This morning, for the last 20-30 balls, I worked on keeping the right thigh angle constant as I striaghtened my leg and rotated my hip back. For visual references, I imagined the photos on Redgoat's site about the backswing, and remembered some photos in Brian's article on the backswing pivot.Worked remarkably well for the driver, as I focused on rotating the hip around towards the target as I straightened my right leg a bit, while maintaining the inner right thigh angle.
The hip rotating towards the target on the backswing feels like a pre downstroke hip slide. A preslide. Cleared my right side nicely and on the downswing, instead of stuffing my mind like a turkey with thoughts of left wrist uncocking , aiming the right shoulder downplane, pulling something or those haunting and traumatic pressure points, I thought of driving the wedges in a straight line through the ball. Not a clear , conscious picture of flying wedges, just mostly an image my right forearm driving in a straight line towards the ball.
Works better with the driver since my hands are positioned further away from my body than for irons.
Now the question I have is about that preslide feeling I have. On the dowstroke, should I now go with that feeling and feel like the right hip is continuing to rotate back closer to the target as it also slides to the left? Now the right hip is not actually continuing rotating back or else I would wind up with a 90 degree hip turn. On the backswing, it feels like that as my right hip is rotating back, and getting closer to the target, it also feels like it is also sliding to the left even though it is only rotating. Confusing.
Any attempts at a conscious pivot controlled or a and indirect hands controlled hip slide to the left seems abrubt and not in the flow of the swing. However, the feeling I described of the preslide right hip rotation seems to be less dijointed . But I don't want to over rotate. Now I need to get this to work with irons.
Happy Thanksgiving All.
PS. I can't wait til spring for lessons and I am so bored out of my mind during this vacation, I had to whack some balls. I am still abstaining from that affectionaltely lurid Giallo. Argento fans may know what I am rambling about.
PSS. Redgoat: any plane on downswing sequences to complement your photos and commentary on the backswing pivot?
The hip rotating towards the target on the backswing feels like a pre downstroke hip slide. A preslide. Cleared my right side nicely and on the downswing, instead of stuffing my mind like a turkey with thoughts of left wrist uncocking , aiming the right shoulder downplane, pulling something or those haunting and traumatic pressure points, I thought of driving the wedges in a straight line through the ball. Not a clear , conscious picture of flying wedges, just mostly an image my right forearm driving in a straight line towards the ball.
Works better with the driver since my hands are positioned further away from my body than for irons.
Now the question I have is about that preslide feeling I have. On the dowstroke, should I now go with that feeling and feel like the right hip is continuing to rotate back closer to the target as it also slides to the left? Now the right hip is not actually continuing rotating back or else I would wind up with a 90 degree hip turn. On the backswing, it feels like that as my right hip is rotating back, and getting closer to the target, it also feels like it is also sliding to the left even though it is only rotating. Confusing.
Any attempts at a conscious pivot controlled or a and indirect hands controlled hip slide to the left seems abrubt and not in the flow of the swing. However, the feeling I described of the preslide right hip rotation seems to be less dijointed . But I don't want to over rotate. Now I need to get this to work with irons.
Happy Thanksgiving All.
PS. I can't wait til spring for lessons and I am so bored out of my mind during this vacation, I had to whack some balls. I am still abstaining from that affectionaltely lurid Giallo. Argento fans may know what I am rambling about.
PSS. Redgoat: any plane on downswing sequences to complement your photos and commentary on the backswing pivot?