I guess in TGM language, I have no #4 pressure point. My swing can be mimicked by clasping your hands together directly in front of your sternum, raising them to shoulder level, and turing the torso without moving the position of the hands in relation to the sternum.. I keep my hands in front of my torso to the extreme. I feel that when I swing from this position, my right arm almosts resists the motion; I feel a reall pulling on my upper right arm, especially as the club moves through the impact area.
It's not that I cannot get the left arm across the chest, or resist it, I simply don't do it! In fact, for my morphology, it is the only area where I have good flexibility. I can get my arm across my chest almost to parallel with the shoulders...but I lack the flexibility to raise it above my shoulders.
Keeping the club in front of you is something that I have been taught repeatedly as a means of preventing getting the club stuck behind me, which is something a lot of us do that is a real swing killer
Originally Posted by Vickie
Ok Frostback, Let's just get into this thing. First of all I often don't get the natural conversations of golfers because I am such new golfer and, as I have stated, I only learned with the The Golfing Machine. So please forgive me for not understanding what would be simple converstion to most golfers. I am about to bombard you with questions and beg you to be patient andstay in this process because I want so much to make good on my TGM committments. That means I have to keep learning.
1. I don't understand how you could go to an extreme to keep your hands and arms in front of you. I understand that you could lean too far forward. I understand that you could over-reach for the ball, which might be just a placement, stance, I understand how you can just loose track of your club and simple find yourself getting off plane. Could you elaborate the feeling or your intuition on this for me.
2. How can you not let your left arm come across your body? Does this mean that you somehow resist the motion? Could it be that you don't have enough flexibility and so you can't accomplish the level of reach (across your body) that you want? Or is it that you have some poor trainin habits that have you bending your left elbow or just not allowing a full extension?
3. Is the strain on the right arm because you are over-compensating for the lack of left arm activity? Or are you naturally overworking the right upper arm? Also, where exactly and when do you have the discomfort in your upper arm?
You must be really frustrated by this point but truly, these issues are the points most of us need to think thru to get the TGM mechanics working. Many people will avoid the symptoms, discomforts, you are experiencing by thinking thru these motions before the problems begin.
Lynn and I have one ,of many, exercise we are developing for TGM proper that allows you to 'imprint' the muscular pathway to reach with the left arm but even more specifically pull out with the right hand to refine the tension of your intelligent hands from address and beyond. We are working on making this available to you soon. In the meantime you can mentor me so I can apply my knowledge of anotomical function to the very appropriate mechanics of TGM.
Look forward to engaging soon. I will check daily to create a better stream of information. Thx, Vik
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