Matt 4-L
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I just bought and watched “The Movie”, lots of great information. I have a couple of questions from the video. The hinging actions that Brian demonstrated, when do they actually start to happen? Are the hinging actions controlled by “educated hands”? As far as I could tell if the leading edge of the club was vertical when the club was parallel to the ground on the follow through it was vertical hinging, and when it was about 45° it was considered angle hinging and if was parallel to the ground it was horizontal hinging, is this correct? And can somebody also define swivel?
I really learned a lot with Brian’s demo on right forearm takeaway versus shoulder turn takeaway. I have experimented a lot with these two types of takeaways. Now that I have seen the video I have definitions for them, I had always called the shoulder turn takeaway a leftside dominant swing because that is what it felt like to me and the right forearm take away was a rightside takeaway. I have recently switched back to the shoulder turn takeaway because I seem to feel like I have more time at the top to load the club, I had been struggling with what Brian termed leftside sag, which is a great term, I knew I wasn’t reverse pivoting but I felt the lean on the leftside. It seems my shoulders were getting quite steep and it felt like I was not completing my shoulder turn and that my arms and hands would outrace my pivot which would make it hard for me to load the club, plus, it was hard to get my shoulder back down to start it on plane. The one downside to the shoulder turn takeaway is that I feel like I am moving around a lot on the swing I don’t know how much that will effect my short irons and their accuracy. One of the benefits is I am hitting the driver considerably further with the shoulder turn takeaway, I played a tournament last week and switched mid round and went from driving the ball 270 yards to several drives in the 300 yard range. I was getting a large shoulder turn and was getting really good width, the one miss would be a block to the right if I got quick. To keep from sucking the club inside with that takeaway I would initiate the start of the swing with moving my weight forward slightly on my front foot and then start the shoulder turn which in turn then shifted my weight onto my back foot. With that little move it felt like it synced everything up... If I use the right forearm takeaway for my short irons, how do I get synced up and a shallower shoulder turn so I can get my right shoulder down the plane? Thanks, Matt
P.S. Brian, great video, I think I have all but your sand video, I think you should use that “New Orleans” music on all your future videos, it would be a great trademark for you.
I really learned a lot with Brian’s demo on right forearm takeaway versus shoulder turn takeaway. I have experimented a lot with these two types of takeaways. Now that I have seen the video I have definitions for them, I had always called the shoulder turn takeaway a leftside dominant swing because that is what it felt like to me and the right forearm take away was a rightside takeaway. I have recently switched back to the shoulder turn takeaway because I seem to feel like I have more time at the top to load the club, I had been struggling with what Brian termed leftside sag, which is a great term, I knew I wasn’t reverse pivoting but I felt the lean on the leftside. It seems my shoulders were getting quite steep and it felt like I was not completing my shoulder turn and that my arms and hands would outrace my pivot which would make it hard for me to load the club, plus, it was hard to get my shoulder back down to start it on plane. The one downside to the shoulder turn takeaway is that I feel like I am moving around a lot on the swing I don’t know how much that will effect my short irons and their accuracy. One of the benefits is I am hitting the driver considerably further with the shoulder turn takeaway, I played a tournament last week and switched mid round and went from driving the ball 270 yards to several drives in the 300 yard range. I was getting a large shoulder turn and was getting really good width, the one miss would be a block to the right if I got quick. To keep from sucking the club inside with that takeaway I would initiate the start of the swing with moving my weight forward slightly on my front foot and then start the shoulder turn which in turn then shifted my weight onto my back foot. With that little move it felt like it synced everything up... If I use the right forearm takeaway for my short irons, how do I get synced up and a shallower shoulder turn so I can get my right shoulder down the plane? Thanks, Matt
P.S. Brian, great video, I think I have all but your sand video, I think you should use that “New Orleans” music on all your future videos, it would be a great trademark for you.
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