Could this be the "secret" of using Right Arm Thrust when Swinging? That is, using your Right Arm to Accelerate the Club Longitundinally (lengthwise).
Yes...Tongzilla, I think you're on the money. As Tomasello would have said..."It's one smooth motion"...Right Arm Swingers don't start the downswing with their lower body...the downswing is started with the right forearm and the uncocking of the right elbow. See Tomasello's July 1991 Golf Illustrated interview....
GI: This "throwing the club down" with the right forearm---doesn't that go against everything we've been taught about the downswing?
Tomasello: Yes. The delayed hit is merely keeping the right wrist bent through impact. All that stuff about leading the downswing with a lateral move of the lower body, driving the hips and legs toward the target to retain power--it's all terribly wrong! It seems to be what's happening in the most efficient, centrifugal-force golf swing. The reality that most people can't comprehend is that in the centrigual-force swing there is no forward motion by any part of the body. There are just the two "force vectors" I've described.
GI: Are you saying that the golfer has to do less with his body? Aren't there any physical requirements?
Tomsello: The only agility needed by the player is to be able to turn the hips--to pivot around a fixed point--and to lever and unlever the right forearm. The faster you can make these two movements, the greater the centrigual force you'll build up and the farther you'll hit the ball.
See the Tomasello Letter series for clarification on the participation of the hips (lower body) in the above swing. Mark Evershed coined the phrase "quiet body".
DG
Last edited by Delaware Golf : 07-16-2006 at 01:00 PM.
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