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Online Student: Jim Miller

It took me a while to write the copy for this lesson so I just had to watch it over again to remember what the swing did and what I said. I have to tell you that this is a very cool lesson, because it deals with a swing that looks mint to the eye at regular speed, yet demonstrates some basic flaws that without this type of analysis could easily go undetected. Jim’s motion is fluid and certainly looks powerful, and has the appearance of having excellent sequence and impact. But upon closer inspection we find a transition pretty…

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Online Students: Jonathan Airhart

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Jonathan is an Air Force pilot (I think that is correct, as he is a member of the F-22 Squadron) who has been in Russia for 4 years and now is getting back into golf. He used to film his swing quite a bit in high school (using Freddie Couples as a model) and has a pretty good awareness of what his flaws are. I noticed that Jon’s right hand grip was a bit weak (V pointing to the right of the chin) and that it appeared that his right palm separated from the left at the top of the…

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Online Students: Tim Mascorella

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Tim sent a nice email response to his lesson, so I thought I would share it with you as it does a great job of summarizing what I went over in the lesson. I really enjoyed the last comment about being an engineer and liking the way I use a standard method of analysis that he considered to be clear and detailed. That’s exactly what I am shooting for! Hi Wayne, Thanks for the lesson. I am a little embarrassed about the ball position part as I should know that. I was impressed with the observation about the back…

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Online Students: Kerry Ondrovik Part 2

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Here we see a very nice swing with good ground compression, excellent transition movement, and a vastly improved impact area. I see a couple of areas to focus on in order to continue the progress made over the past year, starting with the address position. I like the shaft to point at the belt buckle at address, and in Kerry’s setup we see a lower hand position. His backswing is triggered by a sliding movement to the right which happens before the club moves, and that, combined with the low hands, causes the club to start back under the shaft…

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Online Students: Joakim Strom Part 4

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Joakim has taken a number of online lessons and his swing has shown great progress. We still need to work on a few things so that his impact with the iron shots can be more forward leaned and sustained past impact. To start with I suggest that he soften his arms at address (let the elbows bend a bit) and then turn his upper trunk earlier in the backswing so that by the time the left arm is parallel to the ground he would look and feel almost fully coiled with his shoulders turned almost 90 degrees. Then, in transition,…

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Online Students: Robert Petersen Part 2

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Robert took an online lesson about a year ago, so we can see here how he has progressed and which items have been harder to change. The main thrust of our first go round was to try to eliminate lifting in the backswing and to achieve better arm structure at the top of the swing. Robert tended to start with his weight in his heels and raise up going back, and then as he got to the top of his swing his right arm over bent which in turn caused his left arm to buckle considerably. As a result, his…

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Online Students: Jon Lindstrom

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This is another example of an excellent swing with weakness at impact caused by a variety of factors which have to be traced all the way back to the beginning of the motion. We don’t have to bother with Jon’s set-up or grip, as they look fine here. We can, however, start with the takeaway, as the club comes back a bit closed and under the shaft plane line. It is not mandatory to have a perfect takeaway, but when you look at how the swing progresses you can see that it would be a good idea to change the…

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Online Students: Jeff Paduch

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Anyone watching Jeff’s swing at regular speed would be challenged to come up with any obvious errors to work on. Jeff’s weakness is at impact, and as we all know impact happens too fast to see without the use of video to slow down the movement. When we do slow it down, though, it becomes apparent why Jeff’s club/ball contact might be a bit erratic, and his ability to control trajectory could be compromised by his weakness in the impact area. Certainly it is easy to see that the left wrist has broken down directly after he hits the ball,…

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Online Students: Fred Cooper (Freddie Fringe)

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When you watch this video lesson you might think to yourself “wow, that sure is a lot of stuff to think about”, and that would point out an important difference between and online lesson and a face to face lesson, especially when the hands on lesson can be a consistent thing over a period of time as opposed to a one- time thing. It is likely that I wouldn’t dispense so much information at one time if the student was going to be seeing me on a regular basis, and I would be conscious of prioritizing things that needed to…

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Online Students: Trent Tessler

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Trent is an accomplished player who took time off from the game and is now coming back and wanting to compete again. He is generally unsatisfied with the quality of his ball striking and has sent in a few swings to have me take a look. The general fluidity and athletic action tell you that this is a good golfer, and it will take closer examination to diagnose the possible causes of the erratic striking. The slow motion camera reveals a few items which I see as major issues worth tackling. The first is the substandard use of the…

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