I'm all in ....
 

After 3 lessons last off season with a GSED instructor, I spent this summer playin mediocre golf. The lessons were fruitful the truth is I regressed back into some old habits. Prior to stumbling on TGM I had worked with a Ballard decipel for years; with some strong results. My HDCP fell from 9 to a career low of 1.4 index.

Shortly their after I had my first child followed by a second and my practice time became neglected. The harsh reality for me was that my "connection" based swing required far to much timing and practice to maintain my HDCP.

Enter TGM... After watchingYoda's YouTube clips a line resonated with me "improve on any one alignment and you are better for life" or something to that affect. I sought the help of a local GSED instructor and improved then as stated above regressed this summer.

This off season I'm going all in on TGM and Lynn Blake ( alignment DVD has been ordered).

In the video below I've begun working maintaining right arm flying wedge while trying to keep the right arm as passive as possible. Pardon the light quality of the video but I'm eager for feedback. ( FYI my miss is a pop up with the driver hitting the ball on a steep decent with top of the face - stupid marks are not strangers to my woods)

http://youtu.be/zNdcXIdMslk

How do I inbed the video in the message?

Boy, Lynn's videos are a wonderful way to learn TGM. Please also look for videos by Rick Murphy, another follower of Lynn Blake Golf who also does wonderful work. You will LOVE Alignment Golf, wonderful DVDs!!!

Please be sure to follow Lynn's advice and learn about BASIC MOTION. The only way to effectively work on those impact alignments.

Good Luck!

Kevin

Improving Golf One Alignment At A Time.

Right Forearm Angle of Approach -use the search feature!
 

Use the search feature do Basic Motion and do a start-up swivel!

ICT

Basic motion
 

Thanks guys I'll post again once I've culled through the alignment DVDs.

Early question, what is the acceptable amount if head movement, I've notice in some recent videos that I seem to get a little glued to the ball with my eyes. It looks like left ear is tied to the ball forcing my hips out of neutral?

Right Forearm Angle of Approach will do things for you!
 

1) Go see Lynn.

2) Short of that, watch every one of Lynn's videos and search the Forums

3) Research Basic Motion and Impact Fix until you understand and reproduce the right forearm at a 90 degree angle to your flat left wrist. That is an essential insight. Once you can see this angle at your right shoulder, and the Horizontal Hinge, you will understand and experience the value of a short, powerful Pivot and how much power you really have! I have an artificial hip, I use the laid-back (I think this is not the correct term) Horizontal Hinge and go through the ball so well that the ball double accelerates! My shots are high and penetrating. Your shots will also!

ICT

Different schools of thoughts on this, gotta do what works for you. I love Lynn's idea of a steady head, as much as humanly possible, then letting your spine release after impact. I like to use Lynn's swing on video to answer questions as it's the model I enjoy.

Kevin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alAmQ...F439&index= 3

I'm with Kev again. If you can come as close as possible to what Yoda does, you'll be very pleased with yourself. Yoda has, imho, the finest swing in golf. It is my standard. I just hope to improve in small increments toward his product.

Week one
 

Thanks for the video it was helpful.

I met with my GSED instructor on Friday and we had a long discussion on my swing, season and what we will be working on Monday (my first lesson of this off season, last lesson was in early may). Specifically we talked about my approach to the swing. What I took away from the conversation was: I have morphed into a swinging hitter. Not good. From the top of the swing I gather that I was using radial force (hitting power) while trying to move the club longitudinally. This created break down of my power package leading unnecessary steepness of my approach to impact.

I expect that we will be working on increasing my drag period and storing p3.

The alignment DVDs have arrived and I will post the results on lesson one on Monday.

Today's lesson
 

P3!!!! I think I found the secert...

I got some really good stuff out my lesson today coupled with a tuff task ahead of me.

Initial review:
1. Alignments / geometry looks good
2. Planes are better than reasonable

Evaluation:
1. Grip must have right hand (bottom hand) with p3 in position to be loaded
2. I need to finish my backswing so that p3 is fully loaded
3. Drag drag drag that pressure point on a linear path through the ball

Drills
1. I will be hitting hours worth of balls with right hand only

It became obvious once informed that I wasn't not properly loading my #3 accumulator. Furthermore from the top I was pivoting in a rushed jerky manner to create speed, which I now see as false speed . All I was accomplishing was spinning out of control and throwing away my power package. In hitting right hand only swings I shanked a few early but quickly found that maintaining p3 felt catching a "trackball" or a pass in hockey http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LBsewN__hJE (FYI I'm a former hockey player). It was an accepting feeling not directing feeling.

I'm excited about the challenge of learning p3 through right hand only as its very difficult right now like writing with the opposite hand.


Ill post a video sometime this week.

Had a great first lesson to kick off the the off-season up here in Michigan.

I was pleasantly surprised with the input I was given. My alignments and geometry are in good shape, the are if focus was on P3.

I need to make sure my grip is in a position to fully load P3 at the top.
I need to complete my backswing to load P3; for me this feels like adding a significant amount of right wrist bend at the top.
And as predicted the area in need of most improvement is to increase my drag period and thus maintain pressure in P3 through impact.

I was left with the drill of hitting right hand only shoots.... It's not the easiest thing but when I keep P3 loaded I can feel a distinct difference in path and pace.

Can it really all be about P3?
What feels or thought have you used to gain control over the power accumulator 3?

You don't need feel or thoughts.

You need to understand how varying the Elbow Location during the Right Forearms Angle of Approach controls the Alignment of the Hinge Pin.

Why and How to vary, and When to Adjust, the #3 Accumulator.

How to DRAG the #3 PP through the Acceleration Sequence.

Daryl

Not sure I'm there yet.

But I'm interested in hearing more on this right forearm angle of approach.

Here's a Primer: it's only a primer.

Pick up your range bucket with your right hand. Palm up with the Handle of the Bucket hanging from your fingers. Make sure that the Top of the Bucket is level to the ground. Start with your right arm only, with the bucket hanging from your fingers and the bucket in-line with your right foot, the handle of the bucket should be parallel(close enough) to the plane line and the top of the bucket is level to the ground. Swing the bucket to the left and try to get it close to in-line with your left foot. The top of the bucket should still be level to the ground and the handle of the bucket should now be perpendicular to the plane line.

After you've learned to do the above, then also place your left hand on the bucket handle. Now watch as you move your right forearm so the bucket is near your left foot, that the left hand "Rolls" (the back of the flat left wrist is facing the target). The Flat Left Wrist was facing the plane line and is now facing the Target.


Swiveling is when you start with the top of the bucket level to the ground, but when you swung the bucket to your left until it's in-line with your left foot, the Top of the Bucket becomes perpendicular to the ground.

My favorite part is the feeling of Compression! It has to be better than crack.

When the right wrist bends and the bucket swings!
 

I was at the range today rusty and having too many thoughts in my head. "Correct grip, Impact Fix, Bent Right Wrist (BRW), Extensor action..." so I just picked up the bucket half full with balls in my and Pivoted back and through and there was the Horizontal Hinge ! Very simple!

Ball in front of left foot, Lag BRW back and through produces a very high and penetrating flight with the driver and likewise with other clubs as the ball shades back in the stance.

A few of my favorite things! :happy3:

ICT

A steady pivot center , the head or a place directly between the shoulders to be more precise , does not preclude the head from turning . Further more if its a place between the shoulders as opposed to the head ... the head can move a tad. If memory serves , Homer when faced with questions about this business said something to the effect of " just keep your head as steady as you can". Arnie would agree.

Back after a couple more lessons
 

Since my last post I've taken a couple more lesson and pounded a few thousand balls into the net at my local gym plus some rounds of sim golf. Welcome to winter in the Midwest.

Most recently my pro and I have moved to extensor action..... The work on p3 paid immediate dividends and my impact position looks 100% better. I am consistently maintaining my angles and not falling into a throw away conditn.

What I'm struggling with today is a bit of a set up issue ....

My pro pre prefers me to start from impact fix; having started from adjust address all my life I am find near impossible to get my right forearm on the shaft plane with a level wrist without opening my shoulders or adding quite a bit of spine tilt. In the alignment DVDs Lynn says that spine tilt should come from a shift of the hips/ pelvis not a lean of head
, additionally, the head is center between the feet.....

My question is : how do I check or what does proper impact fix address look like? And how does it relate to shoulder positions? With a 7 iron

2 Years in update
 

About this time two years ago I jumped in to this world of TGM and alignment golf. My journey so far has been educational filled with moments of "total consciousness" and other times of total gaps in my ability to program my machine.

Today I begin to dust off the dowels, ping pong paddles, ropes and lasers to prepare for 2014.

In trolling the web this winter I found that early extension / goat humping is a hot topic. This interests me because I have always been known by my playing partners to hit the occasional hosel rocket. In looking through the 7th addition which I receive this Xmas (thanks wifey) I can't find an explanation of this action. I'm sure it's in there .... I'm sure I have some of this in my swing too b/c my butt line moves a good 4" towards the ball in transition.

I open this to those ahead of me on their journey; have you experienced early extension issues and are they cure able and how? Am I early extending?
http://youtu.be/YxColVkokrE

Balance

in the book;
Zone #1 9.0, 9-1
2-0 the Essentials
Basics, 1-j

Look in the video section here;
2 MikeO clips are great example.

http://www.lynnblakegolf.com/index.p...42/Mike-O.html

http://www.lynnblakegolf.com/index.p.../Mike-O-2.html

Again; Do (and understand) Zone #1 first.

HB

From .09 thru .10, looks like you are straightening the right arm with the right triceps. Think of swinging a bent, passive right arm through impact using only shoulder rotation.

You're a much better golfer than I, but I still think I see room for improvement in your swing.

In the back swing you have a lateral move of your pelvis/hips, and you basically lose all your secondary spine tilt in the process.

You also have a bit of lateral in the down swing. That leaves the hands somewhat behind - right elbow too much behind for my liking half way down - and that sets you up for a lateral move through the ball. And when you go lateral, there will be a tendency to replace rotation with goat humping.

Shaft angle is pretty steep into the follow through for a golfer of your caliber. And it is indicative of a move through impact with very little rotational force in the depth dimension.


If you focus on turning right hip more and deeper going back, you will have more secondary tilt at the top, and be in a better position...

... for a better turn with more rotation and less lateral through the ball and beyond.

Also, I think you will be better served to get the hands more in front of you early in the down swing. It will put your hands better in sync with the shoulder motion and set you up for better rotation. If you can get your right elbow closer to your side (if you prefer a punch elbow) - or back in front of you (if you'd like to have a pitch elbow)....

Brendt

Thanks for your insight. I can't argue with a word you saying. Since posting I've been thinking of Mizuno Joe's tip on a bent right arm and what might cause the goat humping effect. and as you pointed out I think they are both related to lateral motion in the backswing.

when I push laterally back im forced to drive laterally forward in downswing to get back to the ball. this jump forward inhibits my ability to drive down the plan with my right shoulder and a bent right arm.

ill post a video in a week as I try to take some of that lateral motion out. hopefully sparing some farm animals.

thanks

Glad if I can be of any help, Epawl

There's an easy fix for this - on the BS, keeping the slant in your right leg, make your right hip pocket move straight back, effectively turning around your right heel, preventing the lateral shift off the ball. Now you feel "on the ball" with easy access to the inside of the ball, and you're ready to power through the ball with the right shoulder with confidence that you can reach it without right arm extension.