Working the ball using The New Release
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Kevin Shields
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How bout opening your stance and face and swing along your stance line to fade it?
hp12c
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works good for me execpt the ball ballons on me thats the part I dont like, but then the low starts right and thenhooks of the planet is not good either, gotta find the middle of these to swings, maybe soft draw with ideas about the release yeah thats sound good.
lia41985
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I don't think you should be thinking about the release being your primary means for working the ball. I would instead focus on the out-toss, specifically, where are you intending to out-toss to.
For instance, today as I was hitting the ball, I was struggling with quick-hooks that could only kindly be thought of as over-draws. I could not hit a tight little push draw for the life of me. So I thought of something Kevin had written before and tried to do the following. Setting up with a 6-iron, I weakened my grip and set up with higher hands (as much ulnar deviation as I could comfortably muster). Very little step on the right foot to start the backswing but a very sharp turn of the right hip. Right arm bends as the back of my right hand nearly touches the front of my right shoulder (feeling very much "behind the sweetspot"). Feeling very much on top of the ball as well, I then proceeded to shoot the basketball to a foot behind and just inside my right shoe a down, away, and inside toss that has my left hand knuckles facing the ground). Back into impact with a closed counter fall and then doing my "business" through the ball, so much so I was Gary Player walking through a few. Damned if I didn't hit about 20 straight, 180-185 yard long, 3-5 yard curving, push draws. So much more pleasure having forward lean with some face control rather than having an over-active pivot drag through an open face. Sure, I wasn't perfect today. I had a couple thinned misses that were just a touch low and bounced and rolled too much. But they weren't the kind of thins I've had before. Usually, my thins are from an over-drag that lines me up too late. This time I felt like when I thinned it, I over did the jump which was something that was much easier to work out.
I took a big step today. I felt really free to hit a hard draw without fear of a hook (my out toss built in the "room' I needed to line it up to configure the D-plane I wanted) and now my focus would turn to trajectory and spin. Control over spin loft. But that's for tomorrow...
If you get yourself a customized out toss you won't have to think about your release or even a later, soft-draw type toss. It's the ultimate in free wheeling.
For instance, today as I was hitting the ball, I was struggling with quick-hooks that could only kindly be thought of as over-draws. I could not hit a tight little push draw for the life of me. So I thought of something Kevin had written before and tried to do the following. Setting up with a 6-iron, I weakened my grip and set up with higher hands (as much ulnar deviation as I could comfortably muster). Very little step on the right foot to start the backswing but a very sharp turn of the right hip. Right arm bends as the back of my right hand nearly touches the front of my right shoulder (feeling very much "behind the sweetspot"). Feeling very much on top of the ball as well, I then proceeded to shoot the basketball to a foot behind and just inside my right shoe a down, away, and inside toss that has my left hand knuckles facing the ground). Back into impact with a closed counter fall and then doing my "business" through the ball, so much so I was Gary Player walking through a few. Damned if I didn't hit about 20 straight, 180-185 yard long, 3-5 yard curving, push draws. So much more pleasure having forward lean with some face control rather than having an over-active pivot drag through an open face. Sure, I wasn't perfect today. I had a couple thinned misses that were just a touch low and bounced and rolled too much. But they weren't the kind of thins I've had before. Usually, my thins are from an over-drag that lines me up too late. This time I felt like when I thinned it, I over did the jump which was something that was much easier to work out.
I took a big step today. I felt really free to hit a hard draw without fear of a hook (my out toss built in the "room' I needed to line it up to configure the D-plane I wanted) and now my focus would turn to trajectory and spin. Control over spin loft. But that's for tomorrow...
If you get yourself a customized out toss you won't have to think about your release or even a later, soft-draw type toss. It's the ultimate in free wheeling.
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dschultz6072
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