I know that I should not be manipulating the club with my hands while Swinging. However, I'm a little confused about this and how it jives with a wrist-throw release.
This is a far different animal than my Hitting stroke, for sure!
One more question.....do you use "Shoulder Turn Throw" per 10-20-C in combination with a "wrist throw" per 10-20-E with your three barrel swing?
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I'm using 10-20-C Shoulder Turn Throw for sure. I am trying to keep my hands completely out of the swing. It is very easy for me to just start with the shoulders. Then hands just seem to follow via CF. I don't "add" anything to the motion.
Regarding 10-20-E Wrist Throw, I think my right hand remains palm-up to the plane without conciously trying to do it. So maybe I'm using a combination but not really trying to do it.
I think I'm missing something regarding 10-20-E. Is it possible to employ this technique without trying?
To me, the wrist throw, without the conscious use of the wrists and hands, means to use the instantaneous hip acceleration to load the left wrist along with PP4, and use the pivot and momentum transfer to throw the loaded left wrist downplane, along with the trailing pp3. THe left handed karate chop is a pivot karate chop.
Not completely certain if the laded left wrist is thrown at a specific target, or simply travels down the inclined plane. THe right arm and pp3 should do all the aiming, so I am pretty sure the answer is, the left wrist is loaded, and is directed downplane via the onplane right forearm and trailing pp3. However, since the left wrist is loaded, it is a shame it isn't aimed anywhere. All dressed up an nowhere to go.
I hit the range this afternoon and noticed a big difference when I focus on keeping the right hand palm-up to the plane as I turn the shoulders on the downstroke. Impact is more crisp and I get more distance.
If I ignore the right hand my shots are still pretty good, but just not as crisp or far.
Lately, I am concluding that NOT thinking about the right arm, right wrist, or right forefinger is the way to go. If my mind traces the plane line with the right forearm or right forefinger, throwaway results. I realize this is TGM sacrilege , since the result of one of Yoda's polls stated that Homer's most important swing thought on the DS was to trace the plane line with the right forearm. However, any consciousness of the right forearm overrides and negates centrifugal force.
Homer also stated that one makes an underhanded pitch motion from the top, feeling as though one is slapping the ball with the right wrist. Same result as above. CF is negated. And the same goes with monitoring PP3 in my head.
Thinking about the right forearm, wrist or forefinger not only overrides CF, it also seems to truncate the swing radius and alter low point. Consciousness of the right arm feels like I am swinging from the right finger, right arm or right wrist, and low point is well behind the ball
In practice,(indoor without a ball) when I load PP2 and the left wrist with my pivot, and don't think about the right arm or PP3, and have an Untressed right wrist, and trust that CF will take care of the tracing of the geometric plane line, I feel I am swinging from my left shoulder and properly executing the rope pull technique. I don't consciously have an aiming point. I look at the inside corner of the ball, feel the left wrist load, and have my pivot and momentum transfer to the arms pull that loaded left wrist to a release point feel, downplane, and trust that CF will take care of the sequential release and hinging .
DDL - do you feel the #3 pressure point (and left thumb) 'under' the shaft at end? What you describe sounds like you 'may' still be loading for hitting when you focus on your right side (but not when you are focusing on the left, which sounds like you've got the right feels to me).
In short, the left sided focus you describe 'allows' rotation going back, and proper loading of #2 and then passively #3, but the right sided focus you describe likely is more of an angled hinge - I've been there -
If a left sided focus works for you, no real harm done as long as you are still maintaining extensor action (via 'momentum' if not via right arm).
You may want to try a focus on the entire 'wedges' assembly 'fanning' at startup, which will allow you to get that proper right arm extensor action without breaking down the wedges, especially the right forearm wedge/keeping the bent right wrist.
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