My Swing (Baculus)

[Baculus]

Thoughts @iacas?

[Baculus]

Cropped. 

[iacas]

  On 2/19/2017 at 3:02 AM, Baculus said:

Thoughts @iacas?

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To be honest, the lack of good video angles makes any analysis tough to do.

https://thesandtrap.com/b/playing_tips/filming_your_swing

The video above is out on the ball/target line, not on the toe line. I didn't look at the other videos.

Sorry. I'm busy, as we all are, and I'd rather not take time to analyze video - for free - for a swing shot from bad angles. The analysis suffers as a result.

[Baculus]

In hindsight yes it's pretty bad. I'll buy a stand and make some good ones. Cheers for being honest! 

[Baculus]

@iacas I hope this is better, feel free to tell me if it's not. 

@iacas

[iacas]

You swing across the ball and get crowded for space on the follow-through.

You can see that some of the crowding comes from "early extension" and you can see not only (on the left) how far outside the ball the clubhead gets early, and how far left the ball starts. It's even further left when you take into account the height of the ball off the ground (the triangle).

Part of the crowding and the need for early extension is due to how far forward your head goes, and how little secondary axis tilt this lets you create. If you don't do something to shallow the club, you're going to take HUGE divots.

So here's what I'd have you do:

1. Put two sticks on the ground to create a channel to the right.

2. Put another stick on the ground on your target line.

3. "Push the ball with your path" to the right of the stick. Feeling the head stay in place (NOT shift forward) will help with this.

Do this in slow motion at first because it's going to be very very different.

Example:

[Baculus]

  On 2/21/2017 at 5:53 PM, iacas said:

So here's what I'd have you do:

1. Put two sticks on the ground to create a channel to the right.

2. Put another stick on the ground on your target line.

3. "Push the ball with your path" to the right of the stick. Feeling the head stay in place (NOT shift forward) will help with this.

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Thanks very much for your time @iacas , I really appreciate that.  In practice I've been aiming to get the clubhead on the right plane behind the ball by trying to get my right elbow in toward my hip but I didn't realise my head was moving so far forward. Coming across seems so hard to change, I've been swinging it that way for years :( now I know about my head it helps. 

Should I worry about ball flight with this drill? I gather the ideal would be the ball drawing back to the target line. 

[iacas]

  On 2/22/2017 at 5:29 AM, Baculus said:

Should I worry about ball flight with this drill? I gather the ideal would be the ball drawing back to the target line.

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Not at first. If you hit pushes that don't curve much one way or the other, that's a good sign.

[Baculus]

Thanks - I'll upload some videos of me doing the drill tomorrow to make sure I'm doing it correctly.

[Baculus]

 

Here are two vids of the drill @iacas. As I do this drill I feel like my swing is getting more 'handsy and armsy. Is this a good thing? 

 

By the way that one instruction about keeping my head back has worked wonders. Hitting it so much more solidly/ much better feedback and getting it a lot more higher and straighter. 

[iacas]

  On 2/27/2017 at 8:20 AM, Baculus said:

Here are two vids of the drill @iacas. As I do this drill I feel like my swing is getting more 'handsy and armsy. Is this a good thing? 

By the way that one instruction about keeping my head back has worked wonders. Hitting it so much more solidly/ much better feedback and getting it a lot more higher and straighter. 

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Yeah, I can see how it probably feels like that. What you're doing now is fine, but eventually you'll want to keep the arms extended and keep up the rates of rotation through the ball. Right now, to "do" the drill, you're stalling your upper body a bit. That's fine for now, something to pay attention to later.

And yeah… the second paragraph is kind of the point.

Now, practice this for a long time.