[innercityteacher]

Remember I'm working all by myself, with the book, videos and posts from here, so there's a lot I do wrong probably. That's going to change hopefuly as I've scheduled 3 half days with an AI next week. I'm Hitting from Impact Fix.

I have a procedure to take the grip and form the wedges by taking the right hand grip with the club horizontal in front of me. Then in the practice stroke I focus on maintaining the forearm perpendicaular to the plane at Start Up (I tend to roll the club inside) and around impact, so rehearse Hinging. At Impact Fix, I try to align the right forearm to a point on the base of the plane (kind of an imprecise Angle of Approach / Aimpoint Fix as I haven't figured out exactly what it should look like).

I noticed in practice session that reheasing the Hinge to Follow Through often lead to a better stroke so I was thinking of imprementing that as waggle over the ball like golfgnome.

Etzwane, do you know these 5 "Address Videos?" They are like $30 or so and downloadable from this site and very helpful.

One of the things Lynn stressed when I was with him was aiming sticks (little skinny brightly colored plastic sticks) and he set those out to cover the Baseline of the Plane and stance line. They helped me unlearn lots of bad habits and to this day I have 2 bright orange ones that I use every time on the course when on the range or putting. Sometimes, if I an having trouble, I simply imagine the bright orange lines are forming a line or a column I can shoot into or putt into and just ignore everything else.


From Impact Fix I am very careful not to roll my flat left wrist though the weight of the club head seems to make it want to. The Angle Hinge for Hitting is a very short backward movement for me; it feels absurdly short but I can really drive that ball and keep it in play off the tee, and shoot it to the middle of the greens on my next shot. Sometimes, it feels like I barely get my RFT or covering the baseline of the plane to chest high! Then I hip bump and drive my right elbow and the ball really takes off and is controllable. Sometimes, I imagine I am rolling my right elbow on my side and under a shelf created by my EA taught left arm. Remember, You can and probably should close the club face a bit on longer irons, hybrids, woods and driver. Experiment and wail away on that ball!

Another thought or two? Get real good with your chipping, pitches and bunker play. Your stroke or pattern, whichever you use, will quickly get you near the green or in the bunkers and if you can get up and down you will feel like Godzilla, in a good way! Lynn has some videos and really helped me in person. And a guy named Shawn Clement on You Tube has some very descriptive bunker videos. He has a lot of videos but nothing I have seen surpasses Lynn's personal, written and video instructions.

Keep us updated on what you learn and what seems effective and why, ok?

ICT



Big things small swings!