Cookie Monster
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I've been thinking about this a lot lately and found this paragraph in one of your articles HUB:
"Next, I'm done calling it a reach-back. It's now a back-swing. Reaching back, bending at the waist and getting my weight too far over my back foot took some serious work to undo. So it's a back-swing and there's no REACHING."
I live in the Phoenix, AZ area where a 400 foot drive not uncommon at all and is almost mandatory to score well (ask Hammer for proof) and I really need to figure out how to hit it consistently. I appreciate all the articles in this forum and have reinforced a few key ideas recently such as the simple advice of "slow down" and "stay loose". Seems simple but so counter intuitive I have to remind myself constantly. I'm getting close to my goal of a consistent 400 golf shot but all too often it is 350 one day and 425 the next and I can't quite figure out what the difference is but my guess is the back swing is the biggest issue killing my timing.
I'm sure it has been discussed before in here but I couldn't find a good thread on it. Seems like a hugely important concept that is very misunderstood.
The best way I can explain my thoughts on it is that when I'm throwing well (400+ with decent accuracy), I'm not reaching back behind my left shoulder (RHBH). My arm is really at more of a 45 degree angle and the other 45 degrees to get me to the full 180 from my target comes from the shoulder and hip turn.
When my form gets sloppy, I reach back closer to 90 degrees and don't get the full shoulder and hip turn. My arm feels like it is wrapped tight to my body and often I have actually hit the back of my left shoulder while pulling the disc forward which not only hurts but causes a god awful throw.
I think this is what you call "rounding" but I may be confused on the subject which is why I'm asking for some clarification.
I don't have a video and I'm not looking for feedback on me specifically but more looking for a general discussion on the topic.
thanks
"Next, I'm done calling it a reach-back. It's now a back-swing. Reaching back, bending at the waist and getting my weight too far over my back foot took some serious work to undo. So it's a back-swing and there's no REACHING."
I live in the Phoenix, AZ area where a 400 foot drive not uncommon at all and is almost mandatory to score well (ask Hammer for proof) and I really need to figure out how to hit it consistently. I appreciate all the articles in this forum and have reinforced a few key ideas recently such as the simple advice of "slow down" and "stay loose". Seems simple but so counter intuitive I have to remind myself constantly. I'm getting close to my goal of a consistent 400 golf shot but all too often it is 350 one day and 425 the next and I can't quite figure out what the difference is but my guess is the back swing is the biggest issue killing my timing.
I'm sure it has been discussed before in here but I couldn't find a good thread on it. Seems like a hugely important concept that is very misunderstood.
The best way I can explain my thoughts on it is that when I'm throwing well (400+ with decent accuracy), I'm not reaching back behind my left shoulder (RHBH). My arm is really at more of a 45 degree angle and the other 45 degrees to get me to the full 180 from my target comes from the shoulder and hip turn.
When my form gets sloppy, I reach back closer to 90 degrees and don't get the full shoulder and hip turn. My arm feels like it is wrapped tight to my body and often I have actually hit the back of my left shoulder while pulling the disc forward which not only hurts but causes a god awful throw.
I think this is what you call "rounding" but I may be confused on the subject which is why I'm asking for some clarification.
I don't have a video and I'm not looking for feedback on me specifically but more looking for a general discussion on the topic.
thanks
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