and hurl them down the range when no one is around and there is nothing that can break behind you as Jack Burke Sr. and more recently Fred Shoemaker use as a corner stone to their teaching. If you have a video camera, record your motion. You will be amazed when your intention changes from "at" to "through". Your Pivot keeps moving, your Right Arm remains bent at Impact, your acceleration improves and you now comply with 1-L-15. All this just because you changed your intent.
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