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Old 06-30-2012, 05:10 PM
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Critique my poor man's explanar drill
Hey everyone.

Please take a moment to critique these two vids if you have a second.

Essentially my drill uses a metronome (have always struggled with tempo) with a right forearm takeaway, over exaggerated hip slide, followed by a hip turn focusing on getting the shoulder as deep down plane as I can.

My biggest faults have always been over acceleration, inside plane takeaway both of which has lead to shoulder spin out in the downswing.

I'm trying to drill out all 3 of those problems at once.

Please feel free to critique.

http://youtu.be/ICeqjNRQrbQ

http://youtu.be/FLFM-XFe1U0
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Old 06-30-2012, 11:28 PM
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Originally Posted by grantc79 View Post
Hey everyone.

Please take a moment to critique these two vids if you have a second.

Essentially my drill uses a metronome (have always struggled with tempo) with a right forearm takeaway, over exaggerated hip slide, followed by a hip turn focusing on getting the shoulder as deep down plane as I can.

My biggest faults have always been over acceleration, inside plane takeaway both of which has lead to shoulder spin out in the downswing.

I'm trying to drill out all 3 of those problems at once.

Please feel free to critique.

http://youtu.be/ICeqjNRQrbQ

http://youtu.be/FLFM-XFe1U0
You are 'bobbing" here, Grant -- downward head motion -- and way too 'position' conscious for what you trying to achieve. Your 'hip bump' and impact alignments are admirable but must be kept in context of a swinging motion.

Stay with half swings for awhile. Equal length in both directions, Right Forearm parallel to the ground in the backstroke, then left forearm parallel into the finish. Point the butt end of the club at the line (again, in both directions). Keep the motion continuous -- back and through and back and through. Let the left wrist roll to plane and recock into the finish. Let the club swing free.

Quoting the late, great Canadian golfer George Knudsen, "To gain control you must give up control".

Quoting Bob Jones, "Freewheel".

Quoting me, "Let'er go at the bottom".

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Old 06-30-2012, 11:35 PM
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You are 'bobbing" here, Grant -- downward head motion -- and way too 'position' conscious for what you trying to achieve. Your 'hip bump' and impact alignments are admirable but must be kept in context of a swinging motion.

Stay with half swings for awhile. Equal length in both directions, Right Forearm parallel to the ground in the backstroke, then left forearm parallel into the finish. Point the butt end of the club at the line (again, in both directions). Keep the motion continuous -- back and through and back and through. Let the left wrist roll to plane and recock into the finish. Let the club swing free.

Quoting the late, great Canadian golfer George Knudsen, "To gain control you must give up control".

Quoting Bob Jones, "Freewheel".

Quoting me, "Let'er go at the bottom".

Thanks Lynn.

Rob Noel was just telling me the same thing. Everything looks technically good but all must be blended together into a smooth motion.

I had not noticed the head bobbing until you posted that. Considering I've always had a standing up problem I'm actually pretty happy to have this issue.
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Old 07-01-2012, 06:25 PM
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Stay with half swings for awhile. Equal length in both directions, Right Forearm parallel to the ground in the backstroke, then left forearm parallel into the finish. Point the butt end of the club at the line (again, in both directions). Keep the motion continuous -- back and through and back and through. Let the left wrist roll to plane and recock into the finish. Let the club swing free.
Grant don't miss this point Ive put in bold above. You will not Bob while doing so . With a line of balls in front of you (after some prior training) these little half swings , Acquired Motion , will find the sweet spot magically. You'll have to learn how to not interrupt the motion with a hit at the ball impulse. Lag and drag in both directions. Brush the ground in both directions. Let er flow. Wild Bill Melhourne style. Let the motion make the shot . Impact does not rank as one of golfs three stations ..... make no adjustment for impact etc etc.

You'll find that this motion will create the positions you seek , not vice versa.

P.S. Once you feel the magic in this drill , the way the sweet spot finds the ball when theres a feel of lag pressure, know that Total Motion is only a slightly longer backstroke away. Top is only inches away from Acquired's right arm parallel to the ground. Its way easier and quicker to learn this stuff in Acquired Motion than in Total Motion. Total Motion often being exaggerated to a fault making the self discovery of lag and drag highly unlikely.

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Old 07-01-2012, 07:04 PM
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Gotcha.

Gonna shoot for 150 acquired motion strokes per day for a few days and see where that gets me.
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Old 07-02-2012, 12:22 PM
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Theres some videos here that touch on this drill. Stick with it till you are dumbstruck by how sweet the ball feels in continuous motion. Then try to build it up to a Total Motion. Thats the ideal. Try to reproduce the feel of the motion when not using continuous motion. It will require a little lag to the backswing most likely if only in feel. Its a great way to warm up prior to a round. When you have it wedge to driver , acquired to total motion you're ready for the first tee for sure. Somedays it won't come easily. Some days it will.

Brush the ground in both directions in continuous motion . "Brush , brush , brush , brush" or "Left , Right , Left , Right" . Thats your intention , that and lag and drag in both directions. The ball just gets in the way. Relax let it swing. Your flubs will suggest throwaway loss of lag pressure , the sweetspot will correspond directly to lag pressure at the #3 pp. Make this connection intellectually. Its important as in the end it will be this feel for lag pressure that you will use to play the game.

Hogan did a similar motion drill in the locker room for 20 minutes , displayed it on the Ed Sullivan show , wrote about it in his book. Its an old thing , largely forgotten but very effective at retraining your motion and intentions.

Lynn starts people off in heavy grass , no balls . Continuous motion back and through. Turn off all your golf thoughts , you're cutting grass now. Back on the short grass the ball will just love this motion .

Its weird how in trying to master this game intellectually we concoct all manner things which take us further from this motion. Or said another way .. how we concoct all manner of things which interrupt the orbit of our circling club head. The orbiting club head seeks out its own delivery line, not the ball. We have to direct this delivery line so it encounters the ball while not disturbing the orbit. As if the ball were not there at all. As if we were swinging at dandelions.

Brush brush brush brush..........

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