JKolya

Awesome. I have not played PB, but am local here and have walked the course a ton (I try to go to non-tour events where you can walk the fairways during the rounds). Anyways, your round sounds great. Double bogey on 6? Where did you land on your second shot up the hill? Par on 8 is great. GIR? How was the new range? I have not spent any time on it, but want to soon.

Quote: Originally Posted by sk golf @mvmac not stepping on any toes :) @JKolya Torso looks better (more upright) but you still need less anterior pelvic tilt (I also call this Donald Duck butt). :) Quote: Yep same thing I was seeing, head is also too far back. I like that, "Donald Duck", might have to steal that LOL I noticed that too, and have a question on it - Stephan mentioned in my Evolvr lesson was that the line from butt down to my heels - it was too close and I needed more space. I had a little of the donald duck butt before, but trying to fix the other made it worse. Said another way, trying to have less anterior pelvic titl resulted in the line from the pelvis to my heels being closer to the heels. Will work on it.

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Good putt, still in it.

And that sucks.

Great shot

Yeah, when he starts slamming the club and complaining - usually doesn't turn out well. Hopefully, he can do something at 11 or 12 and get back on track.

Ah yes - those do warrant slow motion.

Why a slow motion replay of Fowler high fiving Jimenez? I missed the shot and wanted to see it again.

Didn't expect that... a lot left

Good line.... ended up alright.

Awesome

Appreciate it Mike. My other priority piece, other than address, is my swing length, but my one day at the range for the above videos aggravated my rib injury again so it will be a few more weeks before I can swing again. That said, I would appreciate your other thoughts on address as that is all I can do right now . Side note - my chin/eyes are not where they would be as the camera was on a timer and I was not sure when it would go off.

Working on address - one of the items Stephen mentioned in my last Evolvr video. His main comment was to be more upright (from my last video posted). Thoughts on this? The first and third pictures are the same setup. The middle one - which I did not take a FO of, is a question I have. How I am setup in the first picture (and my old setup), I feel like the shaft is too upright. Looking at vids and pics of others, the shaft, if extended, runs into their zipper. My runs into my upper abdomen. The middle picture is an attempt to lower the shaft plane, but the result is the toe is lifted at address. Thoughts here? I have wondered a lot if my clubs were mis-fitted. I was fitted for them last year, and basically could not swing a club at the time. I had intended on waiting to have a semi-repeatable swing before purchasing them, but there was a deal I could not pass up. The fitters also seemed more interested in hitting at the range, and "fit" me in all of 15 minutes. Any help with set-up would be really appreciated. Thanks.

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1) Practice. I remember two old interviews, one from MJ and the other from Tiger - MJ said he preferred the gym to a game any day, because practice is where you are challenged (if you practice intentionally), and where you improve. The game should be easy if practice is done correctly. Tiger basically said the same thing and said that he would rather be at the range than at a tournament. Obviously, these are generalizations, but the point was if practice is done correctly it should be more challenging, and lead to more improvement. An additional caveat is how the practice plays out. Two hours at the range just hitting balls, even if you are intentional in swing mechanics or "playing a course at the range," does not quite cut it. Practice to me takes a lot more time, and includes more than just hitting (warm-up, stretching, workouts that are golf specific, 65-25-10, slow and intentional, evaluating with video, lessons or Evolvr, etc) - basically everything you do to improve. 2). In other sports I always enjoyed being challenged by better players. In golf, I personally do not play any different no matter who I am playing with. That said, sometimes its just fun to watch better guys, and I guess you can learn a thing or two from them. How about just mix it up?

It was not that one, but the box concept is the same. I do not think what he is saying is wrong - it's just that for me that thought/feel does not work as I have some swing flaws where I could still hit the box, but miss the ball (or just not make solid contact). Other than the one video I just watched I have zero experience with DK so I am not making any judgements, but in general it seems that he is teaching finding a feel that works and sticking with that. Me personally, I need more mechanics to improve, but once I get those and match a feel to them then I can play more off of feel.

Just watched a YouTube video on his PowePoint where he puts a box a foot plus past the ball and slightly inside and says that that is the target. He's basically talking about swinging on an arc and through the ball, but that seems like an odd way of explaining it as I could reach the spot on the box in multiple ways without even making contact with the ball. [Video]http://youtube.com/watch?v=cnkheqncGkcl[/Video]

That makes sense to me. It's a good little cheat for consistency in gripping the club. I sometimes struggle with this as my grip is not consistent throughout my clubs.

Yeah, that was one of the first things James mentioned, and one that I had gotten better at, but fell right back into. And on the guy behind - so did not notice that. He seemed to be hitting the ball decently on the few swings that I saw, but yeah, wow.

After 4+ months out with a rib injury, this was tough. In my time off I worked on some slo motion drills focusing on inclination and early extension. I still need to work on those as they breakdown in full speed/full swings. Fell into some of my old habits of too much shoulder/hip rotation, over-swinging past parallel, and too much leg movement. Miss hits were weak pushes right, and hitting behind the ball. These videos are the epitome of feel is not real, as after looking at them they look nothing like the feels I thought I had.

Both of these are from back in November. An injury put me out from November until this week, and in that I worked on a few things in slo motion. My primary focus here was the right elbow at the top of the backswing - keeping it lower than lead arm. Definitely overswing and early extend among other things.

I agree. I am not saying weight is forward in the golf sense in a baseball swing. I am saying that a good contact instructor teaches a weight transfer on the stride and the upper body staying over the lower. However, the overall weight at contact may still be on the back foot. So its more like your center of gravity moving forward. An ideal contact swing is: stride with weight going forward, hips turning, right elbow down, and then swing down on the ball. Its difficult to explain because we here are used to using these same terms in regards to golf. There is a weight transfer in baseball, but it looks nothing like weight transfer in golf. At contact weight can be on the back foot, but your entire center of gravity shifted forward. Its like you are pushing off of that back foot to move forward. Now, you have to account for the pitch (type, location, speed) which often results in actual swings looking way different than ideal. In a hitting clinic where you hit off a tee and work on the motions you are taught weight transfer, center of gravity moving forward (not falling away), right elbow, ,and cutting down into the ball. Strength vs swing speed: Was referring to an old way of describing two different power swings. Its the difference between a McGwire vs Griffey swing. McGwire muscled the ball over while Griffey simply had a fast swing that produced power. Their swings (at times) look completely different in regards to weight and positioning. Again, I am not disagreeing with what you said or saying that weight is forward. The weight is backwards at contact in both swings for McGwire and Griffey. There are others though like Frank Thomas and Bryce Harper who are completely off the back foot at contact and sometimes well into the follow through.

One of the things many are missing with baseball is that there are many different swings. What I mean by this is a swing will look drastically different for a power hitter versus an on-base hitter, or for hitting for base hits vs squeeze plays, etc. Further, you can get away with not being in the fundamental, correct position and still make contact and get a hit. Iacas, the hitters you put above are power guys who lean back and swing up. That said they still go forward first. Any power hitter will tell you that you step into it and that the power comes from the ground up and hips rotating. However, they then fall back on hit up. They can get away with this because of freakish power. Look at guys who hit long based off of swing speed and not strength and they do not fall back like that. A basic textbook swing for a percentage guy is stepping forward, rotating hips first and then upper body, and actually cuts down into the ball. You do not swing up. All that said I would say the similarities are: 1) ground up and rotate hips, 2) right elbow tucked at some point. The differences are that in baseball you can ignore any of these and swing completely different and get away with it.