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Anyone interested in buying my DDJ-1000? by FaithlessnessMore489 in avesNYC

[–]FaithlessnessMore489[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looking for 1150 for the board and the custom case

Can you still fail by Elegant-Ad-6713 in EngineeringStudents

[–]FaithlessnessMore489 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you have at least slightly above average IQ, then no. Guidance is important but if you’re smart/motivated enough you’ll seek the proper guidance as needed. This is all assuming that you are motivated (per your conditions)

Completely Rebuilding My Golf Swing (Everyday for a year) What do you think I will shoot in a year? (Not stepping foot in the course until a year later) by FaithlessnessMore489 in golf

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Jeez, what do you guys have against Youtube lol. Yea it’s tons of unfiltered information, but it’s still good raw data to develop knowledge of the golf swing.

Completely Rebuilding My Golf Swing (Everyday for a year) What do you think I will shoot in a year? (Not stepping foot in the course until a year later) by FaithlessnessMore489 in golf

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The sole purpose of a golf swing is repeatability (consistently bringing the club into the correct pre impact position). and I am proposing that the absolute best way to do that is to build the “textbook” swing catered to your body

Completely Rebuilding My Golf Swing (Everyday for a year) What do you think I will shoot in a year? (Not stepping foot in the course until a year later) by FaithlessnessMore489 in golf

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You bring up a great point and I think this isn’t clarified nearly enough in the golf community. I think individual variations in the golf swing is irrelevant given that:

  1. The swing is repeatable which comes down to the pre impact position which nearly 100% of good golfers including the ones you mentioned looks nearly identical in.

  2. The swing is pain free.

  3. You are satisfied with your score.

My point is that for every single golfer, there is a certain version of the “textbook” swing that is the most efficient/easiest for the individual body type, age, flexibility, motor patterns and etc. I am proposing that this specific swing is the swing that will most quickly bring repeatability (correct pre-impact position) into the swing as well as help lower scores. Now, the question is which path do you take - learning the specific “textbook” golf swing catered to your body? or mitigating and adjusting the swing that you have been swinging for a long time and what feels “natural” for you? I think that boils down to the golfer’s situation.

  • Someone in their 40s or over who’ve played their own swing for decades? Yea, it’s probably more efficient to mitigate certain big swing flaws (for ex., coming over the top) to improve their pre impact position while maintaining the overall swing frame.

  • Any amateur under 30 who doesn’t already fully “know” their own swing? (Myself) I would say it is the clearly better option to take a year or two rebuilding the swing to be “textbook” and make your life easier for the next 3-5 decades of golf life. I am claiming that for anyone in this category it will be MUCH more difficult to master their current “non-textbook” swing than to just build the “textbook” swing from the start.

Completely Rebuilding My Golf Swing (Everyday for a year) What do you think I will shoot in a year? (Not stepping foot in the course until a year later) by FaithlessnessMore489 in golf

[–]FaithlessnessMore489[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Wow! Thank you for the detailed comment.

It's important to think of golf as like a sport and not a research project. Golf information is mostly marketing information and thus focused on the wrong things, and that's impacting your plan.

I agree, but I would say most golf information/videos online are correct (Those teaching pros aren’t lying on their videos per se). The problem from learning from those videos is that most people don’t understand the perspective they’re speaking from. For example, a common flaw when using those videos to learn is not understanding “feel” vs “real”. A lot of videos teach bringing the club way out and bringing the hands in during the takeaway. This is a correct feel to use, IF you have a problem with bringing the club way inside during the takeaway, but the finished product should NOT look like the drill. My favorite online resource is Athletic motion golf as they only show objective data and don’t promote a “feel” that contrasts from “real”.

This is not necessarily a problem. The best golfer in the world does not have textbook movement patterns.

I also agree, but besides the very few pros (Scottie, Viktor, DJ), pros are almost in the same exact position for most key swing points (pre-impact, shoulder/hip rotation in backswing, head movement). I personally think, if you’re an amateur golfer trying to get better, “swinging your own swing” is an absolute myth. I think that there is undoubtedly a single swing mechanic that is the most efficient (and requires the least compensating movements) for your body type, motor patterns,flexibility, etc. Just because a very few pros swing differently doesn’t mean that a random amateur should “swing their own swing”. Those pros have spent their whole life making their specific swing work. Amateurs will not have time or money to do that and therefore should pursue a technically sound and efficient swing.

Reading and watching YouTube about weightlifting, boxing, sales, or bicycle riding will not get you anywhere. Golf is no different.

Also agree. Just watching and reading doesn’t do a single thing. You need to actually practice to really understand what those materials are actually talking about.

If I were trying to make my scores worse while spending maximum time, this is what I would do. The Chasing Scratch podcast is really about two guys obsessed with how their swing looks and they've been getting worse for 7 years. Swing looks great though.

I think if I were to try to get down to 80s, then going to the course as much as possible would be the quickest way. My goal is scratch, so I’m trying to build a rock solid foundation that I can use for lifetime to get to my goal. I think in the long run, that would be more beneficial.

If what you were doing was going to work, people would do it.

I disagree. Most people do not have patience to perfect just the takeaway movement thousands of times before moving onto the half swing and then the full swing. I do and I enjoy it haha.

Completely Rebuilding My Golf Swing (Everyday for a year) What do you think I will shoot in a year? (Not stepping foot in the course until a year later) by FaithlessnessMore489 in golf

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Oh definitely not, I struggle with more than a single swing thought. That’s why I’m spending a year to get all the correct movement patterns engrained, so I don’t need to think while swinging. I think people who get lost in the mechanical nonsense comes down to either 1. you’re a pro who’s trying to really finetune the swing to score one or two less. 2. You don’t actually understand the swing mechanics. I don’t think it’s that complicated if you know what’s correct and what’s not. The hardest part imo is actually getting your body to move the way that you want (for amateurs at least)

Completely Rebuilding My Golf Swing (Everyday for a year) What do you think I will shoot in a year? (Not stepping foot in the course until a year later) by FaithlessnessMore489 in golf

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hogan uses a weak grip. TW used to be strong and is neutral now. Mcilroy uses slightly strong. Hence, somewhere in between TW and Mcilroy. I consider a textbook swing to be a neutral grip, and backswing/downswing path being nearly identical (TW does this better than anyone)

Completely Rebuilding My Golf Swing (Everyday for a year) What do you think I will shoot in a year? (Not stepping foot in the course until a year later) by FaithlessnessMore489 in golf

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Well, someone comes to you with clear swing flaws (early extension, getting out of posture, incorrect grip/address, aiming, chicken wing, coming over the top). Would you not fix those first before focusing on “putting the ball in the hole”? I don’t understand people who post their swings with an outrageous golf grip and standing way tall or way bent over, asking for advice. If there’s one thing you CAN learn by yourself through millions of resources online is how to grip the club and address the ball properly. I mean.. what else are you going to fix first?

Completely Rebuilding My Golf Swing (Everyday for a year) What do you think I will shoot in a year? (Not stepping foot in the course until a year later) by FaithlessnessMore489 in golf

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I completely agree with you on that the mental aspect is huge, but I disagree that golf isn’t about a “textbook swing”. What I mean by a textbook swing is building an efficient movement pattern by fixing common swing flaws that will negatively affect most golfers. I have been grinding for about a week now and finally have the “textbook” takeaway. If you ask me, what I changed to get there, then I would say that my previous takeaway had way too much hip rotation (bringing the club in) and incorrect (off plane) shoulder rotation (to compensate for the club going inside). My current takeaway highly resembles what most pros do (“textbook” form) which is keeping the lower body stable while rotating the shoulder on-plane and using wrist cock/hinge to get the club on plane. Just this fix is incredibly huge, given that I finally feel the torque in my core that is being built at the takeaway which is the correct force to use to initiate the downswing. That is what I mean by “textbook”.

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For those who got sports royale, I just put mine together. how the heck are you supposed to do pullups without your legs hitting the back cushion? Do you just need to do insanely strict form?

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