This is a word that gets used so much......FEEL....What does it really mean ?
From the top of my head: Something that happens automaticly, without having to think about it. We know how to do it - once learned - without thinking thru what's going to happen. Just do it. Let it happen by itself, with no analytical strings attached..
What then remains is feel, a feeling of what we are doing and/or what we want to happen the way it is supposed to happen because we are use to doing it this way (when everything goes right). From mechanics to feel - like tying your shoe laces.
Hate to say this but Mike O is really really good on this question.....
FEEL isn't a CONSTANT....in other words you begin with a "base" feel to your swing....so say you look at something you'd like to change...if you do it in the camera...you have to move your feel what seems like a MILE to make the change on the camera that gets you an INCH....the more "pressure" in the situation (practice swing vs. ball with net vs. driving range vs. practice round vs. playing vs. playing for cash vs. tournament) the more you will revert back to what was your "base" FEEL...but what you are trying to do is move the "needle" on your base forward to match the MECHANIC you are trying to produce.....but as Homer said...you are trying to produce feel from the mechanic...THE MECHANIC IS THE ABSOLUTE...THE FEEL IS THE VARIABLE...SO THE FEEL YOU HAVE IS A TOOL....of course then you may have to isolate a feel of the "overall swing" vs. the feel of the particular mechanic you are trying to improve....some people are good at "learning to change stuff"....others it's harder...so a more systematic approach is required....then once you've made the change...the needle has moved on your base...you trust the "new" baseline...but then you monitor...and your feel has produced another flaw you need to correct...you start the process again....
agree with the perception thing, but that means to me feedback(feel), for me feel starts where you are going into your zone abit like yoga meditation while being on the golfcourse hitting balls
I know my best rounds I played when knowing exactly what I will be doing each and every shot, that definitely helped me that day out on the course. and I call this being in the zone.
Right now, the last year or so, I was lacking this feeling - and game was simply work, real hard work - and it didn't payback as much as I wanted.
matching or surpassing your expectations of something you do creates a good feel, right?
missing the same expectations implies 2 more options: bad feel in general or ok, can live with it as it is and will try better next time.
I would say that feel is very unique to each and every individual but the triggers for feelings are similar among these individuals.
Right now, since discovering PP3 and the right forearm alignment, I can feel the shaft bending during downswing aqnd this is the point where I don't have to do anything at all, just delivering the clubhead and I know its a sweet shot.
Bloody thing is, I can feel a bad swing coming already at the backswing, question to me now, why can't I stop then and start all over again? Hmm..........
cheers
Frank
Last edited by nighthawk36 : 01-24-2012 at 03:14 PM.
Just a guess, Frank, but I'm thinking you might be trying to incorporate old info with new info and still turning the body first and hoping the hands get to where they need to be. If I learned anything here, it was to put my hands where they needed to get to and the body would go where it needed to be to support the hands. It works and also makes extensor action possible. At least it has been a boon in my book.
you are right with you guess when it comes to the downswing. At the transition I start with the hands and the everything happens itself but I pay no extra attention to getting the hands back to impact position, the only thing I currently "measure" is PP#3.
As I mentioned, if I pay descent attention to my setup with impact fix, and I start from there I start with the hands as well and raise them upto shoulder heigth or so, can state it for sure right now, will ry to tape it over the weekend and then I will have a closer look at it.
Today is my first day without swinging a club, just some putting with the i-ping app and try to correlate the data to the ball length and line.
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