Sunday, March 25, 2012
Put in work
This week I got out and spent some time on the Range. I drove out to Ravenwood and spent about an hour and half working on my swing. Layed down a golf club on the target line and a couple driveway sticks for you feet line and lie angle to set my swing plane. I also spent some time listening to some tempo audio tracks. Specifically the tour tempo 27/9 tracks. My backswing time was a little shorter than that of the tempo tracks so I might be better off using the 24/8 tempo track. All in all it went pretty well. I also spent some time on the putting green just rolling the ball and working on alignment. I am going to have to grab my chalk line and toss that in the car. I am hoping to get out and spend lots of time working on my short game. I need to find a way to work on the score game 100 yards and in. Considering some afternoon rounds where I can play alone and drop multiple balls down when I am inside 100 yards and hit to the green. But this could prove to be difficult if the course is busy. This coming week I am also going down to Endicott to work with Chris Welch and retest my progress and hopefully start some new PST's but we will see. I have been lacking time to get anything other than homework and house work done right now. Not a whole lot of Me time. I need to reconfigure some things and hopefully get some more ME time to get things done.
Sunday, March 18, 2012
Falling behind.
I am sure you have noticed, being the astute readers that you are, I have fallen behind in posting. There isn't a whole lot of good stuff to report on. I have been really busy with work and school and have not been keeping up with my working out and PST's. Unfortunately it has been getting really hecktic lately, but I am planning on revamping my routine and maybe that will help. I am going to break down my working out into much small sessions everyday. I am not sure if i will split it into a morning and evening session three times a week, or if I will split it up and do some morning sessions every day, but I will have to analyze what will work best for me and then experiment.
Last week, on wedneday, I played 18 holes at Shadow Lake. It was an okay outing. I think I expected more from my game. I did work out that monday really hard, in an attempt to make up some lost ground, and was super sore wednesday. I hit a bunch of slices and was really tight on the first 9, but felt much looser on the back 9 and hit a few better shots. I didn't keep score. My short game was impeccable. I got up and down routinely and was my normal self with regard to my putting.
This week on wednesday I played a quick 9. I played by myself again so I was able to hit multiple shots from the same spot when things weren't going well to try and work out the kinks. I was much straighter compared to last week. I hit less fat shots as well. I was loosing a fair amount of distance on most of my shots and had a hard time getting comfortable over the ball. Again my short game was fantastic and my putting was normal. I consider myself Mr. 2 putt. Now I just need to shave that to Mr. 1.5 putt and my scores will drop. I did keep score and wrote down my misses on my scorecard.
This week it is supposed to be really warm. I have been doing some drills in the yard using driveway markers and a barrier on the outside of the ball to make sure I am coming from the inside etc. I am going to try and get out and hit balls at the Range on wednesday, Hopefully I can get back to where I was as far as ball striking rather quickly with a little time outside. Only time will tell. Thanks for sticking with me.
Eric had forwarded me some more pictures from my trip to PennState, so here are a couple more.
Last week, on wedneday, I played 18 holes at Shadow Lake. It was an okay outing. I think I expected more from my game. I did work out that monday really hard, in an attempt to make up some lost ground, and was super sore wednesday. I hit a bunch of slices and was really tight on the first 9, but felt much looser on the back 9 and hit a few better shots. I didn't keep score. My short game was impeccable. I got up and down routinely and was my normal self with regard to my putting.
This week on wednesday I played a quick 9. I played by myself again so I was able to hit multiple shots from the same spot when things weren't going well to try and work out the kinks. I was much straighter compared to last week. I hit less fat shots as well. I was loosing a fair amount of distance on most of my shots and had a hard time getting comfortable over the ball. Again my short game was fantastic and my putting was normal. I consider myself Mr. 2 putt. Now I just need to shave that to Mr. 1.5 putt and my scores will drop. I did keep score and wrote down my misses on my scorecard.
This week it is supposed to be really warm. I have been doing some drills in the yard using driveway markers and a barrier on the outside of the ball to make sure I am coming from the inside etc. I am going to try and get out and hit balls at the Range on wednesday, Hopefully I can get back to where I was as far as ball striking rather quickly with a little time outside. Only time will tell. Thanks for sticking with me.
Eric had forwarded me some more pictures from my trip to PennState, so here are a couple more.
Me taking hitting balls all wired up and markered up
Getting Markers put on
Sunday, March 4, 2012
Penn State Trip
As I am sure you have noticed, I did not make a post this past week. I was very busy with work and school and had a week hiatus. I was pretty bummed how it turned out, but I did manage to get out and hit some balls that wednesday. I also pushed back writing this post. My schedule has been so busy with work and school and family, nevermind golf and working out. I am hoping to get back on track.
So to start this week I got off to a great start with a really good workout tonight. I hit it extra hard tonight to try and make up for some of my time off. I felt really good, but did get a little tight in the hamstrings and quads. Obviously the time off does have its effects. My only regrets of lately have been my diet. I have gotten away from making my food and eating healthier and have fallen back on quick and easy food. Partly because of work/school stress and time constraints and partly because I got bored of eating the same foods. I will try and do some meal planning tuesday night and some food shopping wednesday evening so that I can get back on track. I am toying with the idea of another 24 day challenge!!
I believe two weeks ago I mentioned there was some big things in the works. Well there was! On Wednesday February 29th my coach and I drove down to Penn State to visit Mike Duffey and Eric Handley and do some one of a kind data collection. I was fortunate enough to be the test subject for a first of its kind data collection of a golf swing utelizing three 3D systems, AMM/TPI 3D, Qualisys and Zenolink. For those of you not familiar with these systems you can find more information about all three systems at their respective websites, AMM/TPI, Qualisys and ZenoLink. I will give you the cliffs notes, AMM is an electromagnet system, you use a pick up to define the space and have electromagnet sensors placed on your body and wires that connect them to a computer. Qualisys is a video motion capture system that uses reflective orbs on a spandex/velcro suit and ZenoLink is done by using two video cameras, one face on and one at an angle of 30 degrees from down the line. You film a calibration cube and then film your swings. You would then upload the information to ZenoLink and then will perform a direct linear transformation and process your data.
This would be the first captures of its kind ever done. Getting a single swing on all three systems at one time to compare the information between all three mediums is pretty spectacular to say the least. The whole experience was pretty awesome. Mike and Eric has their research center all set up for our arrival and even recruited the help of some interns, One PGM senior named Matt, and two Kinesiology students named Julie and Eric. Here are a couple pictures of the facility.
From left to right: Matt, Julie and Eric
To caputre the swings with all three systems I first had to be wired up to the AMM/TPI 3D system. After i was all wired up and calibrated, we then put on the spandex/velcro suit and then Julie, Eric and Matt placed all the markers on me and we calibrated me and my golf clubs (driver, 5 iron, 8 iron and pitching wedge) to the space via the Qualisys system. I forgot to mention we had calibrated the space by placing the ZenoLink calibration cube on the mat where Matt is standing in the above picture. We recorded 10 swings with each iron and 15 swings with the driver.
I dont have any pictures of me all suited up, I had forgotten to grab my camera and give it to Dan before we got started, but I think Eric might have taken a picture or two and hopefully I can get my hands on a copy to put up here as well. It was really quite the sight.
I am very fortunate to take part in some pretty cool stuff. I would like to take a brief moment to thank Mike Duffey, Eric Handley and the Penn State students Matt, Eric and Julie for their hospitality and for a really good time. I would also like to thank my coach Dan Parks for allowing me the opportunity to take part in some cool research. Look for a write up in a future issue of JAGR.
As always thanks for reading. Stay tuned there are more things in the works!
So to start this week I got off to a great start with a really good workout tonight. I hit it extra hard tonight to try and make up for some of my time off. I felt really good, but did get a little tight in the hamstrings and quads. Obviously the time off does have its effects. My only regrets of lately have been my diet. I have gotten away from making my food and eating healthier and have fallen back on quick and easy food. Partly because of work/school stress and time constraints and partly because I got bored of eating the same foods. I will try and do some meal planning tuesday night and some food shopping wednesday evening so that I can get back on track. I am toying with the idea of another 24 day challenge!!
I believe two weeks ago I mentioned there was some big things in the works. Well there was! On Wednesday February 29th my coach and I drove down to Penn State to visit Mike Duffey and Eric Handley and do some one of a kind data collection. I was fortunate enough to be the test subject for a first of its kind data collection of a golf swing utelizing three 3D systems, AMM/TPI 3D, Qualisys and Zenolink. For those of you not familiar with these systems you can find more information about all three systems at their respective websites, AMM/TPI, Qualisys and ZenoLink. I will give you the cliffs notes, AMM is an electromagnet system, you use a pick up to define the space and have electromagnet sensors placed on your body and wires that connect them to a computer. Qualisys is a video motion capture system that uses reflective orbs on a spandex/velcro suit and ZenoLink is done by using two video cameras, one face on and one at an angle of 30 degrees from down the line. You film a calibration cube and then film your swings. You would then upload the information to ZenoLink and then will perform a direct linear transformation and process your data.
This would be the first captures of its kind ever done. Getting a single swing on all three systems at one time to compare the information between all three mediums is pretty spectacular to say the least. The whole experience was pretty awesome. Mike and Eric has their research center all set up for our arrival and even recruited the help of some interns, One PGM senior named Matt, and two Kinesiology students named Julie and Eric. Here are a couple pictures of the facility.
To caputre the swings with all three systems I first had to be wired up to the AMM/TPI 3D system. After i was all wired up and calibrated, we then put on the spandex/velcro suit and then Julie, Eric and Matt placed all the markers on me and we calibrated me and my golf clubs (driver, 5 iron, 8 iron and pitching wedge) to the space via the Qualisys system. I forgot to mention we had calibrated the space by placing the ZenoLink calibration cube on the mat where Matt is standing in the above picture. We recorded 10 swings with each iron and 15 swings with the driver.
I dont have any pictures of me all suited up, I had forgotten to grab my camera and give it to Dan before we got started, but I think Eric might have taken a picture or two and hopefully I can get my hands on a copy to put up here as well. It was really quite the sight.
I am very fortunate to take part in some pretty cool stuff. I would like to take a brief moment to thank Mike Duffey, Eric Handley and the Penn State students Matt, Eric and Julie for their hospitality and for a really good time. I would also like to thank my coach Dan Parks for allowing me the opportunity to take part in some cool research. Look for a write up in a future issue of JAGR.
As always thanks for reading. Stay tuned there are more things in the works!
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