Dariusz J.
New member
Brian, I have an important question - just for you.
Yellow line represents the position of the hands in relation to the ear, red line represents clubshaft and forearm.
This is a nice impact position of Mr.Snead with rear forearm on perfectly parallel plane with the shaft:
This is a not so nice sequence of an amateur hacker
:
Now the question...I don't have similar 3 photos of Snead, but I have analyzed his videos and his waist-high position is similar to my pic.1 in that the yellow line covers his ear and hands. Next position is not so similar, since his hands would remain on the yellow line - while mine start to come out the line. Position no. 3 is quite different - his hands are still on the yellow line (as shown) while mine are visibly outside the zone making my forearm-shaft allignment not parallel at all (as shown).
The tricky part is - I am working at arriving at parallel position. IMHO, I have 2 choices:
a. to adjust the shaft position (i.e. the club) to my forearm line. It brings hosel shots and shanks since my ball position remains the same; I could place the ball further from my body and flatten my clubs' lie even more (they're already flattened), but I don't believe it would be correct.
b. to adjust the forearm action, i.e. to move it more "down" than "out" from waist-high to impact position; this action needs to find a space for an "extra length" (because my forearm is not parallel to the shaft) in order not to hit the ball fat.
If I am at the right path and understood some of your video lessons correctly, the "extra length" should find its place thanks to arriving at another impact position with more forward shaft lean at impact (e.g. slightly bowed left wrist) and a bit better body turn.
I'd love to hear your comments on this subject. Many thanks !
Cheers
Yellow line represents the position of the hands in relation to the ear, red line represents clubshaft and forearm.
This is a nice impact position of Mr.Snead with rear forearm on perfectly parallel plane with the shaft:
This is a not so nice sequence of an amateur hacker
:
Now the question...I don't have similar 3 photos of Snead, but I have analyzed his videos and his waist-high position is similar to my pic.1 in that the yellow line covers his ear and hands. Next position is not so similar, since his hands would remain on the yellow line - while mine start to come out the line. Position no. 3 is quite different - his hands are still on the yellow line (as shown) while mine are visibly outside the zone making my forearm-shaft allignment not parallel at all (as shown).
The tricky part is - I am working at arriving at parallel position. IMHO, I have 2 choices:
a. to adjust the shaft position (i.e. the club) to my forearm line. It brings hosel shots and shanks since my ball position remains the same; I could place the ball further from my body and flatten my clubs' lie even more (they're already flattened), but I don't believe it would be correct.
b. to adjust the forearm action, i.e. to move it more "down" than "out" from waist-high to impact position; this action needs to find a space for an "extra length" (because my forearm is not parallel to the shaft) in order not to hit the ball fat.
If I am at the right path and understood some of your video lessons correctly, the "extra length" should find its place thanks to arriving at another impact position with more forward shaft lean at impact (e.g. slightly bowed left wrist) and a bit better body turn.
I'd love to hear your comments on this subject. Many thanks !
Cheers