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"5 Minutes Daily" Practice Challenge (March 2016)

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Spent a lot of time on my hips recently, and have made good progress.

Finally turned my attention to my past parallel swing, and I gotta say shortening the back swing has been pretty hard to do.

My arms like to keep going, and going. That feeling of being "set" at the top has been dangerously ingrained to be way past parallel for quite some time, but I've had my eye on it. One thing at a time!

Have just been using slow motion in the mirror, trying to attach a "feel" to what is a full shoulder turn where the arms are not doing any unnecessary movement.

I actually feel shortening the back swing is making my down swing transition a little more crisp, and quick due to my arms/hands not dragging behind.

 

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Hit balls at the range today. Im still working on my downswing however I paid a little attention to my takeaway. I started getting sloppy with it and I have to remember hands in and clubhead out. I also practiced my putting with the coin drill.

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Short yoga stretches, medicine ball routine, dead lift and backswing drill at gym. Back home to hit balls in net in barn. Medicine ball routine is making a difference. I feel strength in legs but also feeling drop into slot in downswing. Helps promote the inside out swing path.

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On 3/12/2016 at 0:57 PM, Lihu said:

Still working on my timing using a swing speed radar. I'm going to setup something to monitor my hand path.

More of the same thing. I also got distracted implementing a 24GHz doppler radar to see if it picks up the ball just as well as X-band.

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More range work today. I focused mainly on my takeaway. I have to make sure to keep an eye on it because I can get really sloppy. I also worked more on my putting with the coin drill and clock drill. I ended the day with trying to make 10 straight 5 footers. I had to start over a couple times:)

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Great practice day today (and great weather)... worked a lot with the driver, 6-iron and 7-iron in the backyard. Focused on backswing, downswing drills and full swing incorporating the key elements of the drills. Again, my main focus is swing now with the lower body (not arms) and continuing with my single swing thought (at A4... try to hit the ball with the belly button). Heading out to play a round of golf tomorrow morning to try to put this into my game. Also, made a number of videos and reviewed them. Sent a couple off to Evolvr for review. Here are a couple driver videos that I posted in MySwing. Any suggestions and comments are always appreciated. 

 

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MiddleTees Well Established Member

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Short yoga stretches, medicine ball routine and backswing drill with weighted club in gym then out to range. Hit lg bucket with focus on inside path and square club face. Mostly hitting par 3 tee balls with all  clubs.

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15 minutes of mirror work at the gym. Going to the range later to work on items from my Evolvr lesson.

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20 hours ago, Lihu said:

More of the same thing. I also got distracted implementing a 24GHz doppler radar to see if it picks up the ball just as well as X-band.

More of the 24GHz Doppler. More of the swing path stuff.

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Got something rigged up to look at the swing path.

Now using the DIY swing speed doppler to measure the speed and loading the data to the computer.

Also, working on the swing path detector. In the meantime, just taped a laser pointer end of the grip on the shaft of a practice club. Primitive, but it works. Keeping the swings at the toe line. I just have no idea where maximum velocity occurs.

The computer interfaced swing path measurement device can take about 2000 position readings in "3D". When it works, I will be able to load and plot it along with the doppler radar data. I'll create another thread once this rig is all setup and working. Plots to come once I finish this up and integrate the two things. The path detector I am building can get about 2000 position readings per second, but I am working to get it up to 10000 or so.

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20 to 25 minutes mirror work doing mapping and slow motion drills from my Evolvr lesson.

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MiddleTees Well Established Member

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Short yoga routine, medicine ball routine and backswing drill in gym then out to range. Today's focus on same inside out path . Overall good practice session trying different things to learn movements I need to make. 

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10 hours ago, Lihu said:

Got something rigged up to look at the swing path.

Now using the DIY swing speed doppler to measure the speed and loading the data to the computer.

Also, working on the swing path detector. In the meantime, just taped a laser pointer end of the grip on the shaft of a practice club. Primitive, but it works. Keeping the swings at the toe line. I just have no idea where maximum velocity occurs.

The computer interfaced swing path measurement device can take about 2000 position readings in "3D". When it works, I will be able to load and plot it along with the doppler radar data. I'll create another thread once this rig is all setup and working. Plots to come once I finish this up and integrate the two things. The path detector I am building can get about 2000 position readings per second, but I am working to get it up to 10000 or so.

Took more video and my hips are closing up again. Need to monitor that as well at impact. Thinking about what modifications I can make with the position reading sensor for the hips.

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Ping i20 irons U-4, CFS300
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Mirror work and mapping my downswing today. Im trying to get my body rotating more in the downswing and keeping the club shallow. I also spent 15 min. working on my takeaway.

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7 hours ago, Lihu said:

Took more video and my hips are closing up again. Need to monitor that as well at impact. Thinking about what modifications I can make with the position reading sensor for the hips.

No need for the sensor. I was a able to get draw flights out of my drives again. Just a little open at impact was enough. Still working on loosening them up to get more open at impact. I think there's some more power to be had. So, the ping i25 is working again, but really sensitive to bad swings. I'll have to make sure to swing correctly so I won't insult it so much. . .

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Callaway XR16 9 degree Fujikura Speeder 565 S
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Short yoga routine to stretch and slow mo backswing drill hitting into net in barn. Focus on inside out path and square club face at impact. Am trying to stand away from ball more at address. Seems to feel good and ball strikes good too. 

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