In my mind, I was closer to Tiger Wood than Charles Barkley when it comes to swing. Sine I bout Canon slow motion camera, I had to admit that I am more of Charles B than Wood. One day out of nowhere, I thought about monitoring myself while in action by using laser pointer. I bought cheap laser pointer on ebay and drilled into chopped off butt end of Wilson lob wedge. I rehearsed back swing in slow motion ( ti-chi style?) while checking laser beam.
1) At address laser points left of my belly button.
2) Laser remains same position until both hands barely passes right thigh. ( one piece take away)
3) Laser point to target when club is parallel to ground
4) Laser glides on the between target to ball as body turns back.
5) Laser points parallel to target line at the top of back swing.
I rehearsed through out the day for 5 minutes or less each time. I did not do anything on down swing. Once I reached top of back swing, I started down swing as hard as I can. At the moment, I believed that If my back swing is right, correct down swing should occur naturally!
With this laser pointer ti-chi back swing, I broke 250 yard mark on more than few occasions. I was told previous 200 yard average was ordinary distance for my age and statue and shouldn't be obsessed with distance too much.
In retrospect, I kind start doing left lateral bend without knowing and was key to breaking 250 marks. I started to gain some respect on distance on the tee boxes. I was slowly moving away from low flat back swing to higher back swing. It took me more than diligent 3 months to erase my long standing flat back swing. My conscious mind knows where to place my hands on back swing and how it feels like as long as if I swung slow.
I own most of " As Seen on TV" teaching aids. Laser pointer was only teaching aid that really changed my swing and gave me the new hope in my game.
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