You guys all offer some great points and further thoughts to put into my incubator!
A quick report on today's results at the range. 1st off it was fairly brisk outside and I took the move I was making yesterday with the impact bag to the range. I started with basic motion, then acquired (I didn't stay with this, but maybe 6 balls), then went to total motion. This is the move that I've been missing!
Talk about CF and its power. The white flag today was at 170 yards and to my suprise, I was carrying my 7 iron to it! I hit much more consistant, then the last several weeks. I didn't feel that I was hitting with the right, but rather swing with the left. It starting from the ground up, hips, pivot, building pressure on my #4, then the #4 accumulator, #2 pressure point, then its accumulator, then the #3. At times I lost the #3, but my contact improoved considerably!!
I learned something from today that I would like to point out to the group....here goes:
When I trace with the #3 pressure point (right forearm) going back most of the time my body is so rigid in my set-up that it doesn't pull my pivot into its proper location. As a result, my club is outside the plane before it even gets all the way back. With this move or lack there of, it goes left for me....sometimes big time, most of the time its playable, but off of the intended target.
This only happens when both hands are on the club, and I concentrate on not swaying my body or head while maintaining the right knee flex. When I practice the pivot with just the right forearm, there is not an issue. What I figured out is if I allow my left knee to go outward or flex towards the base of the plane, maintain my right knee flex and head alignments, then I can take my club back on plane which allows for the move that I originally asked about to work. Does this make sense?
When I look at this in the mirror, it is such a stable base, then I drag load and it is starting to bump the hips!
Maybe, my posture, pivot, setup or whatever was preventing the natural slide from taken place to begin with, maybe this is a hand controlled pivot move that Yoda & Co. talk about and many of us dream about! This is only one day & I will not be foolish enough to think I got it after one day, but it shows promise.
Just wanted to share the fruit of our labors with you guys!!!
Hybrid Mode
