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Today I posted the video below to show that—yes—Walter Hagen moved his head on the backswing. And yes Walter Hagen played golf before Jimmy Ballard taught golf. And yes, David Toms and Lindsay Gahm move their head, and so do lots of folks, and Bob May and Scott Simpson mode theirs up, and they...

Made an ace today in a playing lesson. Hit the pin on the next hole. :)

We at brianmanzella.com are now ranked higher than ever, reaching a milestone we were approaching a week or so ago. We have even surpassed many golf sites not even in our category. Of course this is all because of your support, or at least interest, in our work. Thanks again, Brian

One of my students hitting a TrackMan verified 300.9 yard carry tee shot. His lesson featured strengthening his grip, taking his angle of attack with the driver from 2° down to 2° up, and keeping his arms as under his shoulders during the swing as he could. :) <iframe...

I remember when the handheld video camcorder was first introduced, I was the first person in the whole region to teach with one in every lesson (1985). In 1988, the local CBS affiliate WWL, #1 in news in the south, did a story on me the day after local newspaper TheTimes-Picayune did a story on...

This sequence of Jack Nicklaus—the Greatest Golfer of All-Time—was taken from the book THE FULL SWING. They did a really bad job in the book, all the pictures where rotated different, and the lines weren't any good either. After 2 hours of work, I think you can see the left arm across the...

If you have a Ball Speed of 160mph or more, you can play any golf course in the country. Mine is in the 150-155 range at best these days, but that is up slightly recently. My goal is to get a few in 160 range this year. On tour that is the speed of middle of the pack, to slightly back of...

Going to put them all in this post... but for now: <iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/36260559?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" width="700" height="394" frameborder="0" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen></iframe>

<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/36583089?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" width="700" height="175" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="" mozallowfullscreen="" allowfullscreen=""></iframe> "The thing to bear in mind is that the club is rotating around the shaft axis as it moves...

The website is ranked higher today than it ever has, closing in on a personal goal of mine. 25% of all the visitors to the site are new folks, and we haven't done a good enough job with those folks, so some extra time will be spent there. As has happened many times in the 9 years we have...

I asked this provocative question to several teachers at the GBN Summit in Grand Cypress a few months ago: If you could go back in a time machine to 1985 and ban the use of any video camera or graph-check camera in the entire world, would the WORLD SCORING AVERAGE from then to now go up or...

Brian Manzella's RULE #1 of Golf Teaching A. There is what the TEACHER wants the student to do. B. There is what the student THINKS the teacher wants him to do. C. There is what the student is actually doing. Never forget it. That is why the whole bass-akward way of teaching positions...

<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/36381562?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" width="700" height="394" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen="" mozallowfullscreen="" allowfullscreen=""></iframe> Young student of mine who is coming along nicely.

In the next couple of months there will be a lot of new visitors to the site. So, in preparation from this influx, plus for the benefit of all who visit this site, I am starting a new series called "What I Teach." It will cover the following 10 categories: 1. The Grip 2. Set-up 3. Early...

For those with an iPad, how do you save the AS2 video to the iPad for future playback?

In today's technology world, you have High-Speed Video from Down-the-line, face-on, and overhead view, TrackMan, Force Plates, and 6 degree of freedom 3D. Unless you "post up" a swing that has all four, and the four you have on from THAT PARTICULAR EXACT SWING, you have some—and maybe a lot...

Bill Clinton's Swing Analysis | GOLF.com

Let me start by saying that this a true story and the names will be left out of it forever and if anyone even takes a guess guess on this site, I will take the thread down. Here goes.... A teacher who teaches multiple players on tour told me that a student of his who is a multiple tour...

Will Maximum Lag always produce maximum distance for a given golfer? Yes or no. And why?

Would "Going Tangential" in the first phase of the downswing (from the change of the directions to somewhere around when the hands reach left arm level) with the precise amount of mini-toss to prevent the jackknife-effect, produce more "lag" or less "lag" by the completion of that portion of the...