cmow
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About 4 years ago, I got back into golf after a 3 or 4 year layoff. I decided then to try to learn to do things better, and hopefully, my old bad habits would have somewhat dissipated, and I could start fresh. I went and took a lesson from an instructor that is consistently ranked in the top 20 of those “top teachers” lists (hey, forgive me, I had never heard of BM at that point…). The entire lesson was filmed and burned to DVD. I stumbled across it a couple of nights ago and watched it again. Just wanted to share a couple of thoughts.
Not all of the top teachers are necessarily crappy or are just method teachers
1. I am obviously underplane and honestly what I got from the guy was an NHA lesson. He might have used different terms, but the up the wall, carry and yellow brick road concepts were all a major focus of the lesson. He was a little bit of a “line drawer”, but I know he now teaches with Trackman, so maybe he has evolved a little, too.
2. I took this lesson at the end of the season, and didn’t get to apply it very much, and I didn’t take full advantage of the info in the following years – stupid me.
3. Thanks to this forum I’m much more educated, and I feel with 2 reputable sources telling me to do the same thing I feel really confident on what I need to work on.
4. Hearing the same thing 2 different ways was somewhat helpful - there were some concepts that I “got” better from Brian’s explanation, and a couple that sunk in a little better when rewatching the other guy’s explanation.
I have a couple of questions related to the NHA pattern:
1. I rewatched NHA again, and one of the items touched upon was the need to rotate the left arm flying wedge in the backswing. I am struggling with this – if I take it up the wall, I tend to hold on to the twistaway. Are there any other swing thoughts/feels that people have used to get more left arm rotation? If I consciously think about rotating, I tend to do it too early, and pull the club inside.
2. One thing that this other teacher really tried to get me to do is finish more straight up and down. Brian appears to end up that way in the video and talks about finishing with the weight in the left heel, but just wondering if that is a good thought or bunk. I definitely have an overactive lower body, so I’m not sure if he was saying to do that because of my overactive legs (which probably drops me underplane from the top), or if it is good to do because it is part of the pattern. In NHA, there is talk about the right side bend through impact, but nothing that I caught about how long to hold that bend.
Not all of the top teachers are necessarily crappy or are just method teachers
1. I am obviously underplane and honestly what I got from the guy was an NHA lesson. He might have used different terms, but the up the wall, carry and yellow brick road concepts were all a major focus of the lesson. He was a little bit of a “line drawer”, but I know he now teaches with Trackman, so maybe he has evolved a little, too.
2. I took this lesson at the end of the season, and didn’t get to apply it very much, and I didn’t take full advantage of the info in the following years – stupid me.
3. Thanks to this forum I’m much more educated, and I feel with 2 reputable sources telling me to do the same thing I feel really confident on what I need to work on.
4. Hearing the same thing 2 different ways was somewhat helpful - there were some concepts that I “got” better from Brian’s explanation, and a couple that sunk in a little better when rewatching the other guy’s explanation.
I have a couple of questions related to the NHA pattern:
1. I rewatched NHA again, and one of the items touched upon was the need to rotate the left arm flying wedge in the backswing. I am struggling with this – if I take it up the wall, I tend to hold on to the twistaway. Are there any other swing thoughts/feels that people have used to get more left arm rotation? If I consciously think about rotating, I tend to do it too early, and pull the club inside.
2. One thing that this other teacher really tried to get me to do is finish more straight up and down. Brian appears to end up that way in the video and talks about finishing with the weight in the left heel, but just wondering if that is a good thought or bunk. I definitely have an overactive lower body, so I’m not sure if he was saying to do that because of my overactive legs (which probably drops me underplane from the top), or if it is good to do because it is part of the pattern. In NHA, there is talk about the right side bend through impact, but nothing that I caught about how long to hold that bend.
