[Yoda]

Originally Posted by Yoda

and with your Right Elbow Bending and Straightening, make the Motion continuously -- Back and Through and Back and Through and Back and Through -- until the Bag has moved so far forward that you can't reach it anymore.

Ben Doyle would go crazy if he saw that! The words "rebound" and "shoot, hold and rest" come to mind.

Still a good drill though!

I agree with -- and use -- Ben Doyle's concept of 'Shoot-Hold-Rest' on individual Strokes. However, that is not the nature of the Basic Motion Curriculum as envisioned by Homer Kelley. In other words, we're talking Motion here, not a specific Golf Shot.

Read The Book (12-5-0):

"Use a slow, smooth motion up-and-back, down-and-out and up-and-in the same distance in both directions and as continuously as possible."

Thre are two things you must do to become a good player:

1. Keep your Left Wrist Flat.

2. Swing through the Ball.

"Continuously" in the quote above means to keep that Club moving: Back and through and back and through and back and through. NO QUITTING. And you do it while keeping your Left Wrist Flat through the Impact Interval. This is the same practice swing routine that Gene Littler and Tommy Aaron have used their entire careers. It enables the student to feel the Lag of the Clubhead and its Drag on the leading Hands --first on the Backstroke and then again on the Downstoke. That is the essence of the Basic Motion Curriculum and is exactly what Homer intended the student to do.

It is what he showed me.

And what I have told you.