Developing Body Position Awareness?

[Eeryck]

Recently, after taking some video and making some swing modfications and taking some more video I have noticed that my actual body positions are quite different from how I see my swing in my head.

For Example:

• I thought I was balanced with approx. equal weight on front foot and back foot. Video showed; weight stacked up on front foot.
  
• I thought head was behind ball with most shots. Video showed; head was directly above ball.
  
• I thought left arm was leading swing through impact. Video showed; right arm overpowering left through impact.

Obviously now that I am aware of some of the faults that I have I can work on them and accept the quirky feelings of change more easily.

I do plan to see a pro for lessons next year to work on my particular ailments. What I am looking for is some advice or techniques that have been effective for others in creating a better physical to mental image correlation.

[kc8kir]

This is exactly what makes learning golf solo so difficult. Feel versus real. In most cases, what you think is the correct "position" statically, is totally wrong in the actual swing "dynamically". Golf learning is more the sequence of:

Try this feeling, exaggerate it, check the results. Adding in video helps tremendously to learn what feelings put you in the right positions (NOT the other way around).

[Never3putt]

Build a practice area, either using your own clubs or construct one from PVC piping, and use it when you practice. Make it an effort to ensure that you adhere to the basics and work on that without concern of ball flight. If the basics become routine, the rest will follow. Resist the urge to make "adjustments" in the basics to compensate for swing flaws. Once the basics become ingrained in your setup, minor adjustments for specific shots can more effectively be executed.