Who likes a challenge?

Status
Not open for further replies.
Redgoat

Redgoat

New
tgmer,

If that is a compliment thank you. For the record, it was one hour.

It must be said that this is a very talented lady. She has tremendous coordination and is an extremely good listener.

The two major issues were her address position and her lack of knowledge about how the body allows the hands and arms to work properly.

Standing further from the ball bent her over more allowing her shoulders to turn on a steeper plane (nice work ragman). Because she was far enough from the ball at address, she was able to rotate her body on the downswing and allowed her to turn the back of her left hand to the ground at impact.

This allowed her left arm to entend and created the proper impact alignments.

I Encouraged her to go slower and shorter with her swing and exaggerate and there it was. This was an unusally strong imrovement and made both of us quite happy.

That is why I love teaching!

Redgoat
 
T

thegolfpop

New
tgmer

Just for your info: I happened to be there during "P.D.'s" lesson and Brady did get her to make those improvements in just one hour. She's very talented, but then, so is he.

The Golfpop
 
P

pixie

New
Those improvements ARE there in just one lesson, depending on the student.
The question is: if she doesn't see you for a month, how will she look like when she comes back to see you?
 
Redgoat

Redgoat

New
pixie,

It all depends on the student. In most cases, they will have slipped back some. However, the more they fix it the easier it gets.

Redgoat
 
J

jrb15

New
Ok Brady:

It's address, takeaway and plane before impact isn't it? Good job. I hope you get these results with all of your motivated students.
 
Redgoat

Redgoat

New
jrb,

I don't. Nobody does. Sometimes it works better than others. Heck, she may slip back completely and I will have to fix it all over again. She may never own it completely. As we all know, this game is difficult to play well.

Redgoat
 
C

cdog

New
I noticed that with your students pictures, they all seem to be more bent over, and at the top the lead arm is more or less in line and covering the shoulder line (Hardy's single plane vs double plane explanation).
Do you find this easier for the student to learn and maintain, and what would be the physical limitation on the type of pivot...flexibility?
 
Redgoat

Redgoat

New
cdog,

Of the two amateurs listed only Ben Fox is my full time student. However, they both swing similarly and in the fashion I would try to get a young, flexible, and talented player to work towards.

With that said I love the swings of Clarke, Price, Faldo, and even Sutton who take the club up more vertically and then shallow out.

The direction I go in depends upon where the student is currently, their size(gerth), flexibility, talent, goals, and time to practice. Each student is different but I try to stick to one of these two methods of getting the club on plane approaching impact.

As far as Hardy is concerned, he does his thing and I do mine. I neither pattern myself after him nor discredit his approach. He works with many great players so he must be helping them or he would get fired, quickly!

Redgoat
 
C

cdog

New
I have read it is easier to learn and maintain the more shallow approach, and with the more verticle approach it takes more timing, so id therefor harder to maintain. I guess im just seeing which is more correct for me, i dont have much upper body flexibility because of yrs of lifting, but i would like the approach that would be the easiest to maintain for the amount of time i have to practice.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Top