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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Hitters use an active straightening right arm, like a piston, to swing the left arm and club. It’s an accelerating thrust. Because the straightening action is straight line the delivery of the club will be straight line like with a motion that wants to bend or stress the shaft. I wish I had the athletic ability to actually do the things I try to do, but in the absence of that, all I can do is try, and hope it all comes around some day! Rob
Swinging is easier and more consistent than hitting over the long run…
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I wish I had the athletic ability to actually do the things I try to do, but in the absence of that, all I can do is try, and hope it all comes around some day! Rob Swinging is easier and more consistent than hitting over the long run…
If you’re like me, inflexible, among other things, then "swinging" is OK as long as you can afford the back surgery, don’t mind the pain and don’t mind a lot of inconsistency. Rob — GOP (Golf Only Pledge…I will only initiate golf related threads) Service is the rent we pay for being RSG Masters 2003 ( http://home.att.net/~frostback2002)
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What does the right arm & side do during the swing? My pro told me that the golf swing is like a relay race — dominated by the left arm in the backswing, and halfway thru the downswing, and then right arm takes over after impact. Tom Watson and also Hogan say that they hit it as hard as they can with their right side, as long as their hips have cleared out of the way….. Reason I ask?? Duh!! The quest for more distance of course! I’ve learned to really quiet my right side, but lately have hit lots of blocks. I’ve been a long time pull-hooker of the ball, due to an early release with my right arm, and now I think I’m "hanging on" too often. Lately, I don’t feel like I have a powerful enough release — even though I’m hitting straighter now…..
The right hand/side/shoulder/hip/knee etc. - the whole right side of the body – is similar in its function to the drive behind a right hand tennis smash – i.e., when the body turn to the left pulls the left hand at the end of the club, it also pushes the right hand into the left hand to move the grip end – the fulcrum of the clubshaft – as hard as possible. It does not affect the shaft itself: it needs to help maintain and increase the speed of the left hand acting on the butt end - the fulcrum of the clublever. It does this by its contact at the base of the right wristbone, and NOT by the palm itself. George Hibbard www.perfectimpact.com
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What does the right arm & side do during the swing? My pro told me that the golf swing is like a relay race — dominated by the left arm in the backswing, and halfway thru the downswing, and then right arm takes over after impact. Tom Watson and also Hogan say that they hit it as hard as they can with their right side, as long as their hips have cleared out of the way….. Reason I ask?? Duh!! The quest for more distance of course! I’ve learned to really quiet my right side, but lately have hit lots of blocks. I’ve been a long time pull-hooker of the ball, due to an early release with my right arm, and now I think I’m "hanging on" too often. Lately, I don’t feel like I have a powerful enough release — even though I’m hitting straighter now…..
What the right arm does depend on whether you hit or swing. Hitters straighten the right arm, muscular thrust, to swing the club. Swingers use centrifugal force (used as a useful term) with a passive right arm to swing the club. If you’re a swinger you use the pivot turn to swing the swing the left arm and club. The right arm hangs on for the ride providing a non accelerating thrust. It’s passive straightening action helps the hands resist release deceleration. Because you use pivot turn and centrifugal force the delivery of the club will be arc like with a motion that wants to stretch the shaft lengthwise. Hitters use an active straightening right arm, like a piston, to swing the left arm and club. It’s an accelerating thrust. Because the straightening action is straight line the delivery of the club will be straight line like with a motion that wants to bend or stress the shaft. David Laville, G.S.E.M. The Golfing Machine Authorized Instructor Contributor Of Consistent & Spam Free Golf Advice
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Hitters use an active straightening right arm, like a piston, to swing the left arm and club. It’s an accelerating thrust. Because the straightening action is straight line the delivery of the club will be straight line like with a motion that wants to bend or stress the shaft.
ah ha!!…..you are describing exactly what I am doing!….except that I am doing it all too early, really pulling hard down to accelerate the club head, with the right hand/arm dominating….creating a savage but powerful pull hook. I have only just re-trimmed my lightweight driver (with the Aldila One shaft), stiffening up the tip somewhat from its original ‘type’ (high launch)…I know you are not supposed to do that…but it was just too soft, and did not respond to ‘hard’ hitting at all like my beautiful Orlimar 16