9 to 3 Work and 8 Iron

birdiemachine11 · March 18, 2012

Working on Slicefixer's 9 to 3 drill. I would love some critiquing. Sorry for the bad view, I had to balance my phone on my bag.

This next video is full swing with 8 Iron. Working more on keeping my elbow in and not letting my arm fly. This was suggested to me when I posted a video a few days ago.

tfish · March 19, 2012

the first issue is that there's no discernible difference between your 9-3 and full swing. if you're gonna practice that way, then do it with purpose. swing then look at the video, and swing and look at video...until you're actually going to 9 o'clock, and not to the top of your current swing. the goal is to practice the impact positions and using the core of the body to rotate left....not necessarily all the other stuff that goes along with a golf swing.

and as far as both swings go, i think your rolling your wrists over too early in the takeaway and letting the club get behind you. and your arms get too high....in a one plane, modern, SF, hogan (whatever you want to call it) the arms should be moreorless inline with the shoulders at the top....not above them.

fixes to eliminate the early wrist **** will be feeling like the shoulders/arms/hands/club are going away from the ball as one unit with the clubhead staying outside the hands. and then to get flatter with the arms you should feel like your hands are going more in to your right pocket initially as you rotate your shoulders and the hands will feel out in front of your chest at the top instead of above your head.

birdiemachine11 · June 18, 2012

Sorry to bring back up this older thread, but does anyone else have any comments? Still having some of the same issues.

russc1597187869 · June 19, 2012

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Sorry to bring back up this older thread, but does anyone else have any comments? Still having some of the same issues.
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Videos are not good .If you take some more you need to get your entire body and the club in the picture.You need a front video and you need to place some alignments sticks down for reference.
You look like you take the club too far inside and disconnect your let arm going back.On the downswing your body outraces your arms.Your body is in position to hit the ball but your arms are not.This probably is caused by an incorrect backswing position
Because of the incomplete nature of your video i will only make a few suggestions
As Tfish mentioned ,this swing is way longer than a 9-3 drill.The purpose of a shorter swing at less than normal speed is that it is easier to train yourself to maintain the angle of the right wrist to 3 ,with such a swing than with a normal swing
Place a small nerf ball/credit card deep inside your left armpit and do not drop the card until well after impact.This will connect your very upper left arm to your torso.
Place a small/thin bottle 18 inches directly behind the ball and knock this bottle over on tour takeaway