Swing analysis requested please - Help me play again!

[Mr.Rob]

Give me the good, the bad. I got the ugly covered!

10 yrs since I played so I know it's bad. Would like to know what I am doing right and of course what I am doing wrong. True change takes a lot of time and practice so I am looking for fundamentals here on the main flaws to work on but it can't be all bad so I want to know the good too, so I don't mess those points up. Clip is a minute and half. Thanks for taking your time to assist me.

Thanks to those who have offered advice in my other posts. Figure as long as I am starting over I may as well explore different swing styles that might help ease strain on my back as that's why I haven't played in so long. Bad back injury 10 years ago. Really liking Shawn Clements stuff so far, and S&T is interesting as well.

Here is a second one from yesterday at the driving range but I didn't know the camera angle was bad at the time. May be of limited value but at least hitting real balls.

[russc1597187869]

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10 yrs since I played so I know it's bad. Would like to know what I am doing right and of course what I am doing wrong. True change takes a lot of time and practice so I am looking for fundamentals here on the main flaws to work on but it can't be all bad so I want to know the good too, so I don't mess those points up. Clip is a minute and half. Thanks for taking your time to assist me.

Thanks to those who have offered advice in my other posts. Figure as long as I am starting over I may as well explore different swing styles that might help ease strain on my back as that's why I haven't played in so long. Bad back injury 10 years ago. Really liking Shawn Clements stuff so far, and S&T is interesting as well.

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zbei4yTLm7A"]Ratman's 10 yr old swing[/url]

Here is a second one from yesterday at the driving range but I didn't know the camera angle was bad at the time. May be of limited value but at least hitting real balls.

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sw4Wo9jgt8U"]At the range[/url]
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First please provide a current DTL and FRONT video of your swing while hitting a ball.

In the little that i could see of your swing, you have a significant sway load going back with your weight going onto the outside of your right foot.You have in essence not really coiled at all going back.Assuming that you posture is similar to what it was 10 years try these ideas
At setup tilt your shoulders away from the target(right shoulder lower than the left) and kick your right knee down and in .This will do a number of things .First it will place weight on the inside of your right foot at setup.You want to keep your weight on the inside of your right foot all the way back.Second your right hip will be lower than the left hip by a small amount.this hip tilt along with the shoulder tilt will tilt your entire spine slightly away from the target.Tilting the spine will make the backswing much easier.Third it will brace your right knee.The brace of the right knee must be maintained all the way to the top of the backswing,even as the right leg straightens..Maintaining the brace of the right knee is absolutley essential in your case

Try this drill
.After setting up correctly with the brace of the right knee,place hands on opposite shoulders.Turn your shoulders until they are in line with your right foot(assuming that your right foot is perpendicular to your target line).maintain the brace of the right knee.Imitate this turning feeling in your regular swing.

[Mr.Rob]

Russc. Thanks for the advice. The videos are current but again with a plastic ball in the first and driving range yesterday in the second. I will work on the drill you advised on and get a better range video this week. Thanks for not only taking the time to watch but advise as well. Rob

[paoli_golfer]

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Third it will brace your right knee.The brace of the right knee must be maintained all the way to the top of the backswing,even as the right leg straightens..Maintaining the brace of the right knee is absolutley essential in your case


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Russ,
Could you explain a little more about what's meant by maintaining the right knee brace? I took this to originally mean maintaining the right leg angle (knee bend angle) throughout the backswing but your reference to maintaining the brace while the right leg straightens tells me I had it wrong.

Thanks in advance.