Tom,
I just spent an hour and a half on the range and converting my swing has been a journey. I am a long time flipper and after working all winter, I finally worked that out of my swing with excellent feedback as I made flush contact with the ball much better. That did require learning how to hold wedge on the right wrist.
However, a new, old part of my swing has entered the picture and that is the ARMS! I am fighting this constantly, that when I get to the top of the backswing, I want to fire my arms downward and of course that causes me to loose the wedge, and contact is not as precise. I wrote you about this a couple of weeks ago and there were several others that commented on my post, but I have to tell you I am still fighting this. I also asked. you if the right wedge is still maintained on the follow through side and you sent me some pictures of the originators of the Stack and Tilt showing that they still had the wedge on their follow through ( quite frankly, I could not see that much of a wedge being held by them).
All of this aside, after working diligently on trying to find a solution to using my arms less, what I found was the following: 1) When I take the club back, I am letting my shoulder turn keep the club in the same position as it is at address ( with my weight forward and hands inside the left thigh). 2) Once at the top of the backswing (which in a mirror, looks like my hands are where they should be), I am trying to ingrain my next motion to be starting the backswing with the bump of the left hip towards the target. This simple motion, starts to drop my arms down and I am more easily able to hold the wedge in my right wrist longer as I start to turn my shoulders towards the target. Now, here is my question, when I make contact, club to ball with hands forward, I feel like I can slap the "ever living hell out of the ball" with my right hand! (Which by the way, you talk about when using a sledge hammer and Ben Hogan always saying that he wished he had two right hands). By doing this, I no longer have the wedge in my right wrist in the follow through! So, I have looked at video after video on your site of you and sometimes I see the wedge and may other times, I do not. So, what is the story here. hold it (the wedge)or release it? I am confused.
From my work, I am finding that the swing is really NO ARMS, it is the shoulders going back and turning them the other direction. You keep emphasizing the maintaining the the same position of the club throughout the swing, and in order to do that, (which is most difficult for those that have spent years swinging with our arms), the swing amounts to the shoulders and the body core cause the swing, nothing else.
Finally, I have a suggestion for your site. I really enjoyed your video of you teaching the female Professional that was converting to the Stack and Tilt. Please show more of your lessons with people that are taking lessons from you as their is great diagnosis that we can watch and how you remedy it with them .
Many thanks,
Ron
Yes this is a great post. I have noticed when I use my body and keep the arms out of things, my follow through position with my arms and hands is lower.