Bill Miracle
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Well, after trying about everything on the planet to get rid of my over the top, over accelerating, chicken wing, flipping swing.... I reached a point about two weeks ago when I about threw in the towel. Even though I had close to 10 hours with Brian, practice at the range every day, have all of Brian's videos and tons of others.....the swing just wasn't getting any better, and was in fact getting worse. In the 2+ years of starting to play this game, I must have put in 10 years of effort. If this is all I am capable of...I need a new hobby. Nothing was working CONSISTENTLY...twistaway, axis tilt, backswing pivot, downswing pivot, hit the wall, wedding ring up, etc... While it all helped some, I still had this ugly, inconsistent swing.
So, after a weekend off, I decided to give it one last attempt before regular golf became a once a year hobby.
I was at the range and remembering the premises of "Building Blocks", I stated with a basic chip motion and and pitching motion. In doing this, a light bulb went off. In most of Brian's videos and in my lessons with him....when he slow motions through the ball, he excentuates the "release" through the ball. Ah ha! Lights go on. I don't have this feel, motion, whatever through the ball. I direct all of my focus on hitting the ball and do not release properly. Not good.
So, in building blocks style, focused on the "release" through short chipping type motions and started to see magic happen. Moved to pitches, and could see on video...perfectly flat left wrist, bent right wrist, bent right elbow which straightens after impact. Posting on the left leg and swinging left was so much easier.
So, off to the full swing. For the life of Brian, he could not get me to swing easy in our lessons. I had so much "hit the ball anxiety" in me, I could not do a 50% swing. So, when I got up to practice the full swing, all I thought was do the release motion through the ball and post and pivot on the left leg. While I didn't execute 100% perfect shots on every swing, the change in the swing and common results was monsterous. I can now pose an impact position and swing as slow as I want to try and duplicate it. What I found though is that impact is mentally where I stopped. I need to pose impact and then to the release point. Major difference for me.
As a result of this simple point of focus, almost everything I've learned from Brian takes on a new light of application and understanding. I am in day 3 of working on this and people at the range are asking me what the hell I did to my swing. To them, it looks slower and smoother...very golf like. On video, it's not perfect but it's in a different league than before.
I'm going to work on it a couple more days then post some before and after video.
So, I'm glad I hung in there. Sometimes, the hardest things are solved by a simple degree of better understanding...especially in something as complicated as the golf swing. My natural instincts for hitting a golf ball would never produce consistent success. I can see where Brian was trying to lead me and I am getting there. I feel everything I have invested in Brian's lessons and videos have been well worth it.
So, after a weekend off, I decided to give it one last attempt before regular golf became a once a year hobby.
I was at the range and remembering the premises of "Building Blocks", I stated with a basic chip motion and and pitching motion. In doing this, a light bulb went off. In most of Brian's videos and in my lessons with him....when he slow motions through the ball, he excentuates the "release" through the ball. Ah ha! Lights go on. I don't have this feel, motion, whatever through the ball. I direct all of my focus on hitting the ball and do not release properly. Not good.
So, in building blocks style, focused on the "release" through short chipping type motions and started to see magic happen. Moved to pitches, and could see on video...perfectly flat left wrist, bent right wrist, bent right elbow which straightens after impact. Posting on the left leg and swinging left was so much easier.
So, off to the full swing. For the life of Brian, he could not get me to swing easy in our lessons. I had so much "hit the ball anxiety" in me, I could not do a 50% swing. So, when I got up to practice the full swing, all I thought was do the release motion through the ball and post and pivot on the left leg. While I didn't execute 100% perfect shots on every swing, the change in the swing and common results was monsterous. I can now pose an impact position and swing as slow as I want to try and duplicate it. What I found though is that impact is mentally where I stopped. I need to pose impact and then to the release point. Major difference for me.
As a result of this simple point of focus, almost everything I've learned from Brian takes on a new light of application and understanding. I am in day 3 of working on this and people at the range are asking me what the hell I did to my swing. To them, it looks slower and smoother...very golf like. On video, it's not perfect but it's in a different league than before.
I'm going to work on it a couple more days then post some before and after video.
So, I'm glad I hung in there. Sometimes, the hardest things are solved by a simple degree of better understanding...especially in something as complicated as the golf swing. My natural instincts for hitting a golf ball would never produce consistent success. I can see where Brian was trying to lead me and I am getting there. I feel everything I have invested in Brian's lessons and videos have been well worth it.
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