birdie_man
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How much does it contribute? (pushing off)
How does where your head is at adress affect this?
How does where your head is at adress affect this?
The right leg
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Flatleftwrist
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birdie_man said:
Truely a great question. One I cannot answer. When I drag my right foot through impact, I don't hit the ball very well. When my Pivot includes right leg thrust, even ever so slight, then I make so much better contact.
danny_shank
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Didn't work for me
My old coach told me to push off the right leg at the start of the downswing and it caused havoc to my ball striking. For me the advice would disrupt my plane line and get my hands stuck behind my right hip. I've had to work on pacifying that damn right leg ever since!
I think my experience is the danger when you get the legs working independent of the hands, when they should be working for the hands.
My old coach told me to push off the right leg at the start of the downswing and it caused havoc to my ball striking. For me the advice would disrupt my plane line and get my hands stuck behind my right hip. I've had to work on pacifying that damn right leg ever since!
I think my experience is the danger when you get the legs working independent of the hands, when they should be working for the hands.
Flatleftwrist
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danny_shank said:
I think that my right leg has been on vacation. It has served well in keeping me upright at the Bar, but gives up to easily at the sign of a Golf Swing.
Maybe we can approach this in another way. On a scale of one to Ten, Ten being the most force you can apply with the right leg, like you're pushing a Car, and one being the least pressure, like you're standing on your left leg at a Bar. How much pressure do you think should be placed on your right leg in the downswing?
My pressure is about 3, on this scale of one to ten.
Perfect Impact
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When you walk (Golf teachers get $150 an hour for calling it weight shift) your behind leg has NO pressure on it: it gets pulled forward by the momentum in your c/mass as you fall to the front foot.
GO and DO LIKEWISE.
GO and DO LIKEWISE.
Flatleftwrist
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Perfect Impact said:
If Golfing were like walking. What if it's closer to Jogging? Or, what if it's like standing still?, Then What?
danny_shank
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FlatLeftWrist i like to feel a lot of PRESSURE up my right leg. For me i would rank it about an eight in your scale. However IMO PUSHING off the right leg is very different. If you push off the right leg it says to me your gonna try to move your body through straightening your right knee. I don't know why you want to do that in the golf swing.
Flatleftwrist
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danny_shank said:
I understand what you are saying Danny. I must agree with you that there is a difference between Pushing and Pressure. You can have a lot of pressure with out pushing back. Maybe that's a better approach to the original question.
Eight is a lot more pressure than my feeling of three.
tbarbertab
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Trail foot push
My instructor wants me to push off my trail foot to start the downswing. I have trouble getting fully on my front foot at the finish, so this is probably his way of addressing the problem.
My instructor wants me to push off my trail foot to start the downswing. I have trouble getting fully on my front foot at the finish, so this is probably his way of addressing the problem.
Flatleftwrist
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tbarbertab said:
So far in this thread, pushing may be counterproductive but generating pressure without pushing back may accomplish the same thing without some of the drawbacks. Give it a try and lets hear what you think afterwards.
I think Brian has done a fabulous job concerning the role of the right leg in the video on the Snead Squat . . . particularly the part about "overcommiting" the right leg . . . "put as much pressure into the ground with your right leg as your left" like you are going to jump only in golf you get your left shoulder up and right downplane.
Great video on pivot and leg action . . .
Everyone go do some remedial work . . .
Great video on pivot and leg action . . .
Everyone go do some remedial work . . .
Flatleftwrist
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rundmc said:
I'll look for it. I hope it's as applicable to this discussion as you think.
Flatleftwrist
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rundmc said:
rundmc said:
Rundmc, maybe you should do a little remedial work yourself. I think that Brians video is educational and he explains some of what we are discussing in this thread and he uses the term "Don't Over-commit" in the same way we have said "Dragging the right Foot" is not a good procedure.
Perhaps if you would like to add to the discussion you can start by commenting on your weight shift procedure. In the long run we will be better off than to have you demean us by suggesting we "need remedial work" while we're having a gentlemanly discussion.
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