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Online Students: Branden Nagler Part 2

One of the things I have to do after watching a swing and looking at exactly what it is doing (although now it seems that the opinion is growing that without a Trackman no one can really see fully what is going on) is to try to come up with reasons for the movements that are present and for the apparent stubbornness of the movements to change. Some of this requires conjecture as I guess that perhaps this does that because of this, or that this won’t do that because of something else, but when it comes to finding ways…

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Online Students: Stephen O’Neill

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Stephen has an excellent looking swing that could really use the compression movement in backswing to add power and to bring the hands to impact closer to the body, which would help make the squaring of the clubface less problematical than with his high approach. If you look at Stephen’s upper trunk turn in the backswing it becomes apparent that there is room for more coiling of the upper body as the swing heads to the top. In order to get this increased trunk rotation and not lose the brace in the right leg Stephen needs to push the right…

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Online Students: Gates Grainger

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This video lesson is a perfect example of why it is imperative to have both the face-on and down-the-line views of a swing in order to do a complete and effective analysis of a swing. Not only can you see different things from each view many items are exclusive to that particular view. For example, you can’t tell how much lateral movement is present in the hips and the head from down the line, just like you can’t tell accurately how the club shaft is moving plane-wise from face-on. In Gate’s swing we see that he needs to work…

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Online Students: Tom Richards Part 4

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Tom is doing some nice work toward his main goal of un-steepening the shaft in his downswing. In this video he tries out the takeaway-stop drill and I have a chance to compare it side by side with his full motion swing. The differences would be subtle to the eye (probably couldn’t pick any out) but are obvious once the lines are drawn. You can see what a major difference a couple of inches of depth in the hips makes to the overall motion and approach angles of the swing, as Tom’s drill swing gets much closer to what…

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Online Students: Jason Huguet

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Here I give you the opportunity to stop the video and do your own analysis. I don’t think it would be such a great idea to have all of you post your analyses on the site as that might make Jason’s head explode, so for this one you can discuss elements of how mine was different but don’t post the whole thing.

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Online Students: Ryan Groves Part 2

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Ryan has been a faithful member of the website for quite some time, and he has done some very nice work on his swing, especially when it is viewed from down the line. He compresses nicely on the backswing, bring the club up smartly on the shaft plane, and gains depth with the hips while moving symmetrically with the legs and knees. His shoulder, arm, and wrist angles are all quite good as he approaches the top of the swing, but unfortunately the top doesn’t’ come soon enough and the swing goes back overly long, causing some sequence problems and…

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Online Student: Kerry Ondrovik

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Here is an excellent swing that lacks what I would call “dynamics”, meaning that watching the wrist and hand action I could see that it just wasn’t’ going to produce the kind of speed that the rest of the mechanics would seem to almost guarantee. The hands and wrists are hugely important elements to the production of speed (among other things) and my advice to Kerry here is to free up his hands by cupping the left wrist a bit at the top (a la Webb Simpson) and then creating more of an angle between his left arm and the…

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Online Students: Adam Auger

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This is Adam’s third online lesson, and his swing is really looking good. Here I suggest to Adam that his posture is a bit too “sitting back” and that his weight looks too far into the heels at address. I side by side him with Bill Haas and Adam Scott, and the differences are apparent. I think that with this change his swing will look great and that his impact will have a chance to line up almost perfectly with his original shaft plane. Otherwise Adam is doing pretty much as prescribed throughout the swing, although he could still go…

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Online Students: Chris Ellis

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Chris is a good example of great instincts impeded by poor mechanics. Chris’ backswing is fraught with problems, but his forward swing recovers nicely and finds an approach worthy of a top notch player. Watching this I couldn’t help but think that if Chris could clean up some of the major issues in the first half of his swing that he could really come up with some good ball striking. Usually players have to pay more attention to the downswing than the backswing, but I think in this case it will be far more beneficial in the short and long…

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Online Student: Chris Ellis

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