Last Thursday, I saw a student practice in the range of textbooks. Beautiful placement, smooth getting, the perfect position on top-everything seemed perfect through the first three-quarters of its swing.
Then came the predictable decay: Twenty consecutive shots where he would rise through influence and cut the ball throughout the verse.
After another thin blow he was overlooked towards the 150-yard marker, he looked at me with genuine confusion. “I feel like doing everything right,” he said.
This is the curse of early extension – one of the most common flaws of the oscillation I see, and one of the most devastating compression for the ball. After twenty years of teaching, I have learned that the players who rise in their motion are not making a conscious choice to destroy their shooting. They are responding to the configuration and shake issues that owe this compensation.
Here’s what crazy me: Most players think that standing is a problem of landing. It is not. The true culprit usually begins at the address or in the background, creating a chain reaction that makes early extension inevitable.
Why are you standing (and it’s not what you think)
Early extension – the technical term for standing through influence – occurs when your hips are inserted toward the ball and your spine angle changes dramatically. This swinging characteristic makes the wings and club stuck behind your body while landing, forcing your toast to compensate by standing up.
The most common cause? Poor behavior in configuration. I see the players hanging over the ball, creating a lot of flexion on my back. When they start landing, there is nowhere to go their wings except up and out. Standing standing becomes the only way to make contact.
Another great culprit: The frightening “over top” movement. The route of shaking over-the-top creates a wicked cycle-when players begin lowering them with their upper body instead of their lower body, the club approaches the ball out of the target line. You will discard your priority (this is also called early stretch) in an effort to maintain your balance and avoid the ball fragment.
The configuration solution that changes everything
Proper attitude eliminates the earliest extension before you start your swing too. Here’s what works:
Stay long first, then hang forward on your hips – not your waist. Your back should store its natural curves, not rounded into a C shape. Think to climb your chest and your butt back, as if you were ready to sit in a chair that is a little far away.
Your arms should naturally depend on your shoulders. If you are reaching the ball or pulling your arms tightly into your body, you are creating issues of space that force early extension later.
A drill that transforms my students: Practice your configuration against a wall. Your back should touch the wall to the address and stay tied all over your back. If you lose contact, you are changing your spine angle in ways that will force compensation movements later.
The mental change that creates compression
The biggest progress occurs when players realize that the ball compression comes from two main factors working together: Lean Boos forward and a descending strike. The attic of your club gets the ball in the air – your job is to create the conditions for rigid compression.
Lean of the axis forward is the secret. When your hands stand in front of the club through influence, you effectively reduce the attic on your club’s face. A 7-Herkuri becomes more like a 6-And for the second split, creating the busy contact you are behind.
Think about hitting the ball first, then the ground – but with your hands leading the road. This mental image keeps you in proper behavior by ensuring that your hands stand in front of the club in Impact.
Keyelare is not hitting more. It is by keeping it the wickedness of the shaft in front as it makes a controlled strike. When combining the right hand position with the first contact of the ball, the compression occurs naturally.
Mental change that stops attitude
The biggest progress occurs when players stop trying to raise the ball and start trying to hit down and through it. The attic of your club gets the ball in the air – your job is to make a strong, descending contact.
Think first to hit the ball, then on the ground. This mental image should help you keep in your behavior through influence instead of standing to help the ball fly.
I tell students to imagine they are trying to run the ball to the ground. Sounds counterintors, but this process of thought creates the right angle of attack on compressed contact.
The practice that makes it permanent
Here is a drill that eliminates early extension: Put a chair or bench about six inches behind your butt to the address. Make practical oscillation while maintaining contact with the chair throughout your back and landing. If you get up or insert the priority, you will lose contact with the chair immediately.
This gives you immediate feedback about your spine angle throughout the shake. Most players are shocked when they find out how much they are getting up – and the better their contact is when they keep their behavior.
Stop fighting and start fixing real problems. Proper placement and weight change eliminate early extension, giving you the compressed contact you have followed.
Your ball hit will improve when working with physics rather than against it.
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