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Online Students: Jonathan Airhart

By on Jun 17, 2013 in Videos: Online Students - Comments { 0 }

  Jonathan is an Air Force pilot (I think that is correct, as he is a member of the F-22 Squadron) who has been in Russia for 4 years and now is getting back into golf. He used to film his swing quite a bit in high school (using Freddie Couples as a model) and has a pretty good awareness of what his flaws are. I noticed that Jon’s right hand grip was a bit weak (V pointing to the right of the chin) and that it appeared that his right palm separated from the left at the top of the swing. He mentioned that he had a history of loosening the grip and thought it was because he had [...]

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Online Students: Tim Mascorella

By on Jun 12, 2013 in Videos: Online Students - Comments { 1 }

  Tim sent a nice email response to his lesson, so I thought I would share it with you as it does a great job of summarizing what I went over in the lesson. I really enjoyed the last comment about being an engineer and liking the way I use a standard method of analysis that he considered to be clear and detailed. That’s exactly what I am shooting for!   Hi Wayne, Thanks for the lesson. I am a little embarrassed about the ball position part as I should know that. I was impressed with the observation about the back tension/position. I have been too tense with back issues for a little while now and it has in part [...]

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Online Students: Kerry Ondrovik Part 2

By on Jun 5, 2013 in Videos: Online Students - Comments { 0 }

  Here we see a very nice swing with good ground compression, excellent transition movement, and a vastly improved impact area. I see a couple of areas to focus on in order to continue the progress made over the past year, starting with the address position. I like the shaft to point at the belt buckle at address, and in Kerry’s setup we see a lower hand position. His backswing is triggered by a sliding movement to the right which happens before the club moves, and that, combined with the low hands, causes the club to start back under the shaft plane and then get behind his hands at shaft parallel. He manages to get the shaft back on plane [...]

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Online Students: Joakim Strom Part 4

By on Jun 3, 2013 in Videos: Online Students - Comments { 2 }

  Joakim has taken a number of online lessons and his swing has shown great progress. We still need to work on a few things so that his impact with the iron shots can be more forward leaned and sustained past impact. To start with I suggest that he soften his arms at address (let the elbows bend a bit) and then turn his upper trunk earlier in the backswing so that by the time the left arm is parallel to the ground he would look and feel almost fully coiled with his shoulders turned almost 90 degrees. Then, in transition, he needs to combine a few things in order to achieve his desired impact, starting with the combination of [...]

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Online Students: Robert Petersen Part 2

By on May 29, 2013 in Videos: Online Students - Comments { 0 }

  Robert took an online lesson about a year ago, so we can see here how he has progressed and which items have been harder to change. The main thrust of our first go round was to try to eliminate lifting in the backswing and to achieve better arm structure at the top of the swing. Robert tended to start with his weight in his heels and raise up going back, and then as he got to the top of his swing his right arm over bent which in turn caused his left arm to buckle considerably. As a result, his right arm stayed bent and behind him coming down, making an approach to impact with the hands forward and [...]

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Online Students: Jon Lindstrom

By on May 20, 2013 in Videos: Online Students - Comments { 0 }

  This is another example of an excellent swing with weakness at impact caused by a variety of factors which have to be traced all the way back to the beginning of the motion. We don’t have to bother with Jon’s set-up or grip, as they look fine here. We can, however, start with the takeaway, as the club comes back a bit closed and under the shaft plane line. It is not mandatory to have a perfect takeaway, but when you look at how the swing progresses you can see that it would be a good idea to change the pattern right off the bat by getting the toe of the club a bit more up and the clubhead [...]

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Online Students: Jeff Paduch

By on May 13, 2013 in Videos: Online Students - Comments { 1 }

  Anyone watching Jeff’s swing at regular speed would be challenged to come up with any obvious errors to work on. Jeff’s weakness is at impact, and as we all know impact happens too fast to see without the use of video to slow down the movement. When we do slow it down, though, it becomes apparent why Jeff’s club/ball contact might be a bit erratic, and his ability to control trajectory could be compromised by his weakness in the impact area. Certainly it is easy to see that the left wrist has broken down directly after he hits the ball, and if we go a click back we see that when the club is parallel to the ground approaching [...]

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Online Students: Fred Cooper (Freddie Fringe)

By on Apr 24, 2013 in Videos: Online Students - Comments { 3 }

  When you watch this video lesson you might think to yourself “wow, that sure is a lot of stuff to think about”, and that would point out an important difference between and online lesson and a face to face lesson, especially when the hands on lesson can be a consistent thing over a period of time as opposed to a one- time thing. It is likely that I wouldn’t dispense so much information at one time if the student was going to be seeing me on a regular basis, and I would be conscious of prioritizing things that needed to be addressed so that the student wouldn’t feel overwhelmed. A big part of being an effective teacher is learning [...]

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Online Students: Trent Tessler

By on Apr 15, 2013 in Videos: Online Students - Comments { 1 }

  Trent is an accomplished player who took time off from the game and is now coming back and wanting to compete again. He is generally unsatisfied with the quality of his ball striking and has sent in a few swings to have me take a look.   The general fluidity and athletic action tell you that this is a good golfer, and it will take closer examination to diagnose the possible causes of the erratic striking. The slow motion camera reveals a few items which I see as major issues worth tackling. The first is the substandard use of the upper torso muscles in the backswing, which causes multiple sequence problems. By not loading well enough Trent has trouble [...]

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Online Students: Derek Cribb Part 3

By on Mar 25, 2013 in Videos: Online Students - Comments { 1 }

  Derek has made some significant changes in his swing as evidenced by the side by side I use to begin the video. Derek’s first batch of swings showed very nice movement and sequence, and he has the gift of lag and a forward leaning shaft, which means the improvements he can make will be more mechanical in the sense of his placement and direction of the arms, hands and shaft. My suggestion was to eliminate the “pinched” right arm, first by relaxing the arms at address, then by allowing the right arm to bend and get deeper in the early part of the backswing. You can see here that he has done a great job making that change, and [...]

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