HomerJSimpson
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Thanks one and all for your comments. Useful as always. A couple of points. Having had a real bad case of the shanks and hardly able to get a 7 iron going forward and more than 100 yards I needed a quick fix for yesterday.
As a result I was concentrating solely on the turn with the weight inside of the right foot to stop the sway that had crept in. As a result the tempo was back to the old ways with a noticeable overswing and so a lateral change of height. To be fair the guy looked at my set up and got me working on a balance rod (weight falling forward = shank) but said the posture was ok but got me to open my feet up
As the lesson was only an hour (and a band aid job) he obviously couldn't sort everything out. To make it clear, the work I've been doing on tempo is designed to give myself more time to make a turn (I just swayed and got the weight movement all wrong) and the extra time will generate a faster clubhead through the downswing withouthaving to feel the need to overswing to generate the power. Its all to do with a 3:1 swing ratio where the tempo back is 3 times slower than the transition and downswing.
The reason we are doing it tempo first is that it should when I get it right give me the time to turn compactly and there will be less chance of the club getting trapped or a need for me to have to lift out and lose the spine angle to get back to the ball.
I don't think the address was too bad. Here is another clip from the same session where I maybe standing a fraction taller. Is there any difference?
As a result I was concentrating solely on the turn with the weight inside of the right foot to stop the sway that had crept in. As a result the tempo was back to the old ways with a noticeable overswing and so a lateral change of height. To be fair the guy looked at my set up and got me working on a balance rod (weight falling forward = shank) but said the posture was ok but got me to open my feet up
As the lesson was only an hour (and a band aid job) he obviously couldn't sort everything out. To make it clear, the work I've been doing on tempo is designed to give myself more time to make a turn (I just swayed and got the weight movement all wrong) and the extra time will generate a faster clubhead through the downswing withouthaving to feel the need to overswing to generate the power. Its all to do with a 3:1 swing ratio where the tempo back is 3 times slower than the transition and downswing.
The reason we are doing it tempo first is that it should when I get it right give me the time to turn compactly and there will be less chance of the club getting trapped or a need for me to have to lift out and lose the spine angle to get back to the ball.
I don't think the address was too bad. Here is another clip from the same session where I maybe standing a fraction taller. Is there any difference?