Still having a hard time with trial arm and early extension

Thanks, @burkholder.ronald (or should I say Mr 2.8). I broke too early from 2.8 in the fall and that put me down the path ultimately leading back there this week, once I accepted reality (and had one of my worst rounds this year). I was considering doing only 2.8 'til the spring just to really give it some time to latch on and this only reinforces that sentiment

@burkholder.ronald do you change the driver swing at all when playing this way, or do you avoid using it?

@KyleW I use it for the driver and employ the setup changes for the driver when doing so. Using the 2.8 swing and teeing the ball lower provides a dependable fairway finder of adequate length.

Hey Tom! Better day today in the lab working on the 90% drill. I watched that one, but then I was going through the KFC Member tips section, and saw one of your earliest ones on 90% too. In that one, you also point out when going through a video recording of one of your students, that you wanted the reverse K. I recalled you going through this before, but had lost track of it. Anyway, making sure I was doing 90% weight forward while complying to Reverse K made the difference for me and the last two days of training started feeling really good as far as getting that consistency back in the straight arm chips. So the practice routine the last couple days has been: * Warm Up * 30-50 One Arm Chips (I help stabilize the trail arm shoulder with the lead hand) and also check on video every so often that I'm doing things OK (based on my understanding, of course) * 30-50 90% Weight Forward/Straight Arm chips

Then, if I'm feeling ambitious, I allow myself some 3/4 swings. This is the part where I'm most likely to regress so I cap how many I'll allow, and film them to see if lessons are applying. I got some non-chili dippers on video today! Progress! One other feel I pulled from an earlier video of yours that felt like it was finally clicking was to glue the upper bicep to the trail-side pec. This helped me feel the punch a lot easier. When I was trying to do glued armpits I think I would glue too far down, so to speak, and end up gluing the elbow, keeping it back and preventing it from firing. Another bad old habit I've noticed, and I posted about this a couple months back, was that I'll have 7/10 nice straight crispers when I'm being good about the straight arms drill, and then a horrible s-word. I _think_ I've finally figured out what's going on - I was regripping at the transition. After making sure I kept that left arm heel pad down, I was able to cut down on those regrips a lot more reliably. I still notice it happening/creeping in when I try and do full hard swings. Now my process when this happens is to stop everything and go back to the top: 90% WF and Straight Arms drill. I'm basically forcing myself to "earn the right" to do full swings instead of moving on too fast. We've got a short par 3/4 course near me that I can play and do the 2.8 swing in and have a good time (famous last words), so I think I'm going to try and play a full round with that swing vs always saying I'll do that or fall back to it, then getting ambitious, doing full swings, having the old bad ways creep in, and feeling soggy.

Awesome update, Kyle!!

With regard to the 3/4 swing, in this system it is probably much closer to a full swing than you might think. We don't need to try to get to "parallel" with this swing, and when golfers fight their bodies in an attempt to do so it will result in some combination of these issues:

1) the lead arm will bend and/or lift

2) the wrists will break down

3) the lead knee will kick inward towards the trail side

4) the lead shoulder will level out and lose its orientation towards the ball

5) weight will shift into the trail side and bring the low point back with it, resulting in inconsistent contact and unpredictable ball flight.

6) you'll "chicken wing" and/or flip through impact

7) pain, discomfort, and/or possible injury

When you execute this swing properly you will have created width and plenty of distance for that club to travel by taking it in deep, and that will enable you to harness the tremendous - and seemingly effortless - power source you may have heard me speak about called "angular momentum". So, the key here is get to – but not go beyond - your body's natural stopping point in the backswing where the tilting, turning, and extending motions are complete, the lead arm has crossed the chest 45 degrees, the trail arm is folded to 90 degrees, and the wrists have properly set.

As for 2.8, it's a perfect choice for now. In fact, you can park yourself their for as long as you need and play some excellent golf with it because it is actually the full swing minus a couple of power accumulators. In fact, if @burkholder.ronald wishes to chime in, he can share just how well you can play a full-sized course with it. Reggie Jackson may have been Mr. October, but Ron Burkholder is Mr. 2.8...... 😆

Keep working the process intelligently as you are. You're doing fantastic!!

Thank you again @Tom Saguto for the feedback and insights. As both you and Robert point out in the replies today, the attempted addition of accumulators is what throws me off course. Taking it slow and steady on the 2.8 swing, now that I've lived what the regression of going too hard too fast feels like!