Yeah…this is top shelf stuff. You’re really on to something here Bom…everytime a swing sequence is shot for a magazine, they should have the player give his feedback on the sequence in this fashion…it would give exponentially more insight itno what the subject is feeling than just a sequence that is left up to individual interpetation. Thanks for this…
Andy
Thanks for the feedback on that, guys. Funnily enough, Eagle, I think that’s where the idea came from. Macs posted that photo a while ago and I remember thinking it was very interesting.
It would be cool to have a big long sequence of the different sizes, but the photos end up being too small and lack impact. I made one up with that atomic bomb sequence but to fit them all in a line, which I think they have to be for visual continuity, they end up being quite small. I’ll see if I can find that one and post it anyway to take a look.
Cheers…
There was also a part of Golf in the Kingdom where Shivas is showing Michael different images to capture feelings, and it really struck a chord with me. I’ve always been able to get a great deal out of mental pictures or thoughts, or even little phrases while out there playing, they can be very grounding and they have their own sort of rhythm or structure that you can tap into. In a weird way I used to tell myself that they weren’t real or right because they weren’t ‘proper’ swing thoughts. Oh well, we live and (un)learn.
Here’s this bomb picture that I made up with Hogan. Again, it ended up being quite small in order to have them in line, but you can get the picture…
I think the pic is great BOM. You really do come up with some wonderfully original and powerful ways of representing different aspects of the swing. 
Whose the fella in your avatar btw?
Cheers, Arnie
I had “forgotten.” However, must be what sparked my brain.
I remember seeing that film clip of the H bomb while touring the Nevada Test site. Never thought I would see that put to good use!
It was really horrifying… now you have made it beautiful and wonderfully functional!
Amazing.
That sequence needs to be submitted to an Avant-garde art exhibit down in “The Village” or Soho. I see nothing but blue ribbons. You won’t get Yoko’s vote though.
Good stuff, lads. It was interesting making that because the front of the house is pretty well aligned to the direction he’s hitting, it just sort of fits. I reckon not getting Yoko’s vote would actually be considered a success!
Arnie, my avatar is a photo of a young James Joyce… I’m a bit of a fan…
Cheers…
I swear Bom, I almost wrote this VERY thing yesterday when Lag made his post…didn’t want to offend any Yoko Ono fans out there though.
I suspect this would be her reaction to your recent piece of work…makes you wanna wear out the w, t and f keys on your keyboard doesn’t it?
Apologies in advance to any Yoko Ono fans of course…
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:22 seconds, it’s all I could do. And I think that may have ruined my day, if not me week 
Too many bad things to say about that to even start…
Cheers, man…
Well by God Bom let’s get this party back on the right track…
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sorry for the interruption fellas…back to golf now
Now I know what started the Japanese earthquake- the epicenter near a place called Yokonama 
Sounds like a good time in Manchester…maybe a little take off from T. Rex’s- Bang-a-Gong 
You’re bang on with Bang-a-Gong, RR. I always think of that song when I hear that guitar riff intro…
Cheers for that, A… top notch!
Stopped raining finally and got some serious practice in. Had this feeling thing going on that was a new way for me to feel and experience the sequence as a mental picture.
I call it my “offset experience” Now I don’t mean the typical discussion about offset.
When my hands are setting flat going back with things getting laid-off, it feels at the top that the hands are really “offset” in relationship to the core. Even after the drop and load and firing out of P3, it still feels like they are “offset” from the core, even though they ( the hands ) have most surely turned and fired. This would be because the pivot is outracing the “offset”.
Now comes the fun part. That feeling of “offset” remains even past P4 to the point that the hands really do feel like they are going backwards into the swivel. 
Regarding the saved right arm, do any of you guys feel or have you tried pressuring the right elbow into the right hip with the left arm and keeping that pressure against the right elbow through impact? Is that forcing something that we want to happen…or putting in place a structure that assists in helping it happen?
Grady
Yes. I make sure my pivot (torso) is pressuring the left arm/right elbow while creating not only a binding pressure in the armpit/upper bicep area, but also holding the left arm “back”. Doing so helps keep my arms from acting independently. I do not focus on the right elbow at all. It’s ingrained for me to put it in a pitch position and not straighten it through impact.
Cheers,
Captain Chaos
Captain,
Can you elaborate on what you mean by ‘back’ here?
No problem. I probably shouldn’t have used “back”. As I pressure the left armpit and upper bicep into my pectoral…that same pressure attempts to keep my whole left arm rigid and low…like a spoke. I’m not a huge fan of keeping the left arm rigid with pressure from the right arm because I’ll tend not to fire the right hand when doing that.
Captain Chaos
thank you, i thought you meant something along those lines…
IOZ
More feelings. Any thoughts on these?
I like the Snead image…especially the large ball.
I used to fart around with a rather large rubber ball the size of a very large grapefruit- and it had some weight to it. My sense of it is that the more mass the ball has the more the shoulders have to be the primary source to move it in terms of feel and real rotary too. The hands and arms would not be enough mass alone. Maybe the smaller we “perceive” the actual mass is, the more we start to use the smallest amount of mass possible to move it…in a golf balls case, the hands and arms.
Now if that same regulation size golfball weighed 200 pounds, I’m sure we would proceed along totally different lines of thinking.
Resistance the extra mass provides in the larger ball is also good to to see how the wrists and hands are firing. I used to smack into the edge of a range mat to see if the hands and wrists are firing properly. The mats resistance will instanly show improper alignments.
I like that image, and I think it to be a good practice item to keep in mind that things need to feel heavy and cohesive with pressurized mass in our efforts.
Very good image Bom…I like it.