300’ barrier

[Jet57]

Morning! Just trying to keep good posture, and went with a wide rail style to try and keep my arm from collapsing. Unfortunately from behind the tee I can really see just how much my elbow simply gets pulled in, instead of being pulled out wide and just allowed to hinge. This has been a constant struggle for me.




Also funny the stuff you catch camera when you just randomly setup your phone hahaha. Spoiler: the 2 1/2 year old female Chris Farley is just fine.

 

[sidewinder22]

Looks like you are trying to get your shoulder out of the way instead of leveraging away from it.
Keep your shoulders closed and hammer/push out away from chest with unhinging of elbow, just like you want to hammer a nail sideways into a wall. The followthru will pull the shoulders as the elbow extends, this gives your arm space to decelerate from shoulders following thru. If you open your shoulders before you extend elbow you will hit across the nail to the right instead of straight into the nail head.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu4CzVnITlo#t=8m40s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5xfv9jPqZs#t=8m26s

 

[Jet57]

Windmill with a hammer, certainly is helping me feel the weight better. Hoping to have a bit of time this afternoon for field work to mess around with putters, and try to feel this type of heaviness with a disc.

 

[Jet57]

Got to hit the field for a bit. Forgot to bring my hammer. Towards the end of my practice, I just said plant all my weight and see what happens. I'm certain I never drive fully into my plant; wether it be I'm nervous about shanking/rolling over, nervous about my knee...etc.

I'm probably jamming a good amount, but what are your thoughts on my rear leg action? To me it looks like I'm not straightening/extending my leg into the plant, but instead dropping into it. Throwing a few Judges into a hefty 12-15mph headwind.

 

[sidewinder22]

You aren't using your rear foot to drive - you push off the heel instead of pushing the heel forward.

Your x-step with left foot looks like it's stepping across your right foot and moving in the way toward the left tee and puts your balance too far behind your heel when you land and get stuck flat footed on it. If you step out of the way you can maintain better balance on your rear toes and allow the right leg to swing straight thru unimpeded.

 

[Jet57]

Doesn't match SW, but these are feeling a bit heavier and feels like I'm waiting a little longer. Certainly yanked this far right though...

 

[sidewinder22]

Wife is not impressed, lol.

Walk rear foot back toward right tee in backswing, pay attention to post 2 vid.

https://www.dgcoursereview.com/forums/showthread.php?t=136487

 

[Jet57]

Wife is not impressed, lol.

https://www.dgcoursereview.com/forums/showthread.php?t=136487

Correct, and more times than not...just thinks I'm a bit crazy






Think E-walk is giving me some better tempo/rhythm, but if I slow down even more I will probably have better balance on both legs.

 

[sidewinder22]

Yeah slow down and make it more rhythmic or gangster with almost pause at the tops of the swing to gather more momentum for the pimp slap to the nutz or bowling. Need to walk more normal size steps and closer inline just like walking almost like tightrope, not spread laterally or flared duck footed, and make your shoulder swing heavy so that it starts to pull the trailing foot forward up to the top of the swing. Note how much I lean forward in frame 2 and 4 with more vertical shoulder plane and trailing foot is further behind to counter balance the heavy swing and torso/shoulder lean like Hershzyer wall drill in backswing and forward swing posted up against the leg I'm swinging into...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlyD1ynQrh4#t=3m26s

Note how the backswing starts like Open to Closed Drill:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwy1HNMfhbk#t=6m55s

 

[Jet57]

Thank you SW, I'll keep working on the E-walk. I struggle knowing how to position my feet in drills at times. I'm naturally a bit duck footed, and pointed out by you, a bit knee knocked as well.

Question/thought that I've had for a while: I'm not sure if I am using plantar flexion correctly to drive my hips forward. Most of the time this is what I see in my standstill; plant my front heel, which causes my rear heel to raise, then the rear leg/knee just comes along and/or counters a little. I guess what I am saying/asking is my heels trading positions up/down doesn't ever look right.

I have no idea if what I am asking makes any sense. All I know is it feels/looks like I either A) Push myself into rotation or B) Do this heel trade that doesn't look right.

I feel like I don't push my hips forward with plantar flexion because I worry about pushing into rotation

 

[sidewinder22]

Need an inward roll on the foot so the plantar flexion angles and drives the heel forward and up.

 

[Jet57]

Evening,

First swing is what it looks like when I film myself in a round. Second and third swings fundamentally feel/look like the right direction. Correct?

 

[sidewinder22]

Too upright or leant back and swinging around horizontally. Stand on one leg with knee slightly bent and your chest forward slightly toward knee/ground and let the shoulder/arm/hammer hang straight down over toes toward left tee side. Swing right shoulder back and forth low keeping the left shoulder higher than right shoulder until the release/followthru pulls the shoulders and inverts the pendulum in a quick exchange.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOY4R_iNxF8#t=5m
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxnhM5amro0#t=2m20s

 

[Jet57]

Just trying to feel my butt as the counter weight

 

[sidewinder22]

Your stance is a bit too wide. Your trailing foot(each direction of the swing) should be rolling inward and knee should be wanting to chase down the sledgehammer swing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38gp-BWlhnM#t=2m15s

 

[RandyC]

Yeh looks like the sledge is tossing you around a bit. Could be your grip.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zWMtGJ_VXo

 

[Jet57]

At it again. Narrowed the stance, trying to stay in balance (not tugged around), and abandon the weight of the sledge to gravity (out taut). So sledgehammer maybe a bit better, but with a disc in my hand it's the same story just a different day.

 

[RandyC]

I am not sure but are you standing straight up and just sloushing your back. That there is no depth in your hips, athletic posture. Just like being a goalie in hockey or soccer. If that is the case no wonder you are having so much troubles with many of the drills.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hk65AxtXJD4

IMO the easiest way to find this is to just sit down on a chair or standup up from it. The powerful/athletic position is when your knees are still slightly bent and butt is back. It should feel _natural_ and powerful like you could explode to any direction you want.

 

[RandyC]

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[sidewinder22]

Yeah.
1. Grip - lead hand should be lower - golf grip but swinging backward. Your arms looks really stiff instead of relaxed and fluid and allowed to hinge.

2. Posture - note how your back is rounded or chest sucked in, would have a hard time making a complete circle/windmill around your swing center. Note how my chest appears to be pulled out to the hammer from my swing center.