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  1. Jack Nicklaus wore white shoes. I think I'll wear white shoes too. :D In all seriousness it is probably just a trigger. It works for him but I would suggest finding your own trigger. Tinker with it and see if it works, but if it doesn't don't try to press the issue.
  2. Are you trying to hit "down" on it by leaning your upper body too far in front of it?
  3. Very common problem, but also make sure the left hip gets AHEAD of the ball.
  4. Heavier club makes for more BALL speed, but not clubhead speed.
  5. Parallax is more or less about the position of the camera when trying to view video. But there is also the problem of parallel lines coming to a point along the horizon. Generally I find it is best to just assume you want to hit a draw or fade and forgo always trying to hit it straight. Align the face left or right of the target, then align your body double that amount. You'll do far better around the course when you stop trying to play straight shots.
  6. I am a firm believer in a firm RIGHT leg that the left shoulder turns around to create coil in the backswing. Then the right leg pushes forward which ever so slightly increases the torque. Then the body unwinds from the bottom up starting with the right leg, up the hips, torso, shoulders, and finally arms. Problems arise often when someone tries to circumvent this system. The MOST common I see is when the shoulders try to uncoil at the same time. Just to clarify, the shoulders WILL turn when the hips turn, but they should essentially turn at the same rate until the hips begin to slow down. The shoulders do not turn in addition to the hip rotation at a simultaneous moment. Instead it is progressive. Think of it like the tom tom drum from Karate Kid part 2. The ball on a string whips around a turning drum. If you turn the handle, the drum goes with it, and finally the strings whip around. The trick to the golf swing is making sure you whip the arms around on the proper plane to swing the clubhead on a path where the ball lies.
  7. What must you do with your lower body in order to get the right shoulder to go down and forward as I prescribed?
  8. Find a nice open grassy area where no one is around and you can throw a ball. Get some sort of medium sized target about the size of a basket for range balls. You could use a pillow, 5 gallon bucket, etc.. Get a golf ball, or some other small object to throw at the target. Set your target about 10 feet away from you and align yourself to it as if it were your target in golf. Take your golf stance and posture with the ball in your right hand. Now throw the ball at the target but after you throw it make sure you hold your arm out in front of you and keep looking at the ground. 2 things are important to note when you hold this position. #1: Your right shoulder is DOWN with some separation under your chin. #2: The thumb of your right hand should be pointing to the sky. This "shaking hands" position is ideal for a strong release of the club and one that keeps your right shoulder moving down, then forward. Start to practice getting to this same place with a club in just your right hand. Eventually add the left hand but still get to this position with your right arm and shoulder.
  9. I know guys that have been playing for 10 years and still struggle to break 100. (No, they aren't students :D) There is no set rule.
  10. Being relaxed is more than just not putting in effort. If you can learn to become acutely aware of small amounts of tension that creep into your swing, you will discover a lot about your swing. Understand that tension is either internal, or reactionary. Either you force yourself to tense up, or you re-route the club to put it where you want it as opposed to just swinging with it.
  11. Been there done that. I use a lot of leg drive to start my swing. I'm a shorter guy so I have to utilize my rotational abilities. Taller people can generally be much more stable with their lower body and just turn. There was always a problem for my old swing and that has been the re-route at the top. It's followed by an early clubface shut down and high hands at impact. The early forearm rotation puts the shaft flatter in the back-swing which carries my hands back instead of lifting up. Although my habit is still to re-route, it's much closer to being fixed. I have to get comfortable with the new swing.
  12. Really the only thing to say is that if the ball is "slicing" then the path is outside in. That could be for any number of reasons. Now if the ball is starting to the right and then slicing, I'd say the face just isn't rotating. But again without video it's kinda tough.
  13. Yeah the video was from my camera phone and originally I was quite small in frame. I had to blow it up, that's why it's so grainy. I'll have better ones next time.
  14. I went and saw Ralph West who I used to work with back at Copper Canyon. One of the few guys I will REALLY trust to work on my swing. If he tells me to do something, I'll do it. Unlike the majority of instructors out there who I find just mimic what others say. New Swing After Lesson - http://www.swingacademy.com/videoPlayer.aspx?id=6445 Swing Before Lesson - http://www.swingacademy.com/videoPlayer.aspx?id=4609 He had me do two things. First let my left arm roll more taking the club back and have my hands get flatter, more around my right shoulder. Second, he wanted me to use my lower body MORE on the forward swing. He wanted me to really let my legs go. The results were EXCELLENT. I have never seen so many beautiful draws in my life. They weren't pull draws either. They would start right and draw back.
  15. Hips have two important functions. 1) Get the lower part of the spine forward to create axis tilt. (Hip Bump) 2) Create torque between hips and shoulders to help generate speed. (Hip Turn)
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