shootin4par
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I know someone who teaches his students to try and hit the ball with the heel of the club, that is one of their main theories. I wont explain the reasoning because maybe I am biased one way or the other. Does this sound logical?
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what do you think about this?
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swing-geek
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TRY to hit the ball with the heel, or FEEL like you are going to hit the ball with the heel? (totally passive forearm rotation, for a swinger-type, vertical rotation)
Not without an explanation. Why withhold it? Can you not give their reason without bias? It would help.
I would say deliver the sweet spot but... when acc #2 & #3 are released on the incline plane it will seem that the hosel is going to strike the ball until the roll of acc#3 squares the clubface. Remember Rhythm is Roll and that feeling of release on the incline plane is according to the "author of the book"- unnerving to learn.
This may give the feeling that the heel should strike the ball but.... What do the instructors say?
I would say deliver the sweet spot but... when acc #2 & #3 are released on the incline plane it will seem that the hosel is going to strike the ball until the roll of acc#3 squares the clubface. Remember Rhythm is Roll and that feeling of release on the incline plane is according to the "author of the book"- unnerving to learn.
This may give the feeling that the heel should strike the ball but.... What do the instructors say?
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Lol, I think shootin4par is referring to me, so I will try to answer.
First of all, I was just introduced to the little yellow book yesterday, but I will do my best to explain in some of those terms if I can.
As far as I can tell right now, I emphasize a swinger-type method (not hitter) with vertical rotation on normal full shots. I also, without a doubt, believe in a TOTALLY passive rotation of the left forearm for those shots. Like 6bee1dee's reply states, I find that most people find this unnerving, to say the least.
So I often challenge them to go ahead and try to totally give up trying to rotate the club to square and let the club contact the ball on the hosel, if that's what happens. And I have found so far that 90 percent hit a right-to-left shot with a closed clubface the first time they become passive with their forearm rotation.
First of all, I was just introduced to the little yellow book yesterday, but I will do my best to explain in some of those terms if I can.
As far as I can tell right now, I emphasize a swinger-type method (not hitter) with vertical rotation on normal full shots. I also, without a doubt, believe in a TOTALLY passive rotation of the left forearm for those shots. Like 6bee1dee's reply states, I find that most people find this unnerving, to say the least.
So I often challenge them to go ahead and try to totally give up trying to rotate the club to square and let the club contact the ball on the hosel, if that's what happens. And I have found so far that 90 percent hit a right-to-left shot with a closed clubface the first time they become passive with their forearm rotation.
It sounds like the swinger's standard wrist action, with the karate chop downplane move that has been mentioned before, if I'm not mistaken. I think the what you're calling "passive arm rotation" is simply allowing CF to square the face, as opposed to muscular manipulation of the face. I think that's why people are hitting that right to left shot, even when they aren't actively trying to close the face.
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