I got together with Scott last Wednesday. My first meeting with him was several years ago and it took many months to learn from that lesson. At that time he vastly improved my soft stroke game, helped with my pre-shot routine, and gave me drills to increase concentration.
Scott's learned a few new tricks himself. The DVD recorder and monitor set up is a big help. His freeze frame of the stroke shows any potential problems. Fortunately, my stroke was actually fine. Level, no elbow drop, no head movement. At impact my forearm is a little ahead of perpendicular, so the tip was dropping more than he liked to see. He pointed out that it would give me problems on some power shots and he nailed it - I knew right away what he was talking about.
He measured my bridge. To my surprise it was 15" (they measure to your thumb position). I thought he would say to shorten it. He said "no, it's fine". He looked at my mechanics and suggested a way of improving my power strokes and routine. He suggested an improved eye pattern and a more pronounced last pause before the shot. He wanted me to try a different break stroke.
I really enjoyed the lesson - we had fun. But my thoughts were: "am I getting really gaining anything from this?"
His last words to me were: "I'm going to give you information as something to consider. Use what you want of it. Just draw from it and make the changes that you think benefit your game. " That's the way it should be. I came back and practiced his stuff for two days now. Already, I know I'm hitting a higher percentage of medium to difficult shots, and the improvement on power shots is amazing. I'm getting more action with less muscle. I'm using just one part of the eye pattern thing - and I think it's helping.
Anyway, once again, I can thank Scott Lee until we meet again.
Chris
Scott's learned a few new tricks himself. The DVD recorder and monitor set up is a big help. His freeze frame of the stroke shows any potential problems. Fortunately, my stroke was actually fine. Level, no elbow drop, no head movement. At impact my forearm is a little ahead of perpendicular, so the tip was dropping more than he liked to see. He pointed out that it would give me problems on some power shots and he nailed it - I knew right away what he was talking about.
He measured my bridge. To my surprise it was 15" (they measure to your thumb position). I thought he would say to shorten it. He said "no, it's fine". He looked at my mechanics and suggested a way of improving my power strokes and routine. He suggested an improved eye pattern and a more pronounced last pause before the shot. He wanted me to try a different break stroke.
I really enjoyed the lesson - we had fun. But my thoughts were: "am I getting really gaining anything from this?"
His last words to me were: "I'm going to give you information as something to consider. Use what you want of it. Just draw from it and make the changes that you think benefit your game. " That's the way it should be. I came back and practiced his stuff for two days now. Already, I know I'm hitting a higher percentage of medium to difficult shots, and the improvement on power shots is amazing. I'm getting more action with less muscle. I'm using just one part of the eye pattern thing - and I think it's helping.
Anyway, once again, I can thank Scott Lee until we meet again.
Chris
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..............i get 5 on the wire to 7.
