My Swing (cedrictheo)

[iacas]

1 hour ago, cedrictheo said:

Best it's ever looked to me.

😄

1 hour ago, cedrictheo said:

And a video from some of my camera work

Probably slightly "overdone" or exaggerated there, but yes, good!

[mvmac]

Great recap and the swing is looking solid!

[cedrictheo]

Got to the range today and hit balls on actual turf for the first time since the gears lesson (been stuck indoors on mats). Contact was pure. Probably my best range session ever as far as low point control. Also found it easy to ramp up speed when I wanted to.
 

I only had an hour so I cycled through 3 ball sets working on different pieces.

 
1. Lead knee towards trail foot in takeaway 

2. Arms more up and in front of body in backswing

3. trail side extension in backswing 

4. fall left in transition while lead knee stays internal 

5. trail arm down and losing flex fast from 4-6 (yo-yo feel)

6. Lead pushes 45 degrees from target line in DS

7. Stop at 6 and then pump arms back to 5 drill (combining all of the above)

8. Full speed swings

 

[cedrictheo]

After a month or so of grinding on the pieces Erik gave me in Erie I saw improvements in my pelvis as well as my ability to get the arms higher and less pinned across my chest in the backswing. The key feels were to start the swing by moving my left knee towards my trail foot and then keep the lead knee / hip internally rotated into the downswing. I sprinkled in some fall left feeling at P4, although it became easy for me to overdo this and my hips to slide too far forward in the downswing. For the arms piece I’d do a couple rehearsals where I’d try and get the upper part of my trail arm perpendicular to the ground. I also did a drill where I’d lift the club straight up from address, rest it on my shoulders, then make my backswing turn and extend my arms out.
 

Had an online lesson with Scott Cowx on 2/16/23. I’ve worked with him a few times this winter and this time we moved away from the “constant radius” pattern and into “elephants trunk.” Elephants trunk is based on Rory’s swing (from 2012 or so). I’m excited about this change because there’s more power potential in it and Rory’s swing is on GEARS which means we can hone in on it even next time I visit Erik in Erie.

Scott noticed a large improvement in my pelvis since I last saw him. He then gave me a lead arm drill. The drill is to have the lead arm stay wide and high with very little adduction on the backswing. In tradition the lead arm adduction (narrowing the angle between the arm and chest) as it reattaches lower (below the pec) on the chest. In the downswing the pelvis puts on the “brakes” (slow down pelvis rotation) which causes the left arm to fling off the chest. To me this feels like I stop rotating and start extending the pelvis just before P5. Scott told me the timing of this pelvis “braking” will be how I control the face in elephants trunk.

The swing continues to look better and better to me. Here’s a video Scott took during our zoom session.

Edited February 21, 2023 by cedrictheo

[GolfLug]

This is some of the best work I have seen done on TST.

[cedrictheo]

3 minutes ago, GolfLug said:

This is some of the best work I have seen done on TST.

🙏 😊

[iacas]

5 hours ago, GolfLug said:

This is some of the best work I have seen done on TST.

Thank you Vishal! I gave it my best!

Ha ha ha ha ha ha. 😉

🐘

[mchepp]

Where can we find more information on "elephant trunk"?

[GolfLug]

25 minutes ago, iacas said:

Thank you Vishal! I gave it my best!

Ha ha ha ha ha ha. 😉

🐘

You and @mvmac don't count. That would be grossly unfair... 😁.  Plus, I said some of, not the best.  

[cedrictheo]

47 minutes ago, mchepp said:

Where can we find more information on "elephant trunk"?

Scott teaches the pattern to Ian here: 

 

[cedrictheo]

Heading to Erie tomorrow for some work with @iacas. Had a setback 3 weeks ago where I didn’t have time to practice for about 5 days straight. I’ve been back on the grind since.

Most of my work has been mechanical sessions (often wearing the proSendr). I do 3-5 ball sets cycling through the following:
    ⁃    Lead knee internal rotation to start backswing
    ⁃    Arms in front of body p1-p4 (with occasional assist from gravity fit yellow band)
    ⁃    Lead knee stays internally rotated p3-p5 as I fall towards the target 
    ⁃    Yo-yo sensation to shallow club from p4-p6
    ⁃    Lead hip pushes 45 degrees away from target from p5-p9
    ⁃    Left arm only drill focusing on loading left arm and then flinging it with a good pivot 

This has left me with a mental model of my swing that I call “Xander (somehow it looks like xander's swing in my head).” To verbalize Xander it's something like: add a little bit of right wrist hinge to set into proSendr, take arms straight back and wide and add a little shallowing move with right forearm in transition.

Happy to report I have some speed that I can crank up as needed (stock swing is currently a 150 yard carry 8 iron).

Also been doing some measured practice. I will hit 5 balls to targets ranging from 50-215 yards and record the median proximity to the hole for each distance. Plan to do a lot more of measured practice work as the season is coming up soon.

[mvmac]

On 3/12/2023 at 1:34 PM, cedrictheo said:

⁃    Lead knee internal rotation to start backswing

Should help with the pelvis stuff @iacas had you working on, especially if you can sense some pressure on the inside part of the foot. My pelvis can get "spinny" if I lose my first met connection.