Awesome lesson today

[Rainmaker]

Just came back from an awesome lesson.  I hadn't been for a lesson in about a year.  I've been doing ok - making steady progress . .but I've been feeling, lately, that I've been stumped trying to make improvements.  I'll start out a range session hitting it great - and then after a few dozen "experiments", I can't even hit the ball anymore. 

I've been trying to get "wider" . .been playing around with having my hands "deeper" or not in the backswing . .trying to fool around with my tilt, etc.  It turned out that I need to get my lower body "quieter" which I never would've come up with on my own.  I thought I was doing great with all this lower body action.  I was actually *trying* to do the very thing he got me to stop doing, lol.  I got a new drill, though, and the proof is obvious.  I have been feeling like I've been getting *almost* all the power out of my swing that I could based on my age and personal fatness.  I think I can get probably another, say, 15%  . .with the quieter lower body I'm getting a noticeably more powerful, whipping "smack" at impact . . .and I'm much more balanced instead of kind of falling forwards a bit in my follow through.

Anyway- lessons are awesome.  Can't say it enough.  I'd go more often but it takes me a long time to really incorporate the stuff I learn in  just one lesson.  Otherwise I feel like we're just working on the same thing every lesson.

 

 

[pganapathy]

If time and money permits, go for a few lessons and go regularly.  I know it might seem like you are working on the same things every lesson, but once it becomes second nature and part of your muscle memory, you are set for a lifetime of playing well.

[newtogolf]

Lessons can really help take your swing to the next level.  You're smart to space them out so you can work on the practice piece your instructor gave you.  If there's a long stretch in between lessons you may want to just get affirmation that you haven't allowed any bad habits to sneak back in and that you're doing the practice correctly. 

One of the other customers of my instructor spent two weeks doing a practice movement to improve hip turn wrong which messed up his swing and set him back.  

[Rainmaker]

I definitely should go more than once a year.  I used to go around 4 times a year - but somehow last year I didn't go at all.  In my case, it was a bad habit I picked up while *overlearning* something from a previous lesson.  It used to be that I didn't really get to my left side at all . . now I'm too much on my left side and I developed all this lower body action to get to where I thought I needed to be. 

Edit - it's not actually just that I'm too much on my left side.  I'm sliding ahead of the ball at impact.  Just thought I'd mention that to clarify.

Edited March 22, 2016 by Rainmaker
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