[david sandridge]

After one year of working on the release I feel I am finally getting some where. I have blocked it for years working on impact, wall of china, impact bag and I was good at it - the result was blocking it.
Golfgnome told me to forget about the details just hit the hell out of it. I think sometime we are to focused on the details of what we read on the forum. After you have studied all of this stuff there is a time to just hit it. I know with my 10 2 D grip I have to come thru knuckles up. I know the clubhead had to pass the hands. I am aware of hinging. I am aware of karate chop and hands to the plane. If you are swinging the left arm it will almost work automatically and everything will line up. If you try to exert too much control - at least for me I screw up. I now feel centrifugal force "throwing the club naturally" down the line and everything working. Of course I remember Lynn's get around, get around comment. I found Lynn's video on the on plane motion of the left arm, where is cocks up and uncocks forcefully into the ground and then points out that the same motion is carried out on plane from the top to impact has been helpful. Instead of using the pivot to get around I use the momentum of the release to carry me to a full finish. The power from impact to finish is a shoulder and arm momentum thing - not hips. Swing down on plane after a proper back swing, clearing the hips, sitting down to a firm base or firm left side and letting it go mindlessly works for me. Lynn taught me to load no 2 pp so I monitor 3 and 4 and unload 2 shooting the tee or marble at the ball, Lynn's drill with the dowel on shoulder pointing at ball tracing down the plane line as helped. Putting a dowel with a "noodle" on it several yard out in front and trying to hit it with the ball has helped. I have worked for years on good fundamentals, tracing, impact fix, proper alignment, watched all the videos but now it is time to forget about details I have worked on. It is put up or shut up time. Work with my teacher and practice, practice, practice, play, play and play. The point is to get it into the hole in the fewest strokes. I have enough knowledge I just have to know how to use it. That is where an instructor comes in. My "chickens are hatching" and I am thankful for the help of the forum and the help I have had from Lynn and TFM instructors.