Impact Is Not The Most Important Part Of Your Swing!?

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[HerbertJYoung]

Jim just spent a week exploring your swing system. I’m blown away. I hit around 150 balls I’m 66 years old and I barely broke a sweat today. It took me four days and on the fifth day I finally started getting the feel . I will say the one key that worked best for me was to get closer to the ball than I’m accustomed to once I figured that out everything else started flowing beautifully.. thanks so much for your videos.

[nol_clss]

Wow Jim 😮 secrets revealed here!
No other instructor gives away this much truth about a swing.
You’re the

[elinorharrington]

Long time low handicap player here, but always struggled with slight over the top move. Rarely hit shots I "loved" but got away with hit. Following JV's ideas, I'm now playing from closed stance and TRUSTING that swinging from in to out will result in baby draws that are right at the target. Every time. Only bad shots are when I forget to swing out (like at 1:00), which produces long/left. No hype, at least for me.

[leonardhandzlik]

Jim, I love your concept. My only question is with ball position. Assuming that you want the ball position of, say a 7 iron to be in the middle of the stance, if you turn your lead shoulder toward the outside of your swing, and draw your trail foot back, as. I see you do, doesn't that effectively move the ball forward in relation to the line of your shoulders? I am trying to use your concept but I still have a problem with hitting behind the ball. Should, after adjusting my lead shoulder and trail foot, should I readjust ball position further back?

[reflogami]

Great video, What do I do about ball position with the 45° closed stance?

[dddmmm]

Do you address grip (from weak to strong) in any of your vids? Curious to understand if one particular grip better fits your method... I am guessing your method makes a strong grip more forgiving since it could help with the draw.

[johnzoppi]

JIm, Have you ever been to Pinehurst North Carolina?

[Rich-eyjv]

The only good thing about modern instruction, it made me become a JV believer. So easy once you stop trying so freakin hard! The hips are the devil!

[callummcguire]

Jim I've watched nearly all your content. All about stillness right. But what are you doing with your trail leg? It definitely flexes

[JeffPassageCPA]

Jim, not one teacher has explained this concept as you have done in this video.

[lkgroup]

I use this and it works. 80 percent of drives in the fairways.

[MikeD-z]

Ok Jim, I get what you explain finally. 72 years old playing for 60 years, always struggling with my deaf right shoulder coming out and into the swing. Out to the range today and hit a hundred or so balls. Lets see what happens.

[jtboise]

Jim: I'm 71 and after years of struggling and YouTube videos and private lessons, I've come to the conclusion that your technique is the easiest swing for anybody to execute. Very little thinking and more just doing. BUT...when I use your method, I almost never get a draw. I do, however, get a very straight shot...a push to the right. Perhaps my "turn" at setup is too much and I'll work on that. But, here's my request. I'd appreciate it if during your videos where you actually strike a ball, please put down some alignment sticks or mark that dark pole in your desert refuge with an orange flag so that we can see exactly where your club face is aiming. This might help us. I'm sticking with your swing. I just need to work more on my setup.

[Sammyvone]

I’m not questioning your theory, Jim, but why isn’t there any touring professionals using your swing techniques? Thanks.

[BLGolflife]

Everything goes back to setup I see it every time in my swing. Swing analysis video submission coming soon.

[hasseygolf]

Dang... you started out pretty good. Except when you got to the part of describing the swing-path facing 'Right', 'Straightforward' or 'Left'... is not 'steep'. Steep is related to a plane or path. Such as if the 'club-shaft plane'... or 'hand-path'... or 'shoulder-plane' is steep/vertical... or/vs... flat/shallow/horizontal. But keep up the hard work... 👍

[tomdee]

That's right, Jimmy. Hundreds of instructors teaching clockwise wrist twirl at the top. Now MSE guy teaching OTT move - drag it way in and come over the inside takeaway plane and swing dead left. He says all the shallowing instructors are wrong - don't shallow. He points to dozens of icons who did OTTFI - Over the Top from Inside. "They all do it!", he shouts. Mass confusion with all this. I tried it - no good for me - I've hit thousands of balls with the shallowing move. I'll go from shooting 78-82 to 182 with that OTT.

Now this, Jimmy. You thought it couldn't get any worse? It can!! hahahaha

[singlestory]

So lets see most agree push draw most distance and control. For that you need desending swing from inside out. So you are proposing to start where everbody wants to finish along with that extend the club arch by going down then through which will increase club head speed just like a longer back does and people think your nuts as they look for there ball in the right trees
Interesting