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Josh is an immensely talented young player working at a club in Jupiter, Florida and his complaint is that his swing feels short, choppy and bunched up. Of course, to the eye at full speed it looks fluid and effortless, but when a good player feels things like he is describing you can bet that the slow- motion video will provide an insight into the cause or causes.
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The very first frame of the video pretty much tells the story, the difference is so striking that you really want to watch to see what caused the ugly one and how he got to the nice one.
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Justin is a young Tour winner who hits it miles while weighing in at somewhere around 150 pounds. It is a marvelous thing to watch his incredibly fast hip action, and the fact that he can synch his upper body with the lower is a testament to his talent and physical ability. We focus here mostly on his driver swing, but at the end of the video I show an iron shot that looks way more conventional and more controlled, which is of course what you would expect from such an excellent player, much like Phil Mickelson.
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Being quite familiar with major back problems I see some similarities in the problems Chris is experiencing with his swing and what I constantly fight in my own swing, which is initiating the forward swing with proper sequence. The change of direction from clockwise to counter-clockwise must be initiated by the muscles of the right hip, and as the rotation works against the stabilized right leg the pelvis advances to the left as it unwinds.
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Chris first sent his swing in last year, so you can check out the website archives to see the video I sent back to him. In this vid, I focus almost exclusively on Chris’ transition, which I feel fails to maintain width. The more I watched his swing the more strongly I felt that improving this one aspect would be a huge benefit.
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I like this lesson a lot because it is a great example of a swing problem that has no explainable cause. Dan is a very tall guy, but he is athletic and perfectly capable of making a nice, full swing, when there is no ball in front of him. When his brain knows that he is going to hit the ball his right wrist bends back, his right arm jams up, and his left arm squashes low against his chest, which means that his backswing is not going much past left arm parallel.
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As you will see, John has every reason to be excited because he has just figured out (with a little help) how to change an age old chronic pattern, which as you know is quite hard to do. We have changed a bunch of things for the better in John’s swing, but still the hands wanted to loop back and drop the right arm behind him in transition, something he hated to see and desperately wanted to change.
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This video was requested by Las Vegas teaching professional and long -time website member Jake Gilmer. I figured that all the website members would enjoy having these swings as well. They are certainly some of my favorites, and being able to study them at length would be beneficial to anyone.
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These swings represent another day (or two) in the life of a golfer trying to execute a swing that does what he knows will hit the ball better. What this constant studying shows is that chronic issues are usually mechanical in nature, and that seeing the same mistakes over and over, while hugely annoying, is the only way to decide what exactly to focus on when trying to improve.
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Ethan has come along at warp speed this summer, but we still have great difficulty getting his hips to open and his right side to fire into impact. I have tried to do a lot of hands on work getting him to feel where he needs to be and what he needs to aim for as far as pivot motion and position in the downswing, but it seemed like his hips were too weak and just did not want to be stressed by staying deep while opening and getting his pressure shifted over toward the outside of his left foot.
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