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Get Better Now! April 2015 Practice Challenge Thread

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I'm in. I am in high school so I usually get a few hours of practice in/a round 5-6 days a week but why not add in some work at home on my off day/days. I need to work on my driver and get it to where it fades just a little, I still slice it occasionally way too much instead of my power fade.

Anybody have any chipping drills I could do at home?

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Try this. www.youtube.com/embed/6TIJItGWGKs It's what Mike has me working on and has helped a lot.

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I'm in.  I've already been doing this. On days when I can't hit ball, I swing at a rubber tee. Below is a drill I did yesterday at the range.  I am working on flatten the shaft from A4 to 5.  It has b

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I'm predicting a lot of good golf in April!


I played spottily good golf in March, but really need to solidify this swing. Might need a lesson too, if I can't figure things out myself. . .

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After today's round, I decided to switch gears to practicing my pitching. I think I have a good idea on what's going on, and I'm going to keep practicing it everyday until I don't have to think about it anymore.

Bill

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Crim Great Member

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I'm in. Although sometimes I have no idea what I'm looking for or what should be changed.

Especially when looking at a mirror, everything looks fine to me when I look at a mirror but I know I have to be doing 4 billion things wrong.

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Especially when looking at a mirror, everything looks fine to me when I look at a mirror but I know I have to be doing 4 billion things wrong.

How many Gazillion times have I told you not to exaggerate?

Chris.:roll:

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Did one hour of half & full swing practice today.  More importantly, I took my punisher to the range and hit some solid shots without breaking my ribcage.   But with real clubs, I think I am still flipping 1/2 of the time.   Did some air swinging in front of a mirror at my company's gym, too.

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How many Gazillion times have I told you not to exaggerate?

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My bad, you've probably told me a trillion gazillion.

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I've been doing home/not at a range no ball practice throughout winter. Can't sleep, so just spent 10 minutes working on shallow shaft move and better hip motion while watching TV. I have fo & dtl mirrors setup so I can see both views at once. Recent swing change requires much more aggressive motorcycle rev/shaft shallowing move around A4-ish.

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Did five minutes at home last night with a wedge while watching the women play their first major of the year.

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Off to a slow start, at home practice wise this month, but I'll turn it around. Went to the range wednesday, a birthday party Thursday, a Passover Seder then a 4 hour car ride yesterday and I'm playing today. I will make it up though!!
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Here's the start of my five minutes today.

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A little late, but I'm in. I watched a video from Hank about 3 weeks ago, he recommended that you swing a club anywhere from 10 to 100 times as often as possible. I tried it, but I think anything over 5 mins, or even 10 mins, is going over board. I had a Big problem taking my clubs back way to far inside, and we all know what happens on the down swing when you do that.... :pound: ...The big S word...so having slowly practiced w/o a ball, I very seldom hit those nasty S's... :-D

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About a minute of my 5 minutes of practice at home today.

Might have to move the sofa next time. :-P

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I have been kind of doing this during the offseason.

Not every day and but with a specific focus of trying to work on Key #2.

I am definitely up for the challenge!

Christian

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Jameson Well Established Member

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I definitely join this thread. I think is a really good idea, and from today on I´m going to change my training ways because I know that I´m doing something wrong at the moment since I don´t feel any improvement during the las months.

However, I need someone to tell me what indoor exercise should I do to fix which I think is my biggest flaw at the moment:

as you can see in the image below, at the start of my bs, I place the club so inside, behind my hands, and thus, the grip is pointing to the right. At the top of de backswing, my grip is not pointing the ball, it just point somewhere out of it...:

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any good exercise to fix it and I will be repeting it 10 or 15 minutes a day at home everyday... Thanks, and keep the good work!

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any good exercise to fix it and I will be repeting it 10 or 15 minutes a day at home everyday... Thanks, and keep the good work!

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