As I am mad in the evil work shop trying to create the monster of all swings, I am finding that my relationship with feel to the body is increasing.. Its Alive!
Well, today I had been working on my posture through impact with the hold, release, and clip the dogs tail drill. I noticed that I was having two different feels between the great struck golf balls and the balls that were missing target a little. What I found is; I was transferring power back to my left hand on the down swing, so, I ask myself; self! is this correct? Well much to my amazement and the face the solid on line shot was what I wanted, I dug deep into the knowledge base to figure out how to achieve the correctness of what I had a great feel with. I remembered LB talking about the "NERD" left and knew dang well, I was on the right path. One would think that there needs to be level power in both hands, but in truth there is, in a weird science way that is above my educational level. What I found is that if I took it back with the right and back to the aiming point with the right, the clearing of the left side gave the left hand stability with out physically trying to use it. So, to stick with the thread category, you have to mentally train the right hand to be the performer. Pretty cool stuff if you ask me..
Last edited by BurleyGolf : 03-28-2009 at 01:04 AM.
Thanks for putting that into words I hope I can understand.
I have had humungous problems with getting off plane by having the dreaded "heavy head," but I think I have found if I take the club away focusing on extensor action with the right hand pulling the left back, I stay on plane much better.
I need to spend some time getting used to what seems to be more right hand/arm in the swing than I have had since I was about 12 (I' 63 now).
I was always around guys who could play when I was a kid. My memories of guys hitting a bad shot and slapping their right hand. Can't use your right hand. Keep the right hand out of it. It's a left handed game. Damn right hand. Blah, blah, blah...
Enter the "Magic of the Right Forearm" and it's a brave, wonderful new world. I'm LOVING it!!!
Kevin
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I was always around guys who could play when I was a kid. My memories of guys hitting a bad shot and slapping their right hand. Can't use your right hand. Keep the right hand out of it. It's a left handed game. Damn right hand. Blah, blah, blah...
Enter the "Magic of the Right Forearm" and it's a brave, wonderful new world. I'm LOVING it!!!
Kevin
Golf's "unique move" according to Homer Kelley and the reason good athletes cant take their talents from other sports to golf necessarily is this:
the right arm extends through impact, with the right hand held bent (in its impact fix determined degree of bend, depending on ball position etc). That last bit in brackets by me, sorry.
This unique move can be done actively by the right arm (hitting) or passively by the swingers throwout of the left arm and club via the pivot. Either way the pressure points and therefore the swing forces are felt in both hands. The swinger for instance has taken it back to top with the right forearm, and is employing Extensor Action with his right side, feels the pivot stretch the left side(take up the slack) and load the cocked left wrist in transition. The Snead sit down move was probably felt in the left arm and left hand, Im guessing. Didnt he describe the "Tolling the bell" move with the left arm in Downswing. So he was feeling it in both hands, is what Im thinking. There are pressure points in both hands after all, swinging or hitting.
If only Id known this back in the days Dark Ages (in a pressure point sense) of the bad right hand, the passive hands era. Which begat pivot to hands and big muscles etc. And then Soft Rock and Rupert Holmes and............
Now, Hitting or Swinging I can feel my right side and its rock like structure at the very least. Let the right side be rock, like Keith Richards not soft like R Holmes or Air Supply or Hall and Oates.........or........England Dan and John Ford Col.............
My apologies to Bucket for denigrating his record collection.
Golf's "unique move" according to Homer Kelley and the reason good athletes cant take their talents from other sports to golf necessarily is this:
the right arm extends through impact, with the right hand held bent (in its impact fix determined degree of bend, depending on ball position etc). That last bit in brackets by me, sorry.
This unique move can be done actively by the right arm (hitting) or passively by the swingers throwout of the left arm and club via the pivot. Either way the pressure points and therefore the swing forces are felt in both hands. The swinger for instance has taken it back to top with the right forearm, and is employing Extensor Action with his right side, feels the pivot stretch the left side(take up the slack) and load the cocked left wrist in transition. The Snead sit down move was probably felt in the left arm and left hand, Im guessing. Didnt he describe the "Tolling the bell" move with the left arm in Downswing. So he was feeling it in both hands, is what Im thinking. There are pressure points in both hands after all, swinging or hitting.
If only Id known this back in the days Dark Ages (in a pressure point sense) of the bad right hand, the passive hands era. Which begat pivot to hands and big muscles etc. And then Soft Rock and Rupert Holmes and............
Now, Hitting or Swinging I can feel my right side and its rock like structure at the very least. Let the right side be rock, like Keith Richards not soft like R Holmes or Air Supply or Hall and Oates.........or........England Dan and John Ford Col.............
My apologies to Bucket for denigrating his record collection.
OB
If you use the opposing pressure with the right hand pushing up plane while the pivot pulls the left during the transition you will really be a rock.
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I don't want to say I am 100% right on this drill but I believe that the way Ben Dole is telling the man on the video this is the only way this drill could be done. Ben Dole talks to the guy about a towel in his back side and thats about it, then he tells him to remeber hold the dogs tail let it go and clip the dogs tail. What I believe to be right and it feels good is; on the back swing let the thighs try to kinda squeez, and coming down they open kinda like Sam Snead (FEEL), then at impact clip the dogs tail by (feeling like you are going to chop that sucker off with your knees. What the last does is get the left hip moving back and the right foot rolling in. Great drill if i've got it right, I seem to hit it much better this way with less effort, and stay in my posture.
Ben told me to make believe I had a dog between my legs at address. Squeeze the dog on the backswing. then sit down and when the knees separate the dog and start to run away. Then you had to catch the dog by the tail before it got away at followthru. Ben would hold a towel between you legs and expected you to be squeezing the towel so tightly at finish he couldn't pull it out. This even applied to short shots.
I don't want to say I am 100% right on this drill but I believe that the way Ben Dole is telling the man on the video this is the only way this drill could be done. Ben Dole talks to the guy about a towel in his back side and thats about it, then he tells him to remeber hold the dogs tail let it go and clip the dogs tail. What I believe to be right and it feels good is; on the back swing let the thighs try to kinda squeez, and coming down they open kinda like Sam Snead (FEEL), then at impact clip the dogs tail by (feeling like you are going to chop that sucker off with your knees. What the last does is get the left hip moving back and the right foot rolling in. Great drill if i've got it right, I seem to hit it much better this way with less effort, and stay in my posture.
Thanks,
BurleyGolf-
must be hell hitting balls at first with the image of the dog!
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