Thursday, May 31, 2012

Coming in too steep

I looked at my swing and compared it to the pros (Rory, Tiger, etc) with the V1 Home program and with their irons they come in a lot more layed off and shallow than I am.  This program really helped me out since just looking at video is ok but your eyes play tricks on you so it's very helpful to draw lines to really see what's going on.  Also you can keep the lines in place and change videos so I'm comparing my angles directly to the pros.  So this is what I worked on today is coming in at a lower angle which meant for swing thoughts on backswing need to layoff more at the top.  Then on downswing drop the arms down and then turn through.
Before:


After:

This last video I compared to the pros and the downswing angle is looking much better.  I just need to keep turning the body towards the target.  My ass is also staying in place instead of pulling in.  Something I've been working on forever!! I lapsed a little till I thought about putting my right elbow into my right hip and pushing with my right hip to swing the club then things got better again.
This swing is complicated and fragile.  I don't know how I'm going to make it repeatable?
While doing this I also realized that my head didn't come up right before impact.  Well my head actually stayed in the exact same place but during the downswing it went down and toward the ball instead of staying in place.  So I tried keeping my head more level during my backswing and downswing and now my head stayed still at impact.
Here's the proof:

But for some reason I'm still hitting everything off the toe.  I was hoping that being less steep coming in would help this but I'm still struggling with it.  With my new Mizuno MP52s that makes for a lot of bad feedback in the hands.  I feel like I hit about 1 in 20 pure now.  Whereas before it was about 50% or even higher so something I still have to figure out.

Thursday, May 24, 2012

Hands close to legs

Well my swing was doing great so on to the next piece which was the fact that my hands were so far  from my legs at impact.


This got me working on my backswing which was way to away and out in front of my body.  Here's the after.  I also realized that I wasn't turning my torso on the backswing it was all arms.  The new feeling is bringing the club back around me then lifting my arms.  It's a little dark but here's the after.




Sunday, May 13, 2012

Swing don't hit made me finally have left side aligned at impact

I always read about swinging the club and not hitting the ball.  You're supposed to make pretend the ball isn't there and just swing the club and the ball just happens to get in the way.  Well that's actually a really hard thing to do because sub-consciously your body adjusts to hitting the ball.  That's why practice swings always look good and then when you hit a ball it's hard to reproduce.  Your body naturally corrects to hit the ball.  Well I had one of those break through moments that last about 10 or 20 balls where all of a sudden you try something new and then it works and then you almost can't do anything wrong.  All the balls are perfect.  You try to groove the feeling before it goes away and you forget what to do.  Well I had one of those moments recently while practicing.  For some reason I just turned my body on the backswing and then just turned my body back on the downswing.  I let my arms just really hang loose and I really tried to just let them be like spaghetti.  When I was swinging I felt like when I hit the ball my head was tilted sidewards and looking up to the sky.  So wasn't even looking at the ball at impact.  The balls were all of a sudden flying straight, far, and high.  I also felt a strange sensation in my lower back like for the first time ever I was actually using the gears in there.  My son filmed me.  To date this the best swing I've ever done.  Notice left side is aligned at impact.  Have never done that before and always wondered how to get in that position.
Here's the proof.