new york times article about stack and tilt...

[Michael Jacobs]

Agree, but would also say the days of a flat shoulder swing are on the way out , thankfully. I can't see a flat shoulder, or even hip turn, being good for ANYONE. Yes, I know some great pros have doe it \ do it, but you get my point.
Also, why need to FEEL 'lift' your arms. Shoudn't need to with a proper pivot.
Flame suite on.

Wow --- thats an incredible post!
you would be out of business teaching and do more damage than the featherlite irons of the early 80's

 

[Brian Manzella]

Kevin Shields, playing well with Step and Shift.

What if you tried a pattern and it didn't work?

Kevin Shields tried a lot of them, including some MORAD, and some Stack & Tilt.

No luck.

Since working with me, his career is back on the uptick, and yesterday, he won yet another event, the West Penn Open.

Kevin has had lots of physical issues in the past, and his current pattern, let's call it Step & Shift, might be the polar opposite of Stack & Tilt.

The point is folks is simple, my research says that the Stack & Tilt pattern, the Foley pattern, The "One-Plane" Swing and the Tripod Patterns are all "non-optimal."

And I am saying that in a physics, geometry, engineering, and bio-mechanics way.

Any pattern that has be properly "vetted" can work. These four patterns mentioned can work, have worked, and will continue to work on golfers from hacker to PGA Tour Pro. No doubt for some, they ARE optimal, for a variety of other reasons beyond the three areas of science I mentioned.

But we have other patterns that work, and we are the only Academy in the world that would gladly teach any of the four patterns above, if we deemed them best for a particular student.

In fact, we do it all of the time.

We think we are on the right side of history and science. Only time will prove the history part one way or the other.

 

[gmbtempe]

But we have other patterns that work, and we are the only Academy in the world that would gladly teach any of the four patterns above, if we deemed them best for a particular student.

This is why I don't get any dogmatic approach to teaching where a teacher would close your mind to any mechanic that might get a player into a better position. It does not make logical sense.