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Very nice post Comdpa!!

There are different opinions on this... but Tom Tomasello said that Zone #1 is about 90% of the whole thing. He said something like...YOU CAN'T GET THE ARMS TO DO WHAT THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO DO, UNLESS THE BODY IS DOING WHAT IT IS SUPPOSED TO DO, AND YOU CAN'T GET THE HANDS TO DO WHAT THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO DO UNLESS THE ARMS ARE DOING WHAT THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO DO. IT STARTS WITH THE BODY(ZONE #1). He thought the Zones were in order 1, 2, 3 for a reason.

Now, we all know that people can make compensations for poor alignments and motions... up to a point. The HANDS can control the Pivot, but the PIVOT must be doing the right things to allow those HANDS, and ARMS to work well.

What do you think?

I agree completely with what Mr. Tomasello says about the hands being hampered by the body - or words to that effect.

In my humble opinion, the pivot is not doing what it ought to be doing because golfers have unknowingly trained the pivot to behave like a wilful child.

Therefore part of my student's Pivot Training is actually an 'unlearning' process.

For raw beginners, the Pivot Training usually takes less than 5 minutes.