So then the "feel" for impact should NOT include a right arm thrust? - for a 3 barrel swinger?
I'll answer my own question and say yes, it should NOT include a #1 acc. thrust. What then does impact feel like? Are the hands simply moved and the body responds?
Is this like "Yes, we have no bananas?"
You are correct, R2DU! With your Active Right Shoulder driving the #4 Accumulatoryou will not sense Active Right Arm Thrust. You will, of course, have someRight Triceps activity to maintain your Extensor Action (6-B-1-D). However,that activity will be a minimal, below Plane stretching action, and notan Active On Plane Driving Action.
The characteristic Feel through Impact (8-10 per 7-8 and 2-J-1) will be acontinuation of the Clubhead Lag Feel initiated and sustained from the Top.Namely, per 7-19, Hit or Swing, the Feel of a deadweight inertia --exactly like dragging a wet mop through Impact -- constant direction,constant loading, a careful nursing of the Clubhead Feel.
The amount of that Constant Inert Pressure applied is the Player's option. Andthe Clubhead's inertia is capable of sustaining all the Lag Pressure we humansare physically able to exert. When Homer was discussing this Start Down maximumLag Pressure Loading potential with our 1982 GSEM class, he made thisstatement:
"I have at times felt that if I had been just a little stronger,I would have been able to lift both feet off the ground."
Now, that's Sustaining Lag Pressure!
To assist you in your own pursuit of The Secret, Homer offered thisadvice (6-C-2-0). Establish your normal pressure, and then learn to vary it infive-yard increments. Work on this first with your scoring clubs, especiallythe Wedges. If it's possible at your facility, put markers out in those fiveyard increments. I've used everything from range buckets -- I've seen Tom Kitedo that -- to towels to little piles of golf balls already on the range.
Challenge yourself to move back and forth between these "+ or -"five-yard targets. You can get really deadly with this, and your short gameshould improve dramatically. Once you've got the hang of it with your Wedges,do the same thing with your Short, Middle and Long Irons. Finally, move intothe Metalwoods. It's fun to use your ability to vary Lag Pressure Loading andland that Driver five yards short of a target or five yards long of it.
Not only that, for the real ball beaters out there, you'll start playing what Icall "Poleys," where you keep score in every practice session withhow many times you actually hit the flagpole. Believe me, you getzeroed in on this at the range -- "Taking Dead Aim," as Mr.Penick used to say -- and you will begin to surprise yourself. I am not bragging,and I am not kidding! It may be only one or two a session -- but you'llget'em -- and when you do, you'll sing out for all on the range to hear:"POLEY!"
Remember to keep the Ball back per 6-E-2 on the Short Shots and the Handswell-ahead through Impact (7-8 ). From the Top, direct your Thrust directlytoward the Aiming Point (6-E-2) and take the heavy, Loaded Lag Pressure Feel Downthe Delivery Line; Down through the Smash of Impact; Down throughthe Aiming Point (probably a bit in front of the Ball); Down through theLow Point; and then continue to Feel the Down Plane Motion into the BothArms Straight Position of your Follow-Through (8-11).
Go back and count all those 'Downs.' After Impact, you've still gotthree more 'Downs' to go! So don't Quit (Second Snare 3-F-7-B)!Keep going! Where? Down!
I remember watching a video of Sam Snead at a clinic where some Golf Digestguys were also participating. First one guy would talk about the Forward Swing,and then another would talk about the Forward Swing. Forward Swingthis and Forward Swing that. Melnyk and Kostis still do it today fromthe broadcasting booth. Not Snead though. All he could talk about was the "DownSwing." and over and over "Hitting the ball on the DownwardBlow. He liked that term and used it a lot: the "Downward Blow."
Then he demonstrated a little high pitch, and turned to the gallery and said,"On that one you've got to go Down and Up at the same time!"And then, chuckling, "Guess that's pretty hard to do, isn't it? But that'swhat you've got to do." And, of course, the gallery laughed, havingabsolutely no earthly idea what he was talking about. After all, Down and Up atthe same time? Guess that is kind of funny!
But what he was talking about was that the Clubhead continued Down onits way to Low Point as the Clubface began to Lay Back with hisnear-Vertical Hinge Action. Hence, Down and Up at the same time! That isthe way you have to describe things like this when you don't have the precisionterminology of The Golfing Machine!
But in our Star System, these are distinct Mechancs that we havenames for and that produce Describable Sensations that can be Translatedinto Indentifiable Feels (1-J and 3-0/A/B) one-by-one. And onceTranslated and integrated into your Basic Stroke Pattern (12-1-0 or 12-2-0)they become your 'Open Sesame' to a lifetime of better Golf.
I'll soon have more to say on this subject. We need to explore the two veryseparate identities of Accumulating and Releasing Power versussustaining the Clubhead Lag into the Finish. There remains much Fog on thesesubjects.
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