Video Analysis and Troubleshooting Overview

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Welcome back golfers, here we go. We're going to talk about analyzing your

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distance web

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swing on video. So as always, we have two primary views. You have the face on

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view and

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the down the line view. So we'll have some examples in this section. But in

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general,

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from the face on view, we can look at the centerness of the pivot. So we can

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look for

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whether you're getting sway off the ball or too much of a slide through the

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ball, lower

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body, creating too much axis tilt, et cetera. And we can look at the timing of

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when we're

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losing this stackness, whether it's the backswing, the transition or the

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release. Often times,

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if it's backswing, you want to check setup or the extension or the arms

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straightening.

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If you have a tendency to want to bend your arms, then you will tend to shift

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off the

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ball to balance that in transition. When we use the impact line for these wedge

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shots,

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you want to make sure that you basically get up against that impact line very

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quickly.

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So oftentimes, that'll be done more in the backswing and then it'll already be

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there

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in transition. And then during the release, you could see either in transition

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or during

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the release, you could see a little bit of going forward like this, or you

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could see

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too much moving, sorry, going backward or forward. You could see too much

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lateral movement

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one way or the other, either in transition going backward or through the

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release going

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backward rather than blending that extension and turn, which will keep

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everything more

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lined up over that front foot. From the constant radius perspective, you want

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to look at the

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arms specifically, the right arm in the backswing, that will have more of a

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tendency to kind

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of pull behind or potentially from the down the line, we can look at if it's

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rotating

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too much and getting steep. But the tendency would be from the face on camera

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to see this

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arm kind of pull more behind, rather than up at the top being able to see that

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elbow.

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So that's a good indicator as far as what's going on with the shoulder and the

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arms.

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And then smooth force we can look at in transition, is there a big dominant arm

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pull, is there

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a big lower body slide or do we see kind of everything moving together in what

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looks

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like kind of almost a constant speed of movement of the body from the nine o'

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clock or kind

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of P5 position, all the way through into the finish. So I like to see it

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looking very

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synced up and relatively even length of backswing, meaning I don't want to see

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a backswing

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that's here and then a finish that's kind of a full wrap around that usually

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means I'm

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applying too much force. Potentially the short one is okay, especially if you

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're hitting

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into the wind. But the one I really don't like is when this gets in a good

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position and

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then the follow through is really long. That usually means you're hitting it

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with too

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much effort and you're hitting it with too much arms. From the down the line we

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can always

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look at our swing plane. So whether it's getting inside or outside, those can

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relate

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to either the balance of the arm movements compared to the body pivot and how

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well the

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body pivot is pivoting on close to the swing plane rather than having big loss

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of postures

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or sways. We can also see the face rotation. So from the down the line we can

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see is the

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face kind of really spinning open or staying shut or if we have that arm

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rotation is it

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just having a nice gentle closing to it. We can also look at from the down the

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line the

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loss of posture. So that's usually an extra shallowing or it can be a power

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source for

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the chop pattern in the downswing. So if I get too up and then I'm coming down

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what

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will happen is it's too hard to then come out of it. So I want to be more

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pretty centered

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there and then feeling like potentially there's a little bit of extension here

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but not an

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early extension. I don't want to have like the pelvis moving into the golf ball

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creating

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a big loss of posture but the upper body moving back as it's going into a

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little bit

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of extension is fine. And then of course looking at where the finish position

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gets to so from

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the down the line is the finish kind of coasting into that position or is it

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really kind of

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violently coming through that has to do with the smooth force. So let's look

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through talk

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about the troubleshooting we can look through some of the more common issues

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that we're

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going to see on video. So as we're troubleshooting this is going to be a little

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bit of a repeat

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of those basically the when you're analyzing the swing you're looking for the

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good stuff

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or you're looking for where you're off. Typically from the face on view we're

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either going to

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be off in our centered pivot with the amount of sway slide or tilt we're going

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to be off

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with our constant radius with either the amount of arm bend shoulder connection

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or too much

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wrist flip especially the shoulder the shoulder connection could be either back

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swing or downswing

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the wrist flip is typically a release style movement the arm bend is typically

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more of

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a backswing thing as well. Smooth force we already talked about kind of looking

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in that finish

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position we've got some drills over on the right to help with tempo and kind of

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coasting

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into that position and then matching the length of backswing compared to the

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length of follow

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through. If backswing gets too short then it's probably more of an arm driven

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action

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if follow through gets too long then it's typically more of an arm driven

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action in this

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particular case. With the down the line we can look at swing plane face

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rotation loss

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of posture as well as the smooth force typically swing plane if you get too

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much inside then

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we can watch to see if that causes an over the top move or if that causes a big

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shallowing

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move. If you get too much over during the backswing or do you come back over or

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does

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that cause a big shallowing movement. Either way we want to reference the swing

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plane to

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the impact line to see how those are influencing each other. As with the face

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rotation good

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place to check is either halfway back top of the backswing halfway down or into

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the finish

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position. You don't want to see a lot of spinning club face that's kind of an

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over action

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or a dominant arm release pattern so you want to check the face rotation in the

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follow through

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in the finish. Then loss of posture on the way through there will be a little

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bit more

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of a rising up from the extension of the thoracic spine. You don't want to see

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a lot of rising

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up from changing your body tilt or changing your hip angle but more of the

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extension of

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the spine. Working through these you'll be able to uncover your big bucket of

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misses

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as they affect either your ability to make solid contact, your ability to

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control trajectory

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or your ability to control distance. This will be your piece of reference to go

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back to whenever

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you're having trouble with one of those skills. In the next section we'll talk

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about how to

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build a good distance wedge practice program.