Another image that will really help is to focus on your finish position - really face the target with your torso (turning the left foot open a bit will help). In the clips, your pivot stops turning through at impact, getting your chest facing the target will really help keep that pivot moving.!
I saw that same thing...maybe no one else does this but I took my swing and grabbed the sequence and did a side by side with a good player and saw lots of good things but at impact they are more "left' than the parallel look that I am in. I definitely think that robs my swing of power. I see it, know its a problem, but fixing that aspect has been fruitless.
Its weird Daryl, I don't feel an active pull with my left arm, but I don't feel like I push with the right, its I guess I am a switter? If anything I do think there is more right hand right side to the feeling of the motion I am making.
That's just using the Pivot to deliver the Power Package into Release. It's Dragging the wet mop on the Downstroke with your pivot.
I saw that same thing...maybe no one else does this but I took my swing and grabbed the sequence and did a side by side with a good player and saw lots of good things but at impact they are more "left' than the parallel look that I am in. I definitely think that robs my swing of power. I see it, know its a problem, but fixing that aspect has been fruitless.
So; try a different fruit.
It robs your swing of much more than power.
You're moving off the ball during the Backstroke (Rotating your torso to the right). Get the Mechanics first by standing in a doorway with your head against the Jamb and perform some Shoulder-Hip turns (that will open your eyes). Just let your arms hang and move back and forth until you learn to move the shoulders by using your arms (forearm takeaway). Then Back away and do some more without your head touching the Jamb. Go back and forth until you understand the mechanics and can reproduce by feel. Then take it out to the Range.
Hula-Hula.
You'll be amazed at how much knee bend you need and the role they play by allowing the hip-shoulder turn. Let the knees move the feet. Hips will stay back and your upper body won't rise during the backstroke as it does currently. Your Hips will slide as they turn during the downstroke. Your shoulders will be open to the target at impact. Life will be good.
Start the downswing by turning your hips back, and not by planting your left heel. Your left heel will plant when you move your hips back and you won't exaggerate the slide and your hips will keep rotating and your head won't flop around. The weight is on the right and your link is your right hip. Planting the left heel to start the downswing is weak and disruptive and promotes quitting. Save it for the Rumba. Practice all of this with your head first on, then off the door jamb (use a throw pillow for your head).
If you shift your head 2" to the right during the Backstroke, it will look like a greater hip slide during the Downstroke.
Remember the "Hands are just clamps". Dont cock the left hand with the hands. The left hand will cock on its own, if/when the right side of the triangle, the right arm shortens (right elbow bend). The thing about the left arm/shoulder push away, especially when the right side is stiff is that the triangle is maintained. No right side shortening. Often resulting in an outside startup, angled hinging or even a dead shut clubface, over rotation of the shoulders, a too steep shoulder plane etc etc. Not saying your doing all of this by any means. The golfer tending towards hand manipulation to get things back on Plane.
You'd take it back on line if you bent your right arm earlier, ideally accompanied with a little fanning and no left side push away. An RFT in other words. If there is no right elbow bend there is no Magic of the Right Forearm. Extensor Action helps in all of this. Its weird stuff but when you get it you'll never go back.
Make it a right sided game, even if you are swinging. You look like a good player, hope this helps. It took me 2 years to get the left side push away out of my game and I dont miss it at all. Id been doing it since I was 12 years old too. Somebody somewhere, dont remember who, gave me some advice about a One Piece Takeaway that I mistook to be a Left Side Pushaway with Two Stiff Arms. Man did that waste a lot of my time. Rock the Triangle is one way to attack putting maybe but not Major Basic Strokes. Ill never get those years back. Dont freeze your right elbow in Startup. Start with it soft and bent and on plane, with a little EA providing some structure, clear the right hip and then RFT baby. Thoughts about rolling or cocking will be a distant memory, after a little training.
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Just got back from a couple hours on the range. The extensor action and immediate bending of the right arm was very key. It made it feel very steep backstroke compared to previous but it must be on plane because I was hitting it very well. It seemed like the cocking of the left wrist was not nearly as forced.
One thing was really different, at the end I hit some drivers, I must be getting the club in a different position at the top because I could really feel the shaft snap through impact....was like I was swinging a senior shafted club, and I was easily hitting the ball 270-280.
Dont know what the snap feeling would be. Hopefully a loaded shaft making contact with the ball with a corresponding loaded Lag Pressure Point, #3.
The EA helps with the bending left wrist problem by assigning the right arm or elbow the job of creating the EA in the line of or the direction of the left arm. The associated bent right hand being frozen or held bent, not fired or anything through the shot.
The other thing that helps is more perceptual. Steering the clubface straight at the target being for some a misguided perception of what is required for a straight shot. Normally "a seems as if" deal adopted by a novice golfer. You're obviously no novice but there may be some steering, perhaps, thats attributable to this line of thinking. Heck its pretty common. Pelz had everyone steering their putts a few years back, not that there is anything wrong with that for Putting, but it cant be extrapolated to a Full Shot. Unless you want a cut shot with tons of layback and an loss of compression. The solution to this misguided steering be it conscious or unconscious is a better grasp of the geometry of pure compression.
See, read, live, breath 2-C-0 LINEAR FORCE. It will explain how a golfers non linear (curved), angular force can have the exact same effect on the ball as an application of linear force (like a pool shot say). But only if certain conditions are met. I'm not going to outline them here, cause everyone should read this carefully but suffice it to say, it is the geometry behind the necessity for a flat left wrist, a hinge action and three dimensional impact. Executing the Impact Interval as a Hinge Action will amaze you. To accomplish this you need training, best done in Basic or Acquired Motion then build upon like a solid foundation to achieve compliant Total Motion. This is the way to learn it, the way to practice it, the way to warm up, the way to correct things after bad rounds etc etc. See the Reiger, Gay, Neeman Videos for good examples of this process or study 12-5-0, through 12-5-3.
The struggle against Throw Away is never ending. Thank goodness for 12-5!
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