" Really Cool Impact Pics"

It took over 16 years of teaching to find First picture Top Left...."Reverse In-Line Flying Wedges"


BTW...Does this TGM stuff really work?

Gotta love it, Annikan. Great stuff!
Dude!!!!

Super job on the pics!!!

Nice work with the student as well. What a transformation! You should be proud.

Is that Ronald? I hear Hamburgler can really compress it.

How's you week look next week?
Bucket,

I'm cryin ....cryin...from the Hamburglar....

Oh ...I think.... I just ....I did...gotta go to the locker-room....

We're makin history over here at the Creek...

I've got classes ..on Monday.....come on over and be my Guest Speaker!!!
Lagster,

We started by beating the s$!t out of impact bags with the flying wedges...used aiming point concept...then built it Stage 1, then Stage 2...This stroke was a Stage 2...His Stage 3 is 95% there...give me another 6 - 12 weeks...then we'll post the entire sequence...before and after!!!
Originally Posted by annikan skywalker
I've got classes ..on Monday.....come on over and be my Guest Speaker!!!
I'm ready. Monday works for me man. I'll give you scream later this week.

Will the topic be Original vs. Extree Crispy? Upper vs. Lower? Wedges vs. Fries? White Slaw vs. Q-Slaw? Dew vs. Sundrop?
Originally Posted by annikan skywalker BTW...Does this TGM stuff really work?

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Very impressive!!! Did he start with chips, and work up?
Originally Posted by annikan skywalker It took over 16 years of teaching to find First picture Top Left...."Reverse In-Line Flying Wedges"


annikan- are pics #8 and #10 both of mac? if so do they denote a swing evolution (the individual in pic 10 appears to be much more on his left at impact than in pic 8 ) or just different impact positions employed to produce specific trajectories? thx.
Originally Posted by annikan skywalker It took over 16 years of teaching to find First picture Top Left...."Reverse In-Line Flying Wedges"


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The golfer in the last picture in the Top row is interesting in that he has BOTH wrists FLAT at IMPACT.

What do you think is the main reason or reasons that people end up with these Impacts? Some of the ones I've heard are... Trying to get under the ball; trying to hit the ball high; their CONCEPT of RELEASE; FEAR of crossing their MIDLINE; poor ball position; very weak grip; and of course those listed in 6-D-O(Casting, Over Acceleration, Quitting)

How did the good Impact guys get there? Good teaching; good information; good concept; luck/athleticism; good ball position; growing up in a windy area; good grip; Rhythm

What do you think?
It's clear to me that the guys in the top row all have the problem of the misguided concept of striking the ball while the shoulders are square to the plane line. They've stopped turning their shoulders in order for the hands to catch up and the only way for the left wrist to remain flat is to accelerate the left wrist targetward by moving the left arm away from the body(overacceleration/independent hand/arm motion). Look at the billowing shirts above the left shoulders in #6,8,9,10 as their shoulders turn through the shot.
Originally Posted by MizunoJoe It's clear to me that the guys in the top row all have the problem of the misguided concept of striking the ball while the shoulders are square to the plane line. They've stopped turning their shoulders in order for the hands to catch up and the only way for the left wrist to remain flat is to accelerate the left wrist targetward by moving the left arm away from the body(overacceleration/independent hand/arm motion). Look at the billowing shirts above the left shoulders in #6,8,9,10 as their shoulders turn through the shot.
Good observation, MJ.

Note the "comparatively Squared-Away" yet still slightly Open alignment of the Shoulders in the Standard and Special Impact Fix Variations (10-8-A/B photos). In Pivot Strokes, the Body Rotation ideally Loads the Lag at Start Down and then continues to lead the Arms and Hands throughout the Downstroke.

However, this desired Body Rotation must not be allowed to pull the Club Off Plane (Bent Plane Line). Hence, our Hand-Controlled-Pivot System and the necessity of Plane Line Tracing through Impact.
Originally Posted by Yoda Good observation, MJ.

Note the "comparatively Squared-Away" yet still slightly Open alignment of the Shoulders in the Standard and Special Impact Fix Variations (10-8-A/B photos). In Pivot Strokes, the Body Rotation ideally Loads the Lag at Start Down and then continues to lead the Arms and Hands throughout the Downstroke.

However, this desired Body Rotation must not be allowed to pull the Club Off Plane (Bent Plane Line). Hence, our Hand-Controlled-Pivot System and the necessity of Plane Line Tracing through Impact.
In an ideal world, I would agree. But here's the problem - how many can people can "passively aim" the hands? Not many I think. For most all, in order to teach them to move the hands SOLELY with the pivot, you must get their minds OUT of their hands and onto the pivot itself. Tell them to aim PP #3 at an aiming point and they will thrust it there with their hands. So... the choices are clear - make them Hitters or be prepared for "incubation periods" of years, during which they are switters.

I will now hunker down like a jackrabbit in a hailstorm!