[innercityteacher]

There are a number of "ways" to get to the Top of the Backstroke. You can swing it, pull it, lag it and flip it. Who, in their right minds, would ever think to "Push it"?

EA Primer:

#3 PP:
If you apply pressure to the #3 Pressure Point without using EA, then you are throwing the Clubhead. If you use EA with the #3 Pressure Point, then you are controlling the Clubshaft.

#3 PP Tracing:
EA allows you to trace the Plane Line with the #3 PP. EA gives you real "FEEL" of both ends of the Grip. You can easily sense the Clubshaft On-Plane throughout the Swing.

Without EA, the #3 Pressure Point is a dot, or small point. This dot/point can be driven by the Pivot to the Ball or Aiming Point. It cannot trace the Plane Line because you need two points in your Grip to sense the On-Plane Shaft or Bar so that you can sense that the Bar is On Plane while the farthest end (#3 PP) traces the Plane Line.

Learning EA:
Find a short stick, say 12 inches (get a wooden spoon or anything, but you need to do this) and grip it with both hands. Squeeze the middle two fingers of your right hand to snug up the lifeline cup of your right hand on top of the thumb of your left hand. Add a little right triceps push down the direction of your left arm. Because you have a bent right arm, your hands are at or past your right side. Don't move your Head (not even an inch) or roundhouse your left shoulder (Never). Feel the Hands moving to the right and that your left shoulder is resisting.

With the 12 inch stick and a little EA Pressure, you can easily sense that the stick is On-Plane. Go back and forth just a few inches and keep sensing the On-Plane Stick. Get the stick on plane. Don't move your head, not even your nose. Do not allow the Left Shoulder to roundhouse. Your Left Shoulder should resist EA. This is probably a new sensation. Your Shoulders will Turn, but your left shoulder will go under, not around.

Do not move your arms with EA on the Downswing. EA force direction is only down the left arm. Using a sweep release with EA is a very advanced move. I wouldn't even try it for now. Your downswing should be a Pivot and shoulder turn with your power package fixed in the end position. Allow the right arm to straighten naturally through impact for now.

The Right Triceps pressure is the easy one to learn. The Right Shoulder is the difficult one. About a week or two or three and you'll have trained your right shoulder and brain connection and it won't "feel" odd or difficult anymore. Until then, it will feel like a struggle. It is a struggle. You need to train your brain and right shoulder. It's just a training thing. You don't need more muscle. Soon, the struggle will go away.


Your Immediate Goal:
Your three week goal with the stick, is to be able to sense the stick On-Plane and move your hands and stick using your right triceps and right shoulder while resisting with your left shoulder.

For the Downstroke, rotate your shoulders, pivot, and let your right arm release normally. Don't push your hands down to the ball. Any pushing is EA down the Right Arm, not toward the ball.

After about a month, use a golf club. Allow the shaft to set (Load) the #3 PP. Learn to LOAD it softly and hard and everywhere in-between. You can kind of load the #3 PP without EA but you can't drag it down properly without EA.

With the #3 PP Loaded, your sense of the Plane Line and On-Plane Clubshaft will be magnified because you now have two or three Pressure Points sensing the On-Plane Shaft. The #3 PP is at the Far End and you will trace the Plane Line with it and use it to meter out clubhead lag and speed.

If you learn this, you will never swing another way ever again.



INSIGHT:

1. If you cock your right wrist, then you can't ever develop the fully Loaded #3 PP.
2. Learn to do all of this with a Bent Right Wrist and Flat Left Wrist.
3. Do not move your nose.
4. Do not roundhouse your Left Shoulder.
5. Drag the Club Down with your Pivot. Do Not Sweep Release for now.
6. When you finally start using a Golf Club, taking an unwavering #3 PP, at least to the Finish Swivel, will be easy.
7. If you use EA, then you can use all of the #3 Pressure you want (you will need to use the #3 Pressure point or else the ball won't get off the Tee).
8. Without EA, the #3 PP is evil. Pure Evil.

When I differ from Daryl, it is because he knows a lot about this and I am, like you, just figuring it out. Daryl is pretty amazing with TGM in my opinion.

However, I'd like to think that because he is from a suburb near Chicago, and I am really from Chicago, I am a lot more fun at parties and in golf events. I suspect I am also more charming and a lot better looking. I probably also have a more urban and urbane view of the world.

In terms of golf scoring though, he would kick my ass up and down Milwaukee Ave., all 155 miles of it. Then, he might even explain to me why he was able to beat me by 20 strokes.

I WOULD TAKE CAREFUL NOTES!

Do yourself a favor, Planetracer. Save this response. Make several copies. Put each in a seperate plastic sheet and in your golfbag. Go to the range and do as he says. Write him a pm from time to time. HE KNOWS WHAT WE WANT TO KNOW.


I shot another 81 using EA last week and hit 6 greens in regulation while flying a seventh over a pin by 15 yards. I then lost the EA the very next day and shot a 93. Kevin Carter's suggestion helped me find it again. These notes from Daryl will put money in my pocket esp. Your Left Shoulder should resist EA. This is probably a new sensation.
I had let my EA become dominant in my whole power package. In the Alignment I video which you should buy from this site, Lynn Blake/Yoda shows us that EA lifts the front arm while tracing the baseline of the plane.


Keep studying this stuff. I have come down from a 21 to a 15 hcp since March of this year!
Patrick