Swing Update 7.15.10

Here's my latest swing update.



As you can see, there are some changes that I made.

I improved my posture a tad. This allows me to not turn the shoulders too flat on the backswing and makes it so my rear knee doesn't lock up so much on the backswing.

I also stop over rolling the wrists. In TGM terms, I stopped over loading the #3 Power Accumulator and that prevented me from getting so laid off.

I flushed the DTL shot. The Face On shot was actually a poor swing.






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Hit the Ball Really Straight

Here's a old video with Martin Chuck talking about how to hit the ball really straight






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Some Good Slo-Mo Hogan Stuff

Here's a video that I saw over at Gotham Golf Blog that I thought was excellent because it slowed down some key points of Hogan's swing, which usually go unnoticed while people try to emulate his straight left arm at the top of the swing, the knees pointed inwards at address and other stuff like that.









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Current Day ABS-esque Swings

I got asked this and I've been asked this before 'what current day golfers have a swing like the one prescribed by John Erickson's Advanced Ballstriking.'

Well, here's a few to name.

Hunter Mahan



Lee Westwood



David Duval



Matteo Manassero



Of course, golfers like Hogan, Snead and Knudson were even more ABS-esque. Makes me wonder if modern equipment has caused that change. I know that when I hit my Cleveland RC85 persimmon driver, it works better when I CP Release it correctly. With the modern titanium driver, I can hit it well and CF Release it all day long.






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1995 Open Highlights

With the Open coming up, here's some great highlights from one of the most memorable Open's, 1995...Daly vs. Rocca.






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Swing Update 7.9.10

Here's some new swings with my new Casio EX-FH20 camera.



I've been struggling a tad this past week and today I started to go back to my way too flat and lazy backswing. That was frustrating. But over a month ago I decided that I need to tape myself almost every day because I tend to fall into old, bad habits and this way I can stay on top of them and correct them right away. So while it was frustrating, this was the plan in place to eliminate that issue with my game and I eventually did.

Still, the backswing needs a lot of work. The lower body action in the backswing is getting quite bad and I'm still laid off (although I've avoided working on that). It's a lot easier to see now with the Casio EX-FH20.

As far as the camera goes, I can see why it gets such great reviews.

IT IS AWESOME.

I'm not a camera expert by any means and have never even owned a digital camera. My fear is that the camera would be confusing to set up, but it's actually extremely easy to set up with their simple Quick Start Guide. Another thing about the camera is you can set it quite close to the ball and it will be in focus. With my Samsung camcorder, I'd have to fiddle around with the perfect distance from the ball and then zoom in just right. That isn't an issue with the Casio.





3JACK

Current Thoughts on Levels of Ballstriking

was thinking about this today and how I would label a golfer's ballstriking ability I wanted to go in a tiered process and here's what I came up with.

LEVEL 1 - Ballstriker who consistently hits a noticeably pull fade or a push draw.



Kenny Perry, Rocco Mediate and Colin Montgomerie come to mind here. They have noticeable curvature to their ball flight, but I would consider each of them great ballstrikers Monty and Rocco are a bit up there in age, but in their primes they hit a lot of greens and a lot of great approach shots. However, Monty wasn't hitting draws into tucked left pin positions and Perry doesn't hit fades into dogleg right fairways.

LEVEL 2 - Ballstriker who consistently hits a less noticeable fade or draw or pretty much hits it straight

Here I start thinking about somebody like Nicklaus, who was known for a fade but also hit it straighter than most given him credit for. While Kenny Perry can be a much better ballstriker than somebody who hits it straighter, I'm talking about good ballstrikers and their level of ballstriking here.

I think there's a lot of benefits to reducing your curvature of ball flight. Nicklaus is very underappreciated as far as his ballstriking goes. He was one of the greatest drivers of the ball ever and widely considered the greatest long iron player ever. Here's a great video of Jack in his prime.



LEVEL 3 - Golfer can hit it straight, draw or fade on command

Here's where I start to think of Trevino. He gets a rap as being a fade/slice golfer, but he could hit it straight and draw it on command. I watched Trevino hit balls on four different occasions starting in 1986. He is a wizard of working the ball in all sorts of direction.



LEVEL 4 - The golfer can hit it straight, draw or fadeit on command as well as hitting it low, high and medium trajectory on command.

When I think of this level I think of guys like Hogan, Moe and even Tiger back in 2000. Now Tiger pretty much hits low screaming draws. These days were fun.








3JACK