[innercityteacher]

We're such idiots eh? Teach waxes poetic and we applaud the Maxwell Smart gag!

"Sorry Chief"

P.S.

What ever happened to Pliny the Elder anyways?

OB, Daryl has finally lost it under the strain of revealing that he and I are related. Perhaps the guilt he feels for his time at the state correctional institute in Illinois, or for his time at Joliet, or for leaving us his 12 cats, and failing to visit Mom more often, has overtaken his sensitive nature. Perhaps, someone criticized his avatar too strongly.

Still, I honor my step-brother and his fantastic family and wonderful golf writings.

He is a swell guy!

I have been reading all I can about the Pivot and have realized that the McDonald Drills are very useful. In working with them, I have discovered some things and remembered some of the good instruction I received from Kevin and Gerry in MN.

The Pivot is all about balance and motion. My best balance is achieved with my right knee bent at address to eliminate the shortness of my front leg and it's uneven influence. When I set-up with a bent right knee and maintain it (as I trace TSP with left hand above plane (it feels so good as a correction to my years of dragging my hands sharply inside)), it straightens slightly but keeps it's flex quite easily. As soon as I march away with my front foot, the pivot is much more powerful and smooth.

The Pivot is so easy, in fact, that I can feel PP# 3 and the lag of the club moving at a constant rate, as I move all my weight to my left or front side. Feeling the lag helped me realize that the right elbow extension or forearm thrust as concentrated in PP # 3 or # 1, can easily direct the Pivot when my body is balanced at set-up. It is a "Hand-Controlled Pivot."

Balanced on a bent right knee feels very natural since my longer leg is what I stand on a lot. From the right knee, my tracing or marching is very slow, however, the minute I bump my right knee or hip laterally, or march with my front foot, my Pivot really torques and spins. I actually can feel the the "wheel rim" being traced by the right hand and the force the right hand can have in "skipping" the stone of the club face through the ball.

I had my most effective sand day, yesterday, by simply spinning around my back shoulder flywheel and letting the open clubface splash the sand.

I have to discipline myself to really extend my trace toward the line as far away from my body as possible while staying true to the BLP and staying in balance!

My scores will tell me how much of these mechanics are accurate!

Are you playing much? How are you doing?

P.S. Special Shout out to EDZ and his fine drills which I think are of great benefit!


Patrick