i feel as if i am too flat going back at times and my misses tend to be a bit flat. here are some swings i took trying to take the club a bit more straight back. any advice?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=uiYgEIQbbjU

Hey Greg

Swing looks pretty good to me... obviously I'm not the expert here. Hopefully Brett will have a chance to take a look.

However... about the only thing I see is that it seems you're not transfering your weight to your front foot at the start of the down swing but during the down swing. This might be delofting the club and hitting the ball down lower.

Interested to see what anyone else thinks. Overall the swing looks pretty good. See ya in Vegas for another round or two soon. I've been working really hard the last week trying to incorporate some of Bretts techniques.

Flat left - Bent right!!!!!

See ya soon.

Jeff

THANKS JEFF. actually my ballflight is high. hope brett chimes in. i do know i stop my swing which results in that flipping action.
i'm hoping to get out there first part of october. we'll def. get a round or two in.

Hey.. Landshark!

Watched your vid....you got some good things happenin!

Here's the deal-

Even though I can't see the Face-On angle, I can tell that your left elbow orbit is disengaged. Sans golf club, use your right hand to pull the left elbow inwards. Now don't wrench yourself, but you need to "feel" like the left elbow actually almost points to your belt buckle. YOUR LEFT ELBOW MUST POINT DOWN. You will definitely notice that as you reign in the left elbow- you will be prompted to connect the upper left arm to the torso cylinder.... DO IT MON! Hear the sounds of the church bells?... it's the gospel of Mr. Ballard.

You have some good orientations working,... work with this first and you might need to change <Landshark> to <Sharky's Machine>

The connection will get your left arm working with the left hip socket on your release and create more supination and lower your trajectory! Be patient with it. I recommend working chips and pitches exclusively for at least a couple weeks. What's going to happen is that your equilibrium will drastically shift across the board- swing center, hand orbits, loading and unloading profiles, etc.

If everything goes to hell in a handbag, shorten the club down to the bottom of the grip so that in can re-engage faster (get in front of you)... and then SLOWLY inch-worm your way back up to normal if the result warrant it.

Keep me posted!

brett

thanks b. i do feel my left elbow does tend to fly away. i'll work with the tips. i also know i need to finish my swing more. i tend to stop at the ball somewhat and not feel a real follow through.

as you integrate the connection, it should stimulate the big torso and lower-body muscles to really activate and play a much stronger role in your release. keep in mind that you don't want to lose the left arm connection AT ALL during the release down the line- the upper left arm needs to stay welded to the torso.

look forward to hearing-

bSmith

working on keeping that tightness. also, i'm keeping the club a bit more mid body at address rather than a slight forward press. seems it helps me from taking the club too inside on the takeaway. shot pattern is good, but misses are a bit of a pull. stillshot even today on a shortened course. will keep working with it.

hey that's a great sign actually- the pulls. that tells me you are really working the connection! Jeff here is what's happening- the right side is releasing out of sync from too far behind. I'm going to have you work something here that will tighten it up: (sneak preview to this week's clip)

Want you to bring both feet together at address (don't sweat the ball right now- not important). Make your normal backswing and then slightly before finishing the backswing- I want you to step forward with your left leg. As you do this now, let yourself flow into that left instep with smooth poise-- ie the the homerun hitter eyeing the first leg to the pitch coming his way.... feelin' me? Once you flow into the left AND THEN slam the door with the right into the firmed-up left and then around you will be golden!

If you guys hit Margaritaville in Vegas, don't forget your boy!... fire one down for me. If you don't break 80 fire 2 down and blame it on the damn putter!

Brett