#3 Pressure Point
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Pressure Point #3
The significance is that PP#3 feels the sweetspot. You feel it when you "load the lag" at start down. You can use the feeling of PP#3 being "over" or "under" the sweetspot to control the clubface. If you take your right forefinger and thumb off the club, and hit a pitch shot to both arms straight, your right forefinger should remain on the club if you sustained your lag.
The significance is that PP#3 feels the sweetspot. You feel it when you "load the lag" at start down. You can use the feeling of PP#3 being "over" or "under" the sweetspot to control the clubface. If you take your right forefinger and thumb off the club, and hit a pitch shot to both arms straight, your right forefinger should remain on the club if you sustained your lag.
Tong- I can feel #3, the only result I can feel is what seems like more solid impact. I was aware of that pressure point before I knew what it was.
I just don't know if the feel is real. Will maintaining pressure there create a more solid impact? Can you tell me, is your response the book answer (I don't have the book)?
Brian Manzella
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THIS IS A RE-POST FROM ANOTHER THREAD A FEW DAYS AGO:
BRIAN MANZELLA:
No.
You should never TRY to "hold any angle."
You can "semi-freeze" your bent right wrist, or down arch you left wrist just before impact, which will retain the IDEAL IMPACT ALIGMENTS, but will not, assure you that any LAG PRESSURE is retained.
"Semi-freezing" your bent right wrist, or down arching you left wrist just before impact will have very little to do with STORING "Accumulator Lag" alignments, which are the out conditions of:
What actually STORES the accumulators is PRESSURE from all four Pressure Points, driven by the Pivot, and assisted by SPEED, GRAVITY and SHAFT STRESS.
I'll explain in a moment.
First, I'll try to make sense of your assumptions.
BRIAN MANZELLA:
The Right Shoulder is driven by the WHOLE PIVOT, people tend to forget this. I heard another instructor say to swing "like you are standing on ice." That may the worse advice ever, and I am DAMN SURE any scientist like Mandrin/Grober/Zick or any good bio-mechanist could make minced meat of that goofy statement. Of course you could tell a good player to do that, and they'd use the ground anyway.
The Pressure is LOADED on the right arm, but only specific aligments will retain any angle. The rest of the Accumulators will start to "dump their load" when the clubhead gets on the opposite side of the target ("outside the hands") on the downstroke.
BRIAN MANZELLA:
The pressure AT the #1 Pressure Point will tend to DECREASE the angle at the Left Wrist eventually.
BRIAN MANZELLA:
A very particular movement of the right arm, may assist in the DOWN-COCKING, but after that, it will CAUSE THE RELEASE if allowed to.
BRIAN MANZELLA:
I feel #3 from the very first move down.
BRIAN MANZELLA:
No.
It starts from the feet.
"PP#3 is feeling the lag pressure of the above sequence, esp. holding the lag being stored by the right shoulder going down plane."
No.
The #3 Pressure Point feels the attempt of the WHOLE LEFT ARM Flying Wedge trying to roll to vertical. A point once missed even by a book literalist when asked. This "attempt of the WHOLE LEFT ARM Flying Wedge trying to roll to vertical," IS the #3 Accumulator.
But becuase the #3 Pressure Point is "behind the clubhead" on the back side of the grip, it will also feel the resitance of the clubhead to change in direction.
THIS IS A RE-POST FROM ANOTHER THREAD A FEW DAYS AGO:
BRIAN MANZELLA:
No.
You should never TRY to "hold any angle."
You can "semi-freeze" your bent right wrist, or down arch you left wrist just before impact, which will retain the IDEAL IMPACT ALIGMENTS, but will not, assure you that any LAG PRESSURE is retained.
"Semi-freezing" your bent right wrist, or down arching you left wrist just before impact will have very little to do with STORING "Accumulator Lag" alignments, which are the out conditions of:
#1. The bent right arm
#2. The cocked left wrist
#3. The turned left hand
#4. The left arm across the chest
#2. The cocked left wrist
#3. The turned left hand
#4. The left arm across the chest
What actually STORES the accumulators is PRESSURE from all four Pressure Points, driven by the Pivot, and assisted by SPEED, GRAVITY and SHAFT STRESS.
I'll explain in a moment.
First, I'll try to make sense of your assumptions.
BRIAN MANZELLA:
The Right Shoulder is driven by the WHOLE PIVOT, people tend to forget this. I heard another instructor say to swing "like you are standing on ice." That may the worse advice ever, and I am DAMN SURE any scientist like Mandrin/Grober/Zick or any good bio-mechanist could make minced meat of that goofy statement. Of course you could tell a good player to do that, and they'd use the ground anyway.
The Pressure is LOADED on the right arm, but only specific aligments will retain any angle. The rest of the Accumulators will start to "dump their load" when the clubhead gets on the opposite side of the target ("outside the hands") on the downstroke.
BRIAN MANZELLA:
The pressure AT the #1 Pressure Point will tend to DECREASE the angle at the Left Wrist eventually.
BRIAN MANZELLA:
A very particular movement of the right arm, may assist in the DOWN-COCKING, but after that, it will CAUSE THE RELEASE if allowed to.
BRIAN MANZELLA:
I feel #3 from the very first move down.
BRIAN MANZELLA:
No.
It starts from the feet.
"PP#3 is feeling the lag pressure of the above sequence, esp. holding the lag being stored by the right shoulder going down plane."
No.
The #3 Pressure Point feels the attempt of the WHOLE LEFT ARM Flying Wedge trying to roll to vertical. A point once missed even by a book literalist when asked. This "attempt of the WHOLE LEFT ARM Flying Wedge trying to roll to vertical," IS the #3 Accumulator.
But becuase the #3 Pressure Point is "behind the clubhead" on the back side of the grip, it will also feel the resitance of the clubhead to change in direction.
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