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Old 01-13-2006, 10:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Fred Brattain

...I walked over and told him about the free lesson clinics that the school puts on on Wednesdays and then offered to help him. He is a RANK beginner, and was swiping at everything. I gave him the drill of the chip/punch routine with the hands in the correct position. This is something I can do easily. BUT as I tried to explain it to him without inundating him with the flying wedges idea (which would have just lost him completely), all of a sudden the FEEL of how that translates to a full swing came into my hands.
"We teach what we want to learn."
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