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30-day (Was Covid) Practice Plan Challenge - April 1-30 2020

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31 minutes ago, Cruiser1976 said:

Sweet saw this just in time.  I'm ready.

Welcome to TST!   How about an introduction?  We're happy you've decided to participate in the April challenge

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I've got an idea, and I'd like buy-in from a good number of people here. I'd like people to commit to doing this every day in April. Since we're all stuck inside (not all, and not literally insid

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Day 1 - Early Backswing In the first day we examine the setup, grip, and the early backswing. Faults that we often see: Bad grips (palmy, weak) Bad setups (back flat, butt out, grip

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Day 1 - Early Backswing

In the first day we examine the setup, grip, and the early backswing. Faults that we often see:

  • Bad grips (palmy, weak)
  • Bad setups (back flat, butt out, grip between thighs or too far away, wide)
  • Hands go out early
  • Hands/forearms roll the clubhead in early
  • Clubface rolled open prematurely

The drills for today include:

  • 1:30 – Left wrist only
  • 1:30 – Right wrist only
  • 2:00 – Split hand grip
  • 3:00 – Add pivot to A2

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Remember, we'd love to see your videos, and have everyone that signed up meet the challenge. You don't have to film your whole session, but get at least 15-30 seconds of it. And if you want to record your whole practice, go for it. Or do a time-lapse video… those can be fun.

Then upload to YouTube (I recommend making it unlisted), and post here. Just like this:

On 3/28/2020 at 3:48 PM, iacas said:

I'd like everyone to post that they did it, and what they thought about it, and if possible a video of themselves doing the drill or game or whatever.

If you're joining after day 1, you can catch up, or jump right in and move forward.

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I'm for sure in! I am hitting the ball worse than I ever have at the moment..haha

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Day 1 is up above. Let's see those videos and posts confirming you did it.

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@iacas, could you please tag these so they show up at the start of the thread.  It will save searching thru everyone's videos and responses.

 

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Day 1, I set this up inside because we have some rainy days ahead. I used a PW because I was pretty close to the net. I edited to show a few of each rep. MirrorVision really helps with these.

 

 

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Alright day 1 in the books. Need to find a better place going forward, this was filmed in my office.

 

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Will be getting in on this, hopefully with a video today when I get home from work. 

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Day 1, Used foam balls and hit into my grill cover. Good reminder drills for me. (Also a reminder that I need to pull the weeds in the patio area and spread that topsoil into my garden :whistle:)

 

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2 hours ago, dennyjones said:

@iacas, could you please tag these so they show up at the start of the thread.  It will save searching thru everyone's videos and responses.

If you view new posts… doesn’t that just take you to the new posts?

Do you want me to link to each day’s video in the first post every day?

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I guess your point is valid.   I do look for new material every time I come to the site.   

 

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51 minutes ago, dennyjones said:

I guess your point is valid.   I do look for new material every time I come to the site.

Not opposed to adding them all to the first post. Maybe after we get a few though. Today can’t be too bad.

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Enjoy the chirping spring bridies! I was taking it back too far it seems, and not as much from the wrists as @iacas showed. I really felt that when I went to the split grip. Much easier to hinge the wrists for me with both hands on the club.

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First time uploading to YouTube, first time really doing a video, first time trying to get a real lesson under the belt.  Overall - it was a fun drill, actually I am doing a good part of it when I "self-analyze" my swings.  Great teaching lesson Erik....

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Sorry no filming today, but I did spend time working on this.  Felt a little different in the begeining.


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First time doing a time lapse video. I didn’t realize how much it sped things up and could have filmed the entire practice session. Instead I filmed a couple of minutes of myself doing all the drills and it turned into a 9 second video:

My wrists set later in my actual swing than A2 but the feel is about the same in terms of what they’re doing; I’ve worked on this in the past.

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