In light of Yoda's post, I just like to run by the group what I seem to be feeling during my at-home swing practice of late. If this is correct, than it moots the question I posed in the swinger's forum and, more or less, my earlier question in this forum.
When the club is at waist height during the downswing, I begin to rotate the back of my left hand so that it is perpendicular to the target line. I experience this as a distinctively hands/forearm motion, although my hips continue to rotate around and my arms continue to swing along the swing plane.
I try to continue this feeling of hands/forearm rotation into impact, trying to feel as if my knuckles on my left hand are dragging along the ground (a manzella image, I think). Through impact, I continue to rotate my hips and swing my arms through to straight, so that at straight, the back of my left hand is now parallel to the target line and perpendicular to an imaginary horizontal line in front of me.
Past this point, I feel my right hand overtake my left, so that the palm of my right hand points toward the ground (at an angle) and the palm of my left hand points toward the sky (at an angle). At this point my right wrist is almost flat and my left has a bit, but not much, of a bend. From this point I just swing the triangle formed by my two arms and chest up over my left shoulder into a finish.
Is this basically how its done? After Edz's response to my query in the swingers forum I realized that, as an instructor pointed out to me two summers ago, I still was not allowing my forearms to roll into impact and was susceptible to blocks. I haven't had the opportunity to hit some balls since working on the motion described above, but it seems like by focusing on that rotation of the forearm/left hand into the ball I finally feel as if I'm squaring the club into "impact." Last season, I found myself using a lot of shoulders and spine to square the club and hit a draw, which resulted in what must have looked like an ugly and no doubt painful finish position. While the feeling of rotation and knuckles dragging continues through impact, my initial post-impact movement feels like my left arm is extending outward while the club still rolls closed.
I know this is a lot of verbage, but since I feel as if I'm at the point of a breakthrough, and in light of Yoda's post on the distinction between swiveling and hinging through impact, I want to make sure I've got this right. Apologies of the description of what I'm feeling during my swing is incomprehenisble to those other than me.
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