Ready for my Interview....

[Brian Manzella]

Here is how we are going to do it....

We will take a list of 20 questions in this thread, and we need someone (or two) to volunteer to be the interviewer.

We'll do it, and I'll post it up.

 

[jeffgladchun]

I'll be the interviewer No questions other than when can I get you to come back to Ann Arbor?

 

[ggsjpc]

20 questions? About anything golf? I must have missed something. What are the boundaries?

 

[Brian Manzella]

20 questions? About anything golf? I must have missed something. What are the boundaries?

I want TOUGH questions, NO boundaries.

 

[ggsjpc]

If you had to teach ONE method for the rest of your life(not including any of your patterns) that you thought would help the most golfers, what would it be and why?

 

[Matt Bryda]

What top five things separate Manzella academy senior instructors from other golf academy instructors?

Matt

 

[dolanski]

In your teaching career, what is the the biggest thing that you ever taught that you just ended up being flat wrong about? How did you find out you were wrong and how did you come clean?

 

[niblick1]

Would you have been a better teacher as a teacher (pre-Trackman) just teaching what worked vs. finding TGM and that methodology?

 

[SJO]

What should be the ratio of practice versus play for maximum benefit?

Is there a limit to how much you should practice?

 

[Phil Rosenbaum]

You have a student that hits it nice tight draw ( low sweep draw miss )with the irons and fades the driver. Would you work on the path of the irons or the face angle of the driver first, is there a good way to blend patterns to help both issues at the same time?

Phil Rosenbaum

 

[jay2010]

Tell me why I should take a 3-D lesson

 

[Bomber]

With the knowledge that you have gained and been kind enough to share with us. Is there such a thing as a band aid fix anymore ?

 

[Jwat]

Why is it so much harder for ex-college athletes that played a big muscle sport such as (baseball/football) to have a consistant fluid swing? And why can't 95% of instructors help this type of golfer?

I only ask because I have had mulitple private lessons with the Hank Haney school (Steve Johnson - taught Tiger with Hank) and at the Butch Harmon school. Brian, you are truly the only teacher to not change my whole swing into something it didn't need to be and help me progress into a low single digit handicapper.

 

[gmbtempe]

If you had a young child and were looking into the game what would you do to get them started, just let them hit balls, lessons? Is there an age to get them started?

 

[drulf]

What, given modern technology, is the ultimate and novel way to teach the truly interested GD- subscribing, over-paid, over-weight, over/under-taught 8 to 15- capper without seeing him (her) in person?

 

[savydan]

If you can now look at a ball flight and come very close to guessing the Trackman numbers, is Trackman really just "proof" for the student?

 

[savydan]

Are the PHD bio-mechanics/physics ready to publish some universal truths about the golf swing, or are we still some years away?

 

[cal7426]

What would you say are the main swing fundamentals/concepts the average golfer gets wrong?

 

[savydan]

Fill in the blank: Out of approximately x number of full-time golf instructors in the U.S., approximately y percentage of them still believe/teach the old ball flight laws.

 

[James Marshall (Hogan1953)]

Given your work with Trackman, have you found it easier for steeper shoulder turn/flatter arm swing guys to zero out path and face than flatter shoulder turn/steeper arm swing guys or vice versa? And if there is a difference is there any trade-off in terms of speed generated?

Thanks