Driver sidekick slide

Learn more. Too big, too clunky, too mid-range in specs, I always thought. Basically everything you store on the Slide is automatically backed up to a password protected Web site.

You can get to this information from any computer, and make edits or changes, which are themselves transferred back down to your Slide. This means not only can you make diary changes and suchlike without fiddling with the Sidekick Slide itself, but you have a backup if your device gets lost — and one which can be downloaded to a replacement Slide. T-Mobile may be crowing about the Slide being the smallest, slimmest Sidekick yet, but the device is still big for a mobile phone at 60 x mm, 17mm thick and a hefty g.

Motorola has taken over the design from Sharp, and this has had a huge effect on look and feel. A black and blue livery replaces the black and silver of the Sidekick 3. Unfortunately, the plastic used for the casing is a bit of a fingerprint magnet. This mechanism was one of the things that made the Sidekick what it was.

But it is gone, and the new Sidekick Slide has a much more sedate way of getting to its keyboard. You simply slide the screen section upwards. Hence the name, I guess. However, Motorola has retained many of the other features that made the Sidekick unique. It still has a sideways on orientation, which makes it feel more like a games console than a mobile, and means you have to hold it in both hands to use the mini keyboard. The device controls are very familiar.

There is a mini trackball think BlackBerry Pearl , that sits under your right thumb and is wheeled to get around within applications and menus. Call and End buttons flank this, while outside these again, at the top and bottom right sides of the device, are a Cancel and Done key. On the left side of the front casing are Menu and Jump keys. The former calls up whatever menu options are available within an application. The Jump key takes you to the main screen, which in Sidekick-speak is called the Jump Screen.

From here you scroll around a carousel of animated icons to move through the applications on the device. This edge also houses a huge navigation button whose centre has an alert area which will glow various colours at you to give you different kinds of notifications. There are various shoulder keys too. The keyboard keys on the Slide are softer than the LX keys. One major difference between the T-Mobile Sidekick Slide and the other two Sidekick devices I reviewed is the slide-up screen.

The sliding motion is smooth and the screen click s into place for a very sturdy feel. The LX and the Slide are bluetooth enabled so you can talk hands-free and sync your phone up to a bluethooth enabled computer.

The iD is not bluetooth enabled. While having customizable face plates, the Sidekick iD is the least feature rich of the devices. However, it includes features that I think are sufficient for social teenagers including a talk time of up to 5 hours, text messaging, email and games. The iD does not have a camera like the Slide and LX. So now that we know what we want to work on, how can we practice it?

Moreover, when should we get that movement built into our swing? Great questions, especially for casual amateur golfers. In our experience, you will want to get into flexion early in the takeaway. So when you set up to the ball, as soon as you take the club back, you are going to rotate the wrist toward the ground early. When you do this, the club face will get into a nice square or slightly closed position, which will help you draw or straighten your golf shot.

Now for most amateur golfers, the common mistake is to take the wrists and rotate them up toward the sky. This will immediately promote an open club face. You can draw the ball or hit it straight from this position, but there will be a lot of compensation in the rest of the swing to get back to square at impact. From here, your club head is opening up and stays open through impact.

How can you fix that? Start by taking a golf tee, open your golf glove flap and close it around the base of the tee. The base should rest on the back of your hand, with the tee sticking straight out. The first few times, just practice the drill movement without a ball or club.

What you will probably find is that tee wants to point up at the beginning of your takeaway. No problem; now you have a quick test to help you get in a better position. There are several spots in your golf driver swing that can be causing your slice. So how do you know where you are having the issue? Outside of the swing, there are some other common golf driver mistakes amateur golfers make. Something as simple as ball position or how you position the shoulders could be wreaking unnecessary havoc on your game as well.

Did you know that having level shoulders could be costing you distance? Before you even start your golf swing, you could be setting yourself up for failure.

There could be many different reasons, but here are the 3 most common mistakes we see:. If you are haunted by watching your ball tail right or left for left-handed golfers , this is probably going to sound familiar. You start to aim more open to either give yourself more room for error or to get the ball to try to stay in the fairway.

Unfortunately, this is probably doing more harm than good. When you take your setup, if you have your feet parallel to your target line, that would be a square stance. Because you are slicing the ball to the right, you probably start aiming more to the left and open your stance. By moving your aim left, it actually is promoting more of the slicing motion. Basically, you are taking your slice and slicing it even more.

Your swing path is now working across the ball, giving you more of that ugly banana curve as your ball sails across the fairway instead of down it. The next common setup mistake is having too much pressure or weight on the trail foot. If you are familiar with our instruction, you know we like to favor more pressure on the lead foot at setup.

The third common setup mistake is having the trail arm too high. When the trail arm is level with or higher than the lead arm, this can give your swing fits. For one, this setup would promote hitting down on the ball. Second, it causes the path to start working across the ball see a trend? Start by addressing the golf ball with your feet together. Next, take your lead foot and move it forward and slightly out towards the target line. Take your trail foot and move it back and slightly behind you.

Your stance will now be a little be closed relative to your target line. To get a proper foot pressure, take your lead hip and bump it forward in your stance, so it is now above your lead foot.

From there, just raise the lead arm slightly , allowing your trail arm to settle underneath. These 3 setup tips will help you start working that path to the right more and start hitting that nice high draw. Out of all the parts of your golf swing, the takeaway is probably the most common place to find your problem. You may have a good setup, but if you start your swing with issues, you are doing a lot of fixing to get back to a proper impact position.

So what does a bad takeaway look like? Well, two things typically happen. First, the hands tend to raise the handle at the start of the takeaway. Then the club head starts working inside and around the body.

From here, the club face is wide open, the handle is high, and this is just a terrible precursor to a nasty slice. To fix it, remember this phrase: hands in, club head out. So when you start the takeaway, the hands stay in towards the thigh, while the club head stays out away from the body.

The opposite which is the common mistake would be hands work up and out, club head snatches inside and around the body. Start there with the setup and takeaway, and chances are good you already have fixed your slicing woes. What else could it be? Now there are some common backswing mistakes golfers make as well, and we have you covered. Easily the most common mistake at the top of the swing is amateur golfers trying to make their swing too long. Many amateur golfers equate a longer swing to more distance, but more often the added length just gets the club into a poor position.

Usually when this happens, the wrists get into an extension position see above.