27 Sept 2026

Context

Old video (~14s, 2 driver swings) from the user's first-ever driving range session, roughly a year before today, shared to check whether sequencing has actually improved since then. Shot from a different angle than today's footage -- face-on/target-side, not behind/side-on -- which limits how directly the transition can be compared: this angle makes hip-vs-arm rotation timing genuinely harder to isolate than today's angle, since the whole upper body rotates toward the camera together rather than showing a clean side profile of the hip line versus the arms.

Observations

• Sequencing / Over-the-topIn the first swing, a small knee-flex/weight-shift is visible in the couple of frames just before the club visibly starts dropping from the top -- consistent with (not conclusive proof of) an earlier lower-body initiation than today's swings showed, where the club had already dropped ~45 degrees before any lower-body movement was visible. In the second swing, the drop happened within about 2 sampled frames (~0.03s), too fast at this angle to confidently resolve which moved first. Given the angle limitation, this is a real observation worth naming, not a confirmed diagnosis either way.
• Distance / Ball Speed ConsistencyOne clearly comparable thing regardless of angle: the pause at the top lasted noticeably longer in this old video (many more static frames before any downswing motion) than in any of today's driver swings, where the drop started within a few frames of reaching the top. Tempo/transition speed has picked up over the year, whatever's true about the sequencing itself.

Verdict

Can't give a clean yes/no on whether the specific sequencing fault has improved since this video -- the camera angle is too different from today's to make a confident before/after call, and that's a real limitation, not a way of avoiding the question. What's genuinely visible either way: tempo has changed (a much shorter pause at the top now), and there's a hint of earlier leg/weight movement in the older footage that today's swings didn't show, though it's not conclusive from this angle. The practical fix for 'am I improving' going forward is boring but real: film future range sessions from the same angle (behind/side-on, like today) so a real year-from-now comparison is actually possible, rather than relying on old footage shot for a different purpose.