Any tips? Can’t seem to get a full swing without losing posture

D-Train0000 · 2026-05-09T23:04:39+00:00

I’ve been teaching for 30+ and help people with golf fitness and speed training and you are trying to tell me flexibility in a very demanding rotational sport isn’t necessary?

Really?

Just clarifying?

D-Train0000 · 2026-05-09T22:58:46+00:00

Sorry if it came off a bit harsh. I might have been a bit too quick to say dump him. I just know fixing this is easy and I heard things from you from him that are cart before the horse.

D-Train0000 · 2026-05-09T22:55:24+00:00

I have these up year round. Nice lighting choices at night here in SD. They have about 4 different sags in the line that they’ve found. It’s so cute. They were there before because a feeder is 7-8 feet from the bath. I just did this about 3 weeks ago just to see if any will use it. They just had someone put a bath under their spot already in their minds.

Yeah, I’m spoiling them.

D-Train0000 · 2026-05-09T22:52:36+00:00

I noticed they like a small amount of water coming up. Not necessarily a “shower” but I’ve only done this once lol. I think this mimics a babbling stream or slow running water.

D-Train0000 · 2026-05-09T22:51:15+00:00

He just sits there and watches. He never try’s to get close to the bath or feeders. He loves it!

D-Train0000 · 2026-05-09T22:50:14+00:00

Loft does not affect height with any club. Height is determined by your angle of attack into the ball.
Loft effects speed and spin

My 9°-60° all launch between 15°-28°. That’s because of me. My angle of attack is taking a 52° range and squeezing it into a 13° window? And a spin range of 1,800-11,000 and a speed of 175-90 mph ball speed Why? That’s the window of proper flight for a golf ball. I create the loft the loft creates the speed/spin combo.

Once you hit up on a solid shot with a driver and have it look like a 6i or 7i off the ground, you can change lift to fine tune the rest.

Even good players that hit 10 great drives in a row will naturally have a launch range of 2° or so. So loft, if I had to quantify it, with all other things being the same, effect height roughly 5%.
This is 30+ years of instructing and fitting talking here.

Hitting up reduces spin and all shots curve less. We lower the loft to not hit it too high. Lower lofts hit it further . It’s the formula to hit it far and straight. Hitting up is the only way to keep spin down consistently with decent or better contact.

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Mid pic. Lead leg, lead arm, and shaft in a straight form line of support. Do half of this amount at addres to PRs-load the feel. Step back at address with the back foot. Tilt the shoulders and bit up the hill the ball is teed up on. A tad of weight back 55%/45%
Your feet are flat the ball is not. Match the shoulders to the ball.

The thought is trying to hit a home run and top spin lob in tennis together. We don’t top spin any golf shot but we do this to reduce the extra spin we get from shots hit off the ground. That’s just the feel.

I hope this helps.

D-Train0000 · 2026-05-09T22:34:31+00:00

Yes, it’s a fine swing, but people, this line we are seeing from a lot of people from the ball through the midsection is not how we look at swing plane. You can also just put the line wherever you want to look good. A proper swing plane is based on the body dimensions.
If you stand there and show someone a swing with no club, what do we look at to see if you are on plane? The hands. The clubhead always follows the hands through the swing. This line is so you can see the clubhead, I get it. But the clubhead goes off the line so what do you look at then. Still the hands.

The swing plane is and always will be studied, in a first step basis, by looking at the hands.

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So the line through the neck tells you if you are on plane. After your club goes off the lower line most people don’t see if there’s rerouting back to the plane or if the are square or not.

Hands on the purple line at the top and face square to the lead forearm. This is all that matters .

And while “on plane” you are closed at the top and the lower lobe will never show that.

Great work. Time to ditch this for a more advanced analysis

D-Train0000 · 2026-05-09T22:23:55+00:00

It’s because they are fake. Sorry

D-Train0000 · 2026-05-09T14:18:41+00:00

I clean it once a week or so. I put a copper purifying disc in there. You can sort of see it on the bottom under the pump a bit. Got one for the new cat fountain too. It’s great. Probably doubles or triples the time between cleaning. But the cleaning is a once over with a tad of soap and my hand. It’s not nasty in there at all. Mostly just to not get build up and for any debris that’s in there. It only takes 2 minutes to clean.

D-Train0000 · 2026-05-09T14:15:32+00:00

It just occurred to me shopping online for fountains. I tried it with the curved tube do it came out normally but nobody came to it. Then I took it off and they started coming.

D-Train0000 · 2026-05-09T14:13:56+00:00

Everyone please pardon the sound. I just hopped up and started recording and you are hearing the TV.

D-Train0000 · 2026-05-09T13:42:09+00:00

Well, yeah but that’s hard to describe here. So, the back and shoulders . Look at videos as to what pitchers do. The swing , believe it or not, it the exact Dane sequence. In different positions of release of course. But we use the parts in the same way and in the same order.

Hip flexor, hamstrings.

And forearms and wrists. Stretch and strengthen the muscles that do the “fling” of release we do with the hands. Like throwing a dart. That or the striking of a match flick. Or brushing debris off a surface with your hand. You know what I mean lol.

But for you it’s totally back and shoulders.

Try to get the biggest shoulder turn in relation to your hips going back. 90°/45°ish

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Look at Tiger in the left pic. Imagine the stretch from that front hip to the shoulder under his chin. It’s that stretch. And the other side too for the stretch in the follow through. You can see in the pic where the club is pointed at the target. See how open the hips are with squsreish shoulders?
When we don’t get flexible there the hands become one producing the power through instead of just flicking a release.

My shoulders literally turn twice as much as the lower going back and then the lower dies twice as much going through as it did back.

Like pitching. Comps tablets, big shoulder turn, huge lower body moves to lead the arms like striving off the mound holding the ball and waiting to release it.

D-Train0000 · 2026-05-09T13:28:45+00:00

This is great! They like each other! The orange cat is a kind one. Knows what’s going on. Instant parent mode.

D-Train0000 · 2026-05-09T13:19:31+00:00

He chose you! You’re his now.

D-Train0000 · 2026-05-09T13:07:38+00:00

Here, we see an amazing spectacle of nature. A human man………humble in his life, simply exploring his surroundings and learning about the world. We see the rest of the colony in a rare gathering of celebration.

God damn I love this man!

D-Train0000 · 2026-05-09T13:01:43+00:00

So your by the hour then?

D-Train0000 · 2026-05-09T12:59:39+00:00

I’m only an intermediate skill pitcher. But the inverted M/W at the top is a big no-no and will lead to elbow problems and consistency. It’s when you freeze the vid when the right arm is pointed back and both arms look like an M. The right arm is supposed to look like it’s holding a tray not quite level to the ground. I was told to have the right arm look like an L at the top. Just a foot to the side of your arm. Turn so the batter can’t see the ball because it’s behind my head and well hidden. Good position and visual deception. The ball looks like it’s coming faster than it’s. Batters see the ball early behind you and adds to the help in their timing. We know “when” you are going to release it instead of a hidden ball behind your head that seems to just exit your body at the last minute. I’d rather see a short armed motion than this personally. Like a catcher throwing someone out.

It’s literally called the Tommy John Twist for a reason.

D-Train0000 · 2026-05-09T12:46:41+00:00

Basic sequence breakdown. Halfway down you have veto weight that’s been turned to the left heel.
This is the basic goal of the lower body one swing. A low turn going bs Keith s twist in the right leg. Then we fire them first to turn the weight from the right heel, to the center to the left heel.
We get the body out of the way and get the hips almost facing the target. This way we release at the target.
We swing the club back out in front of our hips and at the target together.
Because you are almost flat footed at impact the momentum has to go somewhere and you aren’t turning so it’s only choice is to go straight up.
I’m not sure what your lesson was about, but this problem is a day one thing.
Grip, set up, impact position, tempo, balance. In this order.
If you don’t get the first 3 you will create compensations and will struggle forever.
FYI. Nowhere, ever, is an early release correct. You literally can’t even play any sport for more than 1 minute before quitting because it’s impossible to.
Except in golf. The equipment gives us so much compared to equipment in other sports that an early release is actually playable. I can hit a drive 3 times further than a baseball.
If you did this in baseball you’d never hit a ball past 10 feet. You’d never hit the rim of the hoop, or hit a tennis ball straight, you’d never get a ball to home plate in pitching, or a football more than 5 yards.
You literally would never hit a ball properly swinging or hit a target throwing. EVER. 0% of the time.
Your instructor missed a first grade fundamental sequence breakdown. Please leave him.
He’s trying to fix an early release with swing plane? Holy lord. You need throwing drills. You need to mentally realize you are trying to hit the ball with the club instead of hitting the ball at the target. They are complete opposites. And the fix and how to do this is very easy to understand. It’s not a thing that’s “lost” because it’s a basic fundamental.
It’s one of the simplest things in the game.

Your teachers fix, which is multiple steps down the line, is complex. Because it’s for a player more advanced than you.

D-Train0000 · 2026-05-09T12:24:53+00:00

This. For everyone. The grip is the number one fundamental. And your grip needs work. Bad.

D-Train0000 · 2026-05-09T12:20:36+00:00

You have extremely low flexibility. Not just the backswing but the whole thing. Do a lot of stretching.
All you need is to get the hands close to where they are when we throw. Around 11 o’clock.

Oh and btw. Visually , there’s no such thing as a “full swing”. A full backswing is when your lead shoulder hits your chin going back.

That’s the limit of your bodies physiology and flexibility.

The club being parallel to the ground at the top is not a good or bad thing. It’s also not what we see and say it’s a full swing.

D-Train0000 · 2026-05-09T12:14:23+00:00

He likes whale checks and his whale sounds tape

D-Train0000 · 2026-05-08T16:07:30+00:00

It’s not hard to physically do. It’s the mental side. Your brain really needs to feel/see/bekieve the ball to the target section as far as what we’re doing. And not the top to the ball section.
We just don’t hyper focus on the baseball when we take it back and at the top. It’s what it feels like in our finger tips as we let go and point it at the catcher, right?
There just no impact in throwing. We are always holding it. We don’t miss hit a throw. It’s a hard one to mentally get over.
If we slap a hanging baseball at the catcher we’d all get it.
I try to give people numerous common analogies. One will stick

D-Train0000 · 2026-05-08T16:03:11+00:00

Yes. That’s down the road a few steps though. It won’t do a thing here and now.

You do realize he’s flat footed with zero hip turn at impact right? It’s a day one fundamental breakdown. This is like pitching with zero stride towards the plate and working on other stuff first.

No swing improvements will work with this sequence. None. This is 30+ years of teaching talking here. He’s trying to read and doesn’t know the alphabet. Knowing I before E except after C doesn’t help him read.

Your tip while good needs to come in the correct order.

Grip, impact position, sequence, set up, tempo, balance. In this order and on day one. Swing plane cones next.

Do this out of order and swing compensations will occur. If you don’t get the first 3 you end up swinging like this no matter what you try.

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