haplesshacker
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Had my first video lesson today.
Watching the clips in slo-mo, and frame by frame, really does show up what's what.
Once again, my posture is letting me down, and having too much weight over the heels. This in turn is putting the club in a very toe up position. So we first tried correcting that. Bend from the hips, not the head, and less knee bend, with more weight towards the toes. It's a work in progress.
My grip is still slightly too strong. This combined with not releasing and rolling the wrists enough, and letting the left arm control things too much, is apparently the reason for the pushs, push/fades. He then got me exagerating the rolling of the wrists, which gave the biggest hook I've done for a long time. Then I weakened my grip slightly. Good grief, a tiny amount of fade, and sometimes a tiny amount of draw. But either way the ball ended up in the same place.
I also grip the club too tightly, which isn't helping as my left arm is blocking some shots out to the right. Combined with the not wrist action. Not good.
I was expecting to see some dropping on the inside on the downswing, as I used to do quite badly and get the club trapped behind me. His comment was that he was quite happy with the swing path and plane.
The other aspect was that I have quite a languid pitching swing, but not with the longer clubs where it all gets a little tense. Something else I need to work on, but is covered by the above points.
All in all. Video lessons certainly suit my way of learning, but then again, then always did in other sports, both as a pupil and as an instructor.
Apart from anything else it gives some nice video to post on here for folks to take the mick out of, err, make some constructive comments.
Link to video below. Any comments are welcome.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tA5bkJKPwTE
Watching the clips in slo-mo, and frame by frame, really does show up what's what.
Once again, my posture is letting me down, and having too much weight over the heels. This in turn is putting the club in a very toe up position. So we first tried correcting that. Bend from the hips, not the head, and less knee bend, with more weight towards the toes. It's a work in progress.
My grip is still slightly too strong. This combined with not releasing and rolling the wrists enough, and letting the left arm control things too much, is apparently the reason for the pushs, push/fades. He then got me exagerating the rolling of the wrists, which gave the biggest hook I've done for a long time. Then I weakened my grip slightly. Good grief, a tiny amount of fade, and sometimes a tiny amount of draw. But either way the ball ended up in the same place.
I also grip the club too tightly, which isn't helping as my left arm is blocking some shots out to the right. Combined with the not wrist action. Not good.
I was expecting to see some dropping on the inside on the downswing, as I used to do quite badly and get the club trapped behind me. His comment was that he was quite happy with the swing path and plane.
The other aspect was that I have quite a languid pitching swing, but not with the longer clubs where it all gets a little tense. Something else I need to work on, but is covered by the above points.
All in all. Video lessons certainly suit my way of learning, but then again, then always did in other sports, both as a pupil and as an instructor.
Apart from anything else it gives some nice video to post on here for folks to take the mick out of, err, make some constructive comments.
Link to video below. Any comments are welcome.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tA5bkJKPwTE
