[innercityteacher]

Here is the visual from YODA.

Some of you will remember when I started to meditate on the vertically un-cocking left wrist. I mis-named the move as a "vertical hinge," which it is not.

Since March of 2010, I have watched Lynn's video and struggled to understand it and apply it.

I am here now, with a more sincere spirit than Mark Antony (Shakespeare's Julius Caeser) to "bury Caesar, not to praise him (Scene ii). (Correct my past mistakes for those lost by my mixing of metaphors.)

From the 6th edition of TGM (my boldface):

The three Basic Wrist Motions can be classified as:
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4-A.

Horizontal *Bend and Arch (Clubshaft) *Grip Motion

4-B.

Perpendicular *Cock and Uncock (Clubhead) *Wrist Motion

4-C.

Rotational *Turn and Roll (Clubface) * *Hand Motion

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By using a small 4-A at start (hand on the table, thanks Kevin!), my left wrist goes from neutral (thanks Jerry!) to 4-B, vertically cocked (thanks Daryl!).

My left leg is shorter and I realized several weeks back that I step on my left heel to do almost everything!

So, as OB has said: "
The advantage of this Active Vertical uncocking is that it makes Horizontal motion less likely and also gives you more DOWN and therefore OUT. So less Steering and more In to Out on the Approach Angle. See 2-C-0.

The hacker typically tries to take the back of the ball right towards the hole , a misguided application of linear force. Logical but fatal for a side on game played with hooked clubs and a circular orbit. For balls played back of low point, most every shot therefore the ball is taken DOWN , OUT and FORWARD. For pure compression the Sweetspot on the clubface must stay in contact with the ball as if welded together and together they must travel Down and Out (to right field), the Inclined Plane demands it. The ball leaves at 90 degrees to the face at Separation meaning the face is Open at Impact. The geometry is not what everyone thinks it is at first.

The Active application of a Downward force will give you some Out given the Angled Plane..............a great thing for the new TGM er to add to his impact geometry. Add some Horizontal Hinging and voila! PUre compression."

Man, was he ever correct!

In the last 10 days, my non-automatic driving of the primary lever allows for a sequenced 4-B and 4-C that is a little frightening (but I'll get over it). I use a little stronger grip to start and then drive the primary lever (frozen everything) into a rolling hand motion at the bottom just prior to impact.

We have a 7th hole with water at the end of a blind, 280 yard carry down a straight, narrow fairway. I teed the ball high to catch it going up with a horizontal hinge. I swung very slowly (hips back, drive # 1 pp) and the ball split the middle of the fairway before landing 10 yards in front of the water.

I made the birdie putt and made a note to never use my driver again on that hole as the ground was soaked from rain the previous night! Later that day I left a similar birdie putt 4" short, about the size of Daryl's uhmmm, umbrella in his boat drink.

Thanks guys!

Patrick