[Jim.Cook]

Thank you very much Lynn.
I purchased the impact bag about a year ago when you mentioned it. It along with my dowels have become an intergral part of my daily routine.

There is no question in my mind that these two items have become very important to my progress. When thing go to pot on the course the first thing I do when I get home is to drag out the bag and the dowels. What ever my problem was it is now gone and the next day goes well.

[The Impact Bag is a wonderful Training Aid that unfortunately is ignored by most golfers. I have come up with many different drills to make the most of this terrific tool and would encourage you to create your own as well.

Perhaps the most basic exercise is this:

1. Position the Impact Bag at an Impact Point between the Feet.

2. With your Body in its Impact Fix alignment and with your Head centered between your Feet, assume the Release Position in Photo 9-2-9.

3. Keeping your Head Stationary and letting your Knees rotate only slightly in response to your leading Hip Turn, Release the Club (using low Power) and Drive through the Impact Bag, moving it forward just a few inches. Swingers will Feel a Left Arm Centrifugal Throw-Out Pull (Momentum Transfer from the Turning Body) into the Bag whereas Hitters will Feel a Rigid Right Elbow Muscular Drive-Out Push (Right Triceps Drive off the Right Shoulder Launching Pad). Imitate Photo 9-2-10 #1 at Impact. Especially monitor your Flat Left and Bent Right Wrists and On Plane Right Forearm (pointing at the Plane Line well in front of the Bag). Hold the position for at least several seconds, and look, LOOK, LOOK! Let your Computer soak up these alignments. I do all my Impact Bag work in front of a mirror and take in that view as well. I love looking at these alignments! And it helps a lot. The idea is to ingrain them so deeply into your subconscious that they become as natural as breathing.

4. After a few seconds, return to the Release Point -- without re-positioning the Bag -- and once again Release the Club. Keep your Head Stationary and drive through the Bag a few inches. Continue this exercise -- Load and Unload -- until the Bag has been moved to the end of the Follow Through (Both Arms Straight). Imitate the photo 9-2-11 #11.

5. Finally, with your Head remaining Stationary; with your Knees rotating only slightly in response to your leading Hip Turn; with your Left Wrist remaining Flat and your Right Wrist remaining Bent; and with your Right Elbow Bending and Straightening, make the Motion continuously -- Back and Through and Back and Through and Back and Through -- until the Bag has moved so far forward that you can't reach it anymore. Then, drag the Bag back -- or move yourself forward -- and start all over again. You should also work with each Arm independently, maintaining the critical alignments of the Left Arm Flying Wedge and the Right Forearm Flying Wedge.

This exercise enables you to master Golf's Moment of Truth -- the Release Interval and its On Plane Alignments, particularly the Flat Left and Bent Right Wrists and the Magic of the Right Forearm.

I would go so far as to call it 'The Gateway to your best Golf.'