Hitting High on the Clubface?

If you're subscribed to SwingSurgeon on YouTube, you can see the videos there (at least, I saw today's video there yesterday when it was posted). I believe that if it's not too much trouble for the tech people here, having both options is, indeed, optimal.

Hey Dave,

Did you check out this video about hitting banana balls? http://swingsurgeon.com/DailyV...

Also check the motion of your lower body. If there's too much turn, either in the back swing or starting the FUS, you can end up across the line coming into impact.

I'm downloading from my IPad. It's slow.

I just downloaded and installed it on our iPad.  It works!  Plays flash video, hulu, etc.  And plays flash games.  Pretty nice web browser too.  

You guys are doing a great job. Question, will you be able to recover the archived videos? Several of us have noted that the videos pre 2011 are now unavailable on the site. I hope and pray they were not lost due to the legal battles. Any updates on when or if those videos will become available?

Thanks, I just hope we get all my pre 2011 video library links back again.

Hey Robert you said you have all the daily videos how do you save them?

There are times in chipping that Surge recommends a weaker (hands rotated toward the target) grip to ensure that you do not let the club face close over the ball and smother it. That's the only time I can think of where a variation in the grip is recommended.

Dick

Great Job!  Glad to hear your health is bettter.  I be willing to bet that is one bar bill we'd all like to get stuck with one day...:0))

Lynn42

iPad's don't support flash unless you install a third party application like iSwifter.

Great playing in your club championship and your hole in one. Keep up the good work! Sincerely, Greg MacDonell PGA

Did you just start using flash? I've always been able to download these videos on my iPad, now nothing. PLEASE go back to the other format? Walt

Hrm.. You have them all?   I could give you temporary access into a bucket on my Amazon S3 account to upload them if you would be willing to do so.  We don't have a copy of them cause they were done before we went off on our own.

Dear Surge, Just thought that I would let you know how much your Teaching has helped me to strike the ball consistently well, especially off the tee with my driver. I have played the game on and off for some twenty years, but did not have any lessons hoping to sort myself out. As a result, I tried everything to correct my failings without much success until watching your videos and getting to understand how the swing can be made more simple and produce consistent strikes with any club. I struggled at first as I did not really commit to your teachings and did not trust your sound wisdom. However, I have had 3/4 months off work after a total knee replacement operation and I decided to become a real student of the 'peak performance swing' by watching your daily videos and purchasing your driver video. I have to tell you that I now  fully understand your principles and can put them into practice without hesitation and the increase in my confidence, swing and contact as a result will eventually revolutionise my game.
 Although I am still recovering from the knee op I can manage to practice on the driving range and the results so far are unbelievable. I was so inconsistent off the tee and with most clubs prior to the 'pps', but now can hit shot after shot with my driver and the ball sails straight down the middle and the more I practice my timing improves and the ball sails further each time. Your teachings are correct and with time and perseverance anyone should be able to strike the ball better and really start to enjoy the fruits of their labour. I cannot wait to play my first round of golf next Friday in order to champion your fabulous work. ' keep it vertical ' is definitely the way forward. Many, many thanks Surge  yours Mick Cox from Leighton Buzzard , Bedfordshire, England

Mike

I love it!  It's stories like this that give old hackers like me hope. ;0)
Go get em Wednesday and keep us posted.

Lynn42 

Surge Nation

It is great to see all the after action reports for the last couple of days.  Surge is truly cutting strokes from our games.  Thanks Surge.

It was a long day out here in the Ok sun.  It was real busy at the course for most of the day.  I got off at 3 and then went out and played 18.  It is wonderful to be back in the saddle again.

I want to wish all of you a somber and thoughtful Memorial day.  I especially want to thank all you veterans in the Surge Nation.  Brian, I hope you are safe.  Thanks for your service pal.

To anyone who does not know the true reason we have Memorial Day as a national holiday, look it up.  If not, I hope you get some great deals on bed sheets and towels.

I am calling it a night folks.  I have to get up early for church.  We are doing an extra special part of our service tomorrow for our military families.

I hope a lot of my brothers and sisters get in a couple of rounds on this long weekend.

All who served gave some, some gave it all. 

Thinking of all those who have given it all,
Dick

I would tend to agree a little, as any change in spine angle would also
effect weight distribution to some degree, even if just slightly.

Fun factoid:  Dropbox runs on Amazon S3....

Could you please speak to "sky marks" on field woods and what creates them.  The leading top edge on my 3-wood is all scuffed up.  Thanks.

Kim, I feared that was the case, thanks for your reply.

Coach

See pal, us Dicks always come through for the Surge Nation.

The other Dick

It goes back to what I tell everyone.  Your mileage may vary.  Some people load YouTube faster, some people load the new video delivery faster.   For me, the new video delivery is lightening fast, but I have some really good bandwidth being very close to one largest metro areas in the US.

Robert Meade - I have all the daily videos from 11/9/09. I actually saved them in a spesial folder and no body could fetch theme out if here. Question is I think it woulod take an inordiate amount of time to forword alll to you unless one of our guru friends has a magic method. If there are certain ones you want I will do my best to send them one at a time to you. It would be nice if we could figure out a way for all Surgites to be able to get them as I have gotten to know alot through this blog, even though I am not that active. Say high ti Cindy

Dick H

Gil:  Early last summer the surge did a video demonstration where he teed up 16 balls in a straight line, every ball at a different tee height, then proceeded to go down the line and "call out each shot" (high, low, very high, very low).  He then hit each ball exactly as he said he would, without any regard or concern for tee height.  When he finished, he asked the camera crew how they thought he did it.  They were baffled.   He then explained it was simply the amount of spine "secondary tilt" that he preset for each shot.  If he wanted the ball to go higher, he secondary-tilted or "leaned" his spine a little more toward his REAR foot.  If he wanted it to go lower, he kept his spine more centered between his feet.  It was amazing to see him do it!  That is what I've been personally doing and teaching my students to also do.  I don't worry about tee height at all, but just set my spine for the height of shot I need to make.  Works great in a strong head wind.  I just eliminate any reverse tilt, keep my spine centered over the center of my stance, and hit low rockets.  Saves me a lot of time and I don't worry about tee height anymore.  Just another idea to consider.  Hit 'em straight!  R2

I have to agree with the slow download. Takes for ever.

Steve,
I agree that in the course of a round you need to make adjustments for just what the heck is going on with your swing that day. I think, though, that Keith is still new enough to the game that he's trying to find the comfortable baseline that you and I worked out a while back.

I do something similar to what you're saying, but it doesn't change the position of my hands at address in any way, I just rotate the club in my hands a couple degrees more open or closed depending on the needs of the situation and how I'm hitting the ball that day. I try to do everything I can to make sure that--outside of special situations like punching a ball or needing a 30 yard hook around a tree--all of the elements of my swing aside from the club are as much the same as possible every time.

Ray

I am sure all the other vets in the Surge Nation appreciate your post as much as I do.

Thanks,
Dick

Gil:

   Irons also -- aobut the only time I hit too high on the club face is if I tee the ball a little to high on a short par 3 -- and then make contact with the center of the club face (or higher). Produces a high weak shot -- can you say"How to turn an 8 iron into a PW" ? NOT funny!

    Keep hitting them STRAIGHT and LONG
 
    Amos

I understand that you are kind of close with a certain Tech Crew member. Have him give us a comment.  Please.

Hi Dick-  Just wanted to add my thanks to yours for any and all veterans out there in or out of S.Surgeland.  We have so much to be thankful for in this great country and those who made the supreme sacrifice are greatly responsible.
Best wishes to all veterans and fellow Surgites,
Ray

Mick

Hope your knee is during well. Is the driver video that good!!!!!! keith

I have no problems with the videos. Instant on. I do use Firefox on a Mac platform with 4 gigs of ram. If you are using Windows try the Firefox program and see how it works. There could be something in the settings in your browser program, virus ware and/or the operating system.

If these things don't change, look to the speed of your internet connection and also if they have virus ware that is slowing down the video download.

We have always used flash.  YouTube (which is also flash) makes an application for iPads to make play the videos.  You can install iSwifter to allow an iPad to play flash.  Lastly, complain to Apple, maybe they will stop their stubborn ways (I have an iPad too, so you are not alone.).

Mike

I like to say "The older I get, the better I was."

Keep at it pal, it will come around for you.
Dick

dgaines:

    DITTO here also

    Amos

Dick H, Have you heard of a program download called Drop Box. You may want to check it out at this site. If the Tech Crew is unable to retrieve the videos from the previous Utube account through some arrangement. Perhaps by acquiring them from your library, they could then be re-posted at Utube and the respective site blog for that particular day.

What say ye Tech Crew, is it possible to work that out somehow, if you did in fact have access to all of the videos from Dick H.

Here is the Drop Box link and info. It's a free download, for a limited amount of Bytes per transfer.
https://www.dropbox.com/

I had a spell at the range last week where I hit a few shots one after the other off the top of the driver popping the ball high in the air! Very embarrassing indeed. The orange rubber driver tee is too high at the range i am sure, coupled with I think coming down too steep caused this. At the time I was trying to lift more over the toeline trying to get more vertical and guess when I got to the top didn't drop the club inside and instead hit straight toward the ball.

Thanks Surge!   

It will suffice nicely. I am quite sure all of you are just as desirous to regain the lost videos as any of us. I just hope it can be achieved some way. Perhaps with the Rhig1 Library.

I can't find it in app store, where do you get it?

Coach

You NEVER let us down.

Dick