Winter drills
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Jim Kobylinski
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Using lasers for the above
Take vacations to more golf loving climates
putting and chipping
Using lasers for the above
Take vacations to more golf loving climates
putting and chipping
Use an Impact Bag -- they retail at about $25 -- preferably facing a mirror.
Monitor all Impact and Follow-Through alignments, especially your Wrist alignments (Flat Left and Bent Right) and also the Full Extension of Both Arms in the Follow-Through (Both Arms Straight 8-11). Monitor your Top alignments as well -- particularly your Flying Wedges Assembly and its Cocked Left Wrist, Bent Right Wrist and consequent On Plane Clubface alignment -- then Clear the Right Hip and let the Bag have it!
Master the different Accumulator Combinations of 10-4. Swingers should practice Single Barrel to Three Barrel combinations, and Hitters should practice Single Barrel to Four Barrel Combinations. When Hitting, concentrate on Right Arm Drive Out (10-20-B). Feel the Heel of the Right Hand driving into the Left Hand Thumb (the #1 Pressure Point 6-C-1-#1). This Feel should be in place from Fix to Finish. Read those last two lines out loud and incorporate them into your Total Motion (14-0). Sense the #3 Pressure Point passively accepting that Load and indirectly -- or directly if you prefer! -- driving the Clubhead Lag through Impact (7-11).
Swingers should maintain that #1 Pressure Point 'connection,' but instead of Right Arm Drive-Out, their emphasis should be on the Left Wrist Throw-out (2-P and 10-20-E) followed by Left Hand Roll (Sequenced Release per 4-D-0). Look, Look LOOK! in the mirror and make sure that you are actually doing what you think you are doing!
Use 48" dowels (5/8" diameter) aligned 'up' the Left Forearm and supported by the Right Forearm Wedge. Also, use four-sided 'picket fence'-type stakes to ingrain the Vertical Wrist Conditions and an Aft Left Thumb location. Finally, use both short and long Golf Clubs, and slam that thing to your heart's content. Your Winter Mantra: Wreckage is Wonderful!
[Yoda Note: After the first POW! your 'significant other(s) is/are going to have a real problem. Do not mention my name! This is happening on my advice, but on your watch!
"Show some backbone, will ya?"
-- Pilot to Indiana Jones
Next question: So when is everybody gone?]
With the Impact Bag at Impact Point, I emphasize the Clubshaft Forward Lean, the Flat Left and the Bent Right Wrists and the On Plane Right Forearm.
With the Bag positioned at Low Point, I personally Swing (and Hit!) through an imaginary Impact Point, make contact with the Bag at Low Point, and then complete a strong Follow-Through (Both Arms Straight Position) while executing the pre-selected Hinge Action. Through the Ball, practice all three Hinge Actions (2-G, 7-10 and 10-10).
This practice really will help. In fact, it will help so much I wouldn't wait for next Saturday, much less next winter.
Start now!
Thanks Yoda, now for another question bout practicing with the stakes.
In the Martee grip change, it was stated that the back of the lead hand should not be facing the target but to right field, so would that mean holding the stake flat in the palm, the flat side should be pointing to right field also, and the same direction for impact,
Or should at impact the lead side rolls square?
In the Martee grip change, it was stated that the back of the lead hand should not be facing the target but to right field, so would that mean holding the stake flat in the palm, the flat side should be pointing to right field also, and the same direction for impact,
Or should at impact the lead side rolls square?
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