I was looking at my friend's swing from down the line the other day and there were some things I really like about it. In comparing his swing to my swing I notice that he stands much closer to the ball than I do. I compared to some pro swings and I realized that my ball position is too far away.
Went to the range and tried it out. At first it seemed really weird and uncomfortable. Like I was on my heels and I was going to shank it every time. I also had some incredibly fat shots. I kept at it and was eventually able to hit some balls with it. It's amazing how your body will do whatever is necessary to hit the ball as straight as possible and adjust to the new setup. Well as you can see in the video it did several things.
It made my impact position more compact. I think this finally helped me to keep my body rotating instead of firing my right arm to reach out to the ball to impact it. In this new position if I fire out too early then I just hit it super fat. My hands are much closer to my thighs and I'm leaned nicely over the ball. My shaft is more upright at address and impact, I'll have to check the angles with Skypro. The balls were flying pretty good after a while. I still feel like I can't generate much power with this because I'm all scrunched up at impact. I was trying to get the feeling of squatting down and also keeping my backswing lower by swinging around my waist as I always have a tendency to have my hands too high. I also feel like I'm over my heels and I think that makes me stay too much on my right side. My follow through looks horrible. I'll try to experiment with this more, try to get more comfortable with this so I can add power and also need to transfer more weight to my front foot.
I would be more excited about this but I'm purposefully holding myself back because every time I have a breakthrough I usually find something else that's even more of a breakthrough which makes my prior excitement seem kinda dumb. But at least for now this is one step closer in having a correct swing!
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| Before and after of ball position |
It made my impact position more compact. I think this finally helped me to keep my body rotating instead of firing my right arm to reach out to the ball to impact it. In this new position if I fire out too early then I just hit it super fat. My hands are much closer to my thighs and I'm leaned nicely over the ball. My shaft is more upright at address and impact, I'll have to check the angles with Skypro. The balls were flying pretty good after a while. I still feel like I can't generate much power with this because I'm all scrunched up at impact. I was trying to get the feeling of squatting down and also keeping my backswing lower by swinging around my waist as I always have a tendency to have my hands too high. I also feel like I'm over my heels and I think that makes me stay too much on my right side. My follow through looks horrible. I'll try to experiment with this more, try to get more comfortable with this so I can add power and also need to transfer more weight to my front foot.
I would be more excited about this but I'm purposefully holding myself back because every time I have a breakthrough I usually find something else that's even more of a breakthrough which makes my prior excitement seem kinda dumb. But at least for now this is one step closer in having a correct swing!
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