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Online Students: Austin Kendziorski Part 2

I’ve been working with Austin for about a year and a half now and he has brought his stroke average playing for Marquette University down by almost 6 shots. He is a strong kid (121 mph clubhead speed and 180 ball speed) and is learning to control the ball better by improving his swing technique. His main struggle has been with the clubhead getting trapped behind his hands as he approaches impact, and in this lesson, you can see this issue clearly in his first batch of swings.

Online Students: John Kent

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John is the father of one of website member Mark Smith’s good friends, and Mark was nice enough to purchase an online lesson for him. John plays to an 11 handicap now at age 70, but was a 7 a few years back before undergoing serious back surgery. Some of what we see here is certainly the result of the balky back, but there are things we can do to improve the movement and give John a chance to get back some of the strokes he has lost.

Online Students: John Lamendola Part 7

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John is gaining on changing his swing pattern (his hands are no longer dropping behind him) but there is still the problem of right arm pull back in transition which effectively starts his downswing out of sequence. John will be able to deal with his hip rotation through impact when he improves his transition.

Online Students: Chuck Zellner Part 5

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Chuck is an avid student and as avid students sometimes will do he has overcooked one of the changes he is trying to make. In this case, it’s his right arm movement in the backswing, and you will pick up the exaggeration immediately when you watch his swing.

Online Students: Chris Wainwright, PGA UK

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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.

Online Students: Chris Fox, PGA Australia Part 2

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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.

Online Students: John Lamendola Part 6 – Nice Progress

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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.

Online Students: John Lamendola Part 5

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John has made great strides with his swing and it is showing in his scores. The one item that has proven the most stubborn is the dropping back of the hands and right arm in transition. His backswing is now wider and more on plane, but after dealing with a motion pattern where his pivot essentially caused the hands to want to deepen at the top of the swing, they have a mind of their own and have grooved this unwanted movement.

Online Students: Austin Kendziorski

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Austin’s already had a very nice motion when he came to me for help but since then he has improved his mechanics substantially. His main issue has always been an overuse of the right upper arm in transition, driving the elbow in too aggressively and flattening the club for too long a period, causing the shaft to get stuck behind his hands on the approach.

Online Students: James Lloyd

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James is 15 and plays off a handicap of 5 started this year he started off the season in excellent fashion coming 3rd in the club championships (then a handicap of 7). Since about August though he has struggle a little with a lot of advice from all different directions.

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