Early axis tilt

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JJKing

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Having fought the blocks for the last several months, I have been working on some NHA moves trying to have the body more open at impact. I now can start a ball left and move it right but am still having thin problems. During all of this I have struggled at times to "find the ground" so to speak with the clubhead. I am fairly certain that this is due to my first move down being right shoulder in my hip pocket with a lot of early axis tilt. Presuming that my plan line now being straighter by virtue of the fades that I can hit what do I do to control/limit the early axis tilt? Do i need more drop to go along with the carry I have generated?

Any insight here will be greatly appreciated.
 
Shot Limit

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Personally, the shoulder in hip pocket thought was partially responsible for me swinging too far to the right. I had more success with a shoulder down and towards the ball thought.
 
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Jim Kobylinski

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JJKing said:
Having fought the blocks for the last several months, I have been working on some NHA moves trying to have the body more open at impact. I now can start a ball left and move it right but am still having thin problems. During all of this I have struggled at times to "find the ground" so to speak with the clubhead. I am fairly certain that this is due to my first move down being right shoulder in my hip pocket with a lot of early axis tilt. Presuming that my plan line now being straighter by virtue of the fades that I can hit what do I do to control/limit the early axis tilt? Do i need more drop to go along with the carry I have generated?

Any insight here will be greatly appreciated.
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no fear, i see this a lot when people use a lot of NHA to get rid of their hooks. What you are struggling with is too much around and not enough down; you've basically "over done it." Work on getting that right shoulder to still go towards the ball some while still feeling open.
 
JJKing

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I guess I should have added that I never had much down in my swing and at most made a little scrape even when swinging more right. In fact I felt like I had to swing more right and with more axis tilt in order to reach the ball.

Now when changing my plane line from right to left I never get much if any down or divot so something is still missing. I presume this is excess axis tilt as I can hit shots that are very, very high and my right shoulder goes way down plane pretty early. I definitely have no flip on any prior swing video. When I saw Brian a couple months back we thought that left swinging would give me the down but it has not generated any that I can appreciate.

My preliminaries with the drop seem promising. I would really like to get some trap and compression in my strike again.

Thanks everyone again for your insight
 
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Don't know if you have it, but I'm pretty sure this Manzella Drill is in Confessions of a Former Flipper. Basically, with no ball, you swing and take a
divot. Then you swing again with the goal of starting this second divot where the previous one ended. Do this a third time and you are probably done. Teaches you to take a divot and keep your hands in front of the clubhead. I was showing this to a guy at our local shag range. He couldn't believe those sequential divots. He also couldn't do it. He's a fairly new golfer.

Another one is to get a piece of 1/2 or 3/4 inch plywood and cut out notch say 8 inches wide by 3 inches deep in the center of one edge. Now tee up a ball very low in front of the rear edge of the notch. Don't know how far as I don't have the problem. The point is this. Unless you hit down on the ball, you will smack the plywood.
 
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Kevin Shields

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The first drill is better than the second IMO. Just make sure you do the divot drill with your head back, keep it from drifting forward and cheating.
 
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