[12 piece bucket]

Yo, Captain emeritus threadjacka! Check out post #9 - down the line - enclosed! Some nice stuff? You said you short circuited your keyboard with drewl! The kid has a sweet swing - and improvement doesn't come easy- but I wish I had that movement to work on improving!

P.S. Watch out for the Canadian - he's dangerous!

Just saw it . . . . .

This would be my analysis . . .

His downswing is slightly over his backswing handpath . . . no biggie . . . he may be over just a lil' bit . . . but to me the fix is . . .

MORE HIP TURN . . . HAND PATH NEEDS TO BE DEEPER . . . THEN HE CAN SWING HIS HANDS OVER THE BACKSTROKE HANDPATH BUT NOT BE "OVER THE TOP". LOOK AT THE TOP OF THE SWING. ALIGNMENTS ARE NICE IN THE POWER PACKAGE AND THE CLUBFACE LINES UP NICE WITH THE LEFT ARM. Turn the hips more feel like the hands never come up because you already know how to swing them up. If you fix the backstroke the down stroke will fix itself. Where your hands are at the top if you turn at all they are going to get pulled out and over. But you only get them over the backstroke handpath slightly which is really good. So if you get them deeper you can make the same move and still stay on the original planeline/angle. You ain't no over the top wiper . . . you just need to fix your backstroke and you're GOLDEN.

Here are two "extreme" examples . . . you're obviously not as "up" as Furyk . . . but this will give you an illustration. Note from where Furyk is at the top if he "spins" or turns and drags his hands out . . . you'd have never heard of him. He has to swing his arms down SUPER FAST (release #4 the fastest) so he doesn't come over.

On the other hand Mr. Hogan is much more "deep" . . he does swing his hands over his backstroke handpath but he is so deep that he doesn't end up "over" he ends up right on plane.

A couple of other things to notice are the differences in the knee bend (allowing the hips to turn). Hogan has MUCH MORE hip turn and the right knee has straightened where Furyk hasn't straightened much at all.

As far as your "startdown" . . . looked pretty nice to me . . . you just need a different place to "startdown" from . . . turn your hips on the b.s. and feel like your arms never get above your belt . . . film it and see what it looks like.