REPLACING LEFT ARM

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OLIVER1

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Is it possible to "replace the left arm" too soon? I am having a devil of a job hitting the golf ball just lately and I feel this might be a problem for me... My left arm gets replaced too soon, and then the club has to work back under nearing impact, with the resultant horrible blocks and hooks whereby the club feels like it has actually moved in from the ball i.e. toward my feet. It's therefore also impossible to feel this great release idea. I'm getting insanely jealous reading about forum members' success with this - even in its nascent stage - whilst I can barely hit a cow's arse with a banjo.
Any help would be appreciated.
 
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It would be good to see the swing DTL to see if it isn't just an outward hand path causing you to work back underneath late
 
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BertramSterling

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I am having some success with the soft draw concept of having the shaft point to the target at the last parallel. The idea of the out-toss move from the top leading to this seems to be a good one in terms of not being over/under...
 
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OLIVER1

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@Kevin. Kevin. I'm not sure how to upload my swing onto the forum, but it certainly seems as if my hands DON'T move towards the ball on the downswing.
@BERTRAM Bertram. How does this happen and wha is the process from there until impact. I ask because although my shaft maybe pointing at the target at last parallel, it seems as if that is a point in time and if my shaft came there in an erroneous fashion, is it also reasonable to say it will continue on to impact in a similarly erroneous manner.
Thanks for your comments, chaps and regards...
 
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OLIVER1

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Kevin,
Is there a deleterious body motion (anywhere in the body) deep into the downswing that would absolutely prevent the club from being released in an optimal fashion?
THere seems to me no earthly reason why my left arm blocks me out and prevents me from releasing many times. But I can't figure it out. I used to be an R&A +1 handicap ad now I'm no better than a 5 or so and I stink to the point of wanting to give up the game. HELP!!
 
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OLIVER1

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Thanks for that Lia...Very interesting. The most apparent thing I see when I watch these clips is the 'quietness' of the body. When I try to keep my body quiet relative to the arm swing it just collapses like an uncooked souffle, and my club crashes into the floor behind me. What a laugh it all is!
 
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May I ask what 'replacing the left arm' actually means? I've seen this term used here several times and everytime someone asks no one answers the question. I've seen COFF, NSA2, Soft Draw and the new release but I can't remember coming across 'replacing the left arm'.
 
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ParHunter said:
May I ask what 'replacing the left arm' actually means? I've seen this term used here several times and everytime someone asks no one answers the question. I've seen COFF, NSA2, Soft Draw and the new release but I can't remember coming across 'replacing the left arm'.
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Take a look at the tumble thread: http://www.brianmanzella.com/golfing-discussions/13147-sergio-garcia-tumble.html

Essentially I take it to mean recreating the left arm/shaft relationship at address into impact (and therefore the lie angle). An example of NOT replacing the left arm would be throwing your hands out toward the target line and 'reverse tumbling' the club under the hands to hit the ball.

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OLIVER1 said:
Is it possible to "replace the left arm" too soon? I am having a devil of a job hitting the golf ball just lately and I feel this might be a problem for me... My left arm gets replaced too soon, and then the club has to work back under nearing impact, with the resultant horrible blocks and hooks whereby the club feels like it has actually moved in from the ball i.e. toward my feet. It's therefore also impossible to feel this great release idea. I'm getting insanely jealous reading about forum members' success with this - even in its nascent stage - whilst I can barely hit a cow's arse with a banjo.
Any help would be appreciated.
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Oliver -
Apologies for not answering your Q in the other thread about this. Based on what you are describing here and you described in the thread for the new video my wager would be that you are "tugging"... that your body is causing these issues. Mike Jacobs has an office video tip in mgranato's thread where he describes carrying the arms with your chest to line it up versus not. The former would be a tug or a pulling of the arms around, the latter being what you should strive for. Take a look at that video.

As for replacing the left arm it is just that, getting it back to approximately the same position at impact that it is at address = your lead arm vertical. If you do that part right, but as i suspect your lead arm is tugged/pulled by the move MJ describes in that video then you will hit super hooks. So, watch that video - you should buy his "tips" video as well... lots more info in there.

Once you get that part right if you are anything like me, you need to just think about keeping the top of the left (lead) wrist pointing towards the target line and letting the release happen. If you used to square it up with a swivel, you need to get this right or again hook city. Good luck and of course buy all of the retail stuff these guys put out - gotta keep supporting this amazing research and amazing site.
 
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