Drag Your Wet Mop
 

Well, I'm still in a 'how to upload video' training mode with Bagger. Here's another clip that was never intended to see the light of day, but lo, it now has. Just a little something that demonstrates how to 'Drag Your Wet Mop' through Impact. Again, I apologize in advance for the audio. I had no external microphone and no intent to deliver any detailed instruction. The main benefit lies in the visual demonstration.

I start with a little 'Chip-Pitch' going to the end of the Follow-Through (Both Arms Straight position). Then I move out into little Cut Shots, first without a Finish Swivel and then with one. Then into some 'max layback' Cut and Lob shots. The dominant features are the Flat Left Wrist, the Fix position of the Body, and the Right Forearm Pickup. You'll see. Just click on http://www.lynnblakegolf.com/gallery/files/DragMop.wmv or visit The Gallery under the Lynn Blake section.

Yoda,

This is just great...love the tempo and unhurried pace of the shots. I could watch this all the day long.

Now, how about some full swings with the driver, fairway woods and irons???

what is the difference between the resultant shots with and without the finish swivel?

Fo' Swivel
 

Nice work! Thanks for sharing!

Question: Why does Swivel make you hit the ball higher?

Thanks!

B

Thanks for putting these up. Even without words the pictures speak for themselves. And thank you, BAGGER, for helping Yoda with the "basic motion curriculum" of uploading video!! Short segments like these are great. Thanks to both of you! Dr Dave

From Basic Motion To Acquired Motion To Total Motion
 

Hmmm...Bagger left this morning, but I've got some of this same practice sesssion where I go back as far as 65 yards. There is also a down-the-line view. I'll see if I can get it up tomorrow all by myself. Don't hold your breath! 8-[

Not today . . .
 

Nah . . . This is WAY too easy. Next!!!!!!

A mop for bucket
 

Bucket - I'm gunna smack you with a wet mop in a minute...Max lag pressure.:D

Ask Yoda - I'm standing on his balance ball, weighted club, impact bag. Bang!..."good...again"...BANG!!! "Uh Bagger, those things can break you know..."

Ask Yodasluke - His quote on the 12 tee yesterday, "Bagger! Why in the hell would you ever want to swing???"

I'm never far. ;)

Bagger

He said it!!!

Hey what does the balance ball do? That sounds like it could hurt. You were making swings on a balance ball? NOW I WANNA SEE THAT VIDEO!

Golf Ballet
 

It's great! It's a saucer-shaped balance ball that you stand on. Has a flat base and it's inflated about 10 inches above ground. Big enough to take a stance, grab a club, and swing. Yoda had me stand on it, take a weighted club, swing into an impact bag while looking into a full size mirror.

With his new video skills, Yoda could do a video in his practice room and post it up.

But I'll bet Yoda hasn't tried it in cowboy boots yet. I think I have the honor of being the first.:p

Bagger

Yoda, are you swinging or hitting in this? And to clarify, when you say "cut shot" in the video, are you doing vertical hinges first to impact, then with a swivel?

Balanced Boots
 

There are things you do in cowboy boots, Bagger. And there are things you don't do. Swinging on a BOSU® is one of those 'don't do' things.

I got spurs that jingle jingle jangle!!!!
 

Man you and Yoda are into some weird stuff man! Are you Tex Ritter or John Ritter?

Do You See What I See? Do You Feel What I Feel?
 

With each Shot...

Watch the Feet throughout the Stroke.

Watch the Head.

Are they still? Are they quiet?

Is the Body (Pivot) turning subtly back and through in response to -- but STILL LEADING -- the Command of the Hands?

Do the Knees accomodate this Motion as Anchors to the Stroke...or are they 'firing?'

Stop the video down and note the Flat Left Wrist and Bent Right Wrist at Impact and into the Follow-Through. These are visual confirmations of Rhythm -- the In Line condition of the Left Arm and Clubshaft through the Impact Interval.

In your own computer's 'Still' and Slo-Mo' mode, can you see the subtle differences in the Angled Hinge Action of the 'bread and butter' Pitch Shot (Left Wrist remaining perpendicular to the Inclined Plane) versus the Vertical Hinge Action of the Cut Shot (Left Wrist remaining perpendicular to the Vertical Plane)? Could you see the additional Clubface Layback of the Cut-Lob Shots (played a bit further forward in the Stance) as the Club moved smoothly 'around the Pulley Wheel' in its Endless Belt Effect (2-K #6) to the Finish?

Again, with each Shot...

What is the Left Hand Location at the Finish?

Has the Left Wrist Alignment been maintained?

What is the Clubshaft Position at the Finish of each Stroke? Is it below the Hands or above the Hands? To what degree?

After the Follow-Through, how did the On Plane Swivel of the Left Wrist/Forearm facilitate the Finish Motion?

The Star System of G.O.L.F. is all about converting precision Mechanics into identifiable Feels (1-J).

See it.

Do it.

Watch yourself do IT and EXACTLY it.

Feel it.

OWN it.

Uh. Earth to BaggerLance. Earth to BaggerLance. Can I rest my case now? :rolleyes:

This is getting off topic and it's probably my fault.
I'll post something in The Lounge on my visit with Yoda last weekend, and my golf outing with Ted and one of our new members soon.

Bagger