Brian Manzella
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Lexi Maxes Out! - video analysis by Brian Manzella
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ZAP
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Between this and the 3D dealy it is really starting to make sense to me why this is optimal. Now I just have to figure out how to do it better. I am pretty sure my CP still traces a descending path till after impact. And looking back at my TM numbers for my lessons that now makes sense. Thanks!
And you don't have a shot really showing the Lexi Thompson follow-through/finish, but she really has the 'left hand on the wall, left elbow stays left look" after impact look that you've described several times before before, as much as any top player that I've seen.
In watching her play, the thing I like about her, in addition to the swing and how far she hits it, is how non-mechanical her whole game appears. She seems like the antithesis of the overcoached modern player hitting line-drawing positions on slow-mo video, especially in the short game. The anti-Wie. She looks like someone who learned how to play out on the course trying to beat her brother, doing whatever it took to hit it as far as she could.
In watching her play, the thing I like about her, in addition to the swing and how far she hits it, is how non-mechanical her whole game appears. She seems like the antithesis of the overcoached modern player hitting line-drawing positions on slow-mo video, especially in the short game. The anti-Wie. She looks like someone who learned how to play out on the course trying to beat her brother, doing whatever it took to hit it as far as she could.
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dschultz6072
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Just give it some time and she'll get coached out of that. They all do.
What we some of our learned friends here think would be the result of:
Arms, hands, coupling point, torquing and clubhead moving optimally in the downswing, a la Lexi, but the jump,/left shoulder moveback was absent? Would it fatally undermine everything that preceded it, or would it just make it slightly sub-optimal?
Arms, hands, coupling point, torquing and clubhead moving optimally in the downswing, a la Lexi, but the jump,/left shoulder moveback was absent? Would it fatally undermine everything that preceded it, or would it just make it slightly sub-optimal?
Brian Manzella
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A little less speed, a little more downward angle of attack.
Thankyou Brian. I ask because I'm wondering if the following causality is rooted in logic:
Arms, coupling point, release work well and thus place the radius of the clubhead into the ground ---Absence of jump at impact----left elbow has to kind of buckle outwards towards to target to counter this---instant drag of left arm and total undermining of flow beyond the line up---instant underplaning----resultant ugly shots.
Does the above form a rational, logical causal chain or am I talking jibberish?
dschultz6072
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I always wondered why Tiger Woods' butt cheeks were squeezed together and he looked so intense at impact when I read "his" book. I guess this is the answer.
Kevin Shields
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Now that's some serious analysis. Crack a walnut in your ass.
hp12c
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that would hurt.
dschultz6072
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I'm the future of swing analysis. Seriously though I knew there was something to it when I noticed quite a few really great ball strikers tightened up their red zone D.
Brian,
What are your thoughts on utilizing a slight shortening of the left arm (as if bending the elbow behind the left side ala Sadlowski but not to that extreme) to assist with going normal? Still working on my jump but feel like I've had some success with this approach also.
Todd Dugan
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I still haven't heard this one answered yet.........how can she be pulling her hands inward, towards herself, while simultaneously extending her right arm?
Shot Limit
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It appears as though the upward movement of the cp is mostly due to the leg action per the jump as opposed to pulling in with the arms, hands and shoulder complexes.
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