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Derek worked on his first online lesson for about 2 weeks before sending another set of swings, and the change is noticeable. While his arms don’t appear to be a lot softer at address I think his right arm is actually much softer than the first swings he sent, and that has helped him quite a bit in improving his takeaway and thus his entire backswing. His right arm now bends a bit and stays wider in the first part of the backswing, which allows him to achieve a fuller swing overall and opens up the possibility of pointing the club more left at the top and from there moving into a more sidearm throwing type of downswing instead of what he has now, which exhibits a vertical hand drop from the top, lower body pushing toward the ball and out of the hip box, and a club that approaches from inside to out in a somewhat “stuck” position.
In the video I point out the nice changes to the beginning of the pattern, and then spend the rest of the time going over how I think the rest of the swing could improve to bring about a better approach heading into impact. The fact that Derek has successfully changed the first part of the pattern gives him a good chance to change the rest of it. Derek has great sequence and the ability to lag the club like crazy, so if we can get the overall shape of the swing to be more from the side and less in to out I think Derek could really become a good ball striker.
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