Man those drives felt good, especially since that the was the first time that had ever happened! Just goes to show you Yoda's teaching ability.
I forgot to mention earlier that when "Luke the Nuke" was showing me what a crushed drive looked like before my first lesson, he was using my driver!! ...of course the last couple months of never being able to hit that stinkin thing had led me to the conclusion that it must be defective equipment, but Ted proved that idea was definitely wrong with several 280+ drives...
I finished uploading all my lesson tapes to the computer and used V1golf (cheap home video swing analyzer software) to compare my 8 iron swings with Yoda last Saturday to swings I had taped at the range in December...right away I noticed a huge difference at impact. I saved a screenshot and uploaded it to the following link:
http://users.adelphia.net/~kpainter/...ySide8Iron.JPG
Here are the links for the 2 movie clips I used to make the screenshot above:
http://users.adelphia.net/~kpainter/...ter_Iron_2.avi
http://users.adelphia.net/~kpainter/...r_Iron_DTL.avi
The image turned out kinda small...sorry. You can probably tell, but the 1 on the right is from December and clearly shows an outside to inside path, where the 1 on the left shows coming from inside to square...I told Yoda and Ted before the lesson that I had used a swing analyzer that shows me coming out to in about 8-9 degrees on all my irons. BTW, did you notice the dowels at the bottom right hand of the screen...I don't think Yoda goes anywhere without those!!
The biggest change Yoda did with me is with allignments...a subject that isn't a lot of fun during a lesson, or to talk about either...in fact, there aren't many posts about it...but Yoda sold me on the importance of them. More than anything else I think that made the biggest difference.
Just viewing the tapes from last weekend I can tell that I still need to work on my RFP takeaway (definitely still way inside) and I am taking the club to far back (loading for swinging instead of hitting), but with the change of allignments, working on downswing waggle, and forearm tracing on approach, I got to feel what its like to hit on plane and hear compression (definitely addicting). Yoda is that good at figuring out what to fix first, and everything else will kinda will fall into place downstream.
Thanks again Yoda!
Keith
PS-If you couldn't tell, that was my orange Orioles hat! Go O's!!!