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I’m going to comment on the video below but I want you to read Rick’s background info first. I find these short bios to be quite interesting because every swing that gets sent to me has arrived at the state it’s in due to everything that has come before it. So here’s Rick talking about his golf:
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Byron signed up for a phone conversation but decided to send in a couple more swings to see if he had made progress after viewing the first lesson. I don’t understand why more people don’t do two in a row like that as I think Byron will be able to fully incorporate the changes after getting feedback on his first attempts. Some of these changes feel so exaggerated that it’s hard to do them enough because it feels like there is no way that it could be correct.
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How cool is it to be giving a lesson to a good player from Australia when I’ve never been close to Australia in my life? Very cool. And this is a very cool swing to look at because it does so many good things. You could pretty much tell that it was Hogan influenced even without Byron’s comments, so when I compare it to Hogan’s swing a couple of major differences emerge, and when he makes the changes I think it will improve his ball striking dramatically and fairly quickly.
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Nathan came for an in-person lesson back in April and between then and now he has fixed up the hardest thing for people to fix — getting the hands back to the ball at shaft parallel on approach to impact. We still have some things to work on but they are mechanics with the main thing being a sequencing issue where everything is leaning and moving forward at the same time in transition.
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This is Phil’s second online lesson and when I compare it with the first one he looks like a completely different person. Starting with the down-the-line view we focus on is Phil’s set up where he’s overdone it a bit by getting too bent over and too far from the ball. The takeaway has improved with the wrist not bowing right away and his right hip has gained more depth, which is another nice improvement.
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As you will see in the video Michael has a pretty good handle on his issues other than his sequence, which I show is a real problem. Once again it is the takeaway and right arm issues in the backswing that lead to transition problems and thus problems at impact. I think that if Michael got his initial takeaway to stay on plane (hands more inward, clubhead more outside his hands by keeping the left wrist cupped), and then learned to limit his right arm bend heading to the top of the swing he would be making major improvements.
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Jaime is a very good player who took lessons from me in high school and then again years later when he came back to golf after an extended break, and now is a club professional in the Philadelphia area. I think he has a chance to be a top notch player and I am glad he sent me his swing to look at again.
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It is not always easy to let go of the memories of playing poorly, and when the technique improves as much as this the player has to learn to trust it let it work for him. Confidence, however, is built over time with increasing successes, just as a lack of confidence becomes ingrained over a period of poor performance.
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If you didn’t think that changing swing patterns was difficult just watch this video. John is a good player and an avid practicer, when he sent in his swing again last week I expected to see something quite different, but it didn’t turn out that way.
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One of the keys to this lesson will be an effort from Chuck to exaggerate the swing feelings and use the camera to see what happens when he tries, because as we know it’s pretty much impossible to tell what’s actually going on without the ability to slow it down.
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