[O.B.Left]

Dear Padawan O.B. Left,

Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to Load the #3 Pressure Point with a predetermined amount of pressure and maintain that pressure through Impact (and beyond if possible).

If you accomplish this feat, then you would have mastered the Downstroke Acceleration Sequence and the Clubhead will not race ahead of the Shaft as in so many thousands of good examples of poor execution offered to explain the mysterious entity controlling and throwing-away the Clubhead just inches before impact.

Problem with most golfers is that they miss the "Hand Acceleration" phase of the sequence. People understand "Shoulder Acceleration" and "Clubhead Acceleration" around the Pulley but "Hand Acceleration" creates fear, even in some of our most seasoned Pro's. One can't cheat the Sequence and get away with it. You can't move from Shoulder Acceleration directly to Clubhead Acceleration and expect to maintain Clubhead Lag. (Actually, I have seen it done. Wow.)

Fortunately for you, I understand Hand Acceleration. And I will easily demonstrate, using High Speed Video, that anyone, using the Downstroke Acceleration Sequence, can maintain Clubhead Lag through the Impact Interval with one hand tied behind their back. In fact, I'll do it with one hand, while standing on one leg, while drinking a Martini, Blind-folded.

I look forward to you watching my soon to be released video series on "Right Forearm Participation" in the Golf Swing.

Thank you for this generosity , Jedi Master.

You say "maintain" lag pressure . Can you maintain the same amount of lag pressure? Without breaking your leg?

Are you able to sustain an amount of Lag Pressure past Low Point during what Homer termed the period of angular Deceleration ? I dont think so surely its falling off, no? The attempt to do so is a good one though, no doubt about it and I do love the Downstroke Sequence.

Hey I just hope I got some guys thinking in terms of Lag as Pressure. Lag Pressure is so important and I got sick of reading other forums where they were talking about inches of Lag or degrees of Lag or Lag as #2 angle and how its all so wrong. Which is often true using their definition of lag anyways. But thats not the lag Homer was talking about ....not at all. Lag and Acceleration are inextricably linked. Its not a golf thing only or a Homer invention it just is......take the baseball fielder who turns and whips a throw to the cut off man. What was his method of regulating the force required? Id say lag pressure. What if he suddenly changed his mind and threw to home plate? What mechanism regulated his application of force there? Id say Lag Pressure. And the regulation of the direction of his thrust? Id say Lag Pressure.


Cant wait to see your video D. Good luck with it. Hey did you really have dinner with ........ I think the guys participation here is confined to searching mentions of his own name so Im not going to say Mike O.'s name. OK? Its an old canadian trick.