My Swing (Cantankerish)

[boogielicious]

11 hours ago, Cantankerish said:

Been practicing...

Question: The way I come square while maintaining proper inclination results in quite a bit of extra torso-ahead-of-the-hands motion.  My guess is that this is a good thing.  But two things are happening that concern me:

1. I feel that my swing is kinda wild.  I am whipping around so much with my arms so loose that I occasionally have crappy contact.

2. There is a considerable fade worked into my swing where it used to be a draw.  I prefer not to have this.

 

Are these natural side effects of learning this movement that I can later work out?

I'm going to try to take some videos this weekend.

I usually film my practice when I hit into my net. Often times I will have what felt like a crappy swing when I practice. It is usually because something felt off or I could get my ‘feels’ down. But when I review the video, they look ok or at least where they usually are.

[Cantankerish]

Progress report:

Been working on the angle of my torso relative to the shaft as recommended.  I am trying to get that angle close to 90 degrees.  (I am not sure if I am saying this or doing this correctly.)  Please let me know if I have accomplished this goal.  If not, I may need to ask for advice on how to go about it.  I have been working on this for awhile without really knowing how to get there.

 

 

 

 

Thank you for your critique.

[billchao]

1 hour ago, Cantankerish said:

Progress report:

Been working on the angle of my torso relative to the shaft as recommended.  I am trying to get that angle close to 90 degrees.  (I am not sure if I am saying this or doing this correctly.)  Please let me know if I have accomplished this goal.  If not, I may need to ask for advice on how to go about it.  I have been working on this for awhile without really knowing how to get there.

 

 

 

 

Thank you for your critique.

It looks the same, man. How have you been practicing? Have you been doing mirror work, drills incorporated into your range sessions, making the movements slowly, etc.?

[Cantankerish]

Yeah. Pretty close.  I started out doing a lot of the mirror drills, without the mirror.  It's hard for me to get a spot for the mirror.  I went about trying to incorporate the motions into my swing.  I am just not learning very well this way. I am going to have to decide if I want to take lessons or accept no progress.  Pretty disheartening.

[iacas]

Post a video of you doing some of the drills. Or slower motion swings.

Lessons aren’t really going to be that different.