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This video may give you hope, or it may annoy you to no end to watch someone who can take instruction and implement the changes almost immediately. Some people can pretty much do what they want to do, and if their swings are faulty there is a very good chance that the information they have is not good enough to produce a playable swing that impacts the ball with quality. I can never tell if a player is of this ilk until the lesson gets going and after analyzing what is happening I make suggestions and he (or she) tries to execute what he has been told to try to do. It happens every now and then, but it is fairly rare, and Zachary (an assistant professional who drove down from Pittsburg) certainly falls into that category, as you will see in the video. His back up movement in both the backswing and forward swing is such a major problem that once it is changed for the better the entire swing has a chance to change. Usually such a pronounced movement for a reasonably accomplished player like Zach is deeply engrained and difficult to get rid of. In this case, however, the suggestion that he lean into the ball both going back and coming forward worked like a charm. This is another case of video providing the proof that the player is incorporating the details of the instruction, and if the player were left on his own with no ability to see what he is doing it would be impossible to know if he were actually keeping his head out over the ball. “Feel”, in this case, is not good enough, because if you think about it Zach would never want to feel like he was backing 6 inches out of every swing. His movement just happens naturally, and the change will feel entirely unnatural. He would be thinking about staying out over the ball, but he would have no idea if he were doing that or not unless he could watch it back after swinging. Zach felt very good after the lesson, and so did I.
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