I have taken your guidance and enthralled myself into the archives on the Magic of the right forearm. In one post Yoda says 'read the last paragraph of 7-3 until you know it'. I am giving that paragraph serious incubator time.
Also, I am trying to LOOK, LOOK, LOOK at how my right forearm moves the club.
I think my wedge assembly is improving, and sometimes I feel 3 dimensions.
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.
Focus on the wing and supporting strut. Remind you of something?
Thanks, mb. The 'Airplane Wing and Strut' has long been my favorite image of the Flying Wedges, especially at the Top of the Stroke. In fact, I use it with every new student.
Demonstrating the Wedges at the Top, I'll make this analogy:
"The Right Forearm Wedge supports the Left Arm Wedge like the strut of an airplane's wing."
Then, I'll suddenly collapse my right elbow toward my left, bringing my elbows very close together.
"How would you like to be on an airplane with a strut that looked like this?"
Since that "Pressure point #3" video alot of major major concepts have hatched from my incubator. That incubator has been working overtime lately. My swing is all I can think about during the day, and I am even getting golf dreams and waking up in the middle of the night with a random line in my head like: "extensor action provides an indespensible control to all strokes."
Anyways, I spent some time hitting because it was working and the angled hinging was pretty simple. Lately I have been finding my swing, actually swinging has been just presenting itself to me...so I take it. The one thing that helped my hitting stroke was the Tommy T video about hitting vs swinging. While demonstrating the hitting procedure he says something like 'the clubface just keeps looking at the ball.' I found this to produce nice angled hinging which worked well with the right arm driving the club. This hitting gave me a good feel for my right forearm flying wedge. I really focused on maintaining a frozen BLV right wrist. This is easier for me that flat left wrist, maybe because I am a righty.
Today, I was thinking about the longitudinal center of gravity. I was looking for it on my sand wedge (just hanging it by the end of the grip). Then I started to see how it behaves differently depending on how you move the club. I tried to visualize where the LCOG was at all times.
Then I started swinging...Basic and acquired motions. Trying to let that LCOG do what it wants to do and base all motion around it. Then it happened. At address, and impact fix, I visualized a line from the leading edge of the clubface (also extending out from the toe of the club directly from the leading edge) which went up through my left hand (on the top of the club...sort of inbetween my left thumb and forefinger.) I think this line goes through the hand and extends at some angle from 6:00, or the bottom of the shaft). From the spot where this line goes through the left hand I can sense a line that goes straight up to my shoulder. I tried to only move the club in compliance with that line. All of a sudden, my takeaway was pulling this line back (with the right forearm). I was able to maintain this line with all those funky swivels required for dual horizontal hinging that I never really got before. This line stayed in tact from impact fix to finish. After 2 swings the light bulb went on: "OOOOOh, THAT is the left arm flying wedge!!!"
Now I have two wedges that assemble my power package. It took some time to develop those wedges.....alot of incubator time. I'm pretty sure they are there to stay. It actually feels exactly like the little yellow guy at the top of the page next to the 'LynnBlakegolf.com' logo.
I love the Golfing Machine. I love LynnBlakeGolf.com
Yoda is my Golfing Machine hero.
__________________
"Golf is not a subject but a motor skill which can only be learned and not taught." - Michael Hebron
"The Body, Arms and Hands have specific assignments during the Golf Stroke, and they must be coordinated into one efficient motion." - Lynn Blake
Since that "Pressure point #3" video alot of major major concepts have hatched from my incubator. That incubator has been working overtime lately. My swing is all I can think about during the day, and I am even getting golf dreams and waking up in the middle of the night with a random line in my head like: "extensor action provides an indespensible control to all strokes."
Anyways, I spent some time hitting because it was working and the angled hinging was pretty simple. Lately I have been finding my swing, actually swinging has been just presenting itself to me...so I take it. The one thing that helped my hitting stroke was the Tommy T video about hitting vs swinging. While demonstrating the hitting procedure he says something like 'the clubface just keeps looking at the ball.' I found this to produce nice angled hinging which worked well with the right arm driving the club. This hitting gave me a good feel for my right forearm flying wedge. I really focused on maintaining a frozen BLV right wrist. This is easier for me that flat left wrist, maybe because I am a righty.
Today, I was thinking about the longitudinal center of gravity. I was looking for it on my sand wedge (just hanging it by the end of the grip). Then I started to see how it behaves differently depending on how you move the club. I tried to visualize where the LCOG was at all times.
Then I started swinging...Basic and acquired motions. Trying to let that LCOG do what it wants to do and base all motion around it. Then it happened. At address, and impact fix, I visualized a line from the leading edge of the clubface (also extending out from the toe of the club directly from the leading edge) which went up through my left hand (on the top of the club...sort of inbetween my left thumb and forefinger.) I think this line goes through the hand and extends at some angle from 6:00, or the bottom of the shaft). From the spot where this line goes through the left hand I can sense a line that goes straight up to my shoulder. I tried to only move the club in compliance with that line. All of a sudden, my takeaway was pulling this line back (with the right forearm). I was able to maintain this line with all those funky swivels required for dual horizontal hinging that I never really got before. This line stayed in tact from impact fix to finish. After 2 swings the light bulb went on: "OOOOOh, THAT is the left arm flying wedge!!!"
Now I have two wedges that assemble my power package. It took some time to develop those wedges.....alot of incubator time. I'm pretty sure they are there to stay. It actually feels exactly like the little yellow guy at the top of the page next to the 'LynnBlakegolf.com' logo.
I love the Golfing Machine. I love LynnBlakeGolf.com
Yoda is my Golfing Machine hero.
David Orr could give you a visual on this that would hook you up like a tow-truck.
D . . . could you be persuaded to put of the LCOG pics up??? huh what?
I think the actual origin of the term flying wedge is the football thing . . . as in returning kickoffs. Kind of like ducks flying in a V.
Keep in mind, I am no graphic designer. I was inspired by Mathew. I just have all these 3D lines and pictures in my head that I just have to get out. Maybe animations will come some time in the future....way in the future. This stuff is time consuming.
Accuarcy is my goal here. I want to get the delivery line in there. Would that be parallel to the right forearm pointing at the plane line ? Where should it come from ? The center of the shoulders, or the right shoulder ?
Are there any other lines that I can add ?
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"Golf is not a subject but a motor skill which can only be learned and not taught." - Michael Hebron
"The Body, Arms and Hands have specific assignments during the Golf Stroke, and they must be coordinated into one efficient motion." - Lynn Blake
You're on the right track, KnightT. However, I suggest you modify your drawing to include a little #3 Accumulator (Left Arm and Clubshaft Angle) in the Left Arm Wedge. Then, let that Angle illustrate the 'inverted' Wedge shape.
There still is a Left Arm Flying Wedge with Zero #3, but the 'Wedge' shape (the #3 Angle and Wristcock) itself has disappeared! Nevertheless, a basic illustration would not omit the identifying relationship.
Hybrid Mode
