Another winter update

Made a quick video of our greenhouse in the winter...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_3o9EbtvX8

Enjoy!

Jays Golf Lesson Updates April 26

Date:  Apr 26, 2015

This is what Jay Jay likes.  I can see he always enjoying playing golf.  

Being 8 years old, still not fully learning it.  But I think he already did quite well against some of his classmates who is much elder than he is. 

Yes, I know, he has a Science test tomorrow which worth 10%, but as long as he already done his revisions, there is no point not letting him to enjoy his interest.  HaHaHa...

Hole #1.  Still a little bit over-swing when bringing the driver back, but no complaint from his coach.  Coach Muthu actually claps his hand.  So. I guess is OK.  Later, he spent quite a number of putts on the green that has severe slops to reach the pin.   That’s fine. 

Hole #2.  Another claps from his coach.  But this swing is over-swing at the back again.  I think have to teach him more how to control the back swing.

As you can see the Monkeys are all out playing at the field.  :)

The second shots is a bit too light.  He should have full swing the shot.  But he didn’t and he will need to hit another shot.

The third shots of Hole #2.  This time, with a full swing of sand watch, puts the ball on the green near the pin.  He left with 6-7 feet to putt.

Nice Putt Jay!  1 foot from the hole.  The line is correct.  

Even the Komodo Dragon came out.

Hole #3.  Giant shot, but still need to hit his over-swing problem.

Not too bad, but the direction is way off.

He seems to have problem hitting the uphill shot.  Always put in too much strength.

The sky is not looking good at all.

Although raining, another giant shot (can hear from the ping sound of the driver hitting).  

OK.  After this hole, the marshall found me and asked me to leave.  :)  I was not wearing my golf shoe and I was not wearing a collar golf shirts too.  And I am not allowed to follow my son as I am not a player at the time.  hahahahaha  They managed to play hole #4.  Jay tee-off a very nice tee shot at hole #5.  And the thunder alarm finally came out.

Since I am not travelling too much in June Holidays, I think I will bring him to golf course and give him some tips on how to hit a certain shots.  He did good in the stance when standing on the uneven slopes.  Surprisingly.

Fixing Jays Golf Swing

Date:  Apr 19, 2015

I always enjoyed sitting near to Jay’s golf class.

You always can learn a lot of tips too.

May too Jay did not have time to do a lot of practise, that is why, I found that he started to have a habit of swinging his own style which some times can be wrong.

Like this one, he did over swing a bit.

His iron shot is quite OK.  He just need to adjust the strength control.

In the class, he did have some problem hitting good shots from his driver.  

And from this photo, you can tell.  His stance is not wide, and he cannot hit a stable shot from a narrow stance.

He felt a bit of demoralise too, as he did not hit as well as a few of his classmates.  But most of his classmates had been in the class for many years, and they are much older too.  Jay is the youngest in the class.

So, I told him not to feel sad about.

Like the blue shirt red pants boy in above photo, I think he must be secondary school by now, and he is very big size.  He is hitting almost 200 meter from his driver.  No wonder Jay will fill a bit demoralise in this.  hahaha In my opinion, Jay is doing fine for his age.

Let’s fix it!

So that next week he can hit a few pretty good shots.

1.  it is his stance.  When he hit a driver shot, his stance is always too narrow.  So, I taught him to open his legs to very wide.  A bit wider than his shoulder.  He is a bit over swing in this video. 

2.  And he corrected his over swing by controlling the back swing.  I asked him to do some baseball shot at horizontal level.  Then, at the knee level.  And lastly, apply it to the hitting ball level.  So, he understand not to overswing.  

3.  Every shot must take Slow-Mo video to analyse his swinging motion.  It is easy to see the error and from there try to fix it.  I showed this to him as his left feet always move a lot during the downward swing.  That is why minor chicken wings will come out.

4.  One of the good shot.  You notice that there is no ball.  But I put a long tee there for him to hit the tee.

5.  A bit over swing, but the shot is good.  And we do all these practise downstairs.  So, this week, I will try to ask him to practice on daily basis and try to muscle memorise the swing.  So to keep reminding him, wider stance and no over swing.

I love the slow mo videos.  It let you see very clearly what you do wrong.

Another Medal

Date:  Apr 2, 2015

Early in the morning, he wore his sport shoe, wait for the bus.

It is P3 sport day.  And today they are going to compete with Basketball.

And in the afternoon, he delivered a good news.  His class came in #2.

Well done!