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Right Arm Trainer R.A.T.
Sorry just took it off while trademark is going through, I will put it back after I get my number.
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Round and Round We Go
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I first used surgical tubing to demonstrate both Extensor Action and the Delivery Path of Thrust at my 'comeback' school at the PGA TOUR Academy in May 2004. I am delighted to see that you and others are now thinking along these lines. Now for one picky (but very important) point, which I make only because of the extreme emphasis much modern instruction places on 'going left'. I daily proclaim that the very essence of the Golf Stroke is rotation and its resultant circular motion of the Clubhead. However . . . The Inclined Plane of Motion (and its Baseline) must also be respected. The orbiting Clubhead 'goes left' only after Low Point (and not before). Since a normal 'Up Plane' Ball Location demands that Impact precede Low Point, then the Clubhead (in its circular orbit) must continue to move right AFTER Impact (before it moves left AFTER Low Point). Otherwise, there can only be an 'under' Plane Stroke. In my experience, most handicap golfers have no problem with 'going left' after Impact. In fact, they are so good at 'going left' that they do it from the Top and through the Start Down, Downstroke and Release. And that is the very reason they remain high handicappers. :salut: |
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I totaly agree with your thoughts about the club going left after low point, and might should have explain it better so not to confuse others, but Excitement sometimes hinders my writting or thinking..LoL :happy3: BurleyGolf- |
...The right arm return to the exact same spot at impact as to address?
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No, the resistance of the tube plays like an arm track or tracer and promotes bring the arm back on the same path. I am still playing around with it and will try and shot some video so everyone can prove me wrong and make fun of my swing....LoL I just thought it was a good idea and have been playing around with it since I made it, I could be totaly wrong? Seems to give me that feel though. BurleyGolf- |
haha...that is what I want to see it in action. Please shoot a video and youtube it. I think no one will make fun of your swing, every passionated teacher should be respected.
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Two and Tango
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Deal...LoL |
Rainbow's End
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An average mind applied? I'll take that. Bottom line: Had it not been for Homer Kelley and his tireless pursuit of mechanical and kinesthetic truth, I, too, would have been left guessing. Now there is no longer the need to guess. There is only the need to learn. :salut: |
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 ...which indeed require my golfing machine in "swinging" mode and pasting through this alignment. |
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Thank you Yoda. Kevin |
I could not get out today to shoot some video, will get it tomorrow even if I have to do it in my living room. This weather in Texas is crazy!!! It is as hot right now in June as it was last August 2008, I don't even want to think how hot August is going to be. I think it was 99 degrees in the shade today! I was going to the range around 6pm but it has rained in the late afternoon 3days in a row now. Hot and then Hot and steamy :naughty:
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The Incomparable Lynn Blake
There ain't nothing average about an applied mind! I tell kids all the time the idea is to blur the line between innate talent and effort to the point that success cannot be attributed to either factor alone! You sir...it is plain to see are a "curiosity vituoso" kinda like that other fella...Homer someoneoranother! One of things I love about your style Yoda is that serendipitous look of awe you have on your face when you explain...say the flying wedges...for perhaps the 100,000th time and appear as though you are a young Newton having just been beaned with a deciduous projectile! There can be no real learning without a sense of wonderment...Mark 10:15
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Okay here is the R.A.T. Right Arm Trainer...Enjoy!
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Hi Burley,
I also posted this video a month ago... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stTqbnCEQgI&NR=1 Though a little bit difference, I think that is something to help to remind/restrict the right elbow location. Yet, I still don't deal with the right arm address = impact alignment...because you are not showing that to me...haha  Nice swing! |
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I'm to scared to put it on my right foot becasue it might slap me in the back of the head..LoL I will try to shoot you a DTL, if I am reading correct above that is what you are asking, right? Thanks, for the comment :golfing_banana: |
I loved the clip Burley.
I have some tubing which potentially will allow me to do this drill, I'll try it out and get back to you. |
Thanks Burley. One more question...I saw that you didn't take a divot in that clip, is that usual when you put on the device?
As Yoda said....low point missed or just not a good shot in the clip? |
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Burley coiled and stretched
Burley nice swing
looks like you have a Hogan-esque lateral movement of your hips forward and over your left leg prior to the completion of your backswing? Interesting thread Birdie Chance |
Sorry Burley...I am bad...so many questions :salut:
 Hogan said something about a belt looping around the elbows in an articule titled "Learning Good Golf by Sense"...and nowadays we have many arm connection type training aids. I also want to have a device that can make the swing became so easy to learn and perform...I will try one as per your design this week and feel it. Thanks for your insight. :salut: |
I hope you can add some more insight to it. I bet Yoda either already had something like this, or is making one to see if it has any merit to use.
I was just trying to be creative, nothing is going to help my swing unless I get that left knee and pivot under control. I sure do hit the ball good with it on though, wish it was legal on the course..haha! Glad so many people liked it, the R.A.T. is cheap to make and the idea is free to all, enjoy!. BurleyGolf- |
Rubber Rats
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In the end, it's all to make a very big point: The Right Arm -- always with the Pivot doing its job -- takes the Club Up Plane with a 'wind up' motion identical with throwing a ball. If you are an athlete who has thrown a million balls, you have a leg up. If not . . . There is more to learn. :golfcart2: |
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Here you go KOC, I shot a DTL for everyone. Hope this helps you get a better view. BurleyGolf- |
Hogan's Bound Arms . . . No Mas . . . For Once and For All . . . No Mas
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Please, KOC, and with all due respect to the late Mr. Hogan . . . NO! No constricting belts around the arms. No constricting yarn entwining the arms. No constricting towels under the arms. All these inhibit the free Right Arm and Elbow Action on the Backstroke. We are, after all, 'winding up' to 'throw a ball'. Instead, at Fix (and then at Address) align the Left Arm Flying Wedge and the Right Arm Flying Wedge at right angles to each other. [For newbies, please use the search function. There are countless posts on this subject. See the arm alignments in my avatar for the Accelerated Course. :smile:] From Start Up, connect the 'wedges' with the 'glue' of Extensor Action. This is no big deal: simply let the free Right Arm tug the Left into the Backstoke. Finally, understand Right Elbow action and its participation throughout the Stroke. It lifts and lowers the Left Arm as it Cocks and Uncocks the Left Wrist. This is Zone 2: Arms aligned to produce Clubhead Power and Force. |
Thanks Yoda...I fully understood what you have been reminding us the elbow drawing in the 5 lessons book is not a real deal.
 When the right elbow went too far apart from the left one or swung like the picture, the function of wrists would also be distorted...I think that's why Hogan addressed the issue. |
Belt Idea
Hogan's belt thing comes from the book, "I remember Ben Hogan"
Pages 151 & 152. Ben told Bob Waynne, at Shady Oaks, to take his belt off, and tie it around just above the elbows and then hit balls till your hands bleed. What Waynne said, "I went to the range and then he (Mr. Hogan) explained the whold thing to me like he was a physics teacher or something. My backswing was too far, my elbows were flying, etc. He taught me from that lesson that you have to keep your elbows close together. It's hard to do, yeah, but once you realize you can do, it helps. It cut down on my big looping backswing, so it made my clubhead speed on the downswing faster and I kept my eye on the ball better. The above is for reference as to one of the places that the belt idea came from. |
I had to take the R.A.T. off, I applied for the patten and had my lawyer send in all the info and what ever money 2 days ago, and he told me to take it off. As soon as I get the patten back in a few weeks or longer I will put it back up.
Thanks, BurleyGolf |
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