Can't wait for mine to arrive. I've stagnated between 13-15 for ages and have great trouble with swaying and especially bobbing. Last few weeks i've been totally concentrating on keeping the lower body still with the weight almost staying on the front foot with a fair tilt at address. Sort of hitting. Desperate measures for a big long term problem. This DVD will hopefully give me some good clear aims and goals with the swing.
I MUST get rid of excess movement or i am doomed. Glad to see the DVD/DVD's is/are so promising for you.
John, I think you're going to be excited. I stagger around and do a bunch of other things too but I started with trying to educate my hands. What I'm finding is that the if the hands are doing what they are supposed to do the rest of the body has a chance to actually do what it's supposed to be doing - atleast for me.
My golf game is a lot like the "big wheel" on The Price is Right. I can spin the wheel and some shots are good and some are bad and most are okay but they are all over the board. The DVD's are like the cheaters guide to figuring out how to spin the wheel for consistency.
I've worked hard over the last 6 months on pivot and #3 PP and keeping my head still, and getting my weight shifted fwd, and all these other key swing pieces. The DVD's show you how to put that all together. You can work on all those things (and I have) and still not get much better - you gotta understand the whole package and how each part does something different. The DVD's give you that information.
I have Ben Doyle's GOLF video. Way to advanced (IMO) for someone who doesn't know what TGM is or has a good understanding of TGM. In it he talks constantly of "educating your hands" but I never knew what that meant. I always knew there was something key to the golf swing in the hands and major rewards to be had if you can educate your hands but there was really no way for anyone to explain this to me. The DVD is explaining it. Contrary to what a lot of people/Instructors (non TGM people) say those hands are more important than just hanging on to the club... I think in the future when I go back to his DVD there will be a lot of information in there that I will be able to understand.
A lot of the things I was doing in my swing were/are compensations for what my hands were (in most cases were not) doing. There's a lot more parts of the swing than the hands and they are critical too but for me my hands are causing a lot of the problems my other components are compensating for.
They say Rome wasn't built in a day and I assume my swing can't be rebuilt overnight but it really speeds up the timeline when you've got construction plans and heavy machinery.
Since this was Christmas week, I haven't been able to get to much DVD watching or practice in. Top that off with the rain, constant changing temperature and the 10-20+ mph winds and it has been near impossible to get out to the range or the course. Today I got a chance to go to the range.
Spent most of the time chipping and putting on the practice green. With a flat left wrist it's really hard to duff a chip! Out of about 60 or so attempts, the only duff I had went 2yards not 2inches. Putting was pretty nice too.
The real fun was with the driver. I've been doing a little in-house practice with the bungee cord around my left shoulder, the rifle drill, and the little rope drill (shown by VJ.) Out of about 30 balls, I had only 2 pulls, 1 slice and 3 hooks. I was pulling the heck out of the driver a couple weeks ago. One thing I noticed (felt) is that I was focusing on the shoulder and I started letting the left wrist cup a little. That's a pretty easy fix as long as I can stop coming over the top. As a matter of fact I pushed a couple balls today, that's something I haven't done in a long time. The best part - no killer pulls, no super slices, and no duffs....
We've got a new cold front coming in tomorrow and a high percentage of rain forecasted for the next couple of days. Looks like I'll be practicing a lot of indoor putting and chipping.
It's really fun to hear about your new found success and excitement about your swing. You can't go wrong learning from Alignment Golf. Please keep it up, you are doing a great job!
Kevin
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When you guys write about rain and those things keeping you away from practicing, it brings another benefit of AG. There is 16" of snow in Minnesnowta so getting outside is out of the question. However, we can get to our basements and chip a la VJ and Yoda. I find I can really focus on each pressure point for a small given period of time. For a hack like me it is like making new, reliable friends.
Thanks for this wonderful resource.
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