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Old 02-22-2008, 01:23 AM
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Originally Posted by lagster View Post
We know that the POWER ACCUMULATORS are all in the ARMS...Left Wrist Cock, Bent Right Arm, Left Arm Blast Off, and the Roll Power of the Left Wrist.

How about the Coil? We have all heard of the "X" Factor, the Coil, etc.. There are even different ways of doing this. The Restrict the Hip Turn way, and the Have the Weight go Over-and-Back before the backswing is finished way to produce a type of coil, or a combination of these... maybe even other ways.

How much power is in this? What do you think?
What your really talking about here is what is called what Homer Kelley cited as the pivot train. Ben Hogan also wrote about it in his book also. Its basically a cause and effect - moving the hands which moves the shoulders which moves the hips which moves the legs...etc

However I think the word coil is somewhat misleading. If you use in as figurative sence and not in the literal sence... thats ok. However 'coiling' has to me has a connotation of by the manner of actively providing resistance like a mechanism. It is not an active resistance but merely a pure adherance to pivot train concept whereby you "allow" one part of your body to move the next. Actively Resisting won't give you any more power and will infact deplete your ability to load and then fire the no.4 accumulator- the key word is 'allow'. This way there will be no 'slack' in your pivot ready for the downstroke.

It has been said by some 'critics' of Homer Kelley that by telling a pupil to just move their hands is a dangerous concept because when they do they just don't pivot. They know the book well enough to know that they are being disingenous and are creating what is called a strawman arguement. Their statement is correct but no one is saying to 'just move' their hands - Homer Kelley outlined the pivot train very precisely. They use the same arguement against Homer Kelleys hands controlled pivot concept - if they read the book they should know this, so either they're being disingenious or they cannot read.

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