Day two of the new Keegan Bradley/Dustin Johnson swing. The basic movement was there but I think I've having a tendency to move my head too forward on the backswing and then too back on the downswing and follow through. I still can't go full speed and I'm slowly building to that but I want to get the basic feelings and spatial positions down then I'll hopefully just let the speed thing happen as I get more comfortable with the swing.
I can really see how this swing keeps the ball straighter as I can almost see the club face being square through impact longer. I feel like I'm almost pitching a ball underhanded leaned way over to the side. So if you throw side armed but are bent over 90 degrees your arm will be going on a vertical axis. I kinda feel like the club is doing this. I can also see on film that the club face stays square longer since I don't release now till way after I've hit the ball.
So I tried to apply the same swing to the driver with some mixed results. The good news is that I've never been able to apply my irons swings to my driver. But I was able to do that today by really concentrating and trying real hard to forget the ball and just work on jamming my right elbow into my gut and then turning my hips completely open. I worked for the first time and I was able to conserve my spine angle for the first time with driver. It felt like a new swing and I was learning to to hit driver all over again. From the back it doesn't look half bad. Still wished my elbow was more bent at impact though.
The bad news is that the head forward then back was exaggerated even more with the driver swing. Here's some video from face on you can see that I'm headed way back with my swing and all of my weight is on my back foot. I'm trying to really get under the ball but I'm doing it too much.
Here's some normal speed of me rehearsing the Keegan Bradley move and then swinging. I was also not swinging full speed but just trying to get feelings down. Well I certainly know what I have to work on now.
Oh another thing is that I think that my neck doesn't hurt anymore. In analyzing before and after video from behind I can see now that the jumping I was doing after impact was raising the whole base of my neck and thus putting a lot of strain on my neck having to try and yank up my head up with it. Now the head stays in place and can come up much slower on the follow through.
Oh and one final thin is that my left elbow on the follow through does not chicken wing as much so because of these things I know for sure that this swing is more correct!
I can really see how this swing keeps the ball straighter as I can almost see the club face being square through impact longer. I feel like I'm almost pitching a ball underhanded leaned way over to the side. So if you throw side armed but are bent over 90 degrees your arm will be going on a vertical axis. I kinda feel like the club is doing this. I can also see on film that the club face stays square longer since I don't release now till way after I've hit the ball.
So I tried to apply the same swing to the driver with some mixed results. The good news is that I've never been able to apply my irons swings to my driver. But I was able to do that today by really concentrating and trying real hard to forget the ball and just work on jamming my right elbow into my gut and then turning my hips completely open. I worked for the first time and I was able to conserve my spine angle for the first time with driver. It felt like a new swing and I was learning to to hit driver all over again. From the back it doesn't look half bad. Still wished my elbow was more bent at impact though.
The bad news is that the head forward then back was exaggerated even more with the driver swing. Here's some video from face on you can see that I'm headed way back with my swing and all of my weight is on my back foot. I'm trying to really get under the ball but I'm doing it too much.
Here's some normal speed of me rehearsing the Keegan Bradley move and then swinging. I was also not swinging full speed but just trying to get feelings down. Well I certainly know what I have to work on now.
Oh another thing is that I think that my neck doesn't hurt anymore. In analyzing before and after video from behind I can see now that the jumping I was doing after impact was raising the whole base of my neck and thus putting a lot of strain on my neck having to try and yank up my head up with it. Now the head stays in place and can come up much slower on the follow through.
Oh and one final thin is that my left elbow on the follow through does not chicken wing as much so because of these things I know for sure that this swing is more correct!
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