First observation is the climbing of the Manzella Mountain of Knowledge. I saw this place up in the clouds and after a few months here and a few videos, I thought I knew what was what with the golf swing. But after reaching this place, the clouds cleared and I realized I was standing in what’s basically base camp. Looks like I need a few more Sherpa than I originally thought. It truly is remarkable how much knowledge is here and how much “been there, done that” with the appropriate remedy options.
As for the swing, I’m addressing two main issues at the moment – flipping and a reverse pivot. For the flipping issue, I’m doing half pitches. After a bout of elbow pain, I firmed up the arms a bit and that seemed to help. Still somewhat inconsistent with my urge to quit rotating at the bottom and hit but it’s coming along.
Regarding the reverse pivot, as usual there’s a ton in the archives here. I’m guessing what is causing it is too many BizHub phrases like “look at the wonderful restricted hip turn relative to the shoulders…” stuff. So I was setting up with a square right foot, turning my shoulders 90+ degrees and tried to restrict my hip turn. Since my middle age body can’t really do that, my hips pretty much rebelled and slid to the right. My fix is to open the right foot about 10 degrees, turn the right hip straight back and allow the left heel to come up a touch. To start the downswing, I just replant the left heel while keeping everything else turned. That really seems to accomplish a lot of good things such as the slide the hips to the left, assist in shifting some weight left and create some axis tilt. From that position, I just pivot. Does all this sound right? Still doing all this in the back yard so no ball flight evidence yet but it sure feels better (and different).
Doing the above, I’m fighting being too flat at the top. My left arm was below my shoulders at the top so I really have to make an effort to swing my arms more up than around. It that the best way to address this?
As for the swing, I’m addressing two main issues at the moment – flipping and a reverse pivot. For the flipping issue, I’m doing half pitches. After a bout of elbow pain, I firmed up the arms a bit and that seemed to help. Still somewhat inconsistent with my urge to quit rotating at the bottom and hit but it’s coming along.
Regarding the reverse pivot, as usual there’s a ton in the archives here. I’m guessing what is causing it is too many BizHub phrases like “look at the wonderful restricted hip turn relative to the shoulders…” stuff. So I was setting up with a square right foot, turning my shoulders 90+ degrees and tried to restrict my hip turn. Since my middle age body can’t really do that, my hips pretty much rebelled and slid to the right. My fix is to open the right foot about 10 degrees, turn the right hip straight back and allow the left heel to come up a touch. To start the downswing, I just replant the left heel while keeping everything else turned. That really seems to accomplish a lot of good things such as the slide the hips to the left, assist in shifting some weight left and create some axis tilt. From that position, I just pivot. Does all this sound right? Still doing all this in the back yard so no ball flight evidence yet but it sure feels better (and different).
Doing the above, I’m fighting being too flat at the top. My left arm was below my shoulders at the top so I really have to make an effort to swing my arms more up than around. It that the best way to address this?
