Short thumb + Mid Body hands + MacDonald Drills = Longer Drives
Originally Posted by innercityteacher
OK, I'm back in focus!
I feel like I have so much more confidence since seeing Lynn and understanding how important hips and grips are. I feel like the MacDonald drills really emphasize correct motions. With the correct grip, and understanding the Flail and RFT, anything, even Four Accumulator hitting is possible! That is my new goal.
Short thumb/Hogan grip starting with the left index finger last joint allows right elbow to ride up my right side as I Pivot and "snap" as I Pivot down producing a much more penetrating and faster ball flight. The ball disappears much more quickly and the Apex of my Swing and Hitting procedure with range balls was consistently, more than 10 tries, well past the 200 yard markers! Woo hoo!
I can see a large difference between the flight of an Angle Hinge and Horizontal Hinge work in height of distance and turning over versus dropping to the right! So cool!
ICT
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HP, grant me the serenity to accept what I cannot change, the courage to change what I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Progress and not perfection is the goal every day!
Short thumb/Hogan grip starting with the left index finger last joint allows right elbow to ride up my right side as I Pivot and "snap" as I Pivot down producing a much more penetrating and faster ball flight. The ball disappears much more quickly and the Apex of my Swing and Hitting procedure with range balls was consistently, more than 10 tries, well past the 200 yard markers! Woo hoo!
I can see a large difference between the flight of an Angle Hinge and Horizontal Hinge work in height of distance and turning over versus dropping to the right! So cool!
ICT
I just found this quote and it made so much sense I was dumbfounded.
Quote:
The rotation in the downswing "Duval like" does not allow the overtaking of the right arm. Angled hinging is a neccesity for hitters. The pushing of the right arm closes the clubface.
When you play with a turned grip for too long, you'll always try to fight off the left shot with rotation. Those are mismatched components and are sometimes mistaken for clubhead lag.
The quote was by Ted Fort regarding Hitting and is found here:
With the proper short thumb grip, Hitting from Impact Fix (a slight opening of the front hip), or Swinging, the ball position should determine a whole heck of a lot!
Off to the range will report later!
ICT
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HP, grant me the serenity to accept what I cannot change, the courage to change what I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Progress and not perfection is the goal every day!
With the proper short thumb grip, Hitting from Impact Fix (a slight opening of the front hip), or Swinging, the ball position should determine a whole heck of a lot!
Off to the range will report later!
ICT
Impact Fix-front hip open/RFT- blade is closed/elbow comes straight down driving and compressing! The ball does not dream of looking left! Ball at middle of stance or forward. Draws happen with ball back of middle.
Swinging is better too as I pivot up to the front toe of front foot! Felt a very strong wrist cock at top and saw increased DOWN asI followed the MacDonald drill moving feet! Ball leaps off the club (short thumb).
ICT
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HP, grant me the serenity to accept what I cannot change, the courage to change what I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Progress and not perfection is the goal every day!
Impact Fix-front hip open/RFT- blade is closed/elbow comes straight down driving and compressing! The ball does not dream of looking left! Ball at middle of stance or forward. Draws happen with ball back of middle.
Swinging is better too as I pivot up to the front toe of front foot! Felt a very strong wrist cock at top and saw increased DOWN asI followed the MacDonald drill moving feet! Ball leaps off the club (short thumb).
ICT
My new favorite video!
Homer Kelly's greatest hits!
lways points at the Plane Line except when they are parallel to each other."
Quote:
However.. 2-F PLANE OF MOTION All the action of the Golf Club takes place on a flat, inflexible, Inclined Plane which extends well beyond the circumference of the stroke - in every direction. The full length of the Clubshaft remains unwavering on the face of this Inclined Plane - Waggle to Follow-through. Every other Component of the Stroke must be adjusted to comply with that requirement. (Bold by Weighshift)
Step in at Right Angles to the line right forearm on Plane-Delivery Line Prep -Do you see it? Are you prepared to un-cock on that line? Are you prepared to roll on that line?
The Start Down is the period of Shoulder Acceleration (8-7) as led by the Hips (7-15) and their "Instant" Acceleration (10-19-C). The Downstroke is the period of Hand Acceleration (8-8 ).
So smooth and so powerful, time and time again with a correct grip! I do have a question though for Hitting. When I shift to move my shoulder closer to the Base line of the Plane, do I fire at the line when I reach my low point?
Monitor the Delivery Path of the Hands or Trace the base Line of the Plane.
ICT
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HP, grant me the serenity to accept what I cannot change, the courage to change what I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Progress and not perfection is the goal every day!
Last edited by innercityteacher : 03-19-2012 at 11:41 PM.
lways points at the Plane Line except when they are parallel to each other."
Step in at Right Angles to the line right forearm on Plane-Delivery Line Prep -Do you see it? Are you prepared to un-cock on that line? Are you prepared to roll on that line?
So smooth and so powerful, time and time again with a correct grip! I do have a question though for Hitting. When I shift to move my shoulder closer to the Base line of the Plane, do I fire at the line when I reach my low point?
Monitor the Delivery Path of the Hands or Trace the base Line of the Plane.
ICT
I think this is a type of Hitting/"Crap Smacking" /Lynn with the Impact Bag type of deal but with the proper short thumb grip, covering the Base Line of the Plane with the club with my back elbow always in front of my body and club decidedly closed, I can step and fire my right arm to my left big toe shooting to Both Arms straight well ahead of the Ball!
I think I am using a "bat stroke" and I hit a sand wedge 105 yards consistently tonight. Driver bounced for the first time at 230 yards and seemed to stay in the air forever.
It seemed when I straightened my back leg then pivoted on my front heel before shooting my hands straight I might have been using all my stuff! I felt like I only took the club back to parallel with the ground then just shot my arms through!
ICT
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HP, grant me the serenity to accept what I cannot change, the courage to change what I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Progress and not perfection is the goal every day!
I think this is a type of Hitting/"Crap Smacking" /Lynn with the Impact Bag type of deal but with the proper short thumb grip, covering the Base Line of the Plane with the club with my back elbow always in front of my body and club decidedly closed, I can step and fire my right arm to my left big toe shooting to Both Arms straight well ahead of the Ball!
I think I am using a "bat stroke" and I hit a sand wedge 105 yards consistently tonight. Driver bounced for the first time at 230 yards and seemed to stay in the air forever.
It seemed when I straightened my back leg then pivoted on my front heel before shooting my hands straight I might have been using all my stuff! I felt like I only took the club back to parallel with the ground then just shot my arms through!
ICT
Look, look, look! I work hard as many of you do on this hobby and yesterday my prayers for clarity were answered in a big way?
Look carefully at the banana! It's head is stationary through impact!
Watching Lynn and Mr. Saunders and Kathy swing or hit was weird my friends. From far away, you could only see the slightest movements and their head was so quiet and the ball fired like a rocket!
Inverse relationships anyone? The Tripod must be still for the club to shoot down-plane like a Nordic bobsled, Air.
Short thumb grip. Quiet hands, feet and knees but not perfectly still, get it? I do now. Why does the MacDonald feet together drill work for everyone? Buehler? Anyone? Because the head is stationary and the torso is quietly, slightly, moving compared to my lurching, hulking basic efforts. Less is way more times 1000!
I can and will prove this upon your persons ( Le Morte D'Artur).
At Start Down, leave your Hands and Right Shoulder at The Top -- they don't move! -- as your Hips move ever so slightly to the Left. Feel the Hip Action Lead as the Right Shoulder Lags and Extensor Action Stretches. This magnificent combination totally removes any left side 'slack.' If there is a Master Move in Golf, this is it.
While checking your Extensor Action visually, also note mentally every 'detectable, distinguishable Feel' the Action produces (3-B). Just as important, become aware of its contrasting Feel, i.e., Extensor Action OFF. In each Section, On...Off. On...Off.
Finally, remember that there are two ways you train Educated Hands: Eyes Open and Eyes Shut. So, complete the process with Closed Eyes.
Do this exercise -- and believe me, it can be a workout! -- for a few minutes every day. Give it your complete, concentrated attention, and you will soon note a new structure and consistency in your Golf Stroke. It will be Extensor Action Feel doing its job, operating invisibly to take your Game to the next level.
My club has never moved faster with Swings or Hits! If my head is set at Impact Fix or between the feet equidistant for the Swing, I can watch the greased lightening of the shot go down through the ball and be pulled to finish!
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HP, grant me the serenity to accept what I cannot change, the courage to change what I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Progress and not perfection is the goal every day!
Last edited by innercityteacher : 03-24-2012 at 03:17 AM.
Look, look, look! I work hard as many of you do on this hobby and yesterday my prayers for clarity were answered in a big way?
Look carefully at the banana! It's head is stationary through impact!
Watching Lynn and Mr. Saunders and Kathy swing or hit was weird my friends. From far away, you could only see the slightest movements and their head was so quiet and the ball fired like a rocket!
Inverse relationships anyone? The Tripod must be still for the club to shoot down-plane like a Nordic bobsled, Air.
Short thumb grip. Quiet hands, feet and knees but not perfectly still, get it? I do now. Why does the MacDonald feet together drill work for everyone? Buehler? Anyone? Because the head is stationary and the torso is quietly, slightly, moving compared to my lurching, hulking basic efforts. Less is way more times 1000!
I can and will prove this upon your persons ( Le Morte D'Artur).
My club has never moved faster with Swings or Hits! If my head is set at Impact Fix or between the feet equidistant for the Swing, I can watch the greased lightening of the shot go down through the ball and be pulled to finish!
Quick update. 4 pars on front including a 421 par 4 and 4 pars on back on a par 71 for an 89. Three trips and 4 doubles due to an errant tee shot and airmailing three greens with 100 yard plus sand wedges or really long 8 and 9 irons like 140 yard 9's and 150 yard 8"s. Temp 60 degrees and spotty showers!
Nutted the ball Hitting quite often. No putting skills and moderate chips but putting is coming.
ICT
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HP, grant me the serenity to accept what I cannot change, the courage to change what I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Progress and not perfection is the goal every day!
Last edited by innercityteacher : 04-03-2012 at 07:56 PM.
Quick update. 4 pars on front including a 421 par 4 and 4 pars on back on a par 71 for an 89. Three trips and 4 doubles due to an errant tee shot and airmailing three greens with 100 yard plus sand wedges or really long 8 and 9 irons like 140 yard 9's and 150 yard 8"s. Temp 60 degrees and spotty showers!
Nutted the ball Hitting quite often. No putting skills and moderate chips but putting is coming.
ICT
Head stuck against the wall and hands back on shoulder plane with slight push or drop the elbow and feel the hands whip through Ball goes straight with nice trajectory! Short thumb! Mid-body hands MacDonald moves freely beneath a stationary head! Ball position is always at my left hip! Runion putting and chips close in or elbow plane.
It is ok to even feel like I am looking at my right shoulder in practice to guarantee the imaginary wall so the vertical un-cocking of the left wrist can fire DOWN! It can even be a right elbow drop or a subtle push of PP # 3 down the plane! If I monitor the swinging of the hands, the hands must be thrown at the left foot! Swing the pen knife tied to the handkerchief!
Hitting works very well if head and shoulder remains at Impact Fix pressed against the wall. Fire the # 3 pressure point ball at left hip let the club catch the hands and fully straighten the left arm!
Thanks Lynn, Kevin, Gerry, Daryl, OB everyone!
ICT
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HP, grant me the serenity to accept what I cannot change, the courage to change what I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Progress and not perfection is the goal every day!
Last edited by innercityteacher : 04-03-2012 at 08:16 PM.
Head stuck against the wall and hands back on shoulder plane with slight push or drop the elbow and feel the hands whip through Ball goes straight with nice trajectory! Short thumb! Mid-body hands MacDonald moves freely beneath a stationary head! Ball position is always at my left hip! Runion putting and chips close in or elbow plane.
It is ok to even feel like I am looking at my right shoulder in practice to guarantee the imaginary wall so the vertical un-cocking of the left wrist can fire DOWN! It can even be a right elbow drop or a subtle push of PP # 3 down the plane! If I monitor the swinging of the hands, the hands must be thrown at the left foot! Swing the pen knife tied to the handkerchief!
Hitting works very well if head and shoulder remains at Impact Fix pressed against the wall. Fire the # 3 pressure point ball at left hip let the club catch the hands and fully straighten the left arm!
Thanks Lynn, Kevin, Gerry, Daryl, OB everyone!
ICT
The stationary head by Lynn Blake- I felt this today!
The correct Head position is established at Impact Fix (8-2; 7-. Oncedetermined, the Head should remain Stationary (the First Essential per2-0-A-1 and 1-L-1). Monitor your Impact Fix Head Location carefully. It willprobably be somewhat lower than your present position.
Most players do not maintain the Stationary Head. In fact, manyinstructors even advise that it should move off the Ball (to the right)as part of the Backstroke and Weightshift. Of course, that simply is not thecase for those who have trained themselves to execute the precision alignmentsof The Golfing Machine.
In addition to an improper Head position at Fix, and in many cases because ofit, the Machine is also vulnerable to the third and fourth Snares,Bobbing (3-F-7-C) and Swaying (3-F-7-D). Bobbing's henchman isthe faulty movement of the back or Knees (the Anchors per 7-16), while Swayingrelies on an incorrect weight shift due to a faulty Pivot. Study the sixPivot Components of Zone #1 (9-1) and Translate (per Chapter 3) their Mechanicsas quickly as possible into Identifiable Feels (Introduction). Per 1-L, "...masteryof the Pivot is so essential for good Golf."
Finally, monitor the position of the back at Address. Per 7-9:
"The back should be straight from the neck down--not rounded at thewaist. It is easier to control the rotation of a straight rod than a bentone."
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HP, grant me the serenity to accept what I cannot change, the courage to change what I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Progress and not perfection is the goal every day!
Last edited by innercityteacher : 04-04-2012 at 12:11 AM.
I am on vacation with only a lawn to mow and a honey-baked ham to purchase so check this out!
You hear less about 'leg drive' today than you did in the '70s and '80s. Butwhen these pictures were taken, leg drive was The Way to create Power --on the PGA Tour and on the public links.
Despite The Way's popularity, The Truth was -- and is -- asHomer's analysis suggests: Most 'leg drivers' begin their Start Down byshuttling their knees forward in an exaggerated fashion. This causes the Kneesto Bend beyond their Impact Fix degree of Bend, lowering the Head and with it,the Left Shoulder Center of the Stroke. This faulty move is Bobbing, theThird Snare (3-F-7-C), and unless there is a compensation by Impact, thedisruption in the Left Shoulder-to-Ball Radius will produce disastrousresults.
In my schools at that time, I illustrated these concepts using swing sequencesof Jerry Pate , the Poster Child for the exaggerated Downstroke KneeBend and its resultant lowered Head position. The necessary compensations(2-J-1) to shorten the suddenly too-long Radius (Left Arm and Club) -- namely,the bending of the Left Arm and the pulling back of the Left Shoulderat Impact -- were in full flower. I don't believe it coincidental thatJerry's career was cut much too short by injury -- specifically, Left Shoulderinjury.
In a Pivot Stroke, the geometrically correct Start Down is led by the Left HipSlide. This tilts the Axis of the Stroke (the Spine), and allows the RightShoulder to deliver the Loaded Power Package correctly Downplane into Impact.The Knees serve as Anchors (7-16) during this process, stabilizing The Machineby maintaing its Pivot Center, the Stationary Head.
What I wouldn't give to have known then what I know now...
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HP, grant me the serenity to accept what I cannot change, the courage to change what I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Progress and not perfection is the goal every day!
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