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hate to be vague but it sounds like golf to me, somedays it works and some it doesn't -matt

looks good, i wish i had access to swing analysis software, i usually stick post-it notes to my screen. I cut the sticky part into slivers, hey whatever works right. well every saturday morning i work at the range for atleast 3 hours now i will have tuesday nights availible too since the days are getting longer. so i'll get more time to work. i'm actually going to this year spend alot more time on the range and putting green and less time on the course. on the course is no place to learn, not enough strokes especially when only 40 or so are full swings. but believe it or not as much as i am working on fundementals i am very much a feel golfer. even when i go to the range i need to have rythem to my practice. i need to feel what it is like to have my hands and club head pass through in front of my body through impact and not have my hips race out in front. but i'll work on it and thanks again for all the help. -matt

absolutely not! i take any advice i can get and im not going to get better without working all the kinks out,and i was actually thinking the same things. i think if i can create better hip action and stay behind the ball the lag and impact position will get better on their own. an old man at the range told me that impact position cant be fixed by woking on impact position, it is the result of a good swing. so i think my next undertaking is going to be controlling my hips. When i get so far out in front its no wonder i release early its the only choice i have or i would miss the ball all together. that tells me i have excellent hand - eye coordination, which as stupid as it sounds gives me confidence moving foward. thanks for your help. BTW- ss105-107 bs155ish this will come up if i can control the speed better and not prematurly ejactulate it like i am now -matt

i think i've made good progress through the winter but something i still need to work on thats bugging me is holding onto my lag through impact. here are some down the line vids just to complete the picture

heres an update from today, i think i got my upper body under better control but i still need to work on pulling the left hip to the left more and not toward the target as you will see in the videos.

i'm waiting for a new upgraded version, but i dont know if you can upgrade an already great club! -matt

i work out in my gym 6 days a week mon-back tues-chest & tricep wed-bicep & leg thur-cardio atleast an hour fri-shoulder sat-abs and cardio atleast and hour sun-rest every excercise i do i will do 4-5 sets with 15-20reps per set. This does two things one, i wont bulk up i retain full range of motion, and two it really gets you on endurance. I used to get fatiqued and not know it coming down the stretch on the back nine, not anymore. 6 weeks ago i started i weighed 205 (6'1") now i'm down to 190 and alot stronger. U dont need p90x to get in shape, u just need good work ethic and discipline. -matt

so your telling me if this has been tried before and so they are doing it again, does that mean the HAMMER might make a comeback? That would be awesome, BOOM! -matt

like the title says i went to the range today and hit everything flush except 3/4 shots. full shots were excellent, this is confusing. any advise on this problem? -matt

OMG i thought i swung with my upper body! Keep working man, i dont know if anyone said this but if you get the club up on plane faster on the take away(you get there eventually) you wont feel you have to copensate. Everyone i have ever seen takes the club inside going up and out coming down. supposed to be the other way around. -matt

i started when i was 10 and didn't break 100 until i was 17 now im 23 and i guess i'm ok at the game, must have patience. remember practice DOES not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect, try harder focusing on what you are trying to do when you go to the range and not worry about results. -matt

i dont expect to make anything, but i believe i can make everything, expectations cause bad attitudes and bad scores. -matt

i have a matrix and absoluety love it, i actually hate the club head but shaft cant be removed so i'll live with it because of the shaft. I work in a golf retail store and it was by far the fastest shaft i swung with way less spin than any other high launch shaft i hit -matt

well that camera angle isn't the best but from what i can see you are coming way over the top swinging with alot of upper body. my guess is alot of bif slices or pull hooks, prolly the hooks cause you seem to swing pretty agrresive and get the face too shut. -matt

thats funny you mention holding the head while you swing, beings as how i dont live with anyone but my wife and my friends wont go to the range with me cause its too cold, my wife holds my head while i swing in the living room. only during commercials though! -matt

Thanks for all the advise guys, i'm still working away at it when i can even if its cold outside. Somebody said something about down the line videos so here are some from this past week. If i had to explain what i feel during my swing to better help someone else is to just keep your hands in front of your chest and keep the club head above your hands. Do this and rotate around your spine and not a whole lot can go wrong. thats just what i feel and i tell myself during a round so i dont get to complicated. one of the biggest things i have learned working on my swing, something that i think most people dont realize is that you cant just change one part of your swing, you make one change then something else will be different because of that change, i guarentee it. So pay attention to what you are working on and what else could affect it. As far as fitness goes i have lost about 20lbs over the last 3 months while exercizing regularly. I think this is imperitive to making a good golf swing. Obvioulsy this isn't true though look at mark calcavechia and tim herron, but i think its important and makes life alot easier. Golf Digest this month have a workout regimen in it to build golf muscles, i am going to start using this this week. Anyway here are the videos here's a video from early 08 of how fat i was and how my swing has changed

no i use same swing motion and intensity for both. i just thought that it would be a bigger gap. -matt

just came from golf store i work at and went through fitting myself again, i do this every couple months just to stay on top and its free and i can do it my self. my swing speed with my 6 iron is 92-93 which is pretty fast so this spring i am going to switch to x100 beings i have a fast tempo and harsh transistion. Now here's the funny thing, my driver i could only get up to arround 105. it stayed between 102-105 which is slow compared to my 6 iron. what swing flaws could be causing this. if you need videos let me know and i will post them later. thanks matt

you guys are missing the point please provide proof that miuri makes tigers irons. saying you know a rep doesnt mean anything if hes a sales rep ans its suppose to be a secret then he wouldnt know cause they wouldnt give info like that to a sales rep. without proof all you guys are doing is starting rumors. please have proof before making claims. tiger and his management say his irons are made by nike thats enough proof for me.

wrong, his loft is 7.5 with a diamana whiteboard 83x flex. Can you please stop saying tiger plays miura irons without having any proof of this. tiger woods plays nike and only nike irons, not miura, mizzy or titleist irons with nike stamp, they are nike forged blades. i know this because thats what tiger says he plays, you find better information than that then you can continue to tell people what you think he plays. thanks -matt

he said he was the first to win with a vr club which i believe was a wedge. while tiger has been with nike he played nike blades if you think he played something else with a nike stamp please prove it. all we saw was a blade iron with a nike stamp. we assume that a company that never made golf clubs before could not make an iron that the best player in the world could use. i mean its just a blade i have hit alot and if you flush them they all feel the same. its not that big of a deal

the easiest thing to do is go somewhere with a launch monitor and hop on that bad boy. i've seen people with 8-9* drivers hit them super high balooning ball flights because they are spinning too much. you swing speed is similar to mine, i'm about 108-112 and a little more if i need it, anyway with you driver and shaft with that speed you wanna see numbers in the 11-13 launch angle and 2400-2800 rpm. if you have those numbers great keep up the good work but i doubt you will if you hit the ball really high. i'd say if you are at about 2800-3200rpm than that can be corrected with a shaft any higher than you have a swing flaw that needs to be addressed. -matt

sorry typo the f is right near the c, thanks -matt

like i said earlier, i just go play and i did this weekend, it was 28* on saturday and shot a 77 and it was 35* on sunday and shot 73. My two best rounds of my life were shot this past weekend in temps that make most golfers fringe. i love the winter! -matt

i have some experience with club fitting, if you are hitting a 8.5 with an aldila nv too high without having and outrageos ss which i dont see that you have. you are either miss-hitting the shot high on the club face or which is probally the case is that your upright setup is causing you to hit down on the ball causing excessive spin. leaning your spine angle away from the ball could actually help you hit it lower, less spin(less spin also means straighter) and further cause you will have a more boring ball flight. -matt