quote:Originally posted by jerry1967
what does tiger mean when he says "he rolls his right arm inward so his arms do not drop straight down"?
quote:Originally posted by jeffy
quote:Originally posted by jerry1967
what does tiger mean when he says "he rolls his right arm inward so his arms do not drop straight down"?
This full quote is:
"Instead of dropping the club [inside] from the top of my backswing, now I focus on rotating my right forearm down and into my side. That helps me keep the club in front of my body and the clubshaft on the proper plane."
I think this means that, rather than let the right elbow slide down in front of his body on the downswing, he is keeping the right elbow up and back on his right side and letting the right forearm unhinge from there down on top of the ball. I think the picture in the GD article where this quote comes from (December issue) illustrates what he means. This is directly from Jim Hardy (who trained Haney) who believes that this is how Hogan managed to beat his hook. In Hardy's view, jamming the right elbow in front of the body in an effort to let the club "drop inside", combined with aggressive body rotation, will get the clubhead stuck every time. That said, I'm not sure Brian agrees with this analysis based on a comment he made in one of his Hogan audios.
quote:Originally posted by vjcapron
OK Guys. This is obviously a HUGE misquote. Tiger doesn't rotate his RIGHT forearm down into his side! It's his LEFT forearm! This is a big part of Haney's teaching and is mentioned in both of his books. Geez. Don't get lost trying to understand a misquote.
are you saying unbend the right arm from the top of the swing?quote:Originally posted by jeffy
quote:Originally posted by vjcapron
OK Guys. This is obviously a HUGE misquote. Tiger doesn't rotate his RIGHT forearm down into his side! It's his LEFT forearm! This is a big part of Haney's teaching and is mentioned in both of his books. Geez. Don't get lost trying to understand a misquote.
I don't think it was a misquote (I took it straight from the magazine) or a mistake in the article: the illustrating photos were shot from behind and showed the right arm "coming into the right side". There were no photos of the left arm. This right arm move is as much a part of Hardy's "one-plane" swing model (again, Hardy trained Haney) as the counterclockwise rotation of the left arm. Hardy refers to it as "unhinging" the right arm in his 2004 Summit DVD, "releasing" the right arm in his book (pages 84 and 85).
quote:Originally posted by jerry1967
are you saying unbend the right arm from the top of the swing?
quote:Originally posted by brianman
Hardy for President.