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I don’t think it was a definitive thought to keep the club up…I just believe my wide late set loaded all that stuff in so I had no option but to have my hands slot down without pulling the club down whatsoever and the head stayed up. You can see it well in this sequence. To get there I had really just used gravity so i had energy to burn to keep ripping it through impact and beyond.
In fact I had to keep ripping it through because I was setting such a big angle coming down. My only bad shots when I swung this way was when I tried to slow down and steer (something I think The Shark did when he was hitting shanks into grandstands on the 72nd hole of Majors)…I resolved that by not swinging the same length back and then not firing but by swinging back with shorter hands and still allowing myself the chance to fire and accelerate but from a different swing length and depth.
If you look at pic 3 on the top row look how high the hands are and the club is still pointing vertical…from there all I did was load the wrists to set the club and start working down my legs to load into the ground and the club just whooshed down into the slot …see lower left pic where my hands are and where the clubhead is
When I see stuff like this it reinforces why I think what you people have here is the most awesome way to develop a golf swing that I’ve seen anywhere. The fact that the visual appearance of an ABS swing can at first look seem so different from each other yet on closer inspection all the intentions are there. It results in swings that are full of personality and style. With ABS you can truly dig you swing out of the dirt in all it’s organic form with no resemblance to a highly calibrated robotic machine.
I was at the range the other day and this dude was just ripping balls with more heat than I had seen in a while. He reminded me so much of Arnold Palmer in the way that he didn’t hold anything back. Just pure athletics. I noticed his bag held old hogan blades and persimmon. I asked if he was an ABS student and he replied yep. I mean of course he was because nobody swings a club like that anymore.
TM your swing back them was an absolute masterpiece!
Cheers, man, that 3rd frame is fairly savage for sure. The pic I posted a while ago gets close to that contrast, I reckon. From a neutral perspective, I wonder why setting the wrists/angle early seems so advisable to some when this kind of action is so effective… I haven’t seen your swing in a long time, so I don’t know where you’re at…
B
In April my laptop broke down…wouldn’t even turn on. Yesterday I was fooling around with it trying to give it mouth to mouth and somehow it asked me to log in and I managed to save all the files on it to a hard drive that I thought I had lost forever.
Here are a few gif’s I had stored of myself that I thought I would share…as they are different views and different clubs…and may be helpful for the students to spot a few of the modules at work in full motion.
Those are some great GIF’s TM. Thanks for posting.
I love the dynamic action of your right foot in the first few slides. It really looks like your using the ground to the max to power through and beyond the ball. What makes it slide forward like that? it looks very Norman-esque (greg, not moe). Are you still making that movement in your current swing?
Thanks, Two, for all of that. I especially see lots of module 2, something I’ve been reworking hard at lately.
Please do us all a favor and put all your stuff on some kind of external disc drive, something that is independent of any future computer breaking down, skynet, , the cloud, something like that. The stuff you have, through the ages, is way too valuable to be lost. Happy New Year, mate!
Paul
I do have everything on a hard drive…just happened that the old computer blew up before I got to transfer a heap of that stuff!!!
I normally back up stuff every few days now …just in case
Brad, is your wide late set in those pictures still ok with your current swing thinking? I ask b/c when I’ve played some of my best golf I set my wrists in a similar manner. When I do it it feels like a swinger who is float loading. It seems like this move is actually easier for me to time than an early hinge, etc. Just wondering what your opinion is currently on this technique. Thanks!
Was getting that great foot action you have Two. I remember you and Bom discussing G. Norman a little and his foot action. His foot action is amazing…amazingly good.
I tend to think the right foot holding pressures through the zone really is the anchor to the whole process. You really have to go down and stay in the shot, and foot, for what feels like longer than one should, but some of my best striking of late has been when I sense a direct harmony between…after the horizontal pressures in the R foot from holding and a little drag…getting up on the right toe and the club rising through P5- almost like a 1:1 relationship between the rise of the club and the rise onto the toe. Feels more like B. Nelson caddy dip to me though…but pretty interesting how that works.
Range Rat did you mean to say right heel instead of toe? I like the feeling of staying down in that right heel…really feeling a stretch along the entire inside of the right leg as my left shoulder powers everything away from that right leg, and then the arms release and it pulls my right heel up and the right leg is dragged toward my left.
Yeah, we be on the same page. The pressure on the inside of the right leg while things are holding is what I feel the most.
But the right toe thingy…eventually we get up on it…that’s what I was getting at…feeling that once the right foot drags over left a little the rising club and getting up on the toe are working in some kind of unison. If I get some time later I will grab Two’s foot pressure video from YT which shows he and Norman getting up on the toe at the finish.
Seven words, seven simple words yet quite instructive relative to dynamics.
The fascinating piece to me is Two’s comments about early hand velocity causing a need for additional hand speed post impact just to keep things going- but then erroneously the body is now following the club.
However now when I hone into the sequence properly, it almost feels like the hands might be going slower vertically en route to PV5 than what one might expect, and I am sure they are not, but perhaps the pivot and arm pressures are so strong at that point with the pivot finishing things off it may sort of mask what speed the hands actually do have because the club is now following the body.
That’s where the free ride and then forearm rotation come in because without it, my years of early velocity will sneak in. It is also the only way in my mind’s eye ‘intention wise’ to get to a place where I don’t sense that additional hand speed creepin’ in after impact because of an earlier stall.
Just some feels and observations from a previous velocity junkie….now a body junkie with dislocated shoulder sockets post impact.
It’s a hard thing for many to understand the importance of post impact pivot acceleration. The old “once the ball leaves the club what does it matter?” is very poor understanding of the golf swing.
If one were to take two swings without a ball on the ground… the first swing peaks at say 105 mph at lowpoint and the second swing arrives at lowpoint at 105 but continues to accelerate post lowpoint say up to 108 two feet past lowpoint, these two swings would have a very different effect upon the golf ball (if a ball were then placed in the way of the clubhead path)
This is very real stuff, and holding onto the idea that the swing is over at impact is one of the biggest swing cancers one can conjure up in one’s head.
One of my students from Sweden after the first 6 modules… looks great…lots of good things to admire in this swing and the ball looks like it enjoys it also !!
Do you incorporate in your swing what Greg Norman and Sam Snead advocate which is the weight on your heels? It seems like everybody tells you to keep your weight on the balls of your feet. Can you explain what happens in a golf swing when you keep your weight on your heels or vice versa. I’m thinking that weight on your heels is better for a hitter and the balls for a swinger.
I have always played my best when I felt pressure in my heels.
The body is an amazing thing…It knows how to move and balance itself in every thing we do throughout the day.
People get into trouble when outside objects are thrown in- such as a golf club… the body ends up trying to balance itself against an object that is trying to throw it off balance because of it’s movement up-back-down & around…
So if we get our body in better balance orientations we have a greater chance of working in balance throughout …to me heel pressure is ideal as what it will do is make the upper body want to counter balance and stay out and over the ball
When we get too much on the toes during motion the upper body will want to stand up and counter balance itself against the want to fall forward (because of toes weight/pressure)
, the cloud, something like that. The stuff you have, through the ages, is way too valuable to be lost. Happy New Year, mate!
