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Hey Wayne,
It’s Chuck here. I’m excited because I’m going to try and see you for some in-person lessons in Boca in January. I’ll contact you about that.
I’m also excited because I purchased a Cyclops Swingshot Camera, so I can quickly film myself on the course. I was able to use it once before it got too cold to play and I didn’t like what I saw. As you know, stubborn habits are hard to change. However, I know that with your help I’ll get things to look good on the course too.
I’m constantly trying new feels in my swing to produce the results we want. For these swings, I tried to setup with good posture (in the last lesson I was standing too tall). I’m trying to load and compress going back while making a good full turn. When I filmed myself on the course I had only a little load and my swing was not nearly as full as these. So, I’m trying to really emphasize those things in these swings. As I worked to create a full turn the past couple weeks, my swing started crossing the line way too much. I tried all sorts of feels to correct that. The latest feel seems to be working and I’ll stay with it as long as it works. I watched a video months ago where someone was talking about how the right arm is like a strut holding up a wing. The wing is the left arm flying wedge. So, that changed my conception of what was happening from P3-P5. I try to use my strut (right forearm flying wedge) to bring my wing (left arm flying wedge) in shallow. I really exaggerate the feeling of trying to make it shallow since I’ve always struggled to shallow the club. This new concept simplifies things for me. We’ll see how long it works?
For the 5-iron video I included a regular speed and a slow-motion video. I filmed it using the higher FPS video on my phone, so I hope it works better than last time and that it gives you the frames you need. I could always try sending the vids a different way if it doesn’t work. I still have to really work to rotate/supinate hard through impact, so I can get my hands up to the ball with the iron. I also REALLY have to concentrate to work through the ball to the left (and NOT hang back) and to get a good sustain through impact with my right forearm flying wedge staying intact through impact. Thank you, Wayne. You’ve helped me so much!
Chuck has done a marvelous job with his swing over the time I have been working with him. From face on you can see he has been able to achieve a true drive/hold release with great impact alignments and sustain past impact. He has also tempered a lot of the exaggerated movements in his backswing, which has now given his swing a simple, classic look. If there is anything Chuck can still improve going back I would say that I might get him to lower a bit less overall and not add additional knee flex from P3 to P4. This seems to feed into Chuck’s main issue, which is still the improper use of his glute muscles in the forward swing. His knees both move to the right of the target in transition, and although he has increased his rate of hip rotation he still tends to move under himself, leveling his pelvis too early in the downswing. From P5 to P6 Chuck is obviously firing his right -side gluteus muscles too soon and in the wrong direction, and in response his upper body (most noticeable in his head movement) pulls up and back. The result is an overly in to out approach with a significantly rightward exit, while his body moves to almost fully vertical and loses all his right side- bend. I would like him to use the stick between the feet on the knee line to get the right leg twisting more inward as the right side pelvic muscles initiate transition, and I would also like to see him rig up a longer set of shafts that would force him to exit more around on plane to the left.
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