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bill reed · #6 (**permalink**) 05-05-2008, 10:21 PM

hi Go Low
if us open stance swingers don't control our timing with our lower body then what do we time it with, remember we use a system of reflex arms where the arms and hands react to the movement of the body, if we don't start that movement with the body when what do we start it with.
with Trevino he starts his swing with the kick of his left knee first out and then it breaks to the target and thats before his arms start to move back down in the downswing.
the Mindy Blake-Lee Trevino swinger use there body to time there swing and i think like Brian that you need the use of legs and body to help add some power to the arms. i think you need it more in the Blake-Trevino type swing than in some one plane swing that you tend to swing in a barrel with little or no hip sway and it more an arms swing and the turning over of the wrists as you come in open to square to close with the club face. in the Trevino swing the club face is held square longer by the use of the hips and the push shot of both arms away from the body.
if you try and hit a push shot like Trevino with no hip sway then you would end up on your toes falling forward and if you try and power your arms into the ball you lose your timing and you need to rely on the body to help control it. it using the body to get the best out your arms and hands but letting you mind control them and not you trying to control them.
its a bit like throwing a stone you look where you want to throw and you do it, you never think of what your hand and arm are doing or how you had moved the weight of your body.
with the Blake system you let your body control the swing and your arms and hands react to your body's movement, not the other way.
Mindy Blake's system works as does Lee Trevino's and both say they control the swing with the body and i know that how i do it and its easy to do and works well.
i do remember the old way i use to play and i use to play a draw and i had very little body movement till after impact and thats when my right foot lifted and i turned my wrists over but that is like night and day to the way i swing now and there not all all alike in any way.
cheers
bill