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Guys can you just get a little more specific with the pivot? When I see the pivot on the downswing I see my weight move laterally almost too much . The problem I see with my pivot is not opening up my hips enough at impact. So the question is am I not turning my hips at impact (opening up) ? Because I see that there is definitely a decent move in zone 1 in shifting my weight. I was told I was "spinning" my hips too much and that I was way too open at impact so at the end of summer I was working on slowing this down through impact and now it looks jammed.

Again thanks for helping me out its much appreciated.

I agree with Mike O-so-goofy to an extent on the intention thingy . . . You can see yourself "backing up" your head to match this intention.

The other thing I notice is that arm swing deal . . . watch your motion from face on . . . . you have "super-foool-us" arm swing . . . watch how it carries your head out of the "box" drawn on on the screen. Then as you proceed down you seem to be doing two things 1. using your pivot to match your intent of where to strike the ball 2. trying to seek "equilibrium" or "balance" from where that arm swing deal tipped you over toward the target. Stop the video at the top of your swing . . . if you could draw some some lines coming out of your eyes like Superman X-ray vision . . . you'd be blasting a hole in the floor WAAAAAAAAAAAY back behind the ball . . . So it's hard to hit what you can't see . . . that may be part of the reason why your head moves forward with that overswing . . you want to SEE THE BALL . . . Keep in mind all your depth perception and balance sensor thingies are in your eyes and ears . . . that's another great reason to have a centered head . . . so you keep all them balance sensors and eyeballs in your mellon focused on the ball . . I'm not prescribing ZERO head movement . . . but yours is so excessive due to the over swing that instead of just being able to rip at the ball from the top you are having to recalibrate everything to 1. see it and 2. priopreceptively (word?) find it with your minds eye in 3-D space.

You are 100% correct on your hip motion . . . you have zero hip turn . . . basically you are just tilting your spine backwards.

So I'll piggy back (or goat back) on Mikey's post . . . a couple of thoughts . . .

1. In addition to the intent of striking above the equator . . . on your backstroke feel like you are trying to see UNDERNEATH THE FRONT SIDE OF THE BALL . . And feel like you are taking your arms only to about hip high.

2. Practice putting the ball WAAAAAAAAAAAY up in your stance event off or in front of your big right toe lead toe or whatever since you are left handed . . . if you can hit down on that ball which is way up in your stance you CAN'T dive backwards with your upper body . . . you'll have to keep your head from backing up and you'll have to "open up" "go forward AND ROTATE" to get to that ball. So put it way up there in drill and try to hit pulls or pull cuts and take a divot.