Taking a break from the video-editing – Golf Digest just gave me an excellent article to use to point out how Modern Golf Swing instruction is just… pretty much useless.
Instead of giving some really good advice (in my opinion), they are compounding the problem by not really explaining what causes a slice.
It is not, as they state, the simple matter of one’s club face being open at impact – in fact, club path has a good deal more to do with slicing that the simple open face.
Update: I’ve edited this after mistakenly attributing Dr. Lafontaine’s statements to Michael Bamberger. Fixed.
File this under “Are you kidding me?”
Michael Bamberger has apparently caught on to the fact that the Modern Golf Swing is bad for one’s back. I’m shocked – shocked that there’s gambling going on in here…
I’m happy that someone is finally taking notice. I mean, it’s only been 7 years since I posted on the shocking discovery based on scientific analysis.
I wasn’t aware of this development until The Welshman sent me a message about it yesterday, but my response to him was, “it was only a matter of time, the way he twists his lower back…”
That development was a long-expected one for me, because even while Rory McIlroy has at times embraced the notion of not nailing his leading foot down on the back pivot, he has always insisted on twisting his lower back like a pretzel, and that was never going to end well, unfortunately.
It is counter-intuitive to think, if you’re not used to the concept, that you swing from something other than your arms, but that is reality.
The arms are the only links to the club, of course, but they arms are swinging from the shoulders, and the mid-point of the shoulders is really the point around which the swing turns.
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.
I’ve run across this account before and have just shaken my head over the stuff I see being peddled by a guy that could be me – older, grey beard and still swinging.
I can offer one redeeming factor in this channel, and it’s that this silver gent actually performs a Classic Golf Swing pivot with the lifting lead heel, which is the only reason he’s still able to swing hard at that age.
There’s no other word I can come up with to describe what I just watched.
An absolute fraud, and I’ll show you what I’m talking about.
If you watch the one-handed swing, this dude is pulling the club way outside-in and hard across the line to the left.
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.
Here is the corresponding one-armed swing action to go with yesterday’s right-arm motion.
Again, you see that, with a stable swing-point, you take out a large degree of risk of mis-hitting the ball with a proper motion.
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