Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / let the ball be in the road

AB,
I’ll leave this one to you mate, I’m still on the floor rolling in laughter, I can’t be bothered wasting my life, with jeff.
Those last six point on swinging is the biggest load of verbal diarrhea I’ve read, number 2 was gold now that goes in the hall fame of the best written bullshit of all time.
under patient/athlete and client confidentiality I can’t make comment on Zuback, all i can say is zuback realizes with his old swing patterns he has to make changes to get back to world number 1 again, one thing i can say is he had huge room for improvement to hit it further and he will once he implements the changes needed

Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / let the ball be in the road

Lag,
The shame is the game has gone from compression to being slappa’s of the ball,
what happen to the days of learning compression first, learning how to hit first and swing later? And what happen to the good old flat plane swing ?
And who is responsible for these upright slappa’s swings? Love to know
I would take my glove off and slap them. A swing moves around the axis of the spine doesn’t it? Has anyone noticed compared to the old flat plane days to the modern slappa’s style swing, the injuries out there. Most the players today have back injuries,hip injuries most the players today are nicked up badly. The P.G.A tour physio vans are cleaning up and making a fortune from it. Researched shows, 30% of guys under 25 have back problems, another 30% have hips injuries,23% have wrist injuries, 30% have hip and back injuries, I wonder why?
lets see stack and tilt puts enormous pressure on L1 and the right knee and left hip socket, won’t mention percentage of injuries caused be horrified, Edwin, wrist injuries, L1 and both hip sockets won’t mention percentages either. Modern day swing I where do I start , what an endless list.
Flat plane , Sir Ben hogan, sustained back injury from a car accident played on and won majors, hmmm interesting,
Guru your right schools are to blame the day the stopped teaching common sense, we lost compression and flat plane swings, no we have no common sense, upright slappa’s and nicked up under 25 years olds on tour.

Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / let the ball be in the road

switters are good…?

I thought switting was bad, a breakdown of the power chain…

Reverse every natural instinct you have and do just the opposite of what you are inclined to do and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing. – BEN HOGAN, POWER GOLF

Muntz,
depends on a players ability or level of learning, to teach a beginner no you don’t teach someone a 4 barrel swing or be a switter. In golf you teach levels, learn one barrel, then a two barrel swing and if your quite good step up a cog to 3 barrel, and with a 3 barrel swing you could win a few club championships. But stepping up to the big boys you want to cut muster, 4 barrel or be the full hog switter if you want to put food on the table. Switting or 4 barrel is a touchy subject, they claim it’s to inconsistent , or to hard to learn, but this is highly debatable, it’s boils down to the coaches ability to communicate and teach it correctly and the students ability to listen,learn and able to apply what is taught. But I can tell you now most of the greats are some form of switter. This has been measured and proven, it is a feeling for some but as a reality for pro’s they are switting, which we do measure and can tell someone exactly if they are a switter or 4 barrel, 3 barrel and so on. Then you teach them how to master their swing and body motion which works for them. but the only way one can tell is to be measured properly, video or eye won’t indicate what truly suits one player, you need to use human motion software to find out the real story.
A switter in all areas on is day will blow a hitter or swinger off the coarse on their day, a switter has compression and linear speed. A swinger has linear speed,a hitter has compression, you decided which one is the best

Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / Sadlowski's swing is plain insanity!

Jamie,
The guy is a freak and is only going to get better with age,
All I can say is his data is amazing but the scary part is like all of us, he can still refine and hit it further yet, pretty scary thought.
They guy knows how to use his body, he has sick muscular loading and linear speeds, lack in others but I’m sure when he get his other areas right, will be scary how far this guy could hit it

Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / Power Fade

As well as being a sponge, create three filing cabinets in your brain.
file 1 I’ll take that on board, file 2 keep this in mind I apply some of this,
file 3 what a load of bullshit I through it over my shoulder.
The great Joy of life is learning and everyday, Like this wonderful game, as we get older we become better players we get smarter and wiser,
I hope by the time I’m old I become a wise monkey, with all the great knowledge I learn everyday

Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / let the ball be in the road

Browman,
Yes your on the right path, but as homer says a controlled pivot,
In simple term accumulators create compression and power, but what creates the power is the engine which is your pivot,but it must be controlled with timing and the right speeds which the pivot ,motors at speeds, in sequence to the accumulators to fire correctly. Thrusting the pivot as hard as you can isn’t going to create more horse power, which i feel A.B at the moment is on this learning curve at present. Learning how to fire and time your pivot in the correct sequence is the secret. As well as firing your accumulators.
First step for anyone is to learn to hit first, which dart always taught me.
learn to hit stingers and punch shots from wedge right through your bag to drivers. Then learn how to control the pivot, learn how to sequence each body segment so they all fire in the right sequence.
Sounds hard but easy to do once shown correctly.
But to learn this you really need to see a guy who know human body motion cause this is a different field and world again. Looking by eye or video won’t indicate weather or not you have a controlled pivot moving in motion correctly, this needs to be measured by human motion software.
Today’s swingers I call slappa’s they have no compression , even alot of the modern pro’s of today are slappa’s. They missed the essence’s of compression by not learning to hit first. The old school boys now they are switters, swing with hit at the bottom and these boys can play.
Around 90% of golfers problems 1 not learning to hit and 2 the main cause not knowing how to use their pivot correctly

Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / Daily What A Legend And A Professional

Today I had the pleasure of walking around watch a true legend with raw talent play the game. I must say John is in a league of his own as a ball striker and player out there. John is a cut above the rest. He was a pure hitter, The way John compresses the ball is amazing to watch. His long irons off the tee were so pure. His ball flight was amazing with his long irons. I’m not sure where people have the perception he hits it high came from.

One thing I will compliment John on is when he was out there he was professional as they come. His mind was on the job out there. One thing I learnt was camera’s give off very false body language in the way he comes across.
The whole time john was out there his mind was fixed on the target all day he just kept stairing down the flag
His shear concentration was amazing to see and I can see why he won majors. This is where John is a cut above everyone his mental game is one of the best I have seen. His mind set was one objective the target.
What media don’t tell you is john had a bad injury for quite a while and had an operation, he should have taken 9 months of. But john being a battler came back weeks later and kept going, which he admits he should have taken 9 months off to heal. This is the true story behind his poor golf in the past. You can blame his personal life if one likes but the true fact is most guys wouldn’t have been able to come back andcontinue with such an injury.
John’s personal life is his business and really everyone should lay off him. I think the people who criticize should look in their own back yard first. John is an average bloke with everyday problems just like all of us. He’s a battler just like you and I
John is a true professional out there on the coarse and this all that counts. I recommend to go watch a truly pure ball striker and hitter watch John ,the ball compression is amazing.
John’s muscular loading in his swing is incredible. This is why the guy can play, he knows his body and knows how to use it to get maximum compression. They guy is a freak and and what pure talent he is.
Tiger is right he is most talented player out there

Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / Bobbing problems

Ah reach1,
your a baseballer, explains everything, Ok try this, use your tennis forehand backswing for your backswing in golf and use the the same forehand swing in tennis for your downswing in golf, now in baseball when your stabilize your body, do this earlier at the start of your downswing then use your tennis forehand. Combine both and you have golf in a nutshell.
When I screen players in tennis and baseball these are the slight differences.I find golf is somewhere in between these motions.
The human motion in these sports have a very similar kinetic link.
Give this a go , think about your motions in tennis and baseball, apply these methods, you have a head start over most people your an athlete

Topic: Golf Talk / How to stretch effectively and WHY

Soulmann,
hit the nail on the head there, you would have seen a few injury themselves by warming up using static?
Dynamic is to go start of with a wedge some pitches, punch shots, work into half shots full shots, then work up through your bag with each club up to your driver, then work back down through your bag back to wedge to warm down and rest your muscles before you play.
I flinch when I see people at driving range pull out drive cold turkey for hit for the day.

Topic: Golf Talk / help me

To right slappa, in my come back my ball striking no problems, but short game, lost it big time, getting it back now but took a long time

Topic: Golf Talk / help me

grind balls is the only way to get some form back, put some hours into your short game

Topic: Golf Talk / 1 certain aussie golfer should shut up

John is here is cause he can crank it long, really I don’t care about his personal life, it’s his life he can do what he likes,
He has won majors and can play the game, I’ll definitely be going to see him crank it miles, the crowds don’t care what he shots, all they want to see is him crank it long.
Daily on the carry is still one of the longest hands down

yo glennbo how’s the golf?

Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / Working on the Train Wreck: After Lag's Impact Bag Drills

Stebb,
The technology they use cost millions of dollars, they can track where the missle is sure, but they aren’t just using sonar radar either, they are also using satelites to do it. They can measure from one point to another then using alogrithms to measure speeds and time, As for tracking like flight scope and trackman they can’t track this way at all.
They use the same maths is what they are really saying. Flight scope and trackman can only measure in space for a short period of time.
They can track a ball to some extent. but they can’t measure swing speeds is all I’m saying.
A.B isn’t concerned about his true swing speed if he is hitting ball 350metres, all he cares about is distance, linear speed is only one part of the equation. compression is the other, mass or energy the force applied to ball is what they can’t measure, Spin rates is only one part of the equation of ball travel

Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / Working on the Train Wreck: After Lag's Impact Bag Drills

Loren,
if this was right can explain why A.B at a true swing speed of
110 mph can hit the ball 350 metres ?
everyone laugh at me when I said I flew the ball on the green and drove the hole which was 280 metres.According to a flight monitor I had a swing speed of 90mph max.? but 15 blokes seen me do it.
Can you explain this?
Loren I don’t believe anything ball flight monitors have to say, their technology isn’t accurate data.
There is only one flight monitor that isn’t far off being correct but won’t be released till next year

Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / Working on the Train Wreck: After Lag's Impact Bag Drills

By measuring anatomical time, we measure the club in space from the top of the back swing into collision, we use a 3d anatomical model,
keen even tell which way the shaft is applying force in the downswing,
I can tell you if the club head has decelerated and exactly at what point this occured, I can tell if your applying pressure point 3 at what point and where you lost it.
compression is easy to measure if you have the technology I use,
Ok speak to people most on avreage they swing 100 mph, so why do they all hit it different distances, why can one hit a 7iron 130 and the other 150 , easy compression

Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / attention Prot

Hi Prot,
what is you email, I can forward on some details of someone who can help you with your pivot problems
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Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / In the slot drill

Alex,
apply everything dart has mentioned but remove your hip slide your applying , this will jam up your pivot on you. hip side will cause two things either hip slide and hips don’t rotate properly,they decelerate , instead of accelerating then decelerating, or they slide and then hips fire way to late. Then what dart has mentioned won’t work affectively for you.
Hip slide is the root to all evil in lower body mechanics. hip slide causes block and hooks no matter how educated you hands are, if you hit it straight with a hip slide your steering using educated hands

Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / Working on the Train Wreck: After Lag's Impact Bag Drills

prot,
swing speed doesn’t equal distance, even though your swing speed is slower doesn’t mean you will loses distance. one thing flight monitors can’t measure is ball compression, the better you compress the ball the further it will go, lag has you on the right track, hitting the impact bag will help compression in a big way.
All a flight monitors measures is spin of the golf ball using algorithms
Pay attention to ball flight not swing speed.
My longdrive guy has a true swing speed of 110mph and hits the ball , I ‘ve seen 350 metres. according to flight monitors he swings at 138 mph they are measuring spin. We measure from the club from top of downswing to impact. at any point i can tell you the club head speed.
focus on compression

Topic: Golf Equipment / Wishon on golf industry future.

unless someone can get pressure against the shaft you wasting your life being fitted, sure alter lie angle but shaft flex forget it.
fix the mechanics first when they have some form of pressure against the shaft , then fit people to spec.

Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / Working on the Train Wreck: After Lag's Impact Bag Drills

Prot ,
give me a few days which area are in you in and I’ll find a guy specialized in human body motion in Canada who can help you.

Brownman , i can understand lag is helping this area, but lets face nuts and bolt and what the key cause is. Why waste your life working on something which isn’t they key root to the problem. How about fix the root problem first.
you have no pivot you have no golfswing, you can train your hands til the cows come home, your pivot is sloppy your hands will be sloppy

Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / Working on the Train Wreck: After Lag's Impact Bag Drills

Prot,
to be honest here you can flog the impact bag to your heart is content but is not going to change your plane in your case.
your lower body mechanics(lower body motion0 is what is causing all your issues, there is no way your going to be able to get the club on plane with your lower body being unstable.
Where do you live? I can’t point you to someone which can fix your lower body mechanics for you.?
If your pivot train isn’t firing right the club can’t work on plane, everything reacts around the axis of the spine.
Your mechanics are fine what is causing head aches is your body motion.

Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / Paul Hurrion Putting Awesome

The other day I had the pleasure of meeting Paul Hurrion who worked with Hadrington, Paul specialises in researching human body motion in putting ,he was a fantastic guy very down to earth . I respect the man’s work and research he uses 2d biomechanics technology like stick men but good for putting.using 21 sensors on the body. Was very interesting talking to him about his research and work, he’s done a great job. We had a grand old time once I mention centre of mass, then lingo started flying all over the show was great.
The new Gel putter range he designed are awesome, very well balanced. He has the weight in the face towards the top of the putter face, so the mass of the club is moving towards the target. Bout time some one designed a descent putter
I must say this range is the best I’ve seen in a long time. The thought and research behind is range is fantastic. It’s well worth looking up his sight google Paul Hurrion

Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / Slowing Down

You can’t over decelerate, the more the better, but depends on which end you start from club first your in trouble. but hips ,shoulders , arms, hands perfect, at impact all body parts slow down prior to impact.

Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / Jason Moon, DTL

Marylandpro,
There no way I could put this on paper way to hard to explain to give a full understanding of why and how, I would only confuse everyone, I do this enough as it is. This would be something I would have to explain in person.

Lagpressure, couldn’t agree more , we even apply some of the same laws in human body motion as well.
What happens to homer is similar to reading my post really, I understand what I’m talking about, but sometimes I don’t think everyone else does. Then perception created to what I’m saying changes from person to person. As this is how they develop the understanding, is this right or wrong no, we all see things from different angles and perspective.
But would their perceptions work being turned into a human motions well then this is where things go wrong and don’t work out. Then who do we blame BIO. But hey I’m a big boy I can take the flak.
P.S AB is going great guns, he’s learning to start slow and build up speed, his lower body mechanics are look very good. I’m sure next year he will be knocking on your door to say HI
on his way to the worlds. very happy with his results

Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / Jason Moon, DTL

Royssh,
Laws of physics and science ,the world revolves around science and physics.
I can see your point not to close your mind point taken and I agree.
But one thing we can’t close our mind to is the laws and physics.
But the hard part of homers work is turning technical terminology into everyday lingo so people understand his work of what homer is trying to say.
I can understand what homer is saying but then to relay this to the next man is the hard part. What kills homer work is each person has a different perception to what he’s saying. Ben doyle, lynn blake, brian Manzella they all have different perceptions of homers work and ideas.
More it’s not homer work is the problem , it’s the perceptions of the people relaying homers work which are debatable.
And no disrespect to these guys this is their perception of homers work , are they right or wrong who knows, take a bit from each experiment and decide for yourself.