I'm an open-faced hacker who flips it straight, so I spent some of the winter working on face control with twistaway and other NSA components. I initially felt some improvement, with really good contact, but now I'm not so sure. I can never get anywhere near wedding ring up post impact and still have a pretty high ball flight.
Finally got some new (pretty poor quality) video - just back yard practice swings for now, but enough to see that I've gotten even more flat and inside than I already was - arms way below really flat shoulders at the top, backing up hips, lots of lean-away. Just like Brian describes at the start of NHA. This leads to a huge lunge to get anywhere near back to the ball - OTT shoulders, hip thrust and a big flip.
Thinking about all of this, I'm wondering how successful I can be trying to fix my face if the path is so off. clearly working on face control hasn't done much to fix my path by itself, but I'm not sure what to work on now.
Given the similarity of my swing to the one Brian shows at the start of NHA, I've been trying some up the wall stuff, but given that I also lose my posture pretty badly at the top of my backswing, which I guess I have ingrained due to the really flat shoulders, reaching for the sky just makes it worse. Also, I still don't feel like I can control the face enough for NHA, so I'm getting mostly huge cut shots.
So what do I do now? Do I carry on working on NSA face control and accept that my path will be terrible (for now), then try and fix that later. Do I keep working on NHA stuff to try and get a better path, in the hope that it will allow me to be better at face control when I go back to it, or do I try something else. I've been wondering if soft draw would be better - I'm already pretty inside so I figure I could just lift my arms them swing down from inside and try to flip less. But I'm worried that switching between different patterns is going to totally mess me up?
Help!
Finally got some new (pretty poor quality) video - just back yard practice swings for now, but enough to see that I've gotten even more flat and inside than I already was - arms way below really flat shoulders at the top, backing up hips, lots of lean-away. Just like Brian describes at the start of NHA. This leads to a huge lunge to get anywhere near back to the ball - OTT shoulders, hip thrust and a big flip.
Thinking about all of this, I'm wondering how successful I can be trying to fix my face if the path is so off. clearly working on face control hasn't done much to fix my path by itself, but I'm not sure what to work on now.
Given the similarity of my swing to the one Brian shows at the start of NHA, I've been trying some up the wall stuff, but given that I also lose my posture pretty badly at the top of my backswing, which I guess I have ingrained due to the really flat shoulders, reaching for the sky just makes it worse. Also, I still don't feel like I can control the face enough for NHA, so I'm getting mostly huge cut shots.
So what do I do now? Do I carry on working on NSA face control and accept that my path will be terrible (for now), then try and fix that later. Do I keep working on NHA stuff to try and get a better path, in the hope that it will allow me to be better at face control when I go back to it, or do I try something else. I've been wondering if soft draw would be better - I'm already pretty inside so I figure I could just lift my arms them swing down from inside and try to flip less. But I'm worried that switching between different patterns is going to totally mess me up?
Help!