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Old 12-08-2011, 03:57 PM
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student Learning to use the hips to power the swing
Here is a student of mine who had a great breakthrough in our last lesson. He is a great student because he listens, he practices and he reads the book where i tell him to. He still has a little overbending of the arm at top and consequently a little across the line, but i think it looks like a great swing! when we first worked his posture needed work, his arms were both straight and hands low, startup outside the plane, swayed head and shoulders to the right, swayed back to the left on the downswing, arched left wrist on the backswing, loose arms at the top, out of balance with the feet, bent left wrist at impact, and a few other things. We have basically eliminated all those problems or at least drove them so far out of his motion, they are only tiny remnants of old habits, and old habits die hard.

Before his perception of the downswing was timing the drop of his arms and turning the shoulders level both directions, and in so doing lacked any real speed because of the gingered nature of his arms in the downswing. In our most recent lesson we worked on getting the right shoulder and left wrist and clubshaft to go down the plane together, the right shoulder giving it support and guidance down the plane because his arms seemed loose to start down and his right shoulder turned back toward the ball flat instead of on plane. Then we started to focus on the subtle actuation of the hips by the shoulders in the backstroke and the shoulders actuation by the hips in the downstroke per his delayed hip action. More specifically the right shoulder being thrown downplane by the hips and the gentle reverse of directions of the pivot components per his delayed hip action. when we combined the guidance, support, and direction of the right shoulder/#3pp/left wrist/clubshaft going down the plane together WITH the action, of the hips propelling this whole thing into motion instead of the arms or shoulders, he was hitting shot after shot with a compression sound that we had not heard from him before. He learned to power the golf swing with his hips and now truly senses the swinging action, the throw out of centrifugal force. I think this is a big deal for him, watch his pivot, it never stops turning! much to refine, but we have already accomplished a ton considering we have done only a small number of lessons.

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Old 12-08-2011, 04:01 PM
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