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Oh, your doing a good job with what you have at this time, but you can do better , much better, you have the ability to be alot better, one can see that from the vids. Good luck.
 
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Erik_K said:
This finish feels unnatural and I don't see how one finishes with the butt of the club out to right field when the club wants to work around to the left. However, I think the goal is to have high hands at the finish with the club, more or less, sort of hanging straight down from the top at the finish.
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Erik - One very small point -- I personally think that because of D-plane, when hitting an iron that "butt end pointing at the target or slightly right of the target" may actually mean, when adjusted for D-plane, having butt end of club pointing ten yards left of target -- because path for a straight shot may optimally be 12 yards left of target.

So I wouldn't get hung up on worrying about ending up pointing exactly at target or right of it.
 
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Same here, I end up trying to point a little left of target.

In any case, that move makes your move through the ball look very different and less fade-like. To my amateur eyes.
 
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Jwat said:
Anyways, I think Erik has a great backswing. But he is doing some serious pelvis thrusting on the way down and it is throwing his path way out. I bet he is moving at least 6" closer to the ball. I don't think he is really standing up on it as much as his crotch going towards the ball which in turn makes you stand up some. So for me I would worry more about keeping the and creating more distance from the crotch to the ball on the downswing. But like I said in the 1st post, the Pros are the ones to listen too. There is a reason why they don't talk about early extension that much because for most it can be fixed by correcting the hand path.
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Is hand path how you corrected your early extension? I was trying all kinds of moves today and managed to created more room for delivery but, after looking at the video, I was still up on the toes of my rear foot prior to impact.
 
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spmurph said:
Is hand path how you corrected your early extension? I was trying all kinds of moves today and managed to created more room for delivery but, after looking at the video, I was still up on the toes of my rear foot prior to impact.
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I wouldn't say that I have corrected my early extension, but just managing it. All the instructors view my early extension problem as a handpath problem which is probably correct. But right now I haven't been able to correct that as much so instead I am pushing my a$$ way out at the beginning of the swing and holding it out there thoughout the DS. Almost Keegan Bradley like.

I am not saying this is the answer, but defintley fixed the pulls. I look at every pro or scratch player and none of them pelvic thrust the way I do. Now if your only problem is the right foot coming off of the ground, most power hitters make this move into the ball. I think if your pelvis stays back but your right foot is off the ground you are still in a pretty good position.
 
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Yea his pelvis never moves toward the ball. Either does any good players I have ever seen. I wonder how the hand path correction would help the pelvis thrust?
 
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I worked on this with Damon. I too, can't seem to get the "feel" of this. Sadly, I work much further away now and haven't had a chance to get back down and see Damon - but I will!
 
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Yea I think if the right hip is going towards the ball instead of the target in the downswing than it would definitley affect handpath.
 
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