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Recently I started hitting the ball out to the right. It started as I began to focus on keeping my back to the target on the downswing, which seems to cause me to hit severely from the inside. Is this a pivot failure issue?

When is the club normal to the swing arc? At impact? or At low point? or Neither? I am trying to figure out how the club can be normal to the swing arc at impact and have a delofted club at impact. (I assume that delofting the club face means having a forward leaning shaft. Please correct me...

I have been working on the NSA pivot, which looks to be the same pivot from Brian's earlier article on the perfect pivot. I have settled on that backswing, combining it with lining up the club at impact and swinging my hands left from their low point. And I have been booming it! I have never...

Is there a trick or a drill to help get over standing up in the backswing? I seem to be having trouble turning around my spine. Instead I want to stand up to complete my backswing. I learned many years ago to reach for the sky on the backswing; unfortunately, it has caused me to standup...

BManz, I have both SD and NHA, and both advocate a steeper shoulder turn. Can you or any of the Manzella Academy crew comment on the advantage of a flat shoulder swing?

In my attempts to ingrain "Up the Wall, Down the Wall, and Away from the Wall," I find that I have more success in mentally visualizing the backswing and downswing when I focus on hand path rather than club head path. That is, I think of moving my hands, rather than the clubhead, up, down, and...

If one takes Soft Draw and Never Hook Again 2.0 as the two ends of the spectrum, where would Couples fit it? When I watch his backswing, there is so much pop-out that I think NHA. On his downswing, he seems to drop it inside so far that I think SD.

When I focus on the carry and swinging left, I end up carrying too much, busting the wall on the downswing before I hit the ball, that is, too outside-in, and come at the ball too steeply. Can someone suggest a swing-thought, or drill, or something to help me correct this? Thanks for any help...

For those who are familiar with the pattern: should divots be typically pointed left relative to the target line when using the Never Hook Again pattern? I assume that, if they are, then the shorter the club--and hence the more descending blow--the further left they should point (which may...

BMan used the back-and-forth drill in the Soft Draw video and the carry in Never Hook Again. Is the back-and-forth drill good for someone learning NHA? Is the Hurdle drill good for someone learning SD? In Four for the Road, he describes both drills (I think I remember this). I understand...

If I want to focus on improving clubface control, with what would you recommend starting? Twist-away? I have always worked on the premise that the clubface would square itself without any conscious effort on my part. That tactic has resulted in misses on both sides. Focusing on the tumble...

Is it possible to combine the NHA backswing with a SD downswing and follow through? What would one expect to be the problem with that combination? Thanks for any insight?

Since I bought NHA my golf game has steadily improved, and I get more excited about the game every time I play. This summer I broke 80 for the first time; yesterday, I came down to the 18th hole needing a par to do it again (I didn't succeed-my nerves won out). Before I found this website, I...

1. According to what I have read here, to get maximum power you have to apply "Force Against the Shaft" (FATS) beginning at the point where the shaft is last perpendicular to the ground preceding impact (it may be at the last point the shaft is parallel to the ground). In the NHA pattern, you...

I recently viewed Confessions of a Former Flipper again, and have been thinking about the drills BManz talks about toward the end of the video. I went out today and tried to work with the fiddle drill, and found that it felt very awkward. It felt like I was having to sustain my lag a lot more...

It has been a great help to my scoring recently to focus on swinging left post impact, i.e. "Follow the Yellow Brick Road." In order for me to square the fact, I *feel* like I am pulling my hands around behind me on the follow through. I mean it feels really, really left and behind me. Most...

I have been looking at some of the video tips on Ben Doyle's web site. He seems to talk about "over acceleration" a lot. I have a couple of questions related to over acceleration: 1. Is "over acceleration" another way to talk about club head throwaway? 2. Is "over acceleration"/throwaway...

Today 41/37 for a 78! First time to break 80! Best ever round! 8 fairways hit. 8 greens in regulation. 30 putts (5 one-putts, 1 three-putt) 1 birdie, 10 pars, 5 bogies, 1 double (my three-putt) From the get-go, I focused on "swinging left" down the "yellow brick road." Never had so much...

Friday I shot 45/37 for an 82. A good round for me. The back nine was the best ever. I have a question for someone to explain, if you can, why what happened happened. Here is the story. I started out on the front nine 8-over on the first 5 holes. I could not get the ball in play off the...

Can pop out be a problem with the NHA pattern?