LynnBlakeGolf Forums - View Single Post - Faulty Pivot Thread: Faulty Pivot View Single Post #4 07-26-2007, 01:40 PM 12 piece bucket Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Thomasville, NC Posts: 4,380 Originally Posted by mp33 I have videotaped my swing and have found I have a faulty pivot.I am dead on plane with a beautiful looking flat wrist at the top.On the downswing I don't turn my hips at all and I think this is what has lead me to hit the ball short and right. Would plane line tracing help this? Like I said I am really on plane at the top so I know I'm close.My hips don't move and the club moves around my body on the downswing because my body is in the way.Major downswing blackout. What should I do? I would say you need to feel as if you are using the ground with your feets. If you are not "swinging from the feet" you radius ends at the nearest non-lagging component to the club. So assuming that you are maintaining yoru flat left wrist your radius is probably ending somewhere around your hips. You need to feel your motion happen underneath you. Look at the thread on the McDonald drills. You want your Pivot to have Lag too. Pivot Lag like Lag Pressure is NOT released. It just "dissipates." And any amount of Lag in the Pivot is Lag. So you don't necessarily have to work it hard you just need each component pulling the next starting from the feet to the knees to the hips to shoulder to the arms to the wrists to the pressure points to the club. That is maximum radius. So kinda feel like your feet are pulling your hips and your right shoulder downplane. Feel it from the ground up. Key word being GROUND. Learn to "load" Pivot Lag much like Lag Pressure. See what your MAX is and then back off a lil' bit and lil' bit and lil' bit more. I think you'll find that you don't need to work it that hard you just need to create the lag and stay in front of it. This has much to do with the Transfer of Momentum that Mr. K speaks of. If Mike O were to come over to your crizzo and chop of your arms and weigh them. Then weigh the rest of you . . . the rest of you would way way out weigh your arms and club. So think of yourself spinning on one of them stools at the ice cream joint . . . if you extend your arms you don't slow down too much. But if you extend your legs your rate of rotation slows down. So hears the deal for the Swinger . . . you start your relatively MASSIVE Body (pivot) in relation to the power package. You drag that sucker down plane starting with the ground, all the while aming the lag pressure you just loaded in your pressure points at the plane line. You EXTEND your Lever Assembly by Uncocking #2 and that's all it is EXTENDING. So with the start down you have a little short radius that you can WHIP around and get accelerating quickly. Once you've achieved that Hand Speed you extend the radius and the CLUBHEAD SPEED increases Geometrically because it is THE LAW. All you have to do is just STAY AHEAD OF IT. JUST KEEP TURNING. You don't need a huge amount of effort because your body mass is HUGE. If you work the pivot to hard you'll just bust up your alignments. Effort is just working against conflicting alignments. You don't need effort in Swinging because LAW is better. USE THE LAW. And to get the max amount of mechanical advantage start from the ground up. __________________ Aloha Mr. Hand Behold my hands; reach hither thy hand 12 piece bucket View Public Profile Send a private message to 12 piece bucket Find all posts by 12 piece bucket