For the truth on the right arm with swinging watch and study the Tomasello videos. Also, review and contemplate the meaning of longitudinal acceleration in 10-19-C ( In the 7th edition study 7-3, 1-F, 7-19, 10-11, 2-N-1, 10-3-B, 10-3-D, 10-3-K, 12-5-3 and p. 238 ). Then watch the Tomasello videos again. Then read and study chapter 14.

For regularly scheduled programming study the last two paragraphs of 4-D-1 per the 7th edition for info on sustaining the lag....applies to both hitting and swinging. Then watch the Tomasello Letter series #2 video for backup data.


DG

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Dave,
There you go again - getting 6BMike all riled up!:)

Here is another perspective on Sustaining Lag. Sustaining it requires that you have the "perfect" geometry and physics. So in that sense - it encompasses "everything" and your ability to acheive it - is measured everyday on that long winding road in the pursuit of golfing perfection. Hey, and if you are on that road and you pass 12 piece (ya, he'll be on the side in the ditch! Ouch!) say HI!:eyes:

Mikey . . . Do the hall monitors know you are using the computer again??? They told me about you taking the cork off the end of your fork . . . You KNOW about these things Mikey. Remember last time Double D got you all emotional and you sporked yourself in the eye at Chuckee Cheezez and you had to turn in all your tickets to get the Barney eye patch. Do we really want to do that again? Please go night night.

And remember you sleep ON TOP of the rubber sheet . . . not UNDER it.

Got you.
 

I see. That's what I was wondering how to start it down quickly with a club "weighted" in POUNDS? Now it makes better sense.

Well done and thanks for the explanation.

Thanks so much for the thoughtful post. A lot of times I am so focused on loading #3 that when I don't initially feel it, I try to feel it by throwing hands at it - adding effort.

The left hand chips feeling #4 works very well especially if I feel like I'm float loading a bit, but this is also where I can overload it, fall behind and exert effort to try and catch up. Load and overload is a fine line and something I will monitor.

Another question, if dragging the hands from the top "feels" heavy, where does it feel heavy, as has been said before #3 & 4 is measured in oz. not lbs., so do I just need to adjust my definition of "heavy"?

Thanks again.

Make FULL practice swings with your left arm only no right hand on the club and no ball (like John Daly does). Just make the motion. Remember this is a SWING. So swing it back across your chest. Start your Downstroke from the ground up. What do you feel? Do you feel #4? (You about have to if you are using your pivot). Now experiment with the amount of loading. Load it light then load it heavy. Try a gentle change of direction from the ground up. Then try to speed it up and make your hips and feet move sharper. What do you feel on #4.

After you monkey around with it. Put your right hand on and hit a ball with your focus on the loading of #4. Remember it is a SWING or maybe even better a SLING. Allow your pivot to sling your arms and hands DOWNPLANE. The effort is DOWN DOWN DOWN and OUT. Your job is to SLING it DOWNPLANE and BUST UP the Plane Line. The job of your hookfaced club is to get the ball to go toward the target. Don't disrupt the orbit. You are LETTING the force SLING Down and OUT. The clubhead is just the weight on the string. The CLUBFACE is designed to DIVERT the force you have created (and hopefully not disrupted) toward the target because it is hookfaced.

Cool, thanks. I'll be at the range later.