[innercityteacher]

Ummmm...I have been simmering in a good way since last Spring's week-long visit with the wonderful Lynn Blake where I learned much more than I could appropriate in a year! I was off the grid.

Being newly divorced, in a new apartment with a new high school tech teaching job also helped me be well, occupied.

And so, while I was simmering, I was meditating on the first thing Lynn showed me which was the "Marching Drill," and other McDonald drills. I could feel something very different while with Lynn that week but could not assimilate it. I had no kinetic schema just an intellectual understanding. If you watch the videos, I was doing it, the movement of the knees, BUT I DID NOT UNDERSTAND IT! As many of you know, Lynn does not deal in "half-solutions!" He gives his students 110% or more and I was trying to appropriate what he said. I would stay in my room or go to the range practicing the moves but there was so much, I was overwhelmed.

I knew the TGM outline but I had not grasped an essential truth of the system. I did an online search for "knees and the golf swing." Eventually, I got to Mike Austin and Mike Dunaway, his protoge. Whether it was my hip surgeries (11), or my artificial hip, or my Gout, or being slow, I could not grasp what I was told in the McDonald March until I saw Mike Dunaway on a dvd five or six times. 'The right knee feels to go to four o'clock and then drives to 10 o'clock, the right hip moves out of the way, the shoulder drops on plane and the hands throw'!


This is exactly what is taught by TGM! And Mike Austin did it very well, very, very well! Honestly, it never occurred to me until then, to simply use the right knee to drive my hip out of the way to come down on plane and throw the club!!!! I think I was sub-consciously protecting my artificial left hip and the shorter left leg but by switching my focus to my right knee, I HAD NO WORRIES!!!

My last three rounds of golf at the end of October and yesterday, saw me hit 16/ 18 drives in the fairways or first shots on par 3's long 240+ and with a very slight draw, which is how I hit most of my shots, now. Though it was 55 degrees yesterday, my 8 iron was 145 yards, 9 iron was 130 ish and PW was 125 ish. Ball position is crucial. I am about to purchase a new driver to replace my senior shafted 10 year old Adam's Red Line 9.5 degree driver. (Thinking an SMT beast with an extra stiff shaft. My dad hits his 12 degree SMT with a hockey shot about 225 and has gotten thrown off the gold tees at the age of 75, lol!)

Yesterday, I was 14 over par counting every stroke. I had not touched my clubs since October's end when I shot an 89 at Hershey's East course with my buds. The greens were lightning fast and it took me several holes to believe the balls were flying as far as they were!

Now, all of Lynn's Address videos with and all the others make perfect sense! I can feel my weight fire to my front leg and am using my right arm powerfully as my right hip clears to my left pocket!

Thanks again Lynn!

http://youtu.be/LfdsXK06EGA

http://youtu.be/UIER-jwBqQk

http://youtu.be/iclf7SpLg_Y


http://youtu.be/sA9Fz28Zu2M

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