Brian Manzella
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PERFECT EXAMPLE
I gave a lesson to a forum member today who had taken a lesson from me last year.
He was a typical "strong grip slicer." I Manzella-Neutarlized his grip, taught him a twistaway, and he was fixed.
A year later he hits a pull-hook, a pull, and a pull-cut.
The "lean left in practice swings, then make a 3-quarter backswing up the elbow plane and stop it just before it would have shifted completely to the turned shoulder plane, and then swing more left with less axis tilt" crowd (isn't it much more accurate than "One Planer"
), would love the swing he showed up with today:
A reverse pivot, and slightly over the top. They would say: "See a One-Planer" who just needs a little of this and a little of that.
Baloney.
He was reverse-pivoter last year, and had the strong grip so in vogue these days. Junk.
He showed up a MUCH BETTER PLAYER today. A golfer ready for more UPGRADES, not more junk.
So, I videoed him, and I looked at the video, then looked at him with my eye—the eye that has been on the lesson tee getting better everyday, for the last 25 years, while some guys designed course and some sold widgets.
My eye, and my HARD-EARNED experience, the one that has made mistakes and learned from them, the one I got traveling all over dodge, listening to all the so called greats and watch them teach. The one I got spending all those nights watching video in Tom Bartlett's sun room, Ben Doyle's living room, Mike Finney's apartments and homes, The "studio" on top of the City Park Driving Range, watching video shot at TOUR events and Major Champonships, with 20 different Sony Cameras, on 6 different computers, testing it on Golfteks and BioVision, with help from Mandrin and all the naysayers, from CarrolGalley to PlayaBrian (I think basiclly they are the same person, but whatever).
My eye told me....hmmm....double-shifter.
No, he wasn't a double-shifter, he needed to be a double-shifter. How did I know....well...I just knew. (see above)
So we worked on all sorts of neat things, like:
Downstroke Waggles and bounce-back drills.
Loading for swinging, instead of hitting.
No force across the shaft.
Starting the downswing from the feet.
Right Forearm Slap.
Axis Tilt.
He hit it better. Much better. Way better. But something was missing. What could it be????
Ahh.....
That friggin' reverse pivot. The one all of those "take 20 yrs. off" teachers love. The one that all the teachers who can't get their students to swing LESS inside-out any other way love.
I fixed it.
He hit it so much longer and higher, it was silly.
Another golfer who has a chance to get much better.
If I would have given that lesson at a PGA Summit, they would have CANONIZED ME right then and there.
I give myself a A-
I gave a lesson to a forum member today who had taken a lesson from me last year.
He was a typical "strong grip slicer." I Manzella-Neutarlized his grip, taught him a twistaway, and he was fixed.
A year later he hits a pull-hook, a pull, and a pull-cut.
The "lean left in practice swings, then make a 3-quarter backswing up the elbow plane and stop it just before it would have shifted completely to the turned shoulder plane, and then swing more left with less axis tilt" crowd (isn't it much more accurate than "One Planer"
), would love the swing he showed up with today:A reverse pivot, and slightly over the top. They would say: "See a One-Planer" who just needs a little of this and a little of that.
Baloney.
He was reverse-pivoter last year, and had the strong grip so in vogue these days. Junk.
He showed up a MUCH BETTER PLAYER today. A golfer ready for more UPGRADES, not more junk.
So, I videoed him, and I looked at the video, then looked at him with my eye—the eye that has been on the lesson tee getting better everyday, for the last 25 years, while some guys designed course and some sold widgets.
My eye, and my HARD-EARNED experience, the one that has made mistakes and learned from them, the one I got traveling all over dodge, listening to all the so called greats and watch them teach. The one I got spending all those nights watching video in Tom Bartlett's sun room, Ben Doyle's living room, Mike Finney's apartments and homes, The "studio" on top of the City Park Driving Range, watching video shot at TOUR events and Major Champonships, with 20 different Sony Cameras, on 6 different computers, testing it on Golfteks and BioVision, with help from Mandrin and all the naysayers, from CarrolGalley to PlayaBrian (I think basiclly they are the same person, but whatever).
My eye told me....hmmm....double-shifter.
No, he wasn't a double-shifter, he needed to be a double-shifter. How did I know....well...I just knew. (see above)
So we worked on all sorts of neat things, like:
Downstroke Waggles and bounce-back drills.
Loading for swinging, instead of hitting.
No force across the shaft.
Starting the downswing from the feet.
Right Forearm Slap.
Axis Tilt.
He hit it better. Much better. Way better. But something was missing. What could it be????
Ahh.....
That friggin' reverse pivot. The one all of those "take 20 yrs. off" teachers love. The one that all the teachers who can't get their students to swing LESS inside-out any other way love.
I fixed it.
He hit it so much longer and higher, it was silly.
Another golfer who has a chance to get much better.
If I would have given that lesson at a PGA Summit, they would have CANONIZED ME right then and there.
I give myself a A-
