re: MSB: Golfers Rate Your Swing

Two things I see right off the bat...

1. Good. Your bending your knees and it looks as though you are sitting in a chair. However, step two of this process is to get you into a better position. You want to feel what you are feeling now, but instead of bending at the abs, bend at the hips. In other words, you needed to feel like you were sitting in a chair to get into a better position, but now you are sitting back on it. Unbend the knees just a little, and bend over at the hips (chest tall).

2. You have a massive forward lunge with your left shoulder at the start of the downswing, causing your entire second half of your swing to be all upper body. Start the downswing with the left hip, not left shoulder. Swing out to right field.

ETA: you know how teachers in school would tell you something, and then you are taught years later that it's done a different way? The same applies here. There will be some stuff people will tell you that are correct now, but by no means correct in the long run. You have to be able to subtract before you can do long division

adding on to WEAVE's annalysis:

1: to get away from "chopping wood" (throwing your shoulder at the ball)...If you played baseball, what would happen if you used that same motion in your baseball swing? If you hit the ball it would go straight into the ground... imagine you are hitting the ball with a slight uppercut and mimick that motion through impact with a golf club.

2: SPREAD your feet out!!!Your balance depends on it, you are tall, and if you have your feet too close together a feather could knock you off balance. Like a skyscraper being built the wider the platform, the higher you can build!

Good Luck!

Yea.

I disagree...the hip should move out then around...

Reasoning is that the hip moving forward first will inadvertently drop the hands into position...moving the hips around first will throw the hands out, not down.

ETA: that is the D-plane way of explaining...there is no one way to swing a club. While BeaverPRO and I differ in opinion, it is all relative...pick what works for you and do it.

so i played this weekend at the bluffs and shot my best round of the year, which was nice.

however i haven't played or hit balls since receiving critique from this thread, and i was a mess at the range prior to playing

i do intend on coming in sometime after 7/1/12 to find out what all this hip rotation talk is about. picturing it and performing it are two different animals.

Ah, after reading the article, I see the descrepency between the two opinions.

There are two schools of thought, one is body specific, one is plane specific, as stated in my earlier edit.

Not too shabby, considering you YouTube handle is "golfingalabama"

Here's mine
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the only thing missing from your video was to turn to the camera and say "this is Kige Ramsay for yewtoob golfing".

A little quick to start your downswing was the worst thing I saw on your video. Positions were very good, just that little transition I would say caused your ball to miss a little left on the last swing.