Left Arm Connection.

[Tball88]

I've been working on hitting and right arm swinging(I'm right arm dominent). I love the feeling of right arm swinging, it's a powerful motion, problem is that I use angled hinging with a circular body motion which has equated to pushes to the right. I started working on trying to keep the top of the left arm connected to my upper body and noticed that doing this almost forced you to horizontal hinge the left arm.

I haven't heard much talk in the golfing machine on keeping the left arm connected, any thoughts on this, does it have any value. I see Vijay always working on this by swinging with a club head cover under his left arm.

 

[birdie_man]

I like it so long as my plane is good.

It should fall out after impact tho....if you keep er in there till the finish that's just unnatural.

 

[Jared Willerson]

There are other more useful things in the golf swing to focus on than "connection" IMO. Subscribing to the three imperitives usually takes care of any "connected" look or feeling.

 

[Toolish]

Isn't connection covered by PP#4 really?

 

[hue]

Isn't connection covered by PP#4 really?

IMO that is real connection where the left arm is pressed against the chest because of the inertia of the arm and club acting against the downswing pivot motion. Contrived connection is a NO NO .

 

[birdie_man]

I think it can work personally. Lots of ppl seen to do it well enough. (so long as "the glove falls out")

 

[James Marshall (Hogan1953)]

Jim Waldron's thoughts on connection

This post by Jim Waldron, bpgs1, helped me understand connection throughout the swing. It was part of the long Jimmy Ballard thread if you're interested.

"I can't tell you how many golf students I have had take my school who have expressed suprised that we teach connection the way we do, which is that it is most certainly not a CONSTANT during the swing but varies dramatically depending upon which segment of the swing you are talking about. They all thought that you started connected and stayed connected.

You need to "disconnect" both upper arms from the chest on the backswing to establish the plane and width (for passive power) and then re-establish it on the Transition. Through Impact we teach Super-Connection or both upper arms glued tight to the chest, 50% from Inertia (body lag creates arm lag) and 50% from learned behavior (Hogan to Jackie Burke, Jr. "you can't have too much upper arm to chest pressure"). The upper arms come to a complete stop as far as independent arm motion goes, (for 1/10 of a second)but are of course being moved rapidly by the pivot, dependently. After Impact, the arms accelerate again independently, move across the chest from the right side to the left side, then "away" and then up - "dis-connection" once again. We have a swing map drill that goes: "Connection-connection in motion - disconnnection - re-connection-connection in motion-superconnection-connection in motion-disconnection.", from address to finish. This is done in slow mo without a ball in front of a mirror for feedback."

Hope this helps.

 

[Tball88]

The mistake I've been making is not getting as Brian says "left enough" In an effort to get into Brian's logo, I keep driving the flat left wrist down the line as the body rotates to the left, without ever really getting a good "finish swivel". My arms will actually disconnect some from the body. If I try to keep connected the finish swivel happens naturally and I get left.