And He Seemed Like Such A Nice Young Man...!

[Martee]

That a good question, Does he consider himself a swinger or hitter?

My take he was swinging more than hitting. But I am usually terrible at guessing from just one clip.

[RickPinewild]

How are you viewing this frame by frame???

[Martee]

How are you viewing this frame by frame???

I downloaded the clip and then viewed with windows movie maker There you can advance frame by frame as well as take a snapshot of each frame.

[mgjordan]

I am swinging here. I hit all of my chips and most of my pitches, but I just can't make myself hit correctly on full shots. I've been swinging for so long that I have too many swinging components.

[Yoda]

Great swing!

Curious what you added to it.

Obviously, Matt brought a lot to the table -- in terms of both talent and technique -- when he attended our Workshop. And there, he was a sponge for the information presented. Why don't we pose your question to Matt himself? And also, what he's been working in the seven months since.

Matt?

[mgjordan]

The main thing I learned during the workshop, and the most important for me personally, was the right forarm pickup and planeline tracing. My backswing was fairly low and flat and I brought the club to the inside. Lynn got me set up with the club on the same plane as my right forarm and taught me how to pick it up the turned shoulder plane. I also tucked the right elbow in and down like Hogan. Lynn taught me that it was okay to let it "fly" a little bit more. This is something that I worked on with Brian Manzella too. It allowed me to free myself up and and get in a position to have more down in my swing and produce more power. I also benefited from the stretch band around my knees. I have always had very active hips and, while still over-active, the drills to quiet my lower body helped me get more consistant contact. The thing I really got, more than improvement in my own swing, was the understanding of the concepts and ideas in TGM. I can now understand and explain many things that I had no clue about when I attended the class.

Since attending the workshop, I haven't played or hit balls too much, but I have worked on my swing every day doing indoor drills and mirror work. It is great, for me anyway, to work on my swing slowly. It is hard to change mechanics and feels at full speed hitting shots. I love working in a mirror and being able to visualize what I am doing. I have an obsession with having a visually attractive swing and I HATE doing anything where I cannot see myself performing it. It drives me nuts not to know what I look like making a change. I have been working on keeping a still head. I have always had a lateral slide/lunge move in my upper body on the start of the downswing. Now, it is pretty much gone. It could still be better, but I am happy with the progress. I have been working on driving the right shoulder more downplane with a little bit more axis tilt. I have been working hard slamming my dowels against a suitcase packed with towels. Getting my hands further ahead of the ball and over my left foot is my focus for this year. The last thing I have continued to work on is my plane. Since the workshop, I overdid it a little and developed overly steep plane. I have worked to flatten it back out a little bit to get on the turned shoulder plane. I worked so hard on getting more "up" that I stopped having enough "around". You have to have a balance.

[Theodan]

I would like to pass a kudo onto mqjordan. I believe that he has been doing plane work, because he has recently made some very insightful posts/threads on the very subject at GEA. Puting it in the context of TGM, he faced some real rock throwing and cat calls. Through his persistence, he still the got the knowledge through to those of us with a genuine interest.

[FanofHogan]

I would like to pass a kudo onto mqjordan. I believe that he has been doing plane work, because he has recently made some very insightful posts/threads on the very subject at GEA. Puting it in the context of TGM, he faced some real rock throwing and cat calls. Through his persistence, he still the got the knowledge through to those of us with a genuine interest.

I agree on the GEA posts. He has contributed quite a bit over there and a lot of the naysayers have started to come around. Funny how visuals have a way of quieting the detractors.

[DOCW3]

What should someone with significantly less flexibility and talent observe in this swing for the purpose of applying it to theirs? And, how many of us could ever hope to have his hip action or maybe want to? Is he the best advertisement for keeping Vioxx on the market OTOH, I am forwarding this clip to a relative as evidence of why he should bring his golf infatuated daughter to GA.

DRW

[Yoda]

I am forwarding this clip to a relative as evidence of why he should bring his golf infatuated daughter to GA.

Thanks for the boost, DRW. I love helping anyone who wants to build a better Golf Stroke. However, in the interest of full disclosure, I must say that assisting Matt Jordan in his determined quest of Golfing Perfection ranks with teaching a fish how to swim.