When Ted Fort in part two of the Lynn Blake/Ted Fort/Jeff Hull video said that if he does a practice waggle, he choses to practice a short piston like zero pivot motion concentrating on hitting out from 7 to 1,I was quite surprised. Was it possible that a motion that looks fairly routine, was worthy of Ted's carefully focus, right before he began his swing? I resolved to practice this motion as precisely as possible and find out why Ted was occassionally using it as a pre swing waggle. I started going to the driving range with only my sand wedge. I hit either 100 or 200 balls at a time, rotatng between hitting basic motion zero pivot chips to a water drain out about 40 yards, and to hitting acquired motion pitches to a small green with the flag being about 75 yards away. My primary focus is the information supplied by Ted Fort about how the right arm should go back. (I frequently grasp my left wrist with my right hand (as he did in the video) and watch my right arm's precise form on its way back. Then I really try hard over and over to make sure that I am duplicating that form as precisely as possible. On the forward swing, I alternate focus either a piston like motion or a paddlewheel hit in which the right arm drives the flat left wrist forward, making sure I "hit out" from 7 to 1 to a two arms extended finish.
I am astonished at how much improvement has occured in the last week or two of focused practice. On both the 40 yard chip shot and the 75 yard pitch shot, I was close to being automatic today in consistently being two putts distance or less from whichever target I was aiming at. While the zero pivot basic motion is clearly 100 percent related to my concentration Ted Forts part time waggle, perhaps the slow crossline hip downswing waggle that I also learned from Ted is contributing to my new found accuracy with my acquired motion pitch. Thanks again Ted and Lynn!!
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