This older video from LPGA trainer Cindy Miller kind of goes along side the day gone by's post about topping... However it approaches the hassle of bad ball contact from the "different facet" of the swing -- the higher frame, instead of the decrease frame.
Cindy is attacking the parable that you want to maintain your lead arm instantly all through your swing. Now, we're no longer speaking about bending your lead elbow at a 90? Angle on the top of your backswing. (Although a few gamers do learn to play properly that way. If you do, you are aware of it.) Rather, we are speakme approximately seeking to hold your lead arm useless instantly in the course of your swing.
I've mentioned this "ramrod striaght" myth many times when talking about the one-piece takeaway. You don't want your lead arm stiff -- it should be relaxed and will flex slightly as you swing to the top of your swing, then return to its address position as you make your downswing. This is a natural movement for your arm -- you do it all the time when you make any kind of sweeping motion with your arm. You want to just let it happen when you swing the club as well.
In this video Cindy mentions two problems that keeping your lead arm stiff will cause. First, it can cause you to "stand up" during your backswing, just as Andrew Reynolds mentioned yesterday in that post. Stiff arms cause you to lift up and straighten up -- but this time, you overcorrect on your way down and stick the clubhead in the ground. Can you say fat shot?
The 2d issue this move does is cause you to open the clubface on the way returned, then you definately go away it open at the manner down. That's due to the fact a stiff lead arm might not drop back down into your normal deal with function, which means that your arms don't rotate back to their address role wherein the face become square.
Ironically, you may do that upper body lifting and the day prior to this's decrease frame "push up" at the identical time. What happens? Depending on which one you exaggerate, you may hit the ball fats or thin, without any obvious good judgment. And in case you do hit the ball, the combination will probable create an over-the-top swing with an open clubface, developing that nasty banana ball we all hate.
So optimistically this week's series of posts will help you understand how extra motion on your swing -- created by way of trying to reach for a larger flip than is natural in your flexibility -- can create poor touch and undesirable ball flights. So many of these problems, each together with your higher frame and your lower body, are due to pointless anxiety on your legs and arms.
Maybe I'll try and publish some rest drills next week. Learning to loosen up is not hard, however a bit encouragement cannot hurt!
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