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2-H Shoulder Motions
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Neither drawing illustrates advisable technique. Here are the faults and cures: 1. First drawing. We're Bobbing big-time. Instead, keep your Head Stationary. 2. Second drawing. The Right Shoulder is being held passive. As a result, it is providing neither Thrust for the Swinger's inert Left Arm or Back Up Support for the Hitter's driving Right Arm. Instead, from the Top, turn your Right Shoulder directly toward the Ball. If you're a Swinger, use this active Thrust to 'crank the Gyroscope of the circling Clubhead' and Pull the Club through Impact. If you're a Hitter, use the Turn to provide only the initial acceleration. Then, use the Shoulder as a 'backstop' from which you Push the Club through Impact. If you do those two things -- keep your Head Stationary and learn to properly use your Right Shoulder -- Axis Tilt worries will soon be a thing of the past. |
Right Shoulder BM#37
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To accelerate the Clubhead from the Top, Swingers use Centrifugal Throwout Action and Hitters use Muscular Drive-Out Action. Accordingly, each uses the Right Shoulder in a very different way. Swingers use it to actively 'drive,' or accelerate, the essentially inert Left Arm (the #4 Power Accumulator) into Impact. Hitters use it to take up the initial slack during the Start Down and then as the 'equal and opposite force' backstop required to accelerate their Driving Right Arm (the #1 Power Accumulator) into Impact. The Swinger's active Right Shoulder accelerates the Left Arm, and Centrifugal Force and its Throw-Out Action then powers the Clubhead. The Right Arm remains passive -- except for its Right Triceps Extensor Action and the #3 Pressure Point sensing and directing the Clubhead Lag -- and thus the Stroke remains Three-Barrel. In contrast, the Hitter's active Right Shoulder serves as the 'launching pad' for the Right Arm and its Muscular Drive-out Action that powers the Clubhead. Since the Right Arm then drives the entire Primary Lever Assembly (including the Left Arm), the Full-Power Hitting Stroke can be properly classified as Four-Barrel. |
Shoulder Motion BM#38
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To accelerate the Clubhead from the Top, Swingers use Centrifugal Throwout Action and Hitters use Muscular Drive-Out Action. Accordingly, each uses the Right Shoulder in a very different way. Swingers use it to actively 'drive,' or accelerate, the essentially inert Left Arm (the #4 Power Accumulator) into Impact. Hitters use it to take up the initial slack during the Start Down and then as the 'equal and opposite force' backstop required to accelerate their Driving Right Arm (the #1 Power Accumulator) into Impact. The Swinger's active Right Shoulder accelerates the Left Arm, and Centrifugal Force and its Throw-Out Action then powers the Clubhead. The Right Arm remains passive -- except for its Right Triceps Extensor Action and the #3 Pressure Point sensing and directing the Clubhead Lag -- and thus the Stroke remains Three-Barrel. In contrast, the Hitter's active Right Shoulder serves as the 'launching pad' for the Right Arm and its Muscular Drive-out Action that powers the Clubhead. Since the Right Arm then drives the entire Primary Lever Assembly (including the Left Arm), the Full-Power Hitting Stroke can be properly classified as Four-Barrel. In the case of the swinger, that sounds more like a body control pivot rather than hands control to me? In both procedures, the Body follows the commands of the Hands, not vice versa. In everyday life, that's the way things work. As an example, raise your hand. Did it go up in the air? Of course it did, and the reason it went up in the air is because you gave it an assignment. Now, how did the hand get up in the air? The shoulder lifted it, that's how. But...your hand controlled the motion, not the shoulder. The same is true with Hand Controlled Pivots, both Hitting and Swinging. When I Hit, I tell my Hands to Drive the Club Out. When I Swing, I tell my Hands to Throw the Club Out. My trained Body -- including the Right Shoulder -- accomodates these distinctly different Actions perfectly. I don't give the Pivot a second thought; which, by the way, is why you find no Pivot Components listed in the Mechanical Checklist of 12-3-0. |
Shoulder Motion BM#116
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The Push of the Right Shoulder accelerates the Swinger's Left Arm and causes it to Pull the Hands and Club (6-B-4-0). The direction of that Pull is toward its source (the Pushing Right Shoulder). Therefore, when you Turn your Right Shoulder Down Plane (toward the Ball), i.e., 10-13-D #3 per 2-H, 2-L and 6-E-2-1, that is the direction taken by your Left Arm and Club -- the Golfer's Flail (2-K). This Push -- a Thrusting Force -- is much misunderstood, both Mechanically and Kinesthetically. All that is needed to create this steady, driving force or pressure is a positive motion that initiates and sustains the Pull of Centrifugal Force. Its Execution need not -- in fact, should not -- be quick or jerky (3-F-6). And any violent action is not only unnecessary, it is counterproductive (due to its Throwaway tendencies). Remember, every Pull requires a Push. A horse cannot pull a wagon until he pushes his shoulders against the collar of his harness. |
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