Learning to hit

[Vandal]

I've been experimenting with what I think is a hitting procedure -- a long story is in my transition to TGM and I'll post it later. I am focusing on a couple of things: keeping the clubface looking at the ball longer, the right-forearm takeaway and pushing with the right.

The early success is that my chronic overswing is kept in check and my contact is pretty good. I think I am doing a bit of horizontal hinging at times because I pull and hook now and then. Overall, I'm happy with my progress. Except that my distances haven't been picking up to where I think they should be. Short irons (SW-8-iron) are pretty good. After that, I seem to hit a plateau. One thing that I don't feel that I am doing is pushing hard enough or properly. I don't seem to quite understand this whole right-shoulder-as-a-backstop concept.

[6bmike]

Ted is the one to see but in the meantime prepare for these things:

How you load pp3 determines whether you Hit or Swing.

Do you release the accumulators sequentiality, sweeping down like a cascading waterfall - a Swinger.
Or like a Hitter, do you wait and dump them all with the straightening right arm?

The Hitters pp3 is located on the back of the shaft- for all intend purposes - it is the clubhead. PP1 is driving the arm- pp3 at release is the clubhead.
Swingers have pp3 at the top of the shaft due to the chance in hand position (it is the same location- different position at top) as it pulls the shaft in a straight line and whirls the clubhead. Pp3becomes more passive as accumulators 2 and 3 uncock and roll. A flirt with throwaway so don’t stop the pivot and hand swivel.

The back stop? Lets see- A swinger’s pivot whirls and unleashes Newton out of the clubhead. A Hitter uses the pivot as a wall and drives the right arm out of it. You can see why the hands control the pivot- how could the body know which power source to use?

I think I wrote too much. ...

See Ted

[comdpa]

... I don't seem to quite understand this whole right-shoulder-as-a-backstop concept.

Have you ever jumped off the ground?
If you have, then the ground is your backstop.

Because the hitter uses the angle of approach procedure, the right shoulder does not act like a fly wheel in the case of a swinger...it acts like a backstop.

The feeling is that the right arm blasts off against the backstop that the right shoulder provides.

[bambam]

Here's a good thread about the backstop and right arm thrust:

http://www.lynnblakegolf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=457

[Vandal]

Thanks for pointing me to that other thread.

So if I'm interpreting this correctly, during a swinging procedure the left arm is pulling the right through. During a hitting procedure the right arm is thrusting down and out toward the ball; meanwhile, the right shoulder is pretty much staying put, so that the arm has something to act against.