Posture And Stance Affect The Entire Swing – Online Students: Kory Koehn Part 2

By Wayne | Videos: Online Students

Hello Wayne,
 
Thanks for taking the time to look at my swing. I chose the online lesson with phone consultation option and uploaded 4 videos on YouTube and have provided the links for you. If you have problems with them, please let me know. I have watched a lot of your video analysis and appreciate your thoughts on them. I too am a Hogan fan. From looking at my own swing on video one of the main issues I deal with (my opinion) is that I tend to stand up in the shot. If I stand uncomfortably close to the ball it seems to help with this issue but cannot seem to keep from doing it when I stand a comfortable distance from the ball. So, I am having trouble understanding how to correct it. I look forward to visiting with you about this and other things in my swing I could improve on.
 
Thanks again!
Kory

 
This video is a great example of how posture and stance affect the entire swing. In watching Kory’s swing at regular speed, I saw some nice motion with good rhythm, but I also noticed a general lack of structure from face on and not much hip depth from down the line. After a closer look, I saw that Kory’s posture was quite erect, and that his right foot was extremely flared out. As the swing started his right leg rotated quite a bit, which gave his lower body the chance to move around too much. Kory remains in his erect posture in the backswing, which in turn causes his shoulders to turn quite flat, and with that flat of a turn it is hard not to let the right arm get behind the body at the top. One option for Kory would be to add posture in the backswing a la Hogan, but I believe that it would be easier for Kory to add posture at address by bowing over more from the waist. One additional thing that would help quite a bit would be for Kory to try to get the feeling of “right arm extensor action” whereby the right palm continually pushes into the left thumb in the direction the left arm is pointing while at the same time cocking the wrists. This would help give Kory’s backswing more structure by keeping his left arm straighter and his right upper arm more in front of him at the top. Overall, the idea for Kory is to get the hands more forward at impact, and these changes should put him on the road to achieving that goal.
 
 

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