Man I am so angry at myself. I had suffered a slipped disc several days ago but had decided to keep my appointment for a driver shaft fitting today. While the disc has recovered enough to get me through it and allow for enough effective swings to get it done, I have a real problem that I have got to resolve or at least would like to somehow.
I am claustrophobic. While I rarely find myself in a situation where it matters, I simply cannot swing a golf club in the confined space of an indoor cage. Even if there is no cage, I simply cannot get myself to accept the fact that there is plenty of room between me with club in hand and the walls and ceiling, certainly enough room to swing the club without concern for the actual size of the space. Granted these are not huge spaces but I am only 5’6”. The room the equipment is in looks like a shoebox about 12’ x 18’ x 10’ The ceiling height maybe more like 12’. I have some 12’ ceilings in my house and these just don’t look as high when I look at them and I really don’t think I am unable to gauge their height when looking at them. Heck it really does not matter anyway because the whole thing has nothing to do with the actual height of the ceilings. Although, I am confident that if I was inside something like an indoor tennis facility I would be OK with that. As it is in a room of these dimensions I don’t take the club back the right way and I flatten out my swing to such a ridiculous extent that it is not even my swing anymore.
I was so put off today that I could not even swing from the shoulders. As such I was a mess. I was in such a bad position at the transition that there was hardly anything to turn. I could not get my brain to function which is not to say that I was absorbed by the problem in the sense of thinking about it. I could not think about anything. I was completely locked up and I babbled endlessly much like I did when I was fitted for my irons. It is the weirdest feeling. I am so angry with myself because I believe in the club fitting experience and I want to provide the best or at least most relevant data points possible. I know I have the problem but I just seem to be helpless in the face of it. Before going in I thought that it would not be worse with driver than with irons as the whole damn thing is not based in fact anyway. However as illogical as it seems the longer shaft of the driver made it even worse trying to swing the thing.
I suppose I could try to find someone that fits outdoors but I thought I would ask if anybody has had the problem and has confronted it successfully or knows of a way to deal with it. If the only issue was practicing indoors I could handle not being able to do that. But screwing up one of the neater things that you can do in the game really bothers me. The fact that it defeats me so handily really bothers me. Anyway if anybody has an idea how to confront this with more success I would be very interested to hear it.
I am claustrophobic. While I rarely find myself in a situation where it matters, I simply cannot swing a golf club in the confined space of an indoor cage. Even if there is no cage, I simply cannot get myself to accept the fact that there is plenty of room between me with club in hand and the walls and ceiling, certainly enough room to swing the club without concern for the actual size of the space. Granted these are not huge spaces but I am only 5’6”. The room the equipment is in looks like a shoebox about 12’ x 18’ x 10’ The ceiling height maybe more like 12’. I have some 12’ ceilings in my house and these just don’t look as high when I look at them and I really don’t think I am unable to gauge their height when looking at them. Heck it really does not matter anyway because the whole thing has nothing to do with the actual height of the ceilings. Although, I am confident that if I was inside something like an indoor tennis facility I would be OK with that. As it is in a room of these dimensions I don’t take the club back the right way and I flatten out my swing to such a ridiculous extent that it is not even my swing anymore.
I was so put off today that I could not even swing from the shoulders. As such I was a mess. I was in such a bad position at the transition that there was hardly anything to turn. I could not get my brain to function which is not to say that I was absorbed by the problem in the sense of thinking about it. I could not think about anything. I was completely locked up and I babbled endlessly much like I did when I was fitted for my irons. It is the weirdest feeling. I am so angry with myself because I believe in the club fitting experience and I want to provide the best or at least most relevant data points possible. I know I have the problem but I just seem to be helpless in the face of it. Before going in I thought that it would not be worse with driver than with irons as the whole damn thing is not based in fact anyway. However as illogical as it seems the longer shaft of the driver made it even worse trying to swing the thing.
I suppose I could try to find someone that fits outdoors but I thought I would ask if anybody has had the problem and has confronted it successfully or knows of a way to deal with it. If the only issue was practicing indoors I could handle not being able to do that. But screwing up one of the neater things that you can do in the game really bothers me. The fact that it defeats me so handily really bothers me. Anyway if anybody has an idea how to confront this with more success I would be very interested to hear it.
