My Swing (PingGKEN)

[PingGKEN]

Hey guys. I thought I'd try to film a few swings for you to dissect. Been playing for about 6 years. Without lessons, I was hovering around 93-100. I started taking lessons late last year. All winter were worked on things and I finally felt like I had a nice swing brewing. Come spring I couldn't wait to hit the course. I SUCKED. It was worse that before lessons! Those damn mats in the dome had me all messed up. I've stopped the lessons for now because I felt like we were going over the same things every time we met. Plus I felt like if I didn't play well, I was wasting money on lessons. Things just snowballed from there. I was a wreck mentally.

I'm a flipper. I've never properly taken a divot in front of the ball. I don't know what ball first contact feels like. It seems so elusive to me.

Face On:


DTL:


Let me know if these vids are ok, or if you want any other angles or speeds. Thanks.

[JetFan1983]

Yup, I see the flip. Flying wedge drills really helped me. I still struggle with flipping, but these videos were great:

[PingGKEN]

Thanks for the reply. Those videos are definitely familiar to me. I've tried to practice moves like this, but I end up taking huge chucks of earth. Something in my body just does not trust that the face will be square if I don't throw the club head at the ball.

What do you guys think of the rest of the swing? Do you think practicing to eliminate the flip should be my main focus?

Might look into buying Manzella's "flipper" video.

[iacas]

Short answer (I'll get back here again, I promise) for now: read the "slide the hips" thread and watch the flying wedge drills. You'll notice in my flying wedge drills I've pre-set my weight forward too (with my hips). Your weight goes nowhere forward until well after you've flipped through the shot. You kind of "fake it" at the end and just stand up on the left foot.

[PingGKEN]

Thanks, iacas. Yeah on these shots, it seemed like I put so much effort into them with so little results. I went back outside after watching "confessions of a former flipper" and really took note of using the pivot + rotation of the body to square the face. I made sure to key in on the power coming from the ground reacting to my body turn while my hands just held on to the club. I hit a couple shots that went 2 times as far with what felt like 1/2 the effort.

I'll post some more video after working on all of these ideas a bit more. Thanks again.