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Thanks for the replies but I am even more confused now

Particularly when I looked at one of Ben Doyle's student's site , to try and get an understanding of this, (the student is an AI and he wrote)

CHIP
The first shot that one starts with is a ‘chip’. The chip is comprised of the following dynamic principles:

• A small swing with a slight pivot from the shoulder turn. Hands stay aligned with a flat left wrist and bent right wrist.

• All balls are positioned under the left shoulder or near the left toe.

• Hold your finish and verify your hand alignments - you must be able to see the same flat left wrist and bent right wrist that you had at address.

What happened to "Zero out the pivot". It seems, to my novice mind, that either TGM is not to be read literally or that Mr Kelly's instruction has been amended somewhere.

I have written before that Stage One of the Basic Motion Curriculum is an extremely abbreviated Stroke, far more so than is generally taught. Body Positions are introduced, but Body Motion is reserved for Stage Two. It is purely the application of the Arm Accumulators -- the Left (Swinging) or the Right (Hitting) but not both at the same time. Think of the Stroke as a Putt or a very short Chip.

A Stroke that is longer than "about two feet in both directions" or that introduces Body Motion has moved into Stage Two (whose motion is not to exceed -- but can be less than -- the Right Forearm level-to-the-ground position). This is true even when the Wrist Cock has yet to be introduced. To my knowledge, though, Ben Doyle teaches this Stroke as the Basic Chip Shot, not as Stage One of the Basic Motion Curriculum. Presumably, the same is true of most (if not all) those Instructors trained by him.