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I’ve had 4 days of not touching a golf club but as a certified addict I’ve certainly been thinking about it. I brought my tripod and my junior club just in case I got bored, and since Jennifer went out shopping and it’s 45 degrees out and raining here in Park City (yesterday was 72 and perfect) I had a chance to get out the camera and do a video on my current state of mind regarding my own swing (it always starts there). As you well know I always try to do what I teach, and when I try to execute what I know is correct I find that I have yet to accomplish what I am trying to do. The process of getting ideas and attempting to put them into action is the true heart of the game, and the desire to improve is what inhabits all our efforts. Keep in mind that the general ideas I put forth here and the specific body movements I talk about are about my own swing, while it should be obvious that you have heard all of this at one time or another before. One of the huge advantages of being relatively healthy for the first time in a good while is that I can put more time into practice, and as I work by trial and error (the errors coming out in competition) I can work toward being able to focus on the most important and stubborn items and possibly make some progress. I can see the specific flaws: I have come to realize that my overall perception of proper swing plane is actually in to out, and that perception colors everything I do from the takeaway to the release and follow through. What you see here is an attempt for me to change my perception of the swing plane by attacking the individual elements that keep me from changing to a more on plane swing. If it appears that my clubhead is well outside of my hands in my demonstrations that is because I know it will never look like that when I swing for real. What I am describing are things that I believe I need to try to do to change my overall swing pattern, and since I understand just how difficult it is to change an engrained pattern I exaggerate each movement. What truly matters, of course, is what comes out when it’s for real. I will continue to report in as I take it out into competition.
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