LynnBlakeGolf Forums - View Single Post - Why are they called Flying Wedges? Thread: Why are they called Flying Wedges? View Single Post #10 10-11-2006, 07:09 PM KnighT Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Long Island, NY Posts: 88 Originally Posted by mb6606 Focus on the wing and supporting strut. Remind you of something? Great image ! I LOVE appropriate pictures. They really help me with visualization and understanding. Bucket's pics are great also. I still look at them alot. Thank you. That is very much how my arms are beginning to feel. My right arm feels tighter and closer than it ever has before. I can sense a major difference in the way I hold a golf club, and the way that I move it....all because my power package assembly is improving. Before flying wedges and my TGM quest, my golf swing was very sad: I had no idea about how to apply force through the golf club and into the ball. All I was concerned about was hitting the ball and I probably flipped my hands at the ball. I think that I was primarily swinging the club with my wrists and body pivot. No power. No idea of proper mechanics. I could hit it straight (if I actually hit it), but always wondered why I would hit a 7 iron and my dad was hitting his Pitching Wedge on the same hole. Then, after I got into this great book I made some nice improvements. But, I never felt like I was applying the ideas in the book; probably because I did not understand them (still do not completely, but I am scratching the very large surface). This website has resulted in exponential gains in my swing progress in a very short amount of time. Now, I go through sections in the book that I have not read in a while and will actually realize 'hey, I never understood that sentance before...not it makes sense' I am putting alot of focus on my flying wedges. I think that without proper flying wedges trying to take on anything else in the book is like 'spittin in the wind'. My wedges are the only thing between my body and the golf club. Actually, I am beginning to feel like the golf club is an extension of my left arm and right forearm. It is a whole world of difference in comparison to my dainty hand and wrist swing. I try to think 'left arm is part of the club and is only moved by the right forearm'. I try to program it in at impact fix. 'right forearm'. I am actually finding pressure point #1 and it's related power accumulator as a result of better assembly. My old way: club hangs from the wrists and is moved by the wrists and body rotation. My new way: club is attached to left arm and right forearm. If the right forearm moves, then the entire structure is moved together as a single unit. This gives a much different sensation than my very poor 'old way'. The old way felt like the club was just loosly flopping somewhere around my right shoulder at the top, then just kinda blackout after that. I think I was just feeling the clubhead and sort of flinging it back and forward (nothing even close to 3 dimensional, no down or out) My 'new way' makes me feel like all my muscles are working together to move this structure. As a result of the motion (always initiated by the right forearm) the entire golf club is being moved. It makes the shaft of my 7 iron feel like a toothpick. It feels very light, and I have the sensation that I am in control of it. Sorry for babbling, but it's kinda exciting to feel like I am beginning to apply this concept of the flying wedges that was so mysterious to me. Last edited by KnighT : 10-11-2006 at 08:05 PM. KnighT View Public Profile Send a private message to KnighT Find all posts by KnighT