Hi Grux, nice work, pretty cool when it starts to come right eh ?!
I think i too struck my best ever shots last Tuesday (i’m 18 months into ABS). Our 15th is a good hole with the tee box about 250 from a steep slope, leaving 130 uphill to a small sloping green. (pic looking back towards the tee from halfway up the hill that leads to the green). I hit the sweetest drawn (always been an OTT slap/cutter) persimmon 3 wd to the bottom of the slope on Tuesday evening, could hardly believe the contact & flight so dropped another & hit a nearly identical shot 10 yds to the left of where the first one finished. Got up there & dropped a couple more balls & hit 4x 9i (‘71 dynas) onto the green 10’ to 20’ around the pin.
My low point was in March when we went away on a yearly 3 day bash & I was truly awful. I’ve taken a fair bit of stick from the boys I play with & TBH have been pretty close to jacking the course in more than a few times, even buying up a set of s59 Pings after the March debacle & giving slap & stall another bash for a month, but at the end of the day I know where that leads & it isn’t what I want.
Stay with it - keep doing the reps & keep hanging around the site & soaking up the great info & it will come good.
Well done on your progress 
Thanks Tim. I haven’t played very many rounds since starting abs so the learning curve hasn’t be to tough. Sounds like you are well on your way to showing your friends how to play without a frying pan and perimeter weighted irons. 
yeah i hope so mate - we all need a goal i guess - mine is to be competitive for the March 2013 trip & then basically unplayable for the following 10 years
Used to think Nelson’s leg action was odd compared to others, and I believe it was labeled a caddy-dip action, or caddy-yard action.
Looks great to me, nice connection to the ground.
Only thing I can say is keeping the right arm frozen to P4 is not only possible, but well worth the effort in doing so. Not the easiest thing to do by all means, but doing so makes the inner circle through the zone so tight, and the hands so close it almost seems it is not the right way to do things.
Been playing around with a little mental image-drill that I came up with based on the feeling of the right arm remaining frozen. It feels as though I am actually trying to send the white ball on the ground to the red ball on the ground as depicted in the Nelson picture. Only way to do that is pack things real tight while transitioning, keep it tight, and goes as hard as hell left keeping the right arm packed in and try to send the white ball to the red location. Of course, it can’t actually be done, but that is an intention that seems to work as the only way to do that with POWER pivoting ( instead of a hands slap ) is to pin the arm- but the arm gets pinned by the intention and we don’t have to really pin it…it gets pinned. 
Stick with ABS and you will be “on top of the world.”
This is on top of Gold Hill, Taos, about 12,700 feet. Taos ski slopes are to right in distance.
Finish looks a little lower than PV5, but that stick looks a lot heavier than a golf club, so you get a pass! 
Game of inches.
Thousands upon thousands of mod 1 & 2, has lowered my shaft entry. My increase knee flex impresses me.
Ive be inactive game wise for 6 weeks or so due to an accident, but i was able to do mod 1 & 2 reps without any concerns.
I played today, 2nd time in 6 weeks, 2 poor shots resulted in bogeys, otherwise, i signed for a very comfortable 66.
Steve
Nice round Apples…Glad you’re back and hope your injuries weren’t too debilitating.
The above photos look good. Do you feel your added knee flex has altered your ball position in any way? Maybe now you address the ball a touch further away than you normally do? or is it the same with the deeper knee flex combined with the more shallow entry?
Thanks Mashie
I have had no concious change to my ball position in any way.
Steve
Thanks Steve
The proper effect of bending your knees more through impact would be to flatten the shaft downward by way of the hands downward and holding more wristcock.
Great…
Do you mind to post your swing?
Nothing to hide if you can shoot a comfortable 66…
Chris
apples…
shows what a little training does to the swing instead of raking range balls... excellentThank you
Have not been able to get on the site as much because of so much work lately, but this has allowed me to read many more great books on the swing. Its like all of the great information in books has been disregarded because of technology. Here are a few great quotes from a book called How to Master a Great Golf Swing written in 92, of course when persimmons were still played.
“Once their hands have passed through the hitting zone, golfers tend to let momentum complete the swing, relegating the follow-through to just an incidental result rather than a contributing force in the swing. It is a mistake, however, to believe that after the ball is hit nothing more can be accomplished to promote the shot. To complete the shot with any degree of finesse, you must regard and practice following through to the top of the swing as an essential part of the whole. When you finish the shot by intentionally following through with your hands high over your left shoulder, you continue shifting your weight and accelerating the clubhead through the ball with maximum clubhead speed.” Lags module 3.
“Although swinging the club and hitting the ball go hand in hand, just hitting the ball with what seems natural-the upper body, or the hands, arms, and shoulders-before learning to swing the club with lower body action (the feet, legs, and hips) prevents coordination by promoting swinging too fast, overcontrolling the clubhead, and hitting too soon from the top. Because of this, even experienced golfers with sound golf swings may be reluctant to use a hitting action as effectively as they should. There is a vast difference, however, between using the hands to control the clubhead- by intiating the backswing or downswing- and creating a hitting, or fundamental, action within the golf swing. Understanding the difference is important to being able to hit the ball with any degree of confidence.” Lags module 2
“In a hitting action, as opposed to a swinging movement, when the right hand draws back to hit, the elbow-rather than the hand and arm-starts the movement back to the left and throws the right hand into a palm-up hitting position at the top of the backswing. When the right arm pulls back either to throw or to hit, it reaches a somewhat blocked position at the top of the swing. In turn this blocked position not only cocks the elbow down but also helps move the hips and shift the weight to pull the elbow downward. The elbow and the hips then pull the right arm down and forward in the throwing-hitting action. In contrast, underhand swinging movements, such as pitching softball, pennies, or horseshoes, keep the elbow straight.” Lags module 6.
Not trying to give anything away here, just showing that what lag is teaching is not new, which he will tell you. Some people have said things on this site making it sound like he is extreme in what he teaches. These few quotes along with many others in many other books show that what he teaches is the way golf use to be taught. Wanted to show that he is correct in what he teaches, and it is supported with golf history.
emails of the week…
good work guys!
Congrats!
Well Just got my ABS sped. driver: Wilson Staff persimmon back from Mike Rees this week, what an eye opener…
Weiging it at 14.6 oz. , flat 50 Deg. , with an x100 tipped about an inch…
I am thinking " only 1 oz more than the Powerbilt I have been playing… and i am hitting that pretty decent…"
WRONG !.. the best I could muster on my 1st few passes with this battle axe was about 180 yds down the right about 6 feet off the ground, I have never worked so physically hard to swing a golf club, EVER… ( This morning my abs and intercoastals
were smarting as a reminder! )
Given that I am about week 8 or so into MOD1, I went back to the few basics I know, 1) get the club approaching on the 4:30 line and 2) actively rotate the forearms hard, and keep the pivot accelerating…after impact.
I started to at least get the ball airborne and managed a few solid drives that day…my old enemy over acceleration was there to remind me I have much too learn and apply on this journey !!
This experience with proper gear has really brought to the foreground what the talk about proper intentions and and how critical they are in the swing and shot execution… Looks like at least another month on MOD1 and may be some deadlifts so I can heft the battle axe! 
cheers all!
dale heck