lia41985
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Given the spatial confines I have, these are the best angles I could get of me swinging a 7 iron. The recording equipment is decidedly low-grade compared to what's out there. I recorded these using my built-in camera on my Macbook Pro and Quicktime.
Here they are:
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Some background: I'm 6'2" and 180 pound with a thin build. I consider myself to be pretty athletic. I'm a decent basketball player and a good tennis player. My arms are pretty long--I don't know what my wingspan is but my wrist to floor is 33 inches. In terms of glaring physical weaknesses, I suffer from very poor hip flexibility (I can't even come close to sitting Indian style and my college yoga instructor told me that I have the tightest hips she's ever seen--and she's worked with octogenarians!) and tight hamstrings. My core is definitely not as strong as I'd like it to be. My hands are pretty large: 8 3/4 inches long with my longest finger measuring 3 1/2 inches--I definitely need bigger grips (2 wraps of tape or size gold in Ping clubs). I wear a size 12 (I don't know how this could be relevant but the fact that SteveT has asked reminded me to mention it). I grip the club in what I feel is a comfortable position: my hands are neutral, gripping the club at the same position my arms hang. My signature is an exact reflection of how I think about swinging a club. I play about 10 rounds (usually just 9 holes) a year, almost exclusively in the summer--for 9 I can shoot anywhere from even par to bogey golf depending on my short game that day (I don't really practice it), my willingness to grind, and how much I've worked on my swing at the range (which is something I love to do). I love hitting the driver. I hate hitting fairway woods off the deck. My bad shots are thin. My divots are shallow. I tend to hit my driver and metals off a tee very straight or otherwise with a slight pull or pull draw. My long and midirons are straight. My short irons I pull. My tee-to-green game really gets going when I'm just playing for a fade out of an open stance (which I'm doing in these) and "holding off" my finish (which I didn't do in these), and in that case, most of my shots from the long to the short clubs go from being straight to straight fades. I try to swing the club at what I believe is 90% of my maximum swing speed capacity. I carry my driver 260 yards and my 7 iron 165 yards. Technically I want to work on improving the sit and tilt components of my swing (axis tilt on the downswing). I tend to stand too narrow and maybe even too close to the ball with my mid-irons through wedges. I also would like to implement a better "trigger" to start my swing--at times I don't step enough on the right foot to get the weight off my left foot. I don't know if you can notice it, but my friends always comment on how "long" my swing is. I really have no interest in changing that--all the reasons I've been given haven't really satisfied me but I'm more than open to hearing further suggestion on this or any other point.
Here they are:
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Some background: I'm 6'2" and 180 pound with a thin build. I consider myself to be pretty athletic. I'm a decent basketball player and a good tennis player. My arms are pretty long--I don't know what my wingspan is but my wrist to floor is 33 inches. In terms of glaring physical weaknesses, I suffer from very poor hip flexibility (I can't even come close to sitting Indian style and my college yoga instructor told me that I have the tightest hips she's ever seen--and she's worked with octogenarians!) and tight hamstrings. My core is definitely not as strong as I'd like it to be. My hands are pretty large: 8 3/4 inches long with my longest finger measuring 3 1/2 inches--I definitely need bigger grips (2 wraps of tape or size gold in Ping clubs). I wear a size 12 (I don't know how this could be relevant but the fact that SteveT has asked reminded me to mention it). I grip the club in what I feel is a comfortable position: my hands are neutral, gripping the club at the same position my arms hang. My signature is an exact reflection of how I think about swinging a club. I play about 10 rounds (usually just 9 holes) a year, almost exclusively in the summer--for 9 I can shoot anywhere from even par to bogey golf depending on my short game that day (I don't really practice it), my willingness to grind, and how much I've worked on my swing at the range (which is something I love to do). I love hitting the driver. I hate hitting fairway woods off the deck. My bad shots are thin. My divots are shallow. I tend to hit my driver and metals off a tee very straight or otherwise with a slight pull or pull draw. My long and midirons are straight. My short irons I pull. My tee-to-green game really gets going when I'm just playing for a fade out of an open stance (which I'm doing in these) and "holding off" my finish (which I didn't do in these), and in that case, most of my shots from the long to the short clubs go from being straight to straight fades. I try to swing the club at what I believe is 90% of my maximum swing speed capacity. I carry my driver 260 yards and my 7 iron 165 yards. Technically I want to work on improving the sit and tilt components of my swing (axis tilt on the downswing). I tend to stand too narrow and maybe even too close to the ball with my mid-irons through wedges. I also would like to implement a better "trigger" to start my swing--at times I don't step enough on the right foot to get the weight off my left foot. I don't know if you can notice it, but my friends always comment on how "long" my swing is. I really have no interest in changing that--all the reasons I've been given haven't really satisfied me but I'm more than open to hearing further suggestion on this or any other point.
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