[innercityteacher]

I've read the many excellent posts on this thread and am happy to comment. Not sure where to jump in!

If you have a question you feel is unanswered -- or answered less than adequately -- please post, and I'll do my best to supply.

Lynn, this website is so awesome that their are a myriad of people who "get it" and can explain it. I happen to be slow at Geometry and abstract thinking and my very kind, funny math teacher in high school, Brother Armando, use to joke that if I understood a geometric concept, he had taught that concept really well!

Let me use a golfing example. I know what it means to "drag the mop" on plane. However, my feeling of it did not really, really click in until last night at about 9pm. Daryl the other day, in a conversation explained that as soon as I turned my right hip left I was turning left! LMAO! ( Now, I over analyze physical stuff because of my hip operations. I'm sure everyone else knows what Daryl explained to me and would never guess that I didn't know that but for me I think about the range of motion in my left hip and dozens of other thoughts and well I simply miss obvious stuff! )

So I turn my right hip left and I felt my whole Power Package DRAG BEHIND ME LIKE A WET MOP ! OH YES I DID! And I felt in in my # 3 PP! There felt to be a two second delay but then it moved and my impact bag let out a "whumpf" deeper than ever before and flipped and rolled over down the driveway several times.

You explained the idea to me very well during our lessons but I lost the details because I was busy translating what you said into "ICT Hip Speak." I concentrated on your chipping and putting lessons which I knew I could do and man were they great and are great! I mean with my below average TGM alignments and your short game lessons I broke 80 or shot 80 eight times last year. But I could only appropriate so much esp going through a divorce, too, while taking your lessons.

However, and I believe you understand this, I am blessed with a strong visual and kinetic memory and I can remember your stroke and demonstrations very clearly. You provided a visual template that I consult daily as I swing a stick/dowel/club into an impact bag and Look, Look, Look into a mirror or my car window. When I can generate the correct alignments and really hammer the ball, I am one of the happiest guys in the world and it leads me to investigate the next wobble and the process begins again.

The Forums are an international treasure. I really like searching them and reading the differing expressions and descriptions of the golf stroke. That exercise is a nice balance to the issues of the day.

I like ED-Z's quote "we have no enemies only teachers" quite a bit. LBG has given me tremendous friendships and true joy and I am thankful and driven to get it right!

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