I have come to suspect that the main reason people struggle to learn anything from golf swing instructional videos is simply that they are too long.
I have been watching more videos, mine included, on the swing, and there is just too much talking and digression – I’m being brutally critical here, and I’m not saying that they aren’t any good, just that they are too long.
We’re finally getting somewhere here, WAX Nation!
I’ve cobbled together a little preview clip for the upcoming “The Basics Of The MCS Golf Swing” video that will be out later this month.
As I mentioned earlier when I re-started the project from scratch, I had decided to dispense with trying to patch together previous videos to create a new one and to use the clips that I found useful, but also to simply voice over the new parts that I would have had to re-shoot – and that would have taken us into spring or summer of this year.
How critical is it?
Let me tell you all how critical it is – I essentially completed my swing research could have perfected my own golf swing research in 2015-16 if only I had taken the care to look at and correct my own grip.
Well, it’s finally coming together after countless delays and endless tinkering with the subject matter, and the best news is that I have my old video editor back up and running.
I am a creature of habit, and had gotten comfortable with the video editor I had used since 2012. Some software glitch rendered that program unusable and I have been trying to make do with a new video editor which, to be frank, just wasn’t cutting the mustard.
“How difficult should it be to learn (or to explain) a proper golf swing?”
I am refraining from giving constant updates with regards to the video project because things keep evolving in the process.
I think I’ve nailed a part of something (and because I have OCD, I keep re-visiting things), only to have a better way (I believe) to explain or show something, and revising begins anew.
In days past, I just put my head down and went through it all, and I invariably ended up hating all of my videos because I thought they could have been better.
The thing causing the delay in completing my video project is that of reconciling simplicity versus thoroughness, and trying to avoid either missing something or creating the video equivalent of “War & Peace.”
I keep finding things getting too long and overly intricate, but when I try to re-do a section with more simplicity, I start to worry that I’m leaving something out that I find to be an obvious thing, but may not be so to someone who hasn’t been studying and analyzing the golf swing for twenty-plus years.
I took a look at what I had completed with the new video, after I recovered from my flu and things settled down with the holidays, and I just wasn’t happy – I am simply a bit of a perfectionist at the worst of times.
What I found was that much of the explanation portion of the previous videos wasn’t what I want to say NOW about the golf swing, and searching through endless previous footage of the tutorials was ending with my having to “make do” with things that I thought or felt I would explain differently were I to actually shoot a new video.
I had made this gif. from the found raw video tutorials I had unearthed last month but was feeling too ill to write a post about it.
Today is a little better, so I wanted to share what was watching and listening to, and how it mirrors Ben Hogan’s hand action drill nearly exactly.
What appeared to be another catastrophe is not as bad as I feared – I came down with the nasty flu variant in our area last week (hence the lack of posting recently), which is bound to happen with two college-aged kids and one in high school picking up bugs on campus.
I have chronic bronchitis and a pre-asthmatic condition, so when I get the flu, it puts me right out and I’ve not been able to do much for a few days while I try to rest and recover.
Part of the reason this project is taking so long to complete is that I am still looking at things while I’m putting all of the components together.
I have in the past couple of days spent a good deal of time looking at the grip instruction in my previous videos, and finding them OK for showing the “standard neutral grip” that I have always advocated, but there’s something else I want to offer.
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