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Haha now I’m just a broke adult! I actually never played baseball at all. I played basketball. That’s just how my swing has always been. It’s just what I naturally did, probably trying to swing too hard.

So it will naturally shallow or am I supposed to be doing something?

I have been seeing an instructor for about a year. I go whenever I get a little extra cash so I could stand to go see him more. I tend to be laid off at the top of my backswing and past horizontal, so we’re working on me going too far the other way. He would rather me be across the line at the top than laid off. My question is how do I shallow the club while being across the line. I already am way too steep in the downswing. Doesn’t being across the line at the top make it even steeper?

@mvmac any thoughts?

The contact is better than its ever been, but I've started hooking a bit and that makes it hard to score well. All of the courses I play are devastating to a hook. I'm still working on learning to control it. It's a process.

Updated swing for the first time in a long time. How's it look?

Turns out after hitting some balls, I was letting my right hand get over to the side of the club a bit too much. It was letting it open just enough to slice right at the end of the flight. I readjusted and the slice is no longer there.

Phone won't let me upload video but here's an impact position pic I screenshot. I'll figure out how to upload the video this afternoon

Struggling mostly with a straight slice with nearly every club. Sometimes it's more of a fade, but a heavy fade regardless. From what I know about the ball flight laws, am I correct in assuming that if the ball starts straight, grip is ok? The slice is caused by not turning enough? I don't have a recent video....

Hi, all. I am painting some old Wilson clubs for a buddy. They look great so far but I'm having a bit of trouble with the Wilson on the sole of the club. It's very shallow and I wind up removing all the new paint when I try to clean the excess off. Anybody ever had this issue? What'd you do instead?

Sweden is a pretty good model. I don't agree with everything they say though. I think people should be allowed to carry, preferably concealed. http://www.sweden.org.za/gun-laws-in-sweden.html

Ok. Sorry for all the questions. I had the best ball striking day of my life a few weeks ago and felt like I was making good strides, but now its like I've never hit a golf ball in my life. It's pretty discouraging.

Ok. Is my stance in the iron videos ok? It seems to me like i'm really crouched. I also notice that my head stays still laterally, but raises up before impact. I don't have a problem with topping though.

working down longer...how so?

Thanks! What would you consider my priority piece?

I can't get any member swings to play. They all show up as still images. Anybody else have this issue?

@mvmac, here are the new swing videos. The video face-on with the driver looks far better than the face-on with the iron. I tried to swing just a bit steeper and it made swinging through much easier. There was also no hook. Is it possible that my subconscious was flipping the club because my path was too in-to-out, in an attempt to square the face up?

Impact pic. @mvmac I'll put up the actual video later tonight. I'm putting this up cuz I'm impatient. I noticed the club catches up just before impact. From the video, it looks like I don't rotate my chest through.[/quote] [quote name="mvmac" url="/t/77964/my-swing-cbrister#post_1205944"] From earlier posts make sure the hands aren't back like in this pic. Have them a little forward. That will set the face more square or even a little right. [URL=http://thesandtrap.com/t/77964/my-swing-cbrister#post_1072385]http://thesandtrap.com/t/77964/my-swing-cbrister#post_1072385[/URL] In terms of the swing make sure the arms don't "fly" off the body. Keep the upper arms on your body as you rotate into the followthrough. [/quote] Anything that sticks out to you?

Impact pic. @mvmac I'll put up the actual video later tonight. I'm putting this up cuz I'm impatient. I noticed the club catches up just before impact. From the video, it looks like I don't rotate my chest through.

I need to update my swing post. My golf class at college helped immensely and got me consistently down into the nineties. When I'm swinging well I'm low nineties/high eighties. This hook problem comes and goes. My hands are more forward for sure. Looking at that pic, I don't know how I ever swung like that. As far as the hook, I think I may not be shifting my weight to the left for some reason. I think it's staying right in the middle or going forward and staying there, which is causing me to just wheel around and not slide my hips forward. My normal shot is pretty straight with a slight draw. I'll try to get a new video up this afternoon.

This may be the most ridiculous thing you've ever heard, but I have a very difficult time setting the club face up square to the target. It doesn't look comfortable, the grip isn't comfortable, nothing. I've been hooking like crazy. How do i get over the mental block? "A" is the shot I hit most often. I know the grip is round and it should feel the same no matter what, but it doesn't. It's frustrating and makes me want to bang my head against a wall. .

and from there, weight shifts to back, hips stay forward, weight shifts back forward, and followthrough?

I do struggle with secondary axis tilt. every time I consciously set up with it, I feel like this picture. I know I'm not near that bad. Where should my weight be at address with axis tilt? Lead foot?

What is considered a reverse hip slide?