Miles' Swing Project - Videos, 240fps

[Miles]

New videos added 15-2-2012

Edit ; Front on videos and newer swing videos at the bottom of the page....

Hi guy's and gals, need a few drills to improve my takeaway as my b/s is far too flat. I make a conscious effort to swing on an upright plane but that seems to make no difference. Any tips? I hit the ball well at the moment, however I struggle with consistency especially with the longer clubs. Any help would be great.

http://www.youtube.c...sb?feature=mhee
http://www.youtube.c...eature=mhee#g/u

Miles

[Miles]

Just been looking at the videos in detail at work, seems I'm reverse pivoting on some of the shorter irons. Hmmn, could explain the inconsistency.

[russc1597187869]

[quote name='Miles' timestamp='1323190300' post='3899665']
Hi guy's and gals, need a few drills to improve my takeaway as my b/s is far too flat. I make a conscious effort to swing on an upright plane but that seems to make no difference. Any tips? I hit the ball well at the moment, (8 hcp) however I struggle with consistency especially with the longer clubs. Any help would be great.

[url="http://www.youtube.com/user/85milesb?feature=mhee"]http://www.youtube.c...sb?feature=mhee[/url]
[url="http://www.youtube.com/user/85milesb?feature=mhee#g/u"]http://www.youtube.c...eature=mhee#g/u[/url]

Miles
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Miles
Please post a front video to check your setup angles and your pivot going back and down.

First you are a bit flat going back(clubface needs to face the ball at 7:30).As far as a reverse pivot goes ,i need a front video to determine that,although you look to be going high into the right hip on the backswing ,which very well may indicate a reverse pivot.
Your biggest problem is lack of core rotation on the downswing.I am sure that some of this downswing rotational problem emanates from an incorrect setup position which makes coiling correctly going back very difficult ,so it is really necessary to get that front video.
If read my comments # 29 on the adjacent post "6 hdcp losing it",they would all pertain to you except for maybe the left toe (since i can see it well).The drills will help you out a bunch,but first you need to get into the right setup and backswing coil.
Hit it dead,solid ,perfect

[J Golf]

To begin, let me just say that I agree with most of what russc has said. I do, however, feel that while the set up may be the most important position in the swing second only to impact, your positioning at the top of your swing significantly contributes to your armsy downswing and the prominent casting of the club. The simple fix is to just shorten up the backswing slightly, and, as you have pointed out, finding a steeper backswing should help with this. I would suggest feeling like your sweeping a ball away when you start the club back, and turning more with your left shoulder as the shoulder tilt is directly correlated to the swing plane. As previously stated in the thread, a front view would allow for a more thorough analysis of your main problem, the downswing, but from what I can see... It all seems to relate to your hips. If you notice, they stay parallel to the ball for the majority of the swing. Ideally, at impact, using the from the behind view, I should be able to see two pockets on your pants. If you get your hips and shoulders turning, the arms will follow and eliminate any need to throw the hands at the ball in compensation as you currently do. On your follow through, it appears that your weight is not properly distributed. Coming through impact, you should feel the weight of your body be transfered from the back foot, into your left foots front soul and then the outer edge. On this note, I would just suggest taking practice swings with the expressed purpose of feeling this weight transfer coupled with the turn of your hips.

Best of Luck,

JG

[Miles]

[quote name='J Golf' timestamp='1323228850' post='3903133']
To begin, let me just say that I agree with most of what russc has said. I do, however, feel that while the set up may be the most important position in the swing second only to impact, your positioning at the top of your swing significantly contributes to your armsy downswing and the prominent casting of the club. The simple fix is to just shorten up the backswing slightly, and, as you have pointed out, finding a steeper backswing should help with this. I would suggest feeling like your sweeping a ball away when you start the club back, and turning more with your left shoulder as the shoulder tilt is directly correlated to the swing plane. As previously stated in the thread, a front view would allow for a more thorough analysis of your main problem, the downswing, but from what I can see... It all seems to relate to your hips. If you notice, they stay parallel to the ball for the majority of the swing. Ideally, at impact, using the from the behind view, I should be able to see two pockets on your pants. If you get your hips and shoulders turning, the arms will follow and eliminate any need to throw the hands at the ball in compensation as you currently do. On your follow through, it appears that your weight is not properly distributed. Coming through impact, you should feel the weight of your body be transfered from the back foot, into your left foots front soul and then the outer edge. On this note, I would just suggest taking practice swings with the expressed purpose of feeling this weight transfer coupled with the turn of your hips.

Best of Luck,

JG
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Thanks to you both for your replies, I really appreciate your help. I went to the range yesterday to further analyse my swing, I believe my set up is fine - spine slightly angled back, neutral pelvis and a reasonably good posture. However I've noticed that I'm rotating my whole trunk (ab section as well) on the backswing, this creates a reverse pivot and then means that I have to rotate my lower trunk a lot on the d/s just to get to parallel position. This can be seen in this video below. if you pause at the top of the b/s my rather large belly has rotated along with my shoulders. Therefore, when next at the range I'm going to focus on keeping my abs locked in position whilst doing the punisher drill. I also think that if I were to start my swing with my arm's until the club is parallel that may reduce my tendency to rotate my whole torso, what do you think, good idea? Another, problem is due to the crap weather I'm unable to get a front facing video yet as the bays at the range don't have enough room and all the local open spaces are covered in knee high wet grass.
[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KslbCPQGnE&feature=related"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KslbCPQGnE&feature=related[/url]

Thanks,
Miles

[Miles]

Just added some more videos to youtube after working on a shorter backswing and trying to improve my turn. [url="http://www.youtube.com/user/85milesb/videos"]http://www.youtube.com/user/85milesb/videos[/url]

What I need help with is getting the club in the correct position coming down and holding onto the lag. I've tried the punisher drill and the coat hanger but that just encouraged a block release after impact. Can anyone who's improved their own lag comment as I'm really trying to get this nailed.

I've attached a jpeg of webb simpson's d/s in comparison to mine. Can anyone help/ advise on drills to improve lag/club position? At the beginning of the d/s webb drops the club onto a flatter plane, is this a conscious thing/manipulation of the wrists?

[attachment=977811:webb simpson d-s.jpg]

[attachment=977813:6i swing 8-1-12.jpg]
[attachment=977815:8i swing 9-1-12.jpg]


Miles

[straightshot7]

As the above posters have said, the biggest problem is your upper body leading the downswing when it should be your lower body leading the downswing. See this Ben Hogan video:

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wpyAXvIDYw[/media]

[Thrillhouse]

What camera are you using for those videos miles?

[golfdu]

Inprove lag? Just maintain the pressure in the first joint of your right index finger in the downswing, then you'll get lag. Called Pressure Point #3 in The Golfing Machine vocabulary.

[Miles]

[quote name='Thrillhouse' timestamp='1326269494' post='4063563']
What camera are you using for those videos miles?
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Hey Thrill, casio ex fh100. Imported it straight from japan and saved ££££'s
[url="http://www.casio.co.uk/products/Digital-Cameras/Exilim-High-Speed/product/EX-FH100BKEDB/"]http://www.casio.co.uk/products/Digital-Cameras/Exilim-High-Speed/product/EX-FH100BKEDB/[/url]

[Miles]

[quote name='biolagolfer' timestamp='1326268782' post='4063553']
As the above posters have said, the biggest problem is your upper body leading the downswing when it should be your lower body leading the downswing. See this Ben Hogan video:

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wpyAXvIDYw[/media]

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[quote name='golfdu' timestamp='1326270728' post='4063587']
Inprove lag? Just maintain the pressure in the first joint of your right index finger in the downswing, then you'll get lag. Called Pressure Point #3 in The Golfing Machine vocabulary.
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Hi, thanks for your responses, definitely going to try those out. I don't mean to come across as if I'm not listening to the advice posted, believe me i'm trying to turn those hips . Since starting this thread I have been trying to start my downswing by pulling the left hip back, it has helped my driving immensely but I've found It can cause a pull on my shorter irons. So in those recent videos I'm trying to turn both hips and shoulders with the irons. Is this a big no no? I guess I should should just work on firing the hips until it works. I have the afternoon off so I'll get some more videos up asap.

Biogolfer, in this vid below you can see that I start to pull my left hip back at the top of the d/s, is this the correct sequencing or am I still turning the shoulders too soon?
[url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzMv_av2Qxo&feature=plcp&context=C36974a8UDOEgsToPDskK19ec2AtchRSSvNs7RColX"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzMv_av2Qxo&feature=plcp&context=C36974a8UDOEgsToPDskK19ec2AtchRSSvNs7RColX[/url]

Thanks Guy's, I really appreciate any input as I have invested in this camera to solely improve my golf, so no pro lessons for me, just video analysis.

Miles

[Miles]

Went to the range yesterday to get some front on videos with various clubs. My goal was to eradicate the reverse pivot. Really tried to stabilise my lower trunk and turn over a solid right leg. In the videos it looks like I'm still favoring the left side though (very Foley like). It's weird 'cus it feels like I'm way over the right leg. I may try and incorporate a little slide back with the upper body to avoid this. Hit the ball very well though.

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6gXdXPA01U&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL"]3 Woods[/url]
[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n12y6tK_Zms&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL"]5 Wood, 503h and pro black[/url]
[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8GEXMQA2RA&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL"]6 irons[/url]

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKKhCAp177c&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL"]9 irons[/url]


Any advice?

[J Golf]

Ok Miles, here goes:

While I do see improvement in this series of videos as compared to your previous swings, you still miss out slightly on the important positions in the swing.

1. Starting with your set up, your head is to far behind the ball.

[attachment=984303:Setup #1.png]

Pro Reference:

[attachment=984311:Setup #2.png]



2. In the set up, your hands are also too far in front of the club:

[attachment=984313:Set up #3.png]


They should be right over the face of the club:

[attachment=984315:Set up #4.png]



3. Your takeaway is actually very good, notice the separation between the hands and body, but your shoulder tilt is practically non existent.

[attachment=984335:Setup #5.png]


This leads to an awkward top of swing position where the club could be in a great place, yet the shoulders keep it low and stuck behind your head.

[attachment=984337:Miles #6.png]


This move also disallows any coherent downswing as you have to compensate for the poor club position.

Pro Reference:

[attachment=984341:Miles #7.png]



4. As I was saying, this leads to a downswing that gets significantly of track. As you can see, your club gets very steep and over the plane.

[attachment=984351:Miles #8.png]


[attachment=984373:Miles #9.png]


Drill: Go to the top of your swing, and just let the club drop down into the slot. Finish the swing from that position. Try to feel this motion, and then take a full swing without over thinking it. The motion should carry over (with work), and video is a great way to check it out.


5. On the downswing you cast your club: (Notice how it's in front of your hands)

[attachment=984383:Miles #10.png]


You want your hands to lead the club through impact like this: (Notice how the club is in line with his left arm)

[attachment=984391:Miles #11.png]



6. You have a solid finish, but getting the club slightly more parallel to the ground should help get the ball to go straighter.

[attachment=984397:Miles #12.png]


I would suggest checking out this video from 4 golf online and use his drill for what I've outlined in points 5 and 6:

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XppkI1HSZHM&context=C3b0d9c9ADOEgsToPDskLJU0VW3DO6EAeB9XclB_CA"]http://www.youtube.c...DO6EAeB9XclB_CA[/url]

The pertinent section starts at 2:00 and should be very helpful.





I hope this helps! If the weather cooperates I would suggest taking it to the range and focusing on mechanics before ball flight. If you get your mechanics down, the ball will follow your lead - and if, after this mini rant, you still want some help... feel free to post some more videos and I'll try to comment.


JG

[russc1597187869]

Although I agree with much of what Jgolf states I have a slightly different prospective and emhasis than he does does.First with the head.I have no trouble with the position of the head;i do have trouble with the angle of your head.Your shoulders are tilted away from the target at setup and your head should be more in line with your spine .Your head position is to your right of vertical.Your ball position with driver is too far back.you should toe out your left foot 1/4 turn .this will make it easier to rotate on the downswing.
Your real problem is you sway load going back resulting in a poor coil at the top with your back tilted slightly towards the target and your weight towards the left middle of your stance instead of into the right foot. Just place your cursor on your left hip in the front 6 iron view.At the top your left hip should not move .Notice in yours it moves laterally back.Now place your cursor on you right hip .A correct coil will create space on your right hip vs your setup .You do not .Instead you sway load high into the right hip at the top.From this position you have to make an almost impossible compensating move to attack the ball from decent angles with leverage.

Refer to Brady Riggs video"creating space"your problem is less than Mr Riggs is showing ,but the general idea does apply to you

Backswing drill
without a club set up correctly with your head on the same angle as your spine.Place your hands on opposite shoulders.Turn your shoulders until they are in line with your right foot.If you make a front video of this drill,you should notice that your left hip does not move that space is opening up on your right hip and your back will be slightly tilted away from your target

[russc1597187869]

Although I agree with much of what Jgolf states I have a slightly different prospective and emhasis than he does does.First with the head.I have no trouble with the position of the head;i do have trouble with the angle of your head.Your spine is tilted away from the target at setup and your head should be more in line with your spine .Your head position is too vertical.Your ball position with driver is too far back.you should toe out your left foot 1/4 turn .this will make it easier to rotate on the downswing.
Your real problem is you sway load going back resulting in a poor coil at the top with your back tilted slightly towards the target and your weight towards the left middle of your stance instead of into the right foot. Just place your cursor on your left hip in the front 6 iron view.At the top your left hip should not move .Notice in yours it moves laterally back.Now place your cursor on you right hip .A correct coil will create space on your right hip vs your setup .You do not .Instead you sway load high into the right hip at the top.From this position you have to make an almost impossible compensating move to attack the ball from decent angles with leverage.

Refer to Brady Riggs video"creating space"your problem is less than Mr Riggs is showing ,but the general idea does apply to you

Backswing drill
without a club set up correctly with your head on the same angle as your spine.Place your hands on opposite shoulders.Turn your shoulders until they are in line with your right foot.If you make a front video of this drill,you should notice that your left hipp does not move that space is opening up on your right hip and your back will be slightly tilted away from your target

[J Golf]

[quote name='russc' timestamp='1326673331' post='4090227']

Your real problem is you sway load going back resulting in a poor coil at the top with your back tilted slightly towards the target and your weight towards the left middle of your stance instead of into the right foot. Just place your cursor on your left hip in the front 6 iron view.At the top your left hip should not move .Notice in yours it moves laterally back.Now place your cursor on you right hip .A correct coil will create space on your right hip vs your setup .You do not .Instead you sway load high into the right hip at the top.From this position you have to make an almost impossible compensating move to attack the ball from decent angles with leverage.

[/quote]

Great Point

[Miles]

I can't thank you both enough for the advice. I've been studying the videos and didn't notice the points that you've made, it makes a lot of sense. I have three days off now so I will go to the range and work on these specific drills/key's. Thanks again, this is exactly why I posted this here, invaluable feedback from people who know what they are on about!

To sort out,

Address; head tilt with spine, hands inside left leg and never ahead of ball

b/s; keep it wide, but maintain spine tilt and keep left leg still. ( to avoid my left knee collapsing I'm going to keep my left knee nearer the target)
Minimise sway going back but improve lateral shift with lower body on d/s.

Top; Try and get club in correct slot.

I'll keep you posted.

Miles

[Miles]

Golf wrx has made me a better golfer, it's official (special mentions to j golf and russc!!)

Went to the range on Monday and Tuesday for 4 hour thorough stints. Monday my sole focus was the hip's. Tried literally everything that is possible to stop the slide and had no luck. Lock the right knee, lock the right hip, keep head dead still, lean forwards with lower body...everything!!! Then when doing slow mo swings I noticed that in my attempts to restrict hip movement I was sliding them instead. I guess in my head I was caught up in this x factor thing of limiting hip turn relative to the shoulder turn......Made a few swings by consciously turning them and it clicked. So, Monday night I checked my library of you tube vid's and analysed Hogan's hip turn in detail. worked at it in front of the mirror for two hours.....first ball I struck on Tuesday focusing on Hogan's hip movements came off like a rocket! Literally stood there giggling for a few minutes it felt that good.

So spent Tuesday trying to ingrain this hip motion. It feels like I'm swinging slower but so more efficiently. From the looking at the slow mo's I could still do with keeping my spine angle lent further back and correcting the club position at the top but it's is soo much better. No more sway. My focus is to point my belt buckle at my right toe and then load into my left leg.

So, I'm one happy golfer!

Miles

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_a7KbPjxdHI&context=C323d932ADOEgsToPDskK19ec2AtchRSSvNs7RColX[/media]
[url="http://www.youtube.com/user/85milesb?feature=mhee"]http://www.youtube.c...sb?feature=mhee[/url]

[Miles]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2yenq8JVPc&feature=context&context=C323d932ADOEgsToPDskK19ec2AtchRSSvNs7RColX[/media]

[Miles]

Ok, well looking at the videos I'm still casting the club (hardly surprising as I wasn't working on this). Is it just a matter of rotating my forearm around, supinating my wrist?

[attachment=992459:FO Impact.JPG]

[attachment=992461:Pro's @ Impact.JPG]

[CynderBloc]

[quote name='Miles' timestamp='1327246909' post='4134153']
Ok, well looking at the videos I'm still casting the club (hardly surprising as I wasn't working on this). Is it just a matter of rotating my forearm around, supinating my wrist?
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You just need to keep the leverage in your wrists longer into your downswing (lag).

I'm not expecting you to get as much lag as Sergio, he creates an insane amount of it, but just watch from the top of his backswing to impact and compare it to yours.

You'll notice in his downswing that his wrists don't start to release until just before impact, and you can see when his hands are at hip height, the club still hasn't passed vertical. In yours when your hands are at hip height, your club is nearly horizontal

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmpAXltfjsM

Have a search for "creating lag" lessons, or ask some of the people on here for drills. The only one I can think of that might help is more for plane and impact, and could mess up other postions in your swing

[russc1597187869]

[quote name='Miles' timestamp='1327186100' post='4131525']
Golf wrx has made me a better golfer, it's official (special mentions to j golf and russc!!)

Went to the range on Monday and Tuesday for 4 hour thorough stints. Monday my sole focus was the hip's. Tried literally everything that is possible to stop the slide and had no luck. Lock the right knee, lock the right hip, keep head dead still, lean forwards with lower body...everything!!! Then when doing slow mo swings I noticed that in my attempts to restrict hip movement I was sliding them instead. I guess in my head I was caught up in this x factor thing of limiting hip turn relative to the shoulder turn......Made a few swings by consciously turning them and it clicked. So, Monday night I checked my library of you tube vid's and analysed Hogan's hip turn in detail. worked at it in front of the mirror for two hours.....first ball I struck on Tuesday focusing on Hogan's hip movements came off like a rocket! Literally stood there giggling for a few minutes it felt that good.

So spent Tuesday trying to ingrain this hip motion. It feels like I'm swinging slower but so more efficiently. From the looking at the slow mo's I could still do with keeping my spine angle lent further back and correcting the club position at the top but it's is soo much better. No more sway. My focus is to point my belt buckle at my right toe and then load into my left leg.

So, I'm one happy golfer!

Miles

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_a7KbPjxdHI&context=C323d932ADOEgsToPDskK19ec2AtchRSSvNs7RColX[/media]
[url="http://www.youtube.com/user/85milesb?feature=mhee"]http://www.youtube.c...sb?feature=mhee[/url]
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Hip coil going back still the problem but it is more subtle and you are not swaying.You have good spine tilt at setup.all you have to do is maintain this spine tilt going back .Again practice the backswing drill that I mentioned before.Video this drill and you should see that you are just winding up around you tilted spine.Carry this feeling to your backswing.

[Miles]

Hello, went to the range yesterday to work on pivot/turn. From looking at the videos it's evident that when I have the club in my hand my right shoulder pulls it back to the top. This affects my spine angle and causes the left hip to come round. Knowing this I did a few swings in the mirror last night on my knees. It's really evident then, my right shoulder pulls back and the left pushes forwards tilting my spine. Problem is I don't do this without a club in my hands, without the club I turn back fine! When I do various b/s drills at home I turn to the top correctly with the spine tilt maintained.

Here's a picture to show this fault in my swing. I still need to shorten the b/s (haven't been focusing on this) but you can see that my shoulders just turn far too quick. Their 90 by halfway and nearly 110/120 at the top of my b/s.
[attachment=996545:Poor Shoulder Turn together.jpg]


However, I did work on/improve my impact. I was focusing on turning the outer part my left hand over towards the floor like a topspin backhand in Tennis. Launched lower and gained 10 yards distance. Not bad, could still improve further but this poor turn is my main focus now.
[attachment=996551:Improved impact 2.jpg]


I'll add the video on youtube asap.

Miles

[Miles]

Forgot to mention, did a direct comparison with a swing video of Luke Donald from front on. Seem's I need to widen my stance and move the ball further forward. Even on a relatively short iron he had the whole of his head behind the ball at address and maintained this throughout his swing. I, on the other hand start with it behind and quickly have it target side because of my poor shoulder turn.

Miles

[Miles]

Hi all, I've been busy working solidly on my pivot, it's bloody difficult to change your swing!! After trying different methods and feelings in order to improve my backswing I've settled with a rotary motion into my right side. It feels like I'm folding my left side into the right. This is getting me in the desired position at the top (with regards to my body) - it feel's a bit alien to me but that will come with time.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_X3w8o0nPg8&context=C3219838ADOEgsToPDskInIxuELhz6_Oil8894WNUt[/media]


The arms are still doing the wrong thing so that's next on the list. I'm going to focus on the correct spot to put them in at the top and consciously move them into to position to ingrain it. At the moment the hands start swinging inside until the club is parallel to the ground, then they move up. The left arm also bends a little when I get to the top, this is due to me slightly overswinging so I'll focus on shortening it .


Miles

[J Golf]

In your latest post, the footwork looks great! -

I have a feeling, however, that your backswing is off plane/ if you got it steeper you might also achieve a better top position in your swing. Try this drill: http://www.youtube.com/user/mizunogolfeurope#p/u/27/kcbr6oeP6eI

[Miles]

[quote name='J Golf' timestamp='1329792577' post='4336981']
In your latest post, the footwork looks great! -

I have a feeling, however, that your backswing is off plane/ if you got it steeper you might also achieve a better top position in your swing. Try this drill: [url="http://www.youtube.com/user/mizunogolfeurope#p/u/27/kcbr6oeP6eI"]http://www.youtube.c.../27/kcbr6oeP6eI[/url]
[/quote]

Thanks J,

I have improved my pivot further since I posted that most recent video too. One thing that made it click was turning to my right side whilst looking in the mirror, I realised that in order to get my weight onto the right I needed to raise up off my left heel. Before, I always kept it planted firmly and this restricted the proper pivot. So I now complete my practice swings by lifting the heel to ingrain the feeling of loading into the braced right leg - really helps! Another way that this helps is it keeps my left hip a little higher on the backswing, before it got very low, leading to the reverse pivot.

Yeah like you have spotted, my big fault is taking the club back to the inside. This is my next focal point. Thanks for the video, it's ironic it's Woody as his home course is only down the road from me.

Miles

[Miles]

Hello, I've tried to stay off this site as much as possible as I went equipment crazy and bought enough clubs for three people, however I've returned to post an update of my swing.
I've immersed myself in Kelvin Miyahira's teachings and have learnt an awful lot more about the body and swing. I've spent hours and hours each week with the main focus of reducing my reverse pivot. Well it's finally gone, but creeps back in when I get really tired. I've found that focusing on maintaining the right knee bend, whilst keeping the left hip high and the head angled towards the target is the best solution. I've tried everything, and tbh my golf hasn't improved as each week I have a new swing, but, I'm finally starting to go down the right path.
[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVGyZBDrxfU&feature=plcp"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVGyZBDrxfU&feature=plcp[/url]
[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chPF0-tlXcw&feature=BFa&list=ULiJyOHURjATk"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chPF0-tlXcw&feature=BFa&list=ULiJyOHURjATk[/url]
[url="http://www.youtube.com/user/85milesb/videos"]http://www.youtube.com/user/85milesb/videos[/url]

Ignore the exaggerated forward press as this is a temporary drill to ingrain better hand movements.

Faults to address;
Inside takeaway - caused by combination of incorrect movement of right elbow and shoulder
Too much separation between chest and arms - again, right shoulder is pulling back causing this issue
Casting - initiating downswing with arms, stalling with upper body.
Could improve rotation and increase lateral bend (at the moment it's more of a lean of the spine)

Please could someone suggest some drills to improve my sequencing at transition and tips for avoiding a hit from the top.

Thanks for looking,

Miles

[Miles]

Forgot to mention, I'm basing my swing on Gary Woodlands. A ruthlessly efficient one plane swing, with some mighty good hand movements. I'm nowhere near, but it's a template to follow and if I get to a point where I can hit it even remotely like him i'd be delighted!

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdJGp1-l66o&list=PLD26BB91A13EB819E&index=5&feature=plpp_video"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdJGp1-l66o&list=PLD26BB91A13EB819E&index=5&feature=plpp_video[/url]

[Miles]

Here's a 2013 update, I've been focusing on improving the following;

Improving takeaway/backswing,
Improving hips at transition (specifically dual ER)
Improving lateral bend

Unfortunately it won't let me upload all the vid's directly on here so I'll attach 1 and a link to the others.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcYATnyyl9A

http://www.youtube.com/user/85milesb/videos?view=0&flow=grid

Still lot's to work on, specifically my impact position and release, but I've improved my rotation quite a bit.

Miles