Richie3Jack
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Deadly Scope - then why are you here?
Baiting a poster into something and then snatching it away isn't cool.
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Baiting a poster into something and then snatching it away isn't cool.
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Do you guys ‘actively’ bump the left hip as your first move down?
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TeddyIrons
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The bump makes me feel uncoordinated. However, if I make a good shoulder turn in the backswing with a little right-leaning as Brian advocates, from there if I squat just a little in transition it will also move my hips left and will look like a hip bump.
I like this diggerdog 2004 post with the flyfishing analogy....
"I feel your pain. I am making slow progress with the same affliction. Here is a good swing study. Swing a club slowly to the top and STOP, looking at nothing but the shaft and where it is pointing, hopefullly along the ball-to-targetline. Now, without looking or thinking of anything else, make sure the very frist movement of the clubshaft goes immediately dead straight in the direction the shaft is pointing at the top. Norwood calls it a chuck out of the right elbow. Sometimes I feel the right elbow as the instigator of this move, sometimes it feels like a right shoulder move, and sometimes a right hip motion. Go to single axis website and do a search of a post called trail side compression. In my case with a 3 quarter max backswing, (former muscle-bound 41 year old endormorph)the grip end points somewhere towards 2:30 with straight ahead being 12. The freaky thing initially for me was that the direction of moving the shaft was away form the ball, not to it. Another mental image is take your stance with a 7 iron, and imagine it is a zebco 33 rod and reel. You take the club to the top and prepare to "cast" the line at a man standing directly on your toe line behind you about 30 yards. While looking at the ball, cast the lure to the man behind you while swinging down to the ball at the same time. Sounds crazy, and probably hasen't been explained well, but has been a miracle. Funny story how i came across this image. Good luck. Be patient, be relentless, get Brian's Never slice Again. The same cure he prescribes for fixing a slice will also cure the pulls, which are its first cousin."
"I feel your pain. I am making slow progress with the same affliction. Here is a good swing study. Swing a club slowly to the top and STOP, looking at nothing but the shaft and where it is pointing, hopefullly along the ball-to-targetline. Now, without looking or thinking of anything else, make sure the very frist movement of the clubshaft goes immediately dead straight in the direction the shaft is pointing at the top. Norwood calls it a chuck out of the right elbow. Sometimes I feel the right elbow as the instigator of this move, sometimes it feels like a right shoulder move, and sometimes a right hip motion. Go to single axis website and do a search of a post called trail side compression. In my case with a 3 quarter max backswing, (former muscle-bound 41 year old endormorph)the grip end points somewhere towards 2:30 with straight ahead being 12. The freaky thing initially for me was that the direction of moving the shaft was away form the ball, not to it. Another mental image is take your stance with a 7 iron, and imagine it is a zebco 33 rod and reel. You take the club to the top and prepare to "cast" the line at a man standing directly on your toe line behind you about 30 yards. While looking at the ball, cast the lure to the man behind you while swinging down to the ball at the same time. Sounds crazy, and probably hasen't been explained well, but has been a miracle. Funny story how i came across this image. Good luck. Be patient, be relentless, get Brian's Never slice Again. The same cure he prescribes for fixing a slice will also cure the pulls, which are its first cousin."
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Interesting post, I had been struggling a bit early this year, and have really focused on better footwork the past 6 weeks. ie: making sure that my right heel leads instead of spinning out. The result on video is that I now have a slight hip bump to the left to initiate the downswing. This keeps me from hanging back on my right side and has allowed me to get my weight to my left side(right handed golfer). It's also led to getting my hands in a better position at impact.
Sounds something like Adam's description of tumble (throwing mud off clubface from the top), or is the writer describing some sequenced release move?
While a bump or tilt or other downswing move may become automatic and instinctive, to me it doesn't mean that you can't work on modifying or improving your move. I have actually been experimenting with trying to ingrain a more purposeful bump/step on my left foot move for the same reasons jbrunk described. The thing is, the little extra bump also changes my backswing because I know I am going to a slightly different place on the downswing. It helps me stay more closed in transition and hit more right (my path tends to be a little too left) but it also sometimes causes more fat shots, so far.
Really good players make the move instinctively but lots of bad players have no idea it's a possibility (judging from watching them hit balls).
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I personally think the right downswing is the magic move. Why is it we can toss a baseball to first base or to another person and we shift our weight and pivot without a problem yet we cant do it when the ball sits there on the ground and we cant hit it without pivoting. What is the missing element we cant figure out?
Jim Kobylinski
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take your brain out of the equation. in other sports you REACT in golf you can't because the ball is stationary
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