Right Arm Trainer R.A.T.

BurleyGolf
Sorry just took it off while trademark is going through, I will put it back after I get my number.
Yoda
Originally Posted by BurleyGolf
. . . it promotes the club to go left after impact . . .
Thanks, Burley.

I first used surgical tubing to demonstrate both Extensor Action and the Delivery Path of Thrust at my 'comeback' school at the PGA TOUR Academy in May 2004. I am delighted to see that you and others are now thinking along these lines.

Now for one picky (but very important) point, which I make only because of the extreme emphasis much modern instruction places on 'going left'. I daily proclaim that the very essence of the Golf Stroke is rotation and its resultant circular motion of the Clubhead. However . . .

The Inclined Plane of Motion (and its Baseline) must also be respected. The orbiting Clubhead 'goes left' only after Low Point (and not before). Since a normal 'Up Plane' Ball Location demands that Impact precede Low Point, then the Clubhead (in its circular orbit) must continue to move right AFTER Impact (before it moves left AFTER Low Point). Otherwise, there can only be an 'under' Plane Stroke.

In my experience, most handicap golfers have no problem with 'going left' after Impact. In fact, they are so good at 'going left' that they do it from the Top and through the Start Down, Downstroke and Release.

And that is the very reason they remain high handicappers.

BurleyGolf
Originally Posted by Yoda
Thanks, Burley.

I first used surgical tubing to demonstrate both Extensor Action and the Delivery Path of Thrust at my 'comeback' school at the PGA TOUR Academy in May 2004. I am delighted to see that you and others are now thinking along these lines.

Now for one picky (but very important) point, which I make only because of the extreme emphasis much modern instruction places on 'going left'. I daily proclaim that the very essence of the Golf Stroke is rotation and its resultant circular motion of the Clubhead. However . . .

The Inclined Plane of Motion (and its Baseline) must also be respected. The orbiting Clubhead 'goes left' only after Low Point (and not before). Since a normal 'Up Plane' Ball Location demands that Impact precede Low Point, then the Clubhead (in its circular orbit) must continue to move right AFTER Impact (before it moves left AFTER Low Point). Otherwise, there can only be an 'under' Plane Stroke.

In my experience, most handicap golfers have no problem with 'going left' after Impact. In fact, they are so good at 'going left' that they do it from the Top and through the Start Down, Downstroke and Release.

And that is the very reason they remain high handicappers.

Lynn, Thanks if it were not for great minds like your self younger teachers like myself would be guessing. I know where to give thanks, and that would be people like yourself.

I totaly agree with your thoughts about the club going left after low point, and might should have explain it better so not to confuse others, but Excitement sometimes hinders my writting or thinking..LoL


BurleyGolf-
Yoda
Originally Posted by BurleyGolf
Lynn, Thanks if it were not for great minds like yourself younger teachers like myself would be guessing.
A great mind? Naah . . .

An average mind applied?

I'll take that.

Bottom line: Had it not been for Homer Kelley and his tireless pursuit of mechanical and kinesthetic truth, I, too, would have been left guessing.

Now there is no longer the need to guess.

There is only the need to learn.

KOC
Originally Posted by Yoda Substitute Fix for Address, and I think we've resolved the two viewpoints.

Originally Posted by BurleyGolf Deal...LoL
Objection! (How dare I am...) That will be quite ungolf like if I start from here



...which indeed require my golfing machine in "swinging" mode and pasting through this alignment.
KevCarter
Originally Posted by Yoda Thanks, Burley.

I first used surgical tubing to demonstrate both Extensor Action and the Delivery Path of Thrust at my 'comeback' school at the PGA TOUR Academy in May 2004. I am delighted to see that you and others are now thinking along these lines.

Now for one picky (but very important) point, which I make only because of the extreme emphasis much modern instruction places on 'going left'. I daily proclaim that the very essence of the Golf Stroke is rotation and its resultant circular motion of the Clubhead. However . . .

The Inclined Plane of Motion (and its Baseline) must also be respected. The orbiting Clubhead 'goes left' only after Low Point (and not before). Since a normal 'Up Plane' Ball Location demands that Impact precede Low Point, then the Clubhead (in its circular orbit) must continue to move right AFTER Impact (before it moves left AFTER Low Point). Otherwise, there can only be an 'under' Plane Stroke.

In my experience, most handicap golfers have no problem with 'going left' after Impact. In fact, they are so good at 'going left' that they do it from the Top and through the Start Down, Downstroke and Release.

And that is the very reason they remain high handicappers.

This post should be a sticky, I believe it's HUGE!

Thank you Yoda.

Kevin
BurleyGolf
I could not get out today to shoot some video, will get it tomorrow even if I have to do it in my living room. This weather in Texas is crazy!!! It is as hot right now in June as it was last August 2008, I don't even want to think how hot August is going to be. I think it was 99 degrees in the shade today! I was going to the range around 6pm but it has rained in the late afternoon 3days in a row now. Hot and then Hot and steamy
okie
There ain't nothing average about an applied mind! I tell kids all the time the idea is to blur the line between innate talent and effort to the point that success cannot be attributed to either factor alone! You sir...it is plain to see are a "curiosity vituoso" kinda like that other fella...Homer someoneoranother! One of things I love about your style Yoda is that serendipitous look of awe you have on your face when you explain...say the flying wedges...for perhaps the 100,000th time and appear as though you are a young Newton having just been beaned with a deciduous projectile! There can be no real learning without a sense of wonderment...Mark 10:15
KOC
...The right arm return to the exact same spot at impact as to address?
BurleyGolf
Originally Posted by KOC ...The right arm return to the exact same spot at impact as to address?
Well, its just a training aid..I can't handle the pressure..LoL


No, the resistance of the tube plays like an arm track or tracer and promotes bring the arm back on the same path. I am still playing around with it and will try and shot some video so everyone can prove me wrong and make fun of my swing....LoL I just thought it was a good idea and have been playing around with it since I made it, I could be totaly wrong? Seems to give me that feel though.

BurleyGolf-
KOC
haha...that is what I want to see it in action. Please shoot a video and youtube it. I think no one will make fun of your swing, every passionated teacher should be respected.
Yoda
Originally Posted by KOC ...The right arm return to the exact same spot at impact as to address?
Substitute Fix for Address, and I think we've resolved the two viewpoints.

BurleyGolf
Originally Posted by Yoda Substitute Fix for Address, and I think we've resolved the two viewpoints.



Deal...LoL