My Swing (moparman426)

[moparman426]

My old driver:




It's also my first attemp at making a video, so it is not very good.

6 iron, sorry for the sound quality, the wind picked up. No HD either.




Lets have it....Is it really that that bad? My swing, I mean. I want to get a couple of frontals, but the screens between the stalls are huge, and the grass is almost 8" deep, so as soon as it's mowed, I'll try and make another video from the grass.

3 iron



My first attempt here......can someone atleast reply to let me know if the videos are visible?

[iacas]

My first attempt here......can someone atleast reply to let me know if the videos are visible?

They are. I'm swamped or I'd have a look.

[moparman426]

No worries, my first time uploading and linking, Thanks for compiling it into a single post as well.

[nuck81]

I'm no expert or instructor, but I think you;re swing and my swing look very similar.

I think we're both doing a pretty good job of staying on plane until the very top of back swing, there we lift our arms a little, probably as a subconscious move to create more power that we don't really need, and it brings our swing off that plane we created. On the downswing we are coming in at too steep an angle which is causing us both to scrunch and collapse our arms at impact in compensation of that lift we have at the top. I think the key is too really focus in on your hands and club going around your body in a circle and never back. I've also been told I sway off the ball a bit, but thats hard to see on DTL.

I could be completely full of shit and have no idea as to what I'm saying too, so take it with a grain of salt....

[moparman426]

I think I am staying centered over the ball, well my head at least. That is where most of my focus is right now, which is why my right leg is almost going into full lock during my back swing in an attempt to keep my weight forward (down the line). One thing I have noticed (wish I had a slo-mo cam) is I think I have a wrist cupping issue resolved. I don't know, looks pretty straight to me anyway. Not sure what you mean by lifting my arms. Do you mean a full vertical upshift with both arms, or pulling my right elbow off my ribs a bit? Keeping my elbow tucked is my second swing thought, but I try not to go too much further in over thinking the swing, other than the occasional practice swing where I check on the club face half way through the back swing. I do see my head dropping a bit too, or is it a lot?


My swing plane is more vertical than I thought. Being 6'4", it feels more natural than trying to flatten it out. I tried to flatten it last year....no consistency and it actually hurt my back.

[nuck81]

I mean a full vertical upshift. Like almost a nike swish at the top....

[James_Black]

can you do some face on videos?

DTL isn't good for much other than swing plane

[Shanks A Million]

The problem here should be clear enough, even on a down the line view. There's no width to the swing, the club is too close to your shoulder at the top, and the whole swing is constricted. You want the club to be far away from the body in both directions, so the left arm is fully extended going back, and the right arm is fully extended going through. Both arms should be extended in the followthrough position, which should occur after the ball is struck, where the club crosses the hands.

For now, it would be advisable to keep both arms more straight on the backswing and followthrough, or try to keep the club farther from your body.

[moparman426]

can you do some face on videos?

Raining today. The weather has been crap here lately, which is why the range is looking like a wheat field.

Nothing from mid-shin down would have been visible in a front-on video. I don't mind swinging in the rain, so if it does ease up a bit after work, I'll take a run over to the range and maybe trample the grass down. Other than that, how does the plane look, other than the nike swoosh that nuck mentioned (I don't see it myself)? Lol, I am wearing my steel-toed shoes from work in the above vids as well

[James_Black]

Raining today. The weather has been crap here lately, which is why the range is looking like a wheat field.

Upload the vids to swingacademy.com

It lets you slow down the videos and draw lines on them which helps a lot. To check swing plane draw a line up from the tip of your shaft to the butt of it and keep it going up until the top of the video. If the clubhead stays on this line it is "on plane" if it goes off it. It's above/below plane

[Shanks A Million]

Upload the vids to swingacademy.com

Yeah, and if you can find

anyone who swings on that line, then I'd like to know. I'm sure there's some wierdo somewhere who can do it, but I've never seen it. Matt Kuchar maybe comes close, but even he isn't there. Almost no one can setup with the club set and come back down that way, it would require such fine muscle control, you'd be able to hit one shot of 100 solid maybe, unless you were a freak of nature. Moe Norman setup with his arms straight out, and he probably came the closest, but he was a freak of nature.

[James_Black]

Yeah, and if you can find

I don't think anybody practised as much as moe did.

That line will give an idea of what's going on for the backswing & downswing. As long as your On-Plane for the downswing your ok.

[iacas]

That line will give an idea of what's going on for the backswing & downswing.

Sure, but you need to pick a plane, and the shaft plane isn't it. Elbow plane to turned shoulder plane - somewhere in there is pretty much a requirement.

[moparman426]

Would striking a wiffle ball work for a face on video? If so, I can do that in my own yard in a couple of hours.

[James_Black]

Would striking a wiffle ball work for a face on video? If so, I can do that in my own yard in a couple of hours.

yes, as long as you strike it as if you were hitting a real ball.

[moparman426]

Sweet, no worries about hitting the neighbors garage....again.

[moparman426]

Again, not the best quality.

http://www.swingacademy.com/videoPlayer.aspx?id=6847

[James_Black]

I can't see your swing properly.

It's really blurry in slo-mo