Drag The Wet Mop

Please explain what to learn by this video?

Is it drag loading for a swinger or lag for both hitters and swinger or impact training or FLW or what is it?

It probably helps to improve your ability to make floors cleaner.

There are many more things, some more important than those that I've listed below.

Grip the Mop as you would a Golf Club.

A. Move the Wet Mop with your wrists and notice a few things:

1. The wet mop is very heavy
2. The pressure on the #3 PP changes as the mop is moved from right to left
3. The range of motion is short and feeble and you start using your arms to assist moving the mop head
4. When you use your arms to assist, then your body contorts and must use ground forces to support the effort.
5. When you've finished moving the mop head from right to left, the mop head is likely to be ahead of your hands and your hands behind your head.

B. Drag the Wet Mop with your Pivot. Align the Flying Wedges.

1. The Wet Mop is very heavy
2. The #3 PP Pressure remains constant
3. The Range of motion is as far as your pivot can turn
4. Your Hands are Clamps
5. Your Wrists are not turning and twisting so you can trace the Plane Line with the #3 PP by adjusting your Pivot to comply.
6. When you've finished moving the mop head from right to left, your Hands are ahead of the Mop Head and the Mop Head is ahead of your Head.
7. Pivot Lag

Thank you. That helped. Where do you get all your information from?

Originally Posted by airair Thank you. That helped. Where do you get all your information from?

I have a mop and bucket and, I copy from everyone.

That made you a better golfer and/or the floor got cleaned?

Originally Posted by Daryl I have a mop and bucket and, I copy from everyone.

Ah, you have Bucket and you're copying his TGM thoughts?

I thought Mike O. had him down in his cellar. "Thats what he said", anyways.

Originally Posted by airair That made you a better golfer and/or the floor got cleaned?

I think that "Dragging a Wet Mop" is good education for the Hands. Pressure Points, Constant-Stable Pressure, Hands are Clamps, Plane Line Tracing, Flying Wedges, etc. Use the Mop with each hand separately, especially the Right Forearm Flying Wedge.

It also educates the Pivot. Pivot Lag. Get a Wet Mop and use your Pivot to drag it through the Impact Zone. It helps take the wobble out of the Pivot.

The Wet Mop is very Heavy but the Pivot can drag it well. I don't know of any substitute. It's about as basic as you can get. Arc of Approach.

10-2-B. Left Wrist Flat - Level - Vertical. Right Wrist Bent - Level - Vertical. Left Thumb and #3 PP on the Aft Side of the Shaft (Sweetspot Plane)

Is this a swinger or hitter exercise - or does it work just as well for both?

I see O.B.Left has writen about the subject before. This gives the explanation I was looking for. The only thing left is to know if this exercise is just as useful for hitters as for swingers or if it's more suitable for one of the groups?

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02-25-2009,
O.B.Left
Senior Member


Homer said the secret to golf was Lag. The "drag the wet mop" analogy refers to the feeling associated with lag. The wet mop is heavy and as such creates more drag and lag, inertia. It resists the changes in direction more than a lighter dry mop or broom with less mass.

The clubhead is in the process of overtaking the hands during the downswing. TGM wants us to hit the ball with the hands ahead of the ball and the clubhead trailing or lagging behind. A heavy feeling, lagging clubhead. Once the clubhead passes the hands the lag is gone, over. This lagging condition can be sensed, monitored, ideally nursed via the Lag Pressure Point (the #3 pressure point) between the knuckle and the first joint of the right index finger.

If Homer thought the secret to golf was Lag you can imagine the importance of the Lag Pressure Point. I now view concentration as pressure point awareness. With a feeling of lag in the pressure point #3 good things happen golf wise.

Try it with some short chip shots and see if you discover a correlation. If you do and decide to keep your focus on the pressure points you'll be ahead of the game.
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