Close Encounters Tape - A Lesson With Lynn

[DOCW3]

Go back to the video and you will find that the Flat Left Wrist is not the problem. In fact, the student exhibits a good intellectual and physical command of that alignment.

Instead, the problem is an exaggerated Axis Tilt during the Start Down and Downstroke. He achieves this over-tilting of his spine (back and away from the Ball) by dropping his Right Shoulder severely Under Plane. This misalignment, in turn, is achieved by allowing his Head to drop back and down -- he Sways and he Bobs. The result is obvious: He continually hits 'up' on the Ball -- Scooping -- all the while doing a yeoman's job of maintaining a Flat Left Wrist.

In fact, he apparently has absolutely no sense of the correct Three-Dimensional Impact Geometry (Down, Out and Forward), much less how to achieve it. Thus, the cure is not more work on the Flat Left Wrist, but on teaching him (1) how the Body Pivot works in the correct Start Down; (2) how his Head should be positioned at Address; and (3) how to maintain that Head Position from Address to the end of the Follow-Through (Both Arms Straight position).

In other words, this student has Pivot and Stationary Head problems (Zone #1), not a Flat Left Wrist problem (Zones #2 and #3), and they must be treated accordingly.

Other posts on "creating or achieving" axis tilt made me curious about why it is not a component. My search led to 2-H: "On Plane Right Shoulder Motion is possible only by tilting the axis-the spine. See 7-14." I am "in neutral" with the mysterious hips awaiting the additional video. Hopefully it contains instruction relative to the axis tilt deficiency.

DRW

[Yoda]

Other posts on "creating or achieving" axis tilt made me curious about why it is not a component. My search led to 2-H: "On Plane Right Shoulder Motion is possible only by tilting the axis-the spine. See 7-14." I am "in neutral" with the mysterious hips awaiting the additional video. Hopefully it contains instruction relative to the axis tilt deficiency.

DRW

DRW,

My post you quoted above was in reference to the Ben Doyle Lesson now in our Gallery, not Collin Neeman. I am not planning a release of more of Collin's lesson. However, we will post another of Ben's in the near future.

Regarding the required Axis Tilt, it is accomplished by the Hip Slide while maintaining a Stationary Head. This Hip Motion causes the Right Shoulder to remain On Plane during the Downstroke (from the Top through the end of the Follow-Through).

[efnef]

Have just finished watching this series of clips (while home fighting an upper respiratory infection). What a treasure!! My sincerest thanks to all involved!

[birdie_man]

lol someone watch chapter 1....go to 4:34....

The things golfers do....lol. Cracked me up. Listening in on that lesson helped him real good eh?

[Thom]

lol someone watch chapter 1....go to 4:34....

The things golfers do....lol. Cracked me up. Listening in on that lesson helped him real good eh?

LOL, good find Bird
Thats one exagerated impact fix position right there

[strav]

Many thanks to the team that put the video together. For those of us ho have no chance of a lesson with Yoda this is a real bonus and truly appreciated.

[strav]

In Homer’s introduction to TGM he states:
“The more rudimentary a player's skill, the less difference the "differences" make and the more difference the "samenesses" make. The more precise a player's skill becomes, the more this is reversed.”

Therefore, when MizunoJoe said “It would be much more instructive to see Yoda take the student in Ben's lesson and make him look like Collin.” he was simply saying, in effect, that he would prefer to see a video that demonstrates the "samenesses" of the golf swing as expounded in the chapters on “Basics” namely 2,7,8,9 & 14. Doesn’t this idea have merit and wouldn’t it make an interesting theme for another video?