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Why idn't ya'll tell me about the importance of maintaining extensor action during the downswing and thru impact. By george, it makes throwaway impossible.


Extensor action rocks.
 
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6bee1dee

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quote:Originally posted by diggerdog

Why idn't ya'll tell me about the importance of maintaining extensor action during the downswing and thru impact. By george, it makes throwaway impossible.


Extensor action rocks.
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Extensor action is the secret to golf. Seriously - it is.

And even after you think you know it, Ben Doyle asks Lynn to remove his right arm from the club at the top of the swing to see what happens. Lynn (in his defense was not in a true top of the swing position in front of the classroom, but...) let go of the grip and the hand just stood there. Ben said, "no, you fail" -- because if you are applying extensor action throughout the stroke, letting go of the handle would jettison the right hand out away like letting go of a rubber band. That’s EXTENSOR ACTION.

I forget who the AI was that came on the second day, my apologies- I’m real bad with names, and failed the same test for Ben. But everyone in the class, the lesson was learned the day before.

Apply Apply Apply.
 
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drewitgolf

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quote:Originally posted by diggerdog

Why idn't ya'll tell me about the importance of maintaining extensor action during the downswing and thru impact. By george, it makes throwaway impossible.


Extensor action rocks.
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Impossible?;)
 
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holenone

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quote:Originally posted by 6bee1dee
Extensor action is the secret to golf. Seriously - it is.

And even after you think you know it, Ben Doyle asks Lynn to remove his right arm from the club at the top of the swing to see what happens. Lynn (in his defense was not in a true top of the swing position in front of the classroom, but...) let go of the grip and the hand just stood there. Ben said, "no, you fail" -- because if you are applying extensor action throughout the stroke, letting go of the handle would jettison the right hand out away like letting go of a rubber band. That’s EXTENSOR ACTION.

I forget who the AI was that came on the second day, my apologies- I’m real bad with names, and failed the same test for Ben. But everyone in the class, the lesson was learned the day before.
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Mike,

Let me start this post with a bunch of smiley faces to set the tone.

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Now, with all due repect to Ben, I considered that a trick question with a hidden -- albeit well-meaning -- agenda. As I was demonstrating the seven key alignments at the Top -- the first of which is Extensor Action/(Start Down) Waggle -- I was asked to take my Right Hand off the Club. Not to "see what would happen" or anything else. The man simply asked me to take my Right Hand off the Club. Which I did.

Now, from Address to well into the Finish, I always have Extensor Action -- a simple check of my videos will confirm that fact. However, when asked by Ben to take my Right Hand off the Club, I did it in a perfectly natural way: I first released my Extensor Action, and then I took my Hand off the Club. I didn't know that his request required that I leave Extensor Action 'on' and my Right Tricep active.

Anyway, it was a fun thing and a point was made. But just because my Hand didn't shoot out to right didn't mean that Extensor Action wasn't in place just a split second before. Trust me, it was.

I can't make a Golf Stroke without it!
 
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6bee1dee

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quote:Originally posted by holenone




Now, with all due repect to Ben, I considered that a trick question with a hidden -- albeit well-meaning -- agenda.

didn't mean that Extensor Action wasn't in place just a split second before. Trust me, it was.

I can't make a Golf Stroke without it!
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FOR SURE !

I did say in your defense. I knew you demonstrating another point and that Ben was out for some trickery, but to all of us watching and learning, the Extensor Action concept was firmly embedded into out psyche, at your expense. You took one for the Gipper, Lynn. I can hear Homer chuckling still.
Ben does like to make people wear the "Emperor’s Clothes,” doesn’t he?
 
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To take this exercise a step further, if one takes off the right arm, the left arm should collapse, and the club should drop to the ground. The left arm does not apply extensor action to itself. I actually think a better way to demonstrate this is to take off the left hand.
 
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