What can you tell from this swing?

[nkranga]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQ29PLQ1l30

[Neil18]

Re: What can you tell from this swing?

I can tell, without a shadow of a doubt, that the person in this video has a yellow shafted driver.

Man. I'm good!



Without the ability to slow it down. looks like a pretty decent swing from face on. Very easy and flowing.

Is it you?

[GoNavy]

Re: What can you tell from this swing?

I can tell you that you play the ball too far forward, I can tell you, your shoulders are too open at address. I can tell you, you tense up really bad to start the swing. I can tell you, you sway on the backswing. I can tell you, you break down at the top of the swing and over swing. That is about all you can tell on this video, need down the line, need closeup of the grip, then we can help more.

[detonum]

Re: What can you tell from this swing?

I will say that you have a quirk or two in the backswing, but your downswing is very good. You can continue swinging like this, because the downswing looks good, but if you want more consistency, you can work your backswing quirks off.

First, you're swaying a little bit. Try keeping your right knee pointed at the ball during the backswing - this will keep your right leg flexed more, compacting your swing, and keeping the weight on the inside of your right foot.

Your hands go very far in the backswing, they are above your head at the top. This is propably because you finish the backswing by moving the hands as far back as possible. Try to get the feeling if finishing the backswing in one package - not letting the hands travel away. Keep them more in front of your chest.

GoNavy said that you have open shoulders at address.. I don't think I agree with this. They are tilted a bit, which is ok. They don't, however, look open to me.

But I agree, that a down the line view of your swing would be nice if you want more in-depth comments.

[GoNavy]

Re: What can you tell from this swing?

I will say that you have a quirk or two in the backswing, but your downswing is very good. You can continue swinging like this, because the downswing looks good, but if you want more consistency, you can work your backswing quirks off.

First, you're swaying a little bit. Try keeping your right knee pointed at the ball during the backswing - this will keep your right leg flexed more, compacting your swing, and keeping the weight on the inside of your right foot.

Your hands go very far in the backswing, they are above your head at the top. This is propably because you finish the backswing by moving the hands as far back as possible. Try to get the feeling if finishing the backswing in one package - not letting the hands travel away. Keep them more in front of your chest.

GoNavy said that you have open shoulders at address.. I don't think I agree with this. They are tilted a bit, which is ok. They don't, however, look open to me.

But I agree, that a down the line view of your swing would be nice if you want more in-depth comments.

The reason I can say the shoulders are open is looking at it you can see the right shoulder is forwards, so they must be open, this goes to posture, yes the shoulders should til, but correctly tilt where the shoulders are still level, when you push the right out to lower it, it puts them out of alignment. The effect I am talking about is caused by reaching for a ball too far forward. Try and stand with shoulders level and simply lean right, this is the correct way to lower the right hand, now stand hold the left arm out over the left foot, and reach with right arm towards the left see how the shoulder comes out to accomplish this, this puts the shoulders open and out of alignment, and is what I see in the video. You can always tell from the front because the slope of the right is greater then the left slope from the left leaving the neck area. It is suttle difference, but it is there.