My Swing (jamo)

[iacas]

1. A little more stretch in the backswing to help your turning rates increase - might feel like your backswing is all turning with little to no arm motion.
2. Shove your ass forward and stop trying to force the arc of the swing with your arms flying off your chest quite so much. Jump, squeeze your ass.
3. There is no three! :D

[Ernest Jones]

A little more stretch in the backswing to help your turning rates increase - might feel like your backswing is all turning with little to no arm motion.

Shove your ass forward and stop trying to force the arc of the swing with your arms flying off your chest quite so much. Jump, squeeze your ass.

There is no three! :D

I might help to have someone else squeeze your ass at first, just to give you a feel for it.

[jamo]

[URL=http://thesandtrap.com/content/type/61/id/89677/] [/URL] [LIST=1] [*] A little more stretch in the backswing to help your turning rates increase - might feel like your backswing is all turning with little to no arm motion. [*] Shove your ass forward and stop trying to force the arc of the swing with your arms flying off your chest quite so much. Jump, squeeze your ass. [*] There is no three! :D [/LIST]

Sounds like a plan!

[jamo]

Been working hard, making decent (but slow) backswing progress. Think I might have the changes down by today when I go to the range in a bit, then I can start to work on the downswing, because it looks ATROCIOUS. Updates coming later.

[jamo]

[VIDEO]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqfN8TMKJn4[/VIDEO] [VIDEO]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pim-JbuQ0iw[/VIDEO] I think a lot of work on the backswing is paying off. Pretty happy with this: Downswing actually looks worse than I thought it would. :poo: Weight stays back, little extension into impact/follow-through.

[Abu3baid]

I think a lot of work on the backswing is paying off. Pretty happy with this:

Downswing actually looks worse than I thought it would.

Very nice.  That is actually one of the things I need to work on.. it looks like you have made significant strides if you ask me!  Did your contact change at all or ball flight change when you finally made this change to the picture on the right?

[iacas]

@jamo you're being too hard on yourself. Seriously, this is the best it's looked and worked in a long time.

Good timing, too, because this is your next bit:

[jamo]

Very nice.  That is actually one of the things I need to work on.. it looks like you have made significant strides if you ask me!  Did your contact change at all or ball flight change when you finally made this change to the picture on the right?

I couldn't tell you if my ball striking has changed much since I've been playing mostly indoors on mats. Before, my hips were so forward at A4 that I had no where to go from there. Now I'm more centered on the backswing, so I have space to move forward and extend from A4 to A7. That should help my ball striking. [quote name="iacas" url="/t/31052/my-swing-jamo/120_30#post_957894"] @jamo you're being too hard on yourself. Seriously, this is the best it's looked and worked in a long time. Good timing, too, because this is your next bit: [/quote] Maybe it was just that I typed up the post at 1:30 AM. I'm thrilled that I finally don't have to worry about that backswing piece, and that I have a feel that works great. :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana:

[mvmac]

Maybe it was just that I typed up the post at 1:30 AM. I'm thrilled that I finally don't have to worry about that backswing piece, and that I have a feel that works great.

Wheeee it's like graduation

[David in FL]

I couldn't tell you if my ball striking has changed much since I've been playing mostly indoors on mats. Before, my hips were so forward at A4 that I had no where to go from there. Now I'm more centered on the backswing, so I have space to move forward and extend from A4 to A7. That should help my ball striking.

Maybe it was just that I typed up the post at 1:30 AM. I'm thrilled that I finally don't have to worry about that backswing piece, and that I have a feel that works great.

Damn, that's an athletic move for a big man.

Nice!

[cipher]

Damn, that's an athletic move for a big man.

Nice!

Yes,  A4 looks great @jamo !

[jamo]

Wheeee it's like graduation :smartass:

[quote name="David in FL" url="/t/31052/my-swing-jamo/120_30#post_958310"] Damn, that's an athletic move for a big man.  Nice!      :beer: [/quote] [quote name="cipher" url="/t/31052/my-swing-jamo/120_30#post_958315"]Yes,  A4 looks great @jamo ! [/quote] Thanks guys!

[jamo]

For posterity, I should probably write down the feelings that worked the best. It was a combination of two: the propped/popped right hip feeling that Erik gave me (not sure if that one ever made it into an official video), and a general feeling that I was swinging like Rory McIlroy. I don't really know how to describe that, but just visualizing something in the way he moves his shoulders on the backswing seemed to work. Anything where I directly felt "stretching" didn't last long-term. [VIDEO]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qir6STNfJec[/VIDEO]

[jamo]

Struggling a little bit at the moment trying to engrain the backswing piece as well as making downswing improvements. Basically I can do the backswing correct when I focus just on that, but I've also found myself cheating a bit at address to make the downswing a bit easier, which messes up the backswing and just generally ****s everything up. Need to remind myself to take it slow and focus, which I just wanted to write down here. :-)

[jamo]

[VIDEO]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAvbZiy-yu4[/VIDEO] [VIDEO]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7igLDkgpAlo[/VIDEO] Those are both after practicing for a while with Mike's hip thrust and break drill. [VIDEO]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGhr7n-OnaE[/VIDEO] (Forgot to take it at full speed.)

[mvmac]

Looking good dude. When doing the drill make sure not to let the weight "roll" into the left heel. Try to keep it planted, will help with the thrust. Followthrough will be less level and feel more "tilted" right.

[jamo]

Looking good dude. When doing the drill make sure not to let the weight "roll" into the left heel. Try to keep it planted, will help with the thrust. Followthrough will be less level and feel more "tilted" right. [URL=http://thesandtrap.com/content/type/61/id/95567/] [/URL]

Great, I was actually wondering about that. Thanks.

[jamo]

[VIDEO]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb-UcHL5fuY[/VIDEO] From today, me doing the drill. (It's slow motion again. Fast forward to the one minute mark for me actually hitting the ball.) Definitely not easy to stop rolling onto my left heel. I went back and looked at some video, and I've been doing that for over a year now. But from all the videos I got today, when I managed to keep my foot down, everything looked much better. Plenty of room to improve here though. MORE MORE MORE extension, I gotta tell myself. Probably the last time I'll be going to the indoor range this season. They've got the outdoor mats open now at Southboro, and in a few weeks they'll probably have the grass open. Although, I seem to remember that place not opening the grass until later that you expect, so it might not be for a month.