Online Lessons: John Krystynak Part 5

Working on basically the same stuff as ever:
1. Takeaway.
2. Depth of hips, trying to make room for hands
3. Back swing crosses the line. Not really working on this but would like to improve.
Driving has been very good. Irons less reliable.

 
In this video I compare John’s swing from April of 2015 to now, and while we see some improvement it is also obvious that John has swing patterns that are hard to change. My sense of John’s takeaway is that both arms get too rigid just as the club moves back, and the left arm is forced to move out and around a right arm that won’t bend enough to allow the left to move more across the chest. At the same time there needs to be more vertical raising of the clubhead from the beginning by adding wrist cock. The larger issue here is the failure to deepen the pelvis and the overuse of the right shoulder to extend the turn as he gets to the top of the swing. I would like to see him practice with something behind his butt at address (a chair or bag stand) so that he can feel his right cheek pushing back into it as he moves into the backswing, and then try to keep the right cheek on the back on the chair as the pelvis changes direction and the ground drives the pelvis forward to shift pressure toward the left heel. I would also like to see John work on the transition stop and go drill, where he would get to P3, stop for a moment, then finish his backswing and hit the ball in one motion. I find this to be the most effective way to isolate and focus on what the right arm and shoulder are doing in transition. In John’s case the idea would be to use extensor action (right arm straightening where the right palm continually pushes into the left thumb) to keep his right arm from over-folding and his shoulder from pulling the upper arm behind him. This would help leave his right arm in position to adduct and the shoulder to externally rotate so that the upper arm and elbow can drive in front of the ribcage in the downswing and he can get his hands more forward at impact.
 

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