the_coach
Journeyman Pro
Re: Asses my swing
one of the biggest issues most folks of any playing standard come up against one ways or another is how to get it all in the connected right shape at impact - sync, connection, arms to body motion so the club gets delivered in the 'right' bit of space at the right time - the further this is off, speaking generally the nearer the handle & hands are to the trail thigh (as opposed to ideally being opposite the lead thigh) when the clubface contacts the ball
that 'connection' into impact - the sync, timing of made a bunch more problematic to achieve if the club getting to the top so arms to body motion is out of sync, this out of sync can happen arms/club don't travel far enough with the body motion - or arms/club travel a ways too far - either present a timing issue in the downswing
this particular swing (only looking at one, others could be different) arms & club traveling a bunch too far to the turn - means arms/club start back just before the body motion or at the same time - put the arms/club have a good ways further to travel than the body does - instinctively compensation made in the downswing to try to match it all back up - so tends to mean upper body lower body has to 'hang back' some to get the clubhead to the ball - means release happens early, angles lost some hands/handle at the trail thigh clubhead infront bit off a scoop upwards - so missed contacts etc - means the trail shoulder, trail part of the chest, trail hip isn't really getiing 'through' the shot so a bit of a stand up early release/flip motion
as said before there's a decent idea of motion - just really about 'marrying' body to arms on the ways back to then be in a little better shape to be able to transition well to be able to get back to impact in a little ways more decent shape, hands leading forwards leaning shaft to transfer the energy to ball better - so common golf parlance - 'compress the ball'
to that, my take, what would help a bunch would be linking the lead shoulder with the lead arm/hands/handle/club in the first motion of the takeback
check the face on vid by the time the club gets to horizontal there's currently not much upper body rotation happened, then the chest rotates some then the arms carrying on some more so club shaft a ways past horizontal at the top - real difficult to then get all that back from there consistently
so a feeling of linking more the lead shoulder (& with that obviously the chest & shoulders follow) movement with the hands/handle/club (so the path or anything is not being changed any) then by the time the lead arm is horizontal to the ground the body will have rotated a bunch more and there will be only a small amount of further rotation with the arms to get to a top position where there will be more natural width (hands/handle a ways from the trail ear) with shaft just short of horizontal
with good sequencing to start down, lower then upper, everything has a much better opportunity to be in sync back to impact, nothing has to 'hold' back and the trail side can 'go through' the shot, 'trail shoulder through the middle of the ball' kinda feeling
hands lead forwards leaning shaft and the strike doesn't break down, no flip, trail side comes through so there's extension through the follow through - no feeling of standing up along with the upper body cramped and trail arm angles gone before impact
one of the biggest issues most folks of any playing standard come up against one ways or another is how to get it all in the connected right shape at impact - sync, connection, arms to body motion so the club gets delivered in the 'right' bit of space at the right time - the further this is off, speaking generally the nearer the handle & hands are to the trail thigh (as opposed to ideally being opposite the lead thigh) when the clubface contacts the ball
that 'connection' into impact - the sync, timing of made a bunch more problematic to achieve if the club getting to the top so arms to body motion is out of sync, this out of sync can happen arms/club don't travel far enough with the body motion - or arms/club travel a ways too far - either present a timing issue in the downswing
this particular swing (only looking at one, others could be different) arms & club traveling a bunch too far to the turn - means arms/club start back just before the body motion or at the same time - put the arms/club have a good ways further to travel than the body does - instinctively compensation made in the downswing to try to match it all back up - so tends to mean upper body lower body has to 'hang back' some to get the clubhead to the ball - means release happens early, angles lost some hands/handle at the trail thigh clubhead infront bit off a scoop upwards - so missed contacts etc - means the trail shoulder, trail part of the chest, trail hip isn't really getiing 'through' the shot so a bit of a stand up early release/flip motion
as said before there's a decent idea of motion - just really about 'marrying' body to arms on the ways back to then be in a little better shape to be able to transition well to be able to get back to impact in a little ways more decent shape, hands leading forwards leaning shaft to transfer the energy to ball better - so common golf parlance - 'compress the ball'
to that, my take, what would help a bunch would be linking the lead shoulder with the lead arm/hands/handle/club in the first motion of the takeback
check the face on vid by the time the club gets to horizontal there's currently not much upper body rotation happened, then the chest rotates some then the arms carrying on some more so club shaft a ways past horizontal at the top - real difficult to then get all that back from there consistently
so a feeling of linking more the lead shoulder (& with that obviously the chest & shoulders follow) movement with the hands/handle/club (so the path or anything is not being changed any) then by the time the lead arm is horizontal to the ground the body will have rotated a bunch more and there will be only a small amount of further rotation with the arms to get to a top position where there will be more natural width (hands/handle a ways from the trail ear) with shaft just short of horizontal
with good sequencing to start down, lower then upper, everything has a much better opportunity to be in sync back to impact, nothing has to 'hold' back and the trail side can 'go through' the shot, 'trail shoulder through the middle of the ball' kinda feeling
hands lead forwards leaning shaft and the strike doesn't break down, no flip, trail side comes through so there's extension through the follow through - no feeling of standing up along with the upper body cramped and trail arm angles gone before impact
