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I don't agree with you on the Mark Evershed topspin (he is not doing anything different than Tomasello during impact)...what you're calling topspin is impact swivel or what Hogan called supination...it's what turns a 5 iron into a 4 iron...Evershed hit's down on the ball like Tomasello...both are proceducing high penerating shots. Equal and opposite reaction...

In my 3-day school we worked on something similiar to the vertical drop...Tomasello called it swinging without power. He just wanted you to get the feel of the right forearm starting the downswing...having the right arm drop while the right elbow uncocked. very little driving action and speed...while at the same time getting a feel for what the pivot was doing. More distance...just increase the speed of the whole procedure...as Tommy would say...Wip It and Zip It. Or better yet, just Karate chop it with the right forearm...Study tape #2 of the Deitrick Letter series...

DG

DG - would you agree that Evershed is basically focused on a 'true' horizontal hinge motion? (his CCC) I like his visual of it from overhead, very much the 'feel' IMO to what a split grip drill shows, and IMO one of the areas Ballard was really getting at (even though I don't think he described it well).