OK, I take that to mean substantial lag pressure from #3 at impact is good. So if I may extend my question? At the top and during delivery I have little lag pressure, just enough to feel the alignment. The acceletation at the top and much of the way down is "pulling" of the left ahnd due to #4 . This is another problem in my old computer I am trying to get out. For years I had pulled with the left hand to long and wand up with a left arm in lign with the shaft. That was very wrong? becayse thye left wrist winds up as uncocked and the right forearm point beyond delivery line. By emphasing the right forearm on plane the left arm must point inside/below the plane so the left wrist remains flat and passes thru level at impact? What is "strange" in this new feel is that acceleration seems to switch from left hand at start down to right hand near (below waist level) and thru impact. OH, I do use #1 pressure point to "stretch my left arm throughout the swing, but I do not use it i a way that acts on the club-shaft. Can it be assumed that this extension pressure at all times is good?
HB,
The Lag Pressure Feel is good not only at Impact but from Start-Down all theway down to the Both Arms Straight Position (Follow-Through 8-11). And I domean you should feel like you are going down, down down all the way to BothArms Straight. On my best Strokes I feel Lag Pressure to the very end of myFinish. Remember, the Clubhead Lag has no release point (6-C-2-A).
Everybody thinks they understand the Plane Line. You know...We 'trace' it. We'point' at it. We swing 'along' it.
Here's my message: Obliterate it!
You don't swing 'down along it!' You swing down and through it. Remember, thisis just a line on the face of an Inclined Plane that actually extends into theground. And in that ground is another Plane Line, the Low Point PlaneLine. You don't 'see' that one on the top of ground.
That first Plane Line is easy. You're always reminded of that one because itusually sits on top of the Target Line. And when we get to it we usually justskim right along it! But this one -- this LowPoint Plane Line -- you've got tothink about and then take the Lag Pressure all the way down to it. It's one ofthe best things you'll ever do for your game.
Now, even though you now know this, the problem isn't going to automatically goaway. Two stumbling blocks remain:
1. You've got learn to do it subconsciously, and that takes purposeful practiceand Translation per 1-J and 3-A/B;
2. Your Magical Right Forearm/Elbow Action (7-3) is no doubt nowhere nearwhat it could be. Therefore, you don't have a 3-dimensional Backstroke(Up, immediately as well as Back and In). As a result, you don't have a truly3-dimensional Downstroke (Down, Out and Forward 2-F). Read that lastparagraph in 7-3 until you know it by heart.
And then do what it says! Practice that Right Forearm/Elbow Action fromFix. First without a club. Then with a club -- or better yet a headlessshaft or a wooden dowel -- but without a ball. Then with a Ball but only withthe Basic Motion (12-5-1). Again, start from Impact Fix (8-2 and 7-8 )and get the Club Up and Back with your Right Elbow and Forearm.
Stay on your Left side as you do this. Stand still. Stationary Head. With yourLeft Wrist Flat and your Right Wrist Bent (Impact Alignments), use that RightElbow to take the Right Forearm Flying Wedge (6-B-3-0-1) Up the face ofthe Plane. From the Top, Load the Lag, and Drive the whole Power Packageassembly and its Lag down to the Both Arms Straight Position. These arethe Key moves.
When you have it, go to Stage 2 (Acquired Motion). Hit thousands of ballswith your sand or pitching wedge with no bigger Stroke than 12-5-2. Thinkabout that Magical Right Forearm and Elbow. Take the Club Up in StartUp. That's why it is called Start Up!
Feel the Lag Load at the Top. Take the Lag all the way down tothe Both Arms Straight Position. Make sure at the Finish that your LeftWrist is still Flat and your Right Wrist is still Bent. You can't thinkabout all those things at the same time! Choose one, and work on it for awhile. Then move to another. But The Golfing Machine is all about obliteratingthe Plane Line with your Loaded Lag and your Flying WedgesAssembly with its Flat Left and Bent Right Wrists. Once you've got thatdown, Total Motion (12-5-3) is a piece of cake.
Your thoughts on Extensor Action (6-B-1-D) are good, but do you reallyunderstand the Flying Wedges (6-B-3-0-1)? Those alignments are crucialto your understanding your Machine, how it all works together and how you canutilize the Power Package structure to Drive the Lag Down and Through.
Finally, read 3-F-6 and do your best to get better and better at those things.
You won't get better all at once. But get better you will. And it will graduallydawn on you that you really are doing it. And then the fun reallybegins!
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