The motion may look a bit flippy but the rhythm seems to be consistent with hands plane and a very short back stroke. In his last stroke he does a planeshift UP to a low version of the elbow plane and really turns his shoulders through the shot to a full finish. Nice!
See the way he brushes the ground in two directions.......pure Mehlhourn /MacDonald/Blake motion training there. I wonder if Fred ever had a lesson with Wild Bill, or MacDonald? Or maybe Yoda when he was only about 300 years old. Hmmm......I thinking there was a grass whip in Fred's past.
I always wondered if the Mehlhourn drill woulda fixed Charles Barkley's problem. They even had all the balls set up for it too ....but got him to pause between swings, too bad. We'll never know. Might not have been fixable. He woulda lost some serious weight in the process, no need to go for cardio workouts afterwards. I quit the gym and am doing this myself this winter.
Here's Fred Astaire's swing broken down, not bad given that he'd been dancing around for a while before he did this. Some nice components there. Kind of gets his head in front of his hips like Walter Hagen, but it flows along just like you'd expect from him. So proper motion can create the positions we so fondly observe?????? Better than just copping the positions? How do you learn the proper Motion?
I wonder if Yoda would care to analyze this? Or anyone else? We can skip the pre shot routine it being rather lengthy.
I see a little kick in of the right knee with a hovered club head..... Adjusted , mid body hands, nice cleared right hip, Lagging Takeaway .......I dunno.
There is a lot of things I like about this video, but what got me was not only the similarity to MacDonald drills, but also how well balanced he is; particularly on the swing sequence that OB captured (Thanks OB). I love how he gets to his left side even with a relatively wide stance, and dare I say it, a stationary head.
I was tempted to post this in the drills section. If anyone can master those steps...
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