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Hi Wayne- I am buddies with John Lamendola (he’s my brother from another, he gave me your email address), he and I used to play tennis together. I have been observing your analysis of his swing and his development and progress, would love your eyes on my swing (I have already joined your website and paid for online lesson). I have been trying to build a very technically proficient swing. I am certain I have some bad habits that I think are tennis related that I cannot seem to rid myself of. I know feel is not real, but I feel as though my left shoulder, maybe left hand too, maybe some combination of both, just want to attack the golf ball on the transition causing my club to get steep, causing my shoulders to spin out in order to flatten the club. I have pretty good hand eye coordination, so I rely on that with this horrible flip at the bottom which I can once in a while get away with. I know I am nowhere close to compressing as I should be. I spent 2 years tirelessly working to shallow out my transition, to no avail, may have even developed some other bad habits along the way with setup in order to cheat so to speak for instance setting up behind ball, tilting back. I have taken some time away from the game (in part young kids related/ in part out of frustration), but am sending you two swings from last week, face on and down the line with 52-degree wedge. I have just started watching some of your other lessons, and there are things there I am paying attention to now, like squeezing elbows, trying to get what would be my left elbow more in front of my left thigh, more conscious of being active with left arm, hand in front of ball. The swings I just sent you were taken before trying to incorporate any of the things I am now learning from that though in the two swings I just sent you. Perhaps my transition sucks because my setup and takeaway sucks. Look forward to your analysis. Thanks so much for your help.
Fuad.
All the things that Fuad would like to do with his swing are good ideas, but as I will show in the video he is already doomed by the time he gets to the top. The key word here is “width”, which is another way to say, “extensor action”, in which the trailing arm attempts to straighten by pushing into the thumb of the leading arm while cocking the wrists. The governor on how much extension can be achieved is the connection between the lead arm and the chest, which must be maintained. Fuad has some trigger issues that should be dealt with, and I would imagine that if he stops leaning back and sitting as he starts his swing it would make extending away from his center much easier. His left arm needs to be bent and away from his body at address, and he must make sure to keep the space intact all the way to the top and in transition down to P5 (click here for an explanation of the golf swing “P” positions). If he can accomplish this he must then get his lower body to initiate the forward swing while he keeps his head from moving forward of its starting position. When he feels the proper sequence, his shoulder will be pulled by the body and he will have a chance to move his upper left arm in a totally different fashion to where it can pitch in front of his ribcage and shallow the shaft instead of hanging up and back with the shaft getting steeper.
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