Starting a Startup Swivel
 

So,the Startup Swivel is like un-clapping and the Horizontal Hinge is like a level clapping.

Sheesh, how did HK put this all together? Lots more to learn!

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The right move for the right wrist



So, we "clap" with Extensor Action. Wow! EA must be strong enough to keep the right wrist firm but loose enough to allow the clapping motion.


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And a level explanation of a Horizontal Hinge

All of that is seen below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDRTQvibHc0

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Town of Bedrock
 

I'm proud of this video, Patrick, and the Part I that preceded it (from the same presentation). I did it on an impulse, knowing there was a need. Just set up a camera -- thanks for your help, Ted Fort! -- and rolled. Didn't even have a mike.

The night before I'd thought to myself: "Hinge Action is one of the three most important concepts in golf. Almost nobody knows it exists, and most of the few who do don't understand it. It must be explained, and if not by me, then who?"

Remember the time: Few had this information then. Sure, plenty of aficionados owned "the book", but you simply cannot learn this concept from the book alone, and there was no "guide" around. The concept, if discussed at all, was the stuff of chat rooms, not in depth explanation. Then came Lynn Blake Golf: I wear proudly the derisive star of "book literalist".

And when the worthy pioneers attempted an explanation, it was done only in terms of the Feels: Roll, No Roll, and Reverse Roll, with zero discussion of the underlying Mechanical Concept. Even then, they often got the Feels mixed up with the Clubface Motions. The few who attempted the Mechanical Concept almost always got it wrong. That's strong stuff, I know, but that's the way it was -- a great void.

Now many thousands understand. All over the world. Lynn Blake Golf has made a difference, a big difference. Yay!!

The principles I demonstrate are timeless. Other younger men and women may do a better job in the future -- if so, my purpose has been served -- but for now, this gets it done.

Thanks for the 'front and center' bump.

:salut:

Timeless. Amen.

We may keep learning without fear of obsolescence.

Kevin

Decoder Ring?
 

If I get to understand some important things and use them correctly before April, Lynn, I hope to take the super-secret "Decoder Ring Exams." That's the cherry on top of the ice-cream sunday of SHOOTING PAR WHEN I WANT TO BECAUSE I CAN!

Seriously, in reference to Par, the Horizontal Hinge is something I must do on command to have any hope of real compression and distance and I know that. Even trying the HH has increased my driving distance by 20 + yards though it is Pull/Push as Daryl has aptly explained so I must be flashing my hands. Nevertheless, with a little open stance, it is controllable. And considering my lack of knowledge and being on this great site, I will get better.

If I hit more down, the flashing of the hands won't matter right? (Just an idea.) if I start my Sweep right away, when the club face (left hand) rotates, it'll be the natural consequence of a vigorous down thrust!!!! :think:

I just don't get how smoothly the pro's perform! I stood behind BG at Aronimink for 30 minutes watching and I pet my dog with more vigor than he uses in one Swing! :BangHead:

Anyway... Cuscowilla will be a blast after the Masters. :angel1: :golfer3:

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I hate this video because it describes my old swing very well. Vertical karate chop down with the right hip back and big time horizontal hinge.

Problem was that sends your plane line well out the right and unless you take the weakest of weak grips its going to be Hello Mr Snappy, and at best lots of blocks. When your hand comes down like he describes doesn't that pull the right shoulder under the plane?

Confessions Of A Book Literalist
 

I do not agree with Tommy's methodology here (except possibly as an exaggerated 'feel' to help keep the student's right shoulder ON Plane during the Start Down). I teach using the Pivot -- not the Arms -- to transport the Loaded Power Package to Release.

For the correct conception, go here to a post I wrote just yesterday:http://lynnblakegolf.com/forum/showt...2185#post82185.

And, while we're discussing this video, Tommy also presents another confusing picture: A stick on the Clubface held vertical or horizontal has zero to do with the proper mechanics or conception of Hinge Action.

One of the reasons TGM is so confusing is that its Basic Concepts are often presented by well-meaning instructors in very confusing ways. Almost always, these bastardizations have little in common with Mr. Kelley's book. So many teachers, in an attempt to 'simplify', put in their own little 'twist' and thereby hopelessly mangle the concept.

In my opinion, it is far better to remain true to the original concept and way it is presented in the book. Communicated, of course, in each Instructor's own unique way (but not at the expense of the concept itself). But then . . .

That's just me.

:salut:

What's wrong with Tommy's way to illustrate this? Doesn't the club face and the left wrist always point in the same direction - in these 3 types of hinging? :think:

Holding the Flat Left Wrist Vertical to one of Three Associated Planes (Horizontal, Angled, Vertical), imparts the same Alignment to the Clubface.

If TT's Clubface had "Zero Loft" while demonstrating the Clubface-Stick example, it would be more valid for explaining the effects of Hinge Action. ??