A New Chapter

So I haven't posted in a while. Sorry. I have made the difficult decision to make a rather large change in my swing. I want to start by saying that this is not because S&T does not work. On the contrary I think it is a great way to swing the club, but after 2 years of using it, I feel that it is not taking me in a better direction. I will write another post on why I don't think S&T works for me, but that is later. I will still incorporate many of the principles in my swing but I want to start working with somebody new.

In the study of the swing I feel that my biggest challenge is that my pivot stalls and with that I dump all the accumulators prior to hitting the ball. The power accumulators are what drives the power in the golf swing, without them the ball is not going to go as far as it could. Considering this I have scoured the internet to find a way to improve my pivot. This lead me to Advanced Ball Striking which is run by John Erickson (more on him in later posts). ABS has a very simple approach by which you learn the swing in modules. This in my opinion is the absolute best way for me to learn. Step by step. I can integrate pieces of the swing over time rather than trying to change everything at once.

A big part of the process is hitting an impact bag. I think this pisses of my neighbors, but in the vien of golf improvement one occasionally pisses of a neighbor. I will take photos of my impact bag later. It is quite an experience in itself.

So far I have graduated from module 1 and now I am in the middle of module 2. I am not totally certain of the improvement yet, but I do notice that I am hitting the ball a bit better. Here is a video of my latest swing.



I still have about a month or so left of module 2, it takes about one month to go through each module.

More to come.