Prior to training
Today I want to just apply what I came to understand after the last session.
By trying to rotate my arms over the top and keep rotating my hips until impact. My goal by doing so is to get as close as possible to this position I already shown you in previous posts.
During the last session, I tried to keep my upper body as quiet as possible. But actually it got the opposite effect. It stopped my hips very early.
So I change my strategy. I am going to increase the resistance of the club by pulling on it while I am rotating my hips. But to avoid getting stuck, I am going to do it with the sensation of going over the top with my arms.
Also, I figure out a way to make it easy to stay over the ball with my irons and woods and stay more behind the ball with my driver. In order to hit down with my irons & woods and up with my driver.
This is with the step left move during the transition. By just keeping my head over my right foot when I do it, I easily stay behind the ball with the driver. And I think to make it simpler, I will not do it at all in order to down with my irons & woods.
Let’s figure out how it goes.
Session
It was cold, and with the multiple layers of cloth that I had, I didn’t really felt comfortable with my swing.
But that’s not an excuse for what happen.
I executed what I touch to be the answer and felt pretty good at the time. I thought that it was just a matter of practice, and what I wanted to accomplish was just too far from what I am used too.
But then I what the shooting of the session, and realise that it’s clearly wasn’t what I was expected. As you can see by yourself:
Lower body is less good than it was at my best session. and clearly no improvement on the upper body and amount of lag.
Let’s analyse that.
Post Reflection
Ever since I restarted focusing on my upper body, the result has been worse.
And if I focus only on my lower body I don’t get the result I want and if I focus equally on my upper body and lower body that doesn’t work either.
Even if during this session I was probably focusing 60% upper body and 40% lower body. That’s fairly equal.
This probably suits the 80/20 rule. Where the majority of my focus is placed on the lower body, at 80%. And the focus on the lower body is the minority of my focus but it still exists, at 20%.
Lower body:
- Step left during transition
- Rotate hips toward the target
Upper body:
- Keep things quiet
- And just focus on rotating the arms in clock direction
Also I realise something during the transition where I do the step left, and recently I added the “keep head over the left foot” parameter. That by doing so and keeping my upper body quiet, I create a natural down cock move.
This is very interesting.
And when I combine this thing with the upper and lower body move the I have explain. I get a really good feeling that could bring me closer to what I am aiming for.
So let’s see how it works out in the next session.