My short wedge game and chipping has been really quite poor for my level for quite some time. Brian described for me a chipping procedure I needed to work on at the end of my last lesson (it was in the midst of a driving rain which had rained out the second half of my lesson). His description was very good and so by two weeks later I have a reasonable chipping procedure that I can rely on. Ok, big improvement and not something very hard to do.
The other thing I have needed to improve is my ability to hit the shots inside 50 yards and Brian also described how I needed the up-the-right-arm pitch shot. Something I knew I needed but just haven't ben able to figure out. I have never really gotten how to hit the mid-sole pitch and that has been driving me crazy for a year. I kept trying all last winter to get this shot down and never got there. I've been re-reading everything here about that shot but still didn't get it. Brian gave me some things to work on last fall over the winter, but, again, I just never got there.
Then I went back two weeks ago and watched the Long Island video of Brian showing the range of shots. I'd watched it before but it never "took." This time I went to my practice area and, weirdly, all of a sudden I just got it. In two weeks that part of my game has now gone from poor to really good, and maybe better than that. I can only imagine if I had learned to hit this shot when I was a kid instead of at age 50. I can hit the lob, the mid-sole pitch, the runner to the back left pin. All with the feet a half beat ahead of the motion. The difference is just sick. The across the shaft force I was using and all my anti-flipping safeguards were killing my attempts at these shots before. Now they just seem like the easiest, most natural shots I can hit. I don't know why it was so hard for me to get this one down.
Maybe Brian doesn't want people constantly clamoring for this at a time when he's teaching a ton of lessons. But this is going to shave a lot of shots off a lot of games.
The other thing I have needed to improve is my ability to hit the shots inside 50 yards and Brian also described how I needed the up-the-right-arm pitch shot. Something I knew I needed but just haven't ben able to figure out. I have never really gotten how to hit the mid-sole pitch and that has been driving me crazy for a year. I kept trying all last winter to get this shot down and never got there. I've been re-reading everything here about that shot but still didn't get it. Brian gave me some things to work on last fall over the winter, but, again, I just never got there.
Then I went back two weeks ago and watched the Long Island video of Brian showing the range of shots. I'd watched it before but it never "took." This time I went to my practice area and, weirdly, all of a sudden I just got it. In two weeks that part of my game has now gone from poor to really good, and maybe better than that. I can only imagine if I had learned to hit this shot when I was a kid instead of at age 50. I can hit the lob, the mid-sole pitch, the runner to the back left pin. All with the feet a half beat ahead of the motion. The difference is just sick. The across the shaft force I was using and all my anti-flipping safeguards were killing my attempts at these shots before. Now they just seem like the easiest, most natural shots I can hit. I don't know why it was so hard for me to get this one down.
Maybe Brian doesn't want people constantly clamoring for this at a time when he's teaching a ton of lessons. But this is going to shave a lot of shots off a lot of games.
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