[innercityteacher]

Again, EDZ, to the rescue making an important point by way of a good drill!

Here's the thread:

http://www.lynnblakegolf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=3973&highlight=right+thumb#post39 73



Until coming to this site, I had no knowledge of LAG or LAG PRESSURE!

Wanna swing like Hogan? Yoda? DRAG THE LAG BABY!

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Over the last several weeks I have been playing with Hitting since Yoda showed me his HITTING WHICH SHOOK THE NEIGHBORHOOD! YODA DID NOT SHOW ME HOW TO HIT BECAUSE I AM DAMAGED AND CAN ONLY HANDLE SO MUCH NEW STUFF IN ANY 12 HOUR PERIOD!

Ok, so I learned Swinging but I wanted to try Hitting. Yoda is very inspirational and I felt like I could swim to Australia or Denmark after Yoda finished with me!

So I MIXED THE LITTLE I KNOW OF HITTING WITH THE GOOD SWINGING INSTRUCTION I GOT FROM YODA.

I WANT IT ALL NOW!!!!! I HAVE SEEN THE MAN AND I WANT TO BE LIKE THE MAN OK?

BUT I AM NOT WORTHY!

But, I have found some cool posts to help me understand what I will study with Lynn next year during my school Spring Break God willing.

Here's the thread:

http://www.lynnblakegolf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=8105&highlight=right+thumb#post81 05

Originally posted by Densikat (I am combining two posts)


Ok there are some things in your post that would definately suggest mixing.

First of all do not trust feel, you must get this on video or get an AI to help out hands on.

First off the pivot motion for hitting, imagine this:

tip over into your normal golf stance, point your right fist at the golf ball, pull the arm back and drive it forward as if to punch the golf ball. This is not meant to demonstrate the arm motion of hitting, rather the pivot motion... The right shoulder pulls back and gets into that backstop position you have probably seen people write about, it then drives down in a straight line at the ball.

Now you say that your hands get above your shoulder height, this is quite dangerous territory to go into when trying to hit, to be able to drive the club with the right arm, the hands must first drop back down to shoulder height, instead of doing this, most people pull the club down from the get go, once the pull has started there can be no push/drive. So basically you have setup to hit, gone back with a no roll type feel in the backswing, yet there is a pull to start down, and all of a sudden more closing is being added to the face on the way down and the ball goes left.

Hitting can be so simple and effective, but it is imperative you actually make sure you are hitting and driving that arm, not mixing motions.

To recap:

Take that onplane right flying wedge straight up plane (no roll) to a position where your hands are around the height of your right shoulder, right shoulder should now be in a backstop type position. From there the right shoulder drives down at the ball providing the initial thrust, this thrust is transferred into the right arm which continues to DRIVE down and out. From there on it is happy days

There is probably some more that can be added, but I am sure the masters of the HIT Yoda and Ted can add some good info on top of this and fill in my mistakes

I understand the limitations of not having a camera etc,, I guess you will just have to LOOK LOOK LOOK a bit more carefully

Pulling back your arm as if to punch: this is why I said in my post, this is purely to display a hitters right shoulder movement, not arm movement... So forget where the hands are in that example and check out what your right shoulder is doing.

Check out Yoda's right arm holies and polies video the main site to get and good idea of what the arms (specifically the right arm) should be doing around the release interval.

With your question, initially the crossline hip slide takes up the slack in the shoulder girdles, it is not a dramatic slide. The right shoulder then drives until the elbow is back on plane and the hands are at about release height, the right arm absorbs the thrust of the right shoulder and the right arm continues this drive right on through the ball.

I really like the simplicity of the idea of trying to punch the ball on the ground with your right fist owing to my troubled upbringing in Chicago.

THE HANDS MUST GO STRAIGHT UP-PLANE AND BACK STOPPING AT THE SHOULDER OR YOU ARE GOING TO CONFUSE YOUR MACHINE TO DRAG THE LAG INSTEAD OF DRIVING OR PUNCHING THE LAG STRAIGHT DOWN TO THE BALL!

I HAVE DONE THIS CORRECTLY A COUPLE OF TIMES BUT THE PRECISION MUST BE MASTERED FOR YOU TO GET CONSISTENT DISTANCES OR YOU WILL FLY WELL OVER THE GREENS AND SIMPLY GIVE MONEY TO YOUR PLAYING PARTNERS.


http://youtu.be/08k4R6SlbZI

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