Now that my left shoulder is just about 100%, I am ready to add back significant forearm rotation to my BS/transition. It has been so long I have forgot how I did it and what if felt like, but came across this swing from 11 months ago. I feel like I have strengthened up my leg and torso action since then, but I think this a good visual of what I need to do with left arm and forearm.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeqcK2OGp58&feature=youtu.be[\youtube]
This should help.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeqcK2OGp58[/youtube]
Nice, that’s a nice transition. Make sure you get that shoulder strong and mobile. Because I guarantee you with that layoff you’re going to get a lot of power but you’re going to need a healthy left shoulder. As you get strong, try to delay the layoff until your lower body starts moving. That’s how you develop lots of power.
youtube.com/watch?v=H9g7CZGx5WI
Edit: Actually I see you doing this in your last swing. Do you feel a lot of strain at transition or is it at another point in your swing?
Nick,
As noted that swing was done 11 months ago. I have spent the better part of two years working on laying it off. It is not a natural move for me. My shoulder issue has prevented me from rotating the forearms CW, which is what causes the layoff. When done, the layoff causes the arms and shaft to work back and behind you as your body is transitioning the other way. So you feel considerable pressure in your right arm and left torso and lat. In TGM terms you are not “on plane” taking a straight shot at the ball. You are underplane and to get to the ball you have to use aggressive forearm rotation CCW and pivot. To do both of those things you really have to use the right leg correctly. That piece I still struggle with, because I have 40 years of shifting immediately to my left side. If you are on your left you have no leverage with which to get back to the ball from underplane.
Interesting watching those Hogan swings. He doesn’t seem to lay off at the top very much. Grady, your layoff looks much more pronounced.
It was pronounced because I was learning how to do it, and this is basically a drill type swing. If you do the SS elective you will see some really crazy stuff! It was also pronounced because I didn’t really fire with it. When you fire you create a force acting against the layoff. That is why the layoff is a desirable goal…it is another opposing force…but it is also why it is so hard to do…because you are delaying the firing sequence and compressing it into a shorter time and distance. That is why John says superslotting takes big guns to handle.
Would you recommend waiting to do SS until after module 6 or at the same time?
That is John’s call in each individual case.
Grady, do you think there is merit in how Hogan loaded his right leg at transition? In that I mean he keeps his right leg initially straight at transition which has the effect of bumping his hip left and to the rear slightly.
I do think that maintaining right knee flex as a tenet of modern teaching is overrated, and possibly harmful. The affect of keeping right knee flex generally is to restrict hip turn. Restricting hip turn can cause the hips to spin and result in the stall/dump we often see on tour. Johnny Miller mentioned years ago that you really don’t need that tightness and restriction on the BS. You can allow your hips to turn and not have a lot of tension between upper and lower body at the top of the BS, because if you sequence properly on the DS you will create that tension in transition. This is better because it occurs later right when it is useful, and you have plenty of rotation saved for impact to finish.
I had a breakthrough regarding bending the handpath left. It follows from that feeling I have talked about of turning into the left arm and then rotating the arms in front of the ball (front being before the ball). I didn’t fully understand it until I watched that Faldo/Ledbetter video.
This is a recent swing in which I captured the feeling. Impact feels so solid. I for the first time know what it means to hit against a firm left side. 
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aIfzTmq0Tc[/youtube]
The Charge: Hitting the living snot out of it!
Verdict: Guilty
Bench comments: Go play
Please pay the bailiff on the way out. 
I like that left move (the third base line). Using it in my Mod 3 drill to help me get my hands more left before I go up.
I agree with Range Rat. A big fine and five minute major for you. And as you’re sitting in the penalty box, I want you to think long and hard about your swing journey, how you have had the gall to document it these past years, show great improvement and come to this very big kleig light of a lightbulb, while helping others along the way. 
Great, great stuff. I actually feel it in the right shoulder coming through, trying to get it out and around. It translates into big pressure in the hands post impact for me. Go low and left, young man.
Can someone tell me where that link is or post please?
Thanks/eagle
Eagle,
I posted a link to the video in my hand action during release thread on Tuesday of last week.
Thanks!
Les Murray said:
Where did that term come from? Nice one.
From this image that was posted over on Secret in the Dirt.
The yellow line represents the club path coming into the ball (4:30 line) and the red line is the direction after impact.
Thanks. That’s a good one. Someone here has called it the “7:30 line”…both good images.
Hey Grady,
I don´t know if you want some constructive critique…
Bending the handpath… really?
Why did you changed to vertical shoulders?
I would be happy if you give me some constructive critique!
Chris