Tying it all together

Traveling down that same path, I’ve had to reassess my relationship with the ground, and uproot some very old bad concepts. I’d like to run my transition understanding past you, as well as a tai chi 10-2, if you’d be so kind. Thank you! Zach Edit: it occurs to me watching the tai chi move that I probably don’t still need to be doing the wipe with UD and T-Rex arms. I think I’m UD’ing just fine 🙄. Will address Double edit(after looking at that delivery): in my quest to preserve more trail elbow bend at impact, I’ve been going with a “more is better” approach to trail elbow bend in delivery. Do you think it’s possible that I’ve been handicapping myself trying by to keep too much? When I let the elbow straighten more it allows me to get a much more level attitude with my shoulders, and it also allows my hands to get into that low “in the thigh” spot. Always with thanks, Zach Triple edit: Down too long! In between P 5.5 and P6 the legs need to extend and the torso elevates, and it actually preserves hip hinge(and paradoxically trail elbow bend when I allow the arm to straighten into p6)! (Dawn driver vid)

Thank you Tyler. It’s still fixing the left ball, all these things tie in to that. I’ve been going from one thing to the next like a hummingbird to try and solve that equation, because nothing I’ve done has seemed to remove that miss from my repertoire. I’m under no illusions that I’ll never* hit it left, but I need to be able to know that if I do X Y and Z properly it won’t go left. That said, I’m hopeful now that I’ve isolated my clubface control issues down to two release elements: with the left side, it’s losing my shoulder’s internal rotation and that stretch feeling, which prevents me from achieving maximum width and thus slowing rate of closure in the followthrough, and with my right side, a lack of oblique crunch that causes me to lose my bend in wrist and elbow and gives me that throwy, disconnected look. I’d never thought to combine those before, but now I’m feeling more able to integrate those two things simultaneously(along with other elements like low to high, turtle shell, etc) into my strike and the results are very encouraging. Tl;dr still fighting that left ball Yours, Zach

Tyler, I think I may have done it. I may have solved the left ball. Happy Easter! I’ll check back in after I have more definitive results. Yours, Zach

Hi Tyler! It was one of the eureka moments, for sure. I think my biggest overall eureka moment wasn’t a moment, but kind of a slow dawning realization that I don’t have just one left miss. There’s steep diggy left with short irons, early bottom-out upswing left snapper with driver, big sweepy left with mid irons when my path gets too inside... I have left misses like Eskimos have words for snow. But from what I can tell the Big Bad, as Buffy the Vampire Slayer used to say, is a transition sequencing element that’s easiest to see at regular speed with the two beach 3 woods (pardon the pull cut, but the second one was what I was looking for)- when I miss real bad, I’m turning my upper body like a chunk of wood first thing coming down. Starting from my lower body seems to remove the worst, catastrophic misses. The other elements all follow from that, but I like to think I’ve tracked them down fairly exhaustively and placed them on a permanent watch list. I’m acutely aware of the invitation to disaster posed by that saying that one has “conquered” a swing issue, but I’m five rounds in and it appears to be at least in remission. From today I have a pull cut, a push draw, and a face on that will bring me to to my next thread. For now anyway, I fondly retire this one. Thank you as always for your patience and time. Your student, Zach