The Robotic Fade

[innercityteacher]

I have an artificial hip (lead) with a metal rod through the leg. With Daryl's help, and KevCarter's, and Jerry's and OB's and even Bucket's help, I have finally embraced the hip slide and pivot.

My distance is pretty short and I work with a great GSEB who has told me my 9 hip operations have probably determined I will never be that long.

HORSEHOCKEY!


I want to drag my artificial left butt cheek on the tee and start pillaging the neighborhood golf courses!!!!!

I WANT THE ROBOT!!!!! Any tapes or other descriptions , feel free to help a brother out!


Please? I will be studying these posts often!

Patrick

Back in 1991 I was 33 years old and was bitten by the long drive bug. I knew the yonex rep and had him get me a yonex adx 300 47� driver designed for the long drive team. You would not believe how heavy that driver was. I was working on strength training with a top body builder who I was teaching golf for exchange in body building training sessions.

During a lesson I was showing him how you could set up with fixed alignments or TGM version of �The Bat� and sync the pivot, the lower body, upper body hands and arms all moving together in the back swing and down swing and hit the ball very accurate. This guy was so big that his muscles would get in the way so there was no way to his left or right arm to move across the chest during the swing. One of the things I discovered was for him to make good rotation I had his upper arms set at address with a little space between them and the upper body. I also had a little bend in his left elbow at set up. Both elbows were pointed out slightly at address as well.

Now when he would make a back swing the arms could lift to a hands high position on the back swing and drop easy during the down swing in sync with the total body pivot motion. After working with the swing that look like a slow robotic swing he started hitting balls with a PW and was hitting it 150 yards with a swing that looked like a stiff robot that was hardly moving. I could not believe what I was seeing but ball after ball was hit 150 to 160 yards with a PW. I was just trying to get him to hit it straight and he was hitting it long as well. After the lesson I thought well if it worked for him it will work for me and I worked with the same set up and motion and was hitting a PW 140 to 145 that felt like a slow robotic swing.

The next day I was playing 18 holes with a friend who was a long hitter and I thought why not give this robotic swing a try and see if you can put a drive out past his so on #1 hole which was a par 6 647 yard hole that was straight with a wide fairway. I took that yonex adx 300 drive and used the robotic swing and hit a drive 317 yards down the middle. It felt like I was hardly swinging and very robotic. I used that swing for the rest of the round and was hitting it long and straight all day. I even used the robotic motion for putting, chipping and pitching. I think I shot a 74 that day with a swing that felt like a stiff robot. I was always changing my swing in those days so I did not think much of what had really happened the day I discovered the robotic swing.

Fast forward to today 18 years later.

Today I had a lesson with a guy who was a body builder and I tried this same swing pattern with him and it was a perfect pattern for him and he hit the ball long and straight. His driver was 280 -285 with a slight fade. Just beautiful shots. Well tonight I was searching the internet and came across some pictures of the 2008 Remix Long Drive champion Jamie Sadlowski and I saw a picture of him at impact with the same robotic swing alignments.

Check out this picture.






I think I just might be on to something here. I will shoot a short video for YouTube so you can see what I am talking about. It is a simple pattern that produces long shots with a slight fade. I think I will call the pattern The Robotic Fade.

To Better Golf,
John W Rohan-Weaver CMAI, GSEM