The Tomasello Tapes -- Chapter Five / Power

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A story about meeting Tommy. I was an assistant pro at a course about 15 min. from the course where he was teaching. He was playing in the group behind me one day. Afterwards in the bar he walked up and said "pro, you play pretty good, but you have no idea what it is you are trying to do! He set a book of matches on the bar and demonstrated the impact interval (open face, inside aft quadrant of the ball). He shook my hand, bent his right wrist back and said "left wrist is flat never bent, right wrist is bent never flat". He showed me throwaway and called it "cancer". He showed me that the right arm cocks and uncocks the left wrist. Pretty good free lesson while sitting at a bar! While i did include these ideas in my playing and teaching,I regret not learning more. Tommy was very enthusiastic and a nice guy.