is this a good swing to copy

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tongzilla

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nice one Mike O

Mike O said:
If you want to copy, then you should copy the swing which HE is trying to copy
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Indeed Mike :) ;)

And if you want to copy the swing which HE (you know who ;)) is trying to copy, you probably won't be able to as I cannot find any videos of his swing.
 
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You won't find any unless you to OHP and buy his Videos. I must say I purchased a few and also took lesson with him I refer to him as the 6 FT Hogan . Or you know of someone who has some video tape of him.
 
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iseekabetterswing said:
"you probably won't be able to as I cannot find any videos of his swing"

WTF:( :mad:
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I am referring to the swing HOGAN tried to copy. Actually, it's probably more accurate to say Hogan tried to copy certain components of his swing. I'm going back to when Hogan was still a kid learning to play golf. Before turning pro.
 
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iseekabetterswing said:
Homer Kelly?
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Ben Doyle

If you see the hands really forward like that and the right wrist not flattening-that's a Ben Doyle type move - to me.

I'll elaborate a little so hopefully I don't get attacked!

1) Regarding "Is this a good swing to copy?" I don't think you should "copy" any swing- not a good idea. Sure maybe there are traits or pieces of another swing- that could improve your movement but if you are "copying" swings then you're not going very far in golf.

2) I was just following Tong's comment a little further, a little deeper, keeping the same theme.
A) Greg McHatton has spent a lot of time with Ben Doyle
B) He's got that same "move" with the right wrist staying bent into the follow-through that I see with many of Ben Doyle's shots, demonstrations, etc. - and maybe tied to that the "hit it with your pivot" thing going on. That said, to say a player of Greg McHatton ability "copied" Ben Doyle's swing is a little bit of a mis-justice to Greg in that I'm sure he worked hard on "his" swing, but for "me" - I would say that either consciously or subconsciously - he certainly has some of the same mannerisms.

3) One thing I like about Brian's approach is that it's open enough to realize that what works for one player might not be for the next. I'd guess that on the broad approach he'd agree with me that you don't really just want to copy a swing. Should Brian try to swing like Steve Eklington? Why not- doesn't Elk have a great swing? You get the point.
 
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Mike O said:
Ben Doyle

If you see the hands really forward like that and the right wrist not flattening-that's a Ben Doyle type move - to me.

I'll elaborate a little so hopefully I don't get attacked!

1) Regarding "Is this a good swing to copy?" I don't think you should "copy" any swing- not a good idea. Sure maybe there are traits or pieces of another swing- that could improve your movement but if you are "copying" swings then you're not going very far in golf.

2) I was just following Tong's comment a little further, a little deeper, keeping the same theme.
A) Greg McHatton has spent a lot of time with Ben Doyle
B) He's got that same "move" with the right wrist staying bent into the follow-through that I see with many of Ben Doyle's shots, demonstrations, etc. - and maybe tied to that the "hit it with your pivot" thing going on. That said, to say a player of Greg McHatton ability "copied" Ben Doyle's swing is a little bit of a mis-justice to Greg in that I'm sure he worked hard on "his" swing, but for "me" - I would say that either consciously or subconsciously - he certainly has some of the same mannerisms.

3) One thing I like about Brian's approach is that it's open enough to realize that what works for one player might not be for the next. I'd guess that on the broad approach he'd agree with me that you don't really just want to copy a swing. Should Brian try to swing like Steve Eklington? Why not- doesn't Elk have a great swing? You get the point.
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He has spent time with Ben just like every one else but he has done his own research also. Base his swing on this and not that other link

http://www.brianmanzella.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7014&highlight=gregg+mchatton
 
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self-mastery

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tongzilla said:
I am referring to the swing HOGAN tried to copy. Actually, it's probably more accurate to say Hogan tried to copy certain components of his swing. I'm going back to when Hogan was still a kid learning to play golf. Before turning pro.
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Who Who Who?

You tease worse than a prom date.
 
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Please don't say Byron Nelson. Nelson and Hogan had lag, but they didn't do some exaggerated holdoff golfing machine pitch motion through the ball.
 
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