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I know. It's impossible to solve swing issues on the web w/o video. I'm new and more wanted to see if others share my frustration than anything else (looking for encouragement?).
I have had a few lessons so far and after the first, he solved my ball-topping by giving me a proper set-up. After a few rounds of getting a solid piece of each hit, and seeing real improvement, I went back to work on adding some power, and therefore, distance. EVERYTHING I hit was straight, but significantly shorter than my friends. He showed me that I was twisting my hips WAY too far back, and not developing any wind up in my spine. What I ended up doing was trying to rotate my body back, unstead of simply releasing the tension. In practice, I saw IMMEDIATE improvement of distance with no loss of accuracy. Once again I was stoked.
In the 2 rounds since, I have topped almost every hit. I get NO loft out of ANYTHING I hit. Yesterday I couldn't even get out of a bunker.
My only question/comment is this: Is it reasonable to make "good" changes, only to see a temporary dip in performance, but once it's worked out I'll be playing better than ever? I used to do Triathlon, and distance swimming is that way. i.e. high elbow feels wierd at first, but once used to it, better rotate follows and speed is improved (but it sucks at first).
If someone could reassure me that this is the nature of the game and it's not hopeless to see it come back around.
Cheers,
Michael
I have had a few lessons so far and after the first, he solved my ball-topping by giving me a proper set-up. After a few rounds of getting a solid piece of each hit, and seeing real improvement, I went back to work on adding some power, and therefore, distance. EVERYTHING I hit was straight, but significantly shorter than my friends. He showed me that I was twisting my hips WAY too far back, and not developing any wind up in my spine. What I ended up doing was trying to rotate my body back, unstead of simply releasing the tension. In practice, I saw IMMEDIATE improvement of distance with no loss of accuracy. Once again I was stoked.
In the 2 rounds since, I have topped almost every hit. I get NO loft out of ANYTHING I hit. Yesterday I couldn't even get out of a bunker.
My only question/comment is this: Is it reasonable to make "good" changes, only to see a temporary dip in performance, but once it's worked out I'll be playing better than ever? I used to do Triathlon, and distance swimming is that way. i.e. high elbow feels wierd at first, but once used to it, better rotate follows and speed is improved (but it sucks at first).
If someone could reassure me that this is the nature of the game and it's not hopeless to see it come back around.
Cheers,
Michael
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