By now you have stretched the muscles and tendons as well as strengthened them. You are now ready to grip the Swing Pipe or a specially heavy weighted club in the conventional golf grip fashion. Swing the Pipe or club to the top of the backswing for three or four seconds. Now comes very precise training! While the club sits motionless at the top of the backswing, independently move buckle the left knee all by itself out toward the target-line. Note: Make certain that at the top of the backswing the left knee has moved to the degree where it is pointing behind the ball. Check this carefully. I always have a golf ball lying on the carpet in ball position while doing the programs. It is essential that one comes to the plateau where the golf ball may be observed most casually without the slightest degree of mental tension. Mental Tension is the number one enemy of fine golf playing!
Now move the left knee independently, while positively nothing else moves, from the point behind the ball to the buckled, bow-legged position and hold this bow-legged position for three or four seconds. Note: Make sure that the right leg remains still. Now comes the critical next movement, the Master Movement!!!!
Now, independently, using both arms an equal amount of strength, but with different end goals. The left arm pulls downward all the while maintaining a fixed left elbow. The right arm is also pulling down, but it has a motion within a motion. The right forearm is being pulled closer to the upper arm as this drop of both arms is happening. The club shaft which at one time may have been ten to twelve inches above the right shoulder is now only three to four inches away from the right shoulder due to this motion within a motion, this Right Arm Retention, this pulling of the right forearm closer to the bicep muscle of the right arm accomodates an increased cocking of the wrists. If the right arm is trained to do this it can not be engaged in the harmful inherent Reflex Action of casting or thrusting, i.e., right hand cast, right arm thrust, instead of doing something disastrous the right arm is performing one of the miracles of sports, the Master Movement!! Now once you have achieved this Master Position from this Master Movement hold it for ten seconds. Rest and repeat the process until you have mastered it in this slow, deliberate and static fashion. Only when you have engaged in in-depth conditioning P.P.I.C., Progressive, Precise, Intensified Conditioning, the Bertholy-Method, can you expect to add any noticeable degree of speed. Don't try for speed until you are precise and conditioned.
Now once you have reached this mightly plateau of development, and you have achieved this Master Position 4 from the Master Movement of Position Three, to Position Four, hold Position 4 1/2 for ten seconds, Position Five, (Extension or Rifle Barrel), for ten seconds, and Position Six, (The Finish) for ten seconds. This is the same as Program Number One, only the hands are now, at this point, snugly together as in the conventional golf grip. A review of the Positions as described in Program Number One is advisable.
Follow the rest of the Bertholy-Method for meshing this into the Golfswing. After six months of PPIC (Pic), you will feel the Master Movement filtering into your Golfswing.
Skipping notes for the estimated 15% who develop shanking problems for later.
Now to the other part of the warranty: Never, but never try to do this ultra late, increased cocking action at the start of the downswing after the direction-switch while hitting balls or playing golf by direct mental process!!
The Golfer must have maximum mental involvement while doing the regimen of conditioning for the Master Movement. He must feed into his kinesthetic memory this remarkable action to such a degree of depth that it will automatically feed back of its own volition. The Golfer will think of starting his downswing with his left knee, he will think of P.T., Proper Tempo, of reversing his head or one of the key inductive thoughts that set his swing into motion, but thinking of the Master Movement is folly of the sheerest sort. This would be like no-nose the acrobat trying to see how far off the ground he was half way around on a backflip. The intricate Master Movement must be a wholly conditioned response much as we function when we talk. We think of a word, and being totally conditioned creatures of speech, the word pops out. If we should become overly involved with the functions that create correct sounds, we would stutter, and I guarantee you that your golfswing will stutter if it is not 99% conditioned responses.
