What Are Your Recommended Tools for Improving My Swing?

[lalalon]

I’ve been practicing regularly but feel like I’m hitting a plateau. Do you guys use any specific training aids, gadgets, or accessories that actually made a difference in your swing consistency and power? Would love to hear what worked (or didn’t) for you.

[saevel25]

27 minutes ago, lalalon said:

I’ve been practicing regularly but feel like I’m hitting a plateau. Do you guys use any specific training aids, gadgets, or accessories that actually made a difference in your swing consistency and power? Would love to hear what worked (or didn’t) for you.

No golden apple. 

Best advice is to find a good instructor, and practice correctly. 

[p1n9183]

Maybe working on face control? Don't know your swing but using more of the body rotation to squeare the face rather than the release of the hands can give you more consistency.

[Shindig]

That really depends on how good you are now.  The advice that would help my mom improve her swing is very different from what I'm working on to improve mine.  The things I'm working on probably wouldn't help someone trying to go from the Korn Ferry Tour to the PGA Tour, and the advice that would help him probably isn't something Scottie Scheffler has to worry about it. 

As an aside, are you practicing well?  What do you do during a practice?  I used to think I practiced well, and 11 or so years ago, someone here discovered that I didn't really know how to practice.  Learning how to practice (and knowing what to practice) moved me from a 20 to as low as an 11.9 (inactivity brought me back up recently).   

If you don't know what I mean by how to practice, please try to describe what you do during a typical "practice session," however you define that to yourself.  Sometimes, it isn't a matter of advice or device, but of what to do when you are (or think you are) practicing.  I'm heading out to play in a short bit, but when I get back, I'll find an article about proper practicing for you that helped me a lot back in the day (it's on this site, I just need to find the thread). 

[JetFan1983]

I really needed in person instruction to unlock my swing, but my favorite training device is my LiveView camera. Really useful on the range, but also in my living room just messing with feels. I still have a nice mirror setup here, but the LiveView camera is IMO superior to that because the neck tilt can stay down at where the ball would be. You need a tablet as well to work with the camera.

It works best for setup and takeaway, but I can still make slow swings with it an see the entire motion. I like how quickly I can draw lines after any swing as well, or to have those lines drawn already before each swing.

It's useful. I get a lot out of it. 

But I do think without instruction, without knowing what to look for and why, this device, or any device really, has a much lower ceiling.