GolfHos

What does everybody here do to keep a straighter left arm throughout their swing.
I have been practising after reading to keep more pressure on your left thumb, and to use your right hand at the top of your swing(as it should overlap your left hand) to straighten out your arm??

I don't do much of anything other than remind myself to keep it straight right before I swing.  When I'm struggling with anything, I try to make it my last thought before my swing.  However, a straight left arm isn't something I struggle with (at least, Kev says I don't - he's my swing analyst :D ). 

I shortened my backswing.  Seriously.

Yep, same for me as well. :)

Werd.


(Although, moreover, the concept of a straight left arm, is becoming antiquated.  Instead of attempting it as a mechanic of the swing, it should be more the bye product of a good takeaway, with proper upper body rotation, and setting of the wrists.  In short, Jules, if you think 'left arm straight', it, in and of itself, isn't bad.  But, by and large, it will/could short circuit the other functions necessary in your back swing.  Instead, think..'take the club head away with a pushing motion, starting with the left shoulder, keeping the club head outside* your hands to waist high.  Let the momentum of that action carry up, and allow your wrists to set naturally.  I think you will find, that with that 'one piece takeaway', that your left arm is straighter than it has been/you think it is.)


*ever so slightly, as seen from down the line.

http://www.worldgolf.com/golf-instruction/straight-left-arm-golf-tips-evans-3802.htm

That's a very nice article!

asshat.

Name-calling isn't nice, stroh.

Spacey started it. ;) lol

No matter; it's still not nice.

:D

So, +1 them both and then -1 them? ;) :D

What good would that do?

My whole swing is becoming 'antiquated'. I overhauled a couple of years ago to a more' Modern' version, with pretty good results, but I was still struggling.

This year, I found a good teacher who took a look at me for a minutes and said:

'We're going to put some of the 'Old School' back into that swing, because it's a pretty good swing'. Hers is ALL about the footwork and leg drive, FWIW.

 'Left Arm Straight' and 'Don't Move Your Head' still work nicely, although the subtle move is to ensure that your head does not move up or down, but a little forward is OK for the follow through.

Yeah, you're right.  It's just that they pick on me.  They're all bigger than me.  Smarter than me.  Have nicer hair than me. More gooder at computers than me.  Know how to type better than me, without having to say gooder. Spell better than me, although they use words I don't know on purpose, an probably spell them wrong on purpose, so I'll look them up, and can't find them, 'cause they spelled them wrong on purpose, 'cause they know I don't know what they mean, so I can't look them up, or find them, 'cause they aren't suppose to be hiding in there anyway.  It's out of bounds!

Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!!!!

lol [sm_rolling]

Oh, poor stroh.  I know what it's like to be picked on. 

Don't be sad just because Stroh is more gooder at computers than you. ;)

Marcia?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yZHveWFvqM

Referring to:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y9yTNKBHos&mode=related&search=



(http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0Je5m0HVyBGxOgAdV2jzbkF;_ylu=X3oDMTBsMW5yM3VoBHNlYwNwcm9mBHZ0aWQDSTA2Nl84OA--/SIG=1259cgi5b/EXP=1176610951/**http%3A//www.timemachinetoys.com/toypics/marcia.JPG)

Man, that brings back memories...

My twin cousins cultivated the 'Marcia Look' to the Nth degree, from the ironed hair right down to the shoes, which were called 'Marcia's', IIRC.

Recognizing full well your obligation to say "ew gross, they're my cousins," (or, perhaps, to challenge me to a fistfight for lascivious thoughts about blood relatives of yours) please allow me to submit that pictures would be most helpful in the mental image I am currently cultivating.  [sm_naughty]

Werd.

Seriously. Close your eyes and post the pics. I'll understand the need to punch us in the face.

 8)

MFWAG............Your a redneck.....and you didn't know it!!!! ;D ;D ;D
I thought it was okay "to think about your cousin", if you were a redneck!!!! ;D ;D

Marcia was.....ok.  She was no Nellie!  That's for sure.

(http://www.hgd.com/alison/photos/happynel.jpg)

Oh, Nellie!

(http://www.hgd.com/alison/photos3/kneeling.jpg)


(http://www.hgd.com/alison/photos4/alison4.jpg)

I'm sure I don't have any 'Brady Era' pics, but they were blond, blue eyed and cute. They weren't identical, but fraternal twins The older one (by like 8 minutes) was always the better looking one, and she was smokin' hot well into her 20's. The other, well not so much.

They both got married, fat and obnoxious, so that's how that story ends...

Fuzzy!!!!!! [sm_shock] [sm_shock] [sm_shock]I'm totally shocked Fuzzy!!!! [sm_shock] [sm_shock] [sm_shock].. ;D ;)

Buzz kill.............

I find it odd that a whole lot of "stories" end that way.

Oh well.  :)

Shocked?

Marcia was 'all that' when I was just a lad.

Fuzzy....your no good at reading inbetween the lines!!!!! ;D.......remember you are supposed to be passing things on!!!!!! :-X :-X..... ;D ;)

argggggggggh! I get it now.

sorry....the lesson, as usual, is that I'm an idiot.

consider your message passed on. 

No, honey, I know it and embrace it. We're all fired up because Skagit Speedway opens up in a couple of weeks, but I'll probably miss it to go watch 'Speedcars' at South Sound Speedway...

My cousins? They were a few years older than me...

Maureen McCormick was overrated. I thought Eve Plumb was cuter.

(http://www.hissandpop.com/celebrities/p/eveplumb/photos/eve-plumb-015.jpg)
(http://www.hissandpop.com/celebrities/p/eveplumb/photos/eve-plumb-016.jpg)
(http://www.hissandpop.com/celebrities/p/eveplumb/photos/eve-plumb-018.jpg)

Plus, she had a rock band named after her.

Is this the GolfHo's threadjack of the year?

The poor girl just wanted a drill to keep the left arm straight, and here we are posting pics of  barely post pubescent eye candy from the 70's...

I'm so ashamed....

Nope, just a normal golfhos thread. ;) :D

It turned into a thread about wrist cocks all of a sudden.

Behave you guys.

 :nono:

I thought that I might post something relevant to the thread, but then two thoughts popped into my head.

1) I have never posted anything relevant
2) What's the point

Good luck with that straight left arm thingy wish, and I was always a Jan guy too!

Serendipity:

Tonight's Star Trek re-run (a Saturday evening ritual for me) is the one with a pre-Brady Maureen McCormick in it, the one that also stars F Lee Bailey as the Angel of Something or Other...

Back to threadjacking, sorry to say it wasn't Maureen McCormick but Pamelyn Ferdin, you've all seen her in a ton of stuff though.

And you get half a point for knowing that the Gorgon was a famous lawyer, but it was Melvin Belli not F Lee.

http://www.tv.com/pamelyn-ferdin/person/5069/summary.html
http://www.tv.com/star-trek/and-the-children-shall-lead/episode/24942/summary.html

Another geek alert!
I record all the old episodes on the G4 channel 136 late at night, and then I watch them, I love the old ST, we were watching it last night and I told my wife and daughter that this episode used to give me nightmares when the Gorgon changes at the end. HEY! I was 5.

Wish, try some of these drills that Stroh mentions in the post, also when doing the "half shot/knockdown" drill put a headcover under your left armpit, and make sure it stays there until your arms come up in a natural finish. If it falls out before you hit the ball you know you're collapsing that arm (IE chicken wing), which is a power robber.

http://www.golfhos.com/topic-2920.html

Absolutely terrifying.

Not Belli, the fact that you know all that...

Pam Ferdin was also the voice of Lucy Van Pelt?

Cool factoid there...

On a semi-related note, Stacy Ferguson (aka Fergie from Black Eyed Peas) was the voice for Sally Brown in a couple of Peanuts cartoons.