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 Downswing Left Arm???i've a question regarding the downswing. i was trying something at the range tonight and man did it work good. when they say you need to hit the ball from the inside, that's if you'd like to create consistent ball striking, what ought to that feel like? at the range tonight i was working on hitting it from the inside and with the aim to do this i felt like as i began the downswing my left arm was swinging down close to my body. for example as i swing down my left arm is coming close to my body like it's brusing my belt buckle on the way down ( it truly isnt brusing my belt buckle i'm only attempting to describe what if feels like) is this correct???Read more on this topic Swing Thoughts/AnalysisI have never taken a lesson. I typically only read things and watch other swings and then go the range to play and tweak. I have worked my handicap down to a 12.5 (actually hit 11 at one point a year ago) and I am fairly comfortable with my swing immediately. The largest problem I've immediately is with my driver.I have been crushing it off the tee this year with my new stick (Cobra F Speed) however at times I get into a rut where I am blocking many drives to the right. They're still hit on the screws, I am only blocking it seems. Anyway, for the original time It allowed me to obtain a video of my swing at a tournament I was playing on Monday. It's actually a complete speed practice swing, which is why you do not hear any contact. http://www.private.psu.edu/jpp11/GolfSwing.AVI My own evaluation: #1. I have always had a tiny bit of a forward press. I do not do it on purpose, it only works that way with my setup and strong grip. #2. Going back to waist high everything looks great I think. I've a flatter swing (more of a one plane swing) and usually hit a draw. #3. Here is where I see a large difference with the majority of single digit handicappers. When my left arm is perpendicular to my chest I've yet to set the club. The majority of swings I see at this point the club has been set to about a 90-degree angle amongst left forearm. I continue to rotate around rather than taking the club up. #4. This is where it gets scary. I had no idea I over-rotated that badly. If you step through frame-by-frame you will observe my hands get WAY behind me and the club not just goes beyond parallel however it ends up pointing back across the target line. Uncertain how I do not reverse pivot here...great flexibility I guess. #5. Things look great coming down for the the majority of part. I think I only put my hands so far behind at the top that they never have a opportunity to catch up coming down. The club gets stuck lagging behind and...block right. Does this seem to become a correct evaluation? Any thoughts? Read more on this topic Golf Swing of a 2.9 Index... NOT! :-PI do not record myself very frequently for the reason that one of the joys I get out of attempting to improve at golf is to attempt to figure things out with no looking at video. Such is the case today, when I recorded four of my swings with a 5-iron, practiced a bit more, and then went to play 18.I shot 74 and truly struck the ball nicely all day. My misses were in the correct spots and not all that bad. The video was shot for the reason that I was beginning to hit many shots fat. My hands, as I posted elsewhere, had gotten behind my zipper at address instead of only in front. That is all it took. After shooting the video, I fixed another flaw that became obvious to me immediately that I was no longer chunking everything - one of my old "fallback" flaws of snatching the club away very rapidly to the inside, getting flat and across the line at the top, and then sort of "jumping" at the ball on the downswing to make the room I must hit the ball. I began practicing a move sort of like Chris DiMarco's pre-shot routine where he takes the club back to only past parallel/hip-high, keeping the clubhead outside of his hands the entire way. This leads to the arms swinging back more rather than around, which in turn lets me have a more upright swing plane and generate more power. With my flatter swing, it's more of a one-plane type swing and the just power I'm able to generate comes from my core... I prefer something closer to a 2-plane swing with more power coming from other parts of my body. I have never had much problem timing it, after all, and actually other things - like my lag - are substantially better the more upright I swing. So anyway, these videos were outdated nearly as quickly as they were taken, however I had the belief that I'd share them anyway. The club in these videos is a 5-iron, which when I am swinging poorly (i.e. flat like you see here) goes about 175 and when I am swinging well, as I did on the course later, goes about 195. Down the Line (1), Down the Line (2), Face-On, Face-On Angled Anyway, there is the (broken, since repaired) swing of of a 2.9 handicap. And when I say that, I mean the swing is most liklely about a 6 handicap... and when I am swinging properly I am about a 2.0 immediately (my 74 today comes out to 1.3). P.S. All video shot with my Canon SD550, 60FPS, 320 x 240 (it can show up as 640 x 480 for the reason that I prefer to view them slightly larger and likely saved them at that size). Read more on this topic Other Golf Related Topics
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