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spiders2283

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pulling my arm
« on: February 24, 2011, 12:13:55 AM »
Hi everyone!
    I got rid of an old habit, cupping the ball at the end of my back swing putting a dead spin on the ball, and picked up a new one.  Except this one comes randomly it seems at the worst times.  Anyways I was wondering if anyone had some tips on how to avoid pulling the ball?  I'll be fine for the first 5 frames or so and then all of the sudden my arm pulls and the ball goes 5 boards left of my target.  And then another 2 frames everything is ok and then *boom* pull the ball again and miss 5 boards left.  I feel like my arm swing is straight, I'm not muscling the ball, and sometimes it's worse and I'll keep pulling the ball.  Any tips on how to get rid of this?


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Frederick

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Re: pulling my arm
« Reply #1 on: February 24, 2011, 10:04:24 AM »
I don't know if this will help but the same thing was happening to me until someone noticed that I was drifting left 4 to 5 boards more than usual. Worth looking into..

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dizzyfugu

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Re: pulling my arm
« Reply #2 on: February 24, 2011, 10:11:35 AM »
IMHO, you should check several things:

- keep the ball in front of your shoulder in the pushaway phase. Deviating in this phase might cause trouble later in the swing.

- Check if you open the shoulder at the pendulum's top. This can also alter the swing plane.

- Check if you are not subconsciously steering the ball at times. This is hard to detect, but could also be the reason for your erratic flaws


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Locke

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Re: pulling my arm
« Reply #3 on: February 24, 2011, 11:10:46 AM »
I have two reasons that I pull the ball. One is my push away gets out in front of my body which throws the swing off plane. It will feel just fine but the swing is a couple degrees off plane and I will pull it. Also I do have a tendency to drop my shoulder when really trying to get some hand on the ball. This steers the ball dead left. Those are the things I do so you could probably look there.

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jrs813

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Re: pulling my arm
« Reply #4 on: February 25, 2011, 08:37:15 AM »
mine is usually a timing issue.  get to fast with the feet and need to pull the ball thru the bottom to catch up.


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