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Help!

I have just come back from viewing my swing at Golftec and it is not pretty. My body is completely outracing my hands and arms resulting in no power and bad impact alignments. I would have to hit it off my right foot to have my hands ahead at impact. I have too much lateral movement in the downswing and cannot rotate my left hip behind me fast enough. My instructor had me work on posting my left leg and really feeling the hip go back during the downswing. Right now I can only get this with slow motion swings or half swings. Is there anything else I could work on? should I be trying to slow my lower body down or should I work on getting my hands and arms to move faster? Any help would be great. I know the correct impact conditions (FLW/hands ahead of ball) but I cannot get there at full speed.

Thanks

Mike

Had to move you into intensive care Mike. You are in good hands now.
By the way, there are some world class swing doctors available at our Medical Center in Georgia that can fix you quicker than Texas can beat Oklahoma. They get around alot too.
In the mean time, save some money that you would otherwise spend at golftec. You'll get some good advise here.

Thanks. I know that the people here can help- although I don't think I will be making it down to Georgia any time soon- too bad! However, my instructor at Golftec is good and he is really trying his best to help me. I just think that there might be a better solution to my problem than trying to help my rotate my hips faster.

Mike

Agree that they have best intentions in mind, and they do help many golfers find the right positions which helps a lot of students.
EdZ can probably give you a couple of drills that will help synchronize your motion. Sustaining lag is the key and if it doesn't translate from your lower body to your upper; to your arms, hands, clubshaft, and clubhead, no amount of hip effort will do the trick. In this case, it may be the right "position" on video, but powerless at impact. I know you have some familiarity with TGM terminology. Let's connect the dots...I'd love to jump in, but I'll let Ed and Yoda take over from here.

"By the way, there are some world class swing doctors available at our Medical Center in Georgia that can fix you quicker than Texas can beat Oklahoma."

Does that mean it would take SIX yrs(1999-2005) to fix him?

One exercise that Yoda had me doing that when I get what I feel is out of sync is to Go to the Top or End, Hold and shift, then complete the down stroke. This done with what I really thought was strange of keeping the weight on my left side during the entire swing does me good.

The length of pause is very short duringthe drill, it is go IMU to get things in sync.

I think if you practiced what brian talks about in the turning shoulder plane swing in slow full swings you might "sync up" better.

What he has you do is basically drop the clubhead from the top of the swing into the ground. It should hit the ground somewhere around your back foot. Do that about ten times, feel the drop into the ground. THEN "catch the drop" with your pivot and just let the throwout of centrifugal force put the clubhead on the ball.

He goes into more detail in his video short

Jim,

I will try Brian's idea. I have done something similar in the past, and it seemed to get my hands in a better impact condition. What video short has this? I have Confessions of a former flipper- is that what you are talking about? Thanks for the help guys. Martee- I will try your idea as well.

Mike

Mike

Which short?

Thanks!

B

My legs do the same but a drill on here from Yoda really helped. It entails placing/attaching a dowel across your thighs. If your legs move to fast or incorrrectly you will hit the dowel with your club. I have never attached a dowel but played this weekend imagining the dowel there and dropping the hands/arms first so I don't hit the dowel really helped. It is a great image/drill. One that I will work on all winter. Have to figure out how to attach it however.