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Michael Finney

Michael Finney

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how has your enhanced understanding of the D plane affected your day to day teaching?

has it helped? confused?

have your students benefited?

just looking for an update...
 
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Phil Rosenbaum

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It has helped. Not a lot of lessons going on in Md. these days but I really understand more about about how the clubface and path affect ball flight.

I am def. looking more at ball flight in my lessons now and understanding how to fix parts of the swing to fix the ball flight.

GTE was very eye opening for me

Phil Rosenbaum
Hunt Valley, Md.
 
Matt Bryda

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The information presented at the GTE added to my confidence level with my own game and my teaching skills.
The visual Brian gave of the U plane was key for my understanding the downward and upward part .
Having Trackman there was huge because of the instant numbers verification. I have attended other teacher seminars where you had to sit back and assume that what the guy is saying is good information with no way to verify anything.
Because of the weather here in northern Ohio teaching has all but stopped for the season. I have had a chance to work on my game a little and the results have been very good with short and long game. I now know a lot better the what and why I do what I do in my swing.

And..I am going to get some chopsticks and put them in my golf bag ready for next season!

Matt
 
Steve Greffen

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Michael Finney said:
how has your enhanced understanding of the D plane affected your day to day teaching?

has it helped? confused?

have your students benefited?

just looking for an update...
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Michael,

Thanks for the check up on us. :) You had our best intentions at the seminar and continue to do so, and I for one appreciate it very much.

Affected day to day teaching-
My focus has been much more directed at ball flight and the quick diagnosis of it has helped me not stray to other causes and I believe made my instruction or "remedies" much simpler.

Helped, confused-
It has most certainly helped and I would say that prior to the GTE I had a pretty good idea of the face to path relationship (through this website) and how the ball reacted, what was really an eye opener was how the amount down or up the club head swung affected the path. This really helped not only my own iron game but teaching others as well. My hesitation still comes from miss hits (which my students do often!) and how much the ball flight is affected by these shots. It was one of the questions that I kept bringing up for some clarification and one that wasn't focused on completely at the GTE. I have found that my Casio camera is very effective in capturing the impact in regards to toe or heel hits and that does help especially showing the student how off they might be and why the ball was hit poorly.

Students benefited-
It would be no question that they have, and not necessarily with a complete comprehension of the d-plane, but just the fact we are not spending time on the wrong areas to fix their ball flight.


I am hoping for more GTE "homework" for the off season, as like the other posters here I'm not teaching much right now! I'm obviously reading the forum and things like that but would love a "project" or material to review for these slow days. (like today with rain/sleet and 40 degrees! No golfers!) Of course an early start to the next GTE this spring would be great. ;)

Thanks again Mike and hope things are going well for you and your family.

Steve Greffen
 
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Kevin Shields

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Since the GTE and Trackman users conference, I cannot go through a lesson without "Sharpie-ing" a few balls and finding out where on the face they're hitting it. Crucial. Especially better players.

I had a scratch player telling me he was hitting it well and hitting baby fades. Trackman said 1 degree inside out path. Marked a few balls and sure enough he was hitting it toward the heel.
 
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Kevin Shields said:
Since the GTE and Trackman users conference, I cannot go through a lesson without "Sharpie-ing" a few balls and finding out where on the face they're hitting it. Crucial. Especially better players.

I had a scratch player telling me he was hitting it well and hitting baby fades. Trackman said 1 degree inside out path. Marked a few balls and sure enough he was hitting it toward the heel.
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I use a product called "Sweet Spot It" that is in a small plastic case shaped like a golf ball and has a material similar to women's face powder that leaves a nice ball impression on the face and is quickly removable. Picked it up in Golf Galaxy.
 
Matt Bryda

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Since the GTE and Trackman users conference, I cannot go through a lesson without "Sharpie-ing" a few balls and finding out where on the face they're hitting it. Crucial. Especially better players.

I had a scratch player telling me he was hitting it well and hitting baby fades. Trackman said 1 degree inside out path. Marked a few balls and sure enough he was hitting it toward the heel.
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Since the invention of oversized equipment it seems like hitting on the sweetspot has lost it's luster!

Just a thought.

Matt
 
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