Drag The Wet Mop

[airair]

That made you a better golfer and/or the floor got cleaned?

[Daryl]

That made you a better golfer and/or the floor got cleaned?

I think that "Dragging a Wet Mop" is good education for the Hands. Pressure Points, Constant-Stable Pressure, Hands are Clamps, Plane Line Tracing, Flying Wedges, etc. Use the Mop with each hand separately, especially the Right Forearm Flying Wedge.

It also educates the Pivot. Pivot Lag. Get a Wet Mop and use your Pivot to drag it through the Impact Zone. It helps take the wobble out of the Pivot.

The Wet Mop is very Heavy but the Pivot can drag it well. I don't know of any substitute. It's about as basic as you can get. Arc of Approach.

10-2-B. Left Wrist Flat - Level - Vertical. Right Wrist Bent - Level - Vertical. Left Thumb and #3 PP on the Aft Side of the Shaft (Sweetspot Plane)

[airair]

Is this a swinger or hitter exercise - or does it work just as well for both?

[airair]

I see O.B.Left has writen about the subject before. This gives the explanation I was looking for. The only thing left is to know if this exercise is just as useful for hitters as for swingers or if it's more suitable for one of the groups?

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02-25-2009,
O.B.Left
Senior Member


Homer said the secret to golf was Lag. The "drag the wet mop" analogy refers to the feeling associated with lag. The wet mop is heavy and as such creates more drag and lag, inertia. It resists the changes in direction more than a lighter dry mop or broom with less mass.

The clubhead is in the process of overtaking the hands during the downswing. TGM wants us to hit the ball with the hands ahead of the ball and the clubhead trailing or lagging behind. A heavy feeling, lagging clubhead. Once the clubhead passes the hands the lag is gone, over. This lagging condition can be sensed, monitored, ideally nursed via the Lag Pressure Point (the #3 pressure point) between the knuckle and the first joint of the right index finger.

If Homer thought the secret to golf was Lag you can imagine the importance of the Lag Pressure Point. I now view concentration as pressure point awareness. With a feeling of lag in the pressure point #3 good things happen golf wise.

Try it with some short chip shots and see if you discover a correlation. If you do and decide to keep your focus on the pressure points you'll be ahead of the game.
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[airair]

I see I must do a better job of searching before I start to ask questions..

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Originally Posted by greyguy

Is dragging the mop feel best suited for "swingers" and not so much for "hitters"? Or is it a good feel for both?

and Yoda answered: (05-23-2009)

Hitters should substitute the phrase "DRIVE the wet mop."

[Yoda]

Thank you. That helped. Where do you get all your information from?

I see O.B.Left has writen about the subject before. This gives the explanation I was looking for.

I see I must do a better job of searching before I start to ask questions..

At some point, Air, you might want to try doing it, i.e., use a golf-like motion to actually drag a big, wet heavy mop along a floor, patio, deck or whatever.



Here's how I went about it years ago:

1. Buy or borrow a large, industrial grade mop. Avoid the wimpy, grocery store household models. They just don't cut it.

2. Soak it in water.

3. Assume a golf-like stance, place the mop about three or four feet behind a simulated ball positio, and grip the handle as a simulated golf club.

4. With the mop remaining in contact with the surface at all times, use a golflike motion to 'drag the wet mop' to the end of the 'follow-through (both arms straight). Make sure you use your pivot -- not just your arms and hands -- to help you set up the initial dragging, accelerating motion. Then, use your arms to continue the 'delivery' until the right elbow is straight. Finally, be sure to keep your left wrist flat and right wrist bent at all times.

5. Repeat this exercise as often as necessary to get and retain the correct 'feel' of the totally inert Clubhead Lag Pressure Point Pressure. No verbal or written explanation can possibly teach you what you will learn by actually dragging a big, heavy, wet mop through 'impact'.

Daryl obviously has done this. Hence the excellent comments in his Post #3 above. Thanks, Daryl!

"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I know."

[airair]

Thank you.
I'll see if I can find one of these - not so many more around (here) I'm afraid....