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Hi Shawn, are we supposed to combine the visualization of the arc with the feel of a task? I like to use the slashing the sword feel so would i be doing pmd with the slash feel and see the blur of the arc? And if I’m not seeing an arc in the direction I want does that mean I’m manipulating?
Beautiful! Great combo!
and at first, if you don’t see the blur match the direction, don’t fret, it is showing you what is happening so that you can adjust your alignment or ball position or match the direction of the momentum with the direction you want to see the blur go! 😀👍
How does shaft weight influence and effect The momentum. Heavier shafts create more ? What effect on “ whipping it through “ ?
Hi Savas! Yes, you bet! I was recommended the tour 120 shaft from True Temper and felt they were too light and went back to my 135 gram S-300 shafts and instantly felt the difference in momentum and compression; it was a pure ahhhhh!
This is why fittings at a place like “Club Champion” are terrific because once they find the club head that suits you, then you try the different shafts to go with it and feel the difference. You want a nice synergy between you and the fitter and he or she really needs to listen to YOU.
When hitting the driver should I be focussing on a blade of grass at the low point of the arc where I start my swing or should it be just behind the ball as with irons?
On the back of the tee! Feeling that the low point is positioned in a way to catch the tip of tee on the way up and in the direction of the intermediate point.
From the players perspective, when observing the blur above the ball does it appear as if the club head is actually passing outside the ball. Almost as if you would completely miss the ball?
I notice when I hover the club and allow that club head to track its arc freely that’s how it appears to me. In reality when you put that to speed your body opening up and gravity actually pulls that into perfect impact. When I default to “hit the ball” my brain wants to pull in off that arc and slice across it. Tough to trust at first but seems to work when I can replicate that above the ball feel of the arc going “outside the ball” in an effort to deliver to target.
Although I just realized, crap, maybe I’m too close to the ball therefore still making a compensation somewhere. Assuming that blur needs to go right over the ball.
It’s better to do it above the ball and see that the blur matches the ball AND the intermediate point. Then when you bring it down, it will go to the toe of the club and you will need to move in a half inch, but that is about it!
Important part of predicting the distance to ball and the levels you need to be in so that the blur can cut through the dandelion stem to that intermediate point and beyond into the picture! 😀👍
How do you determine how far out the intermediate point should be. Is it different and determined by club length, or does it not matter? It makes sense that if the intermediate point is too close or a long ways away, the blur pattern will create a different set up (Goldilocks). Please clarify 🙂
When you are playing, tops 1 foot in front of the ball; on par 3s, I often place the tee right at the back of a divot and simply use that divot to confirm my prediction on contact and direction. For the driver, I set up behind a divot and will place the divot to the right or left depending on fade or draw choice. No more than a foot in front of the ball.