Impact position

My friend told me about Jeff Ritter. I started looking at his videos and I really like his swing especially the way his right elbow is bent at impact and the releases afterward. I've been trying to get that forever and have slowly increased it but it's a long process. Well I tried again today with a real concentration on impact position but this time with the swing thoughts of the previous post. Mainly keeping my left arm straight and really supinated at impact. I've also tried to revisit the baseball swing.

I've gotten a lot better at it and my swing is better than ever and I feel like I'm on the verge of something. I think the reason why we naturally swing a baseball bat with the right arm bent is because the baseball coming at us is heavy and I think we instinctively know that if we try to flip our wrists at impact well somehow break our wrists. It's the same as driving an axe into a tree. You wouldn't flip your wrists with the axe at impact that would hurt! So instead you turn with your body and keep the right arm bent to absorb the shock just like with a baseball.

But the problem is that golfballs are so small and light we instinctively want to swat it more like in badminton. If you look at slow motion smashes they are fully extended at impact. So I think the trick is to imagine you're hitting something larger and heavy. Like a softball filled with sand. If you tried flipping and scooping that would hurt. But if you hit with your right arm bent and turning with your body I don't think it would hurt as much. I'll have to do some experiments with this. Maybe there's a new training aid in here somewhere. And I'm wondering if that's how impact bags work. Except you cant swing all the way through and all out. Maybe a small impact bag with a rope attached to it?

So swing thoughts are once again really digging in my right elbow and trying to hit with my elbow and hip together at impact. Also I'm playing around with the crunching down during the downswing as pulling the chain but this time with a supinated left wrist and straight left arm. It's pretty interesting stuff!

Here's the before and after of what this did to the look of my swing. It got it looking way more like my swing is out in front of my toward the hole and not held back behind me. It just looks so much better! I think it's because I'm not chicken winging.

Before

After looks so much better

Lever

I found a new lever yesterday. Or I should say I allowed myself to find it again.

I have been playing around with wide-narrow-wide with loose arms for the last couple of weeks and working on timing. I've gone away from pulling the chain for now but every once in a while try to mix it in. I've made some progress and also working on the constant struggle of turning my shoulders through and not lifting up. I've also been going back to the idea of flipping my wrists which I had gotten away from for the last few years in trying to get a body swing. Well I went back and looked at Hogan and Sergio and they definitely flip their wrists, the only difference is that it's way after impact. But they also have their right elbow bent at impact. So I set about letting myself flipping my wrists and getting back to that forearm over forearm feeling. In order to do that I had to abandon the wide-narrow-wide for now because I have a hard time keeping my left arm straight which is for me a big part of the forearm over forearm flip. Here is the before video.

The big difference this time compared to last time was that I combined it with a supinated left wrist. This had the effect of creating a whipping lever but with a closed clubface. So it allowed me to not have to time it as much with the flip and just turn my body into it and then let the wrists flip afterwards. This also had the nice effect of having my left arm on follow through not chicken winging. So my swing looked so much nicer. Here is the after video.

One swing thought is really keeping the left arm straight but keeping the wrists loose. This is hard. Another thing that seems to increase my power is to really try to keep the elbows together like how Ben Hogan says to imagine your forearms bound together with rope.