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Pre-Impact.
Just before the ball. Stock full-swing mid-iron.
What's going on.
This is just before the ball. Face-on shows whether the hands still lead the clubhead. Down-the-line is the last clean look at whether the address space is still there.
What this still is.
This is just before the ball. Look for this, then move on.
Look first.
Face-on
Your hands are still ahead of the clubhead.
Check these.
- Hands relative to body
- Hands are still ahead of the clubhead.
- Wrist picture
- The clubhead is still behind the hands. The angle has not been spent.
- Shaft to wrists / lead arm
- The shaft still leans toward the flag.
- Hip rotation / belt / depth
- The belt is open. The lead hip is clearing.
- Shoulder rotation
- Shoulders are opening, still less than the belt.
- Hip-to-shoulder difference
- The belt is often still ahead of the shoulders.
- Foot pressure
- The front foot owns the strike that is coming. The trail foot is the push-off, not the owner.
Already vertical is no-shaft-lean starting. A flip is scoop.
How open is a style. Still on the back foot at the hit is hanging back. Space toward the ball is the other camera.
A smaller gap is still this still.
Down-the-line
The space you had at address is still there. You have not stood closer to the ball.
Check these.
- Hands relative to body
- Hands sit on the original line, in front of the trail thigh. Not behind, and not thrown out.
- Wrist picture
- You see the shaft and the toe.
- Shaft to wrists / lead arm
- The shaft is on plane, or a little under, pointing at the ball-to-target line.
- Hip rotation / belt / depth
- Compare space to address. This is where early extension shows: hips closer to the ball.
- Shoulder rotation
- The tilt from the hips is still there.
- Hip-to-shoulder difference
- Some difference remains. The body has not all caught up.
- Foot pressure
- Balance is a later still.
You cannot judge the face from this camera.
A steep wipe, or dumped behind you, is the miss.
Already much taller is loss of posture. Space toward the ball is the hip row.
You cannot see which foot owns the ground from this camera.
When both cameras agree, the hands still lead the clubhead and the address space is still there.
How you see it here.
- Face-on, if the clubhead has already caught the hands, the angle is gone. Early loss of lag→
- A shaft that is already vertical here is no shaft lean starting. No shaft lean→
- A flip that spends the club before the ball is scoop. Scoop→
- Down-the-line, belt closer than Address is early extension. Early extension→
- If the trail side still owns Impact, that is hanging back. Hanging back→
Watch these clips.
Official YouTube. Start times are the bit that teaches this slide, not the whole swing.
The face-on picture they name is this slide: hands still ahead of the clubhead. Watch how a throw from the top spends that before the ball.
Watch the trail wrist and the club, not the whole backswing talk. When the angle is gone here, the strike is already spent.