Brian Manzella
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That was my first words to someone after walking off the stage in Cambridge, Mass, at the 3rd BGTT Summit at MIT.
If you present at MIT, you have to—or are supposed to—pick one little detail of the swing or putting stroke, or something to improve the body physically, and test it, using MIT's criteria, and present the finding in your 45 minute talk (which includes question time).
This limits the heck out of you. At the first Summit, the second one and even at this one, some folks just "presented" an idea, untested.
Anyhoo, I presented the idea that if you give me a non-hooker, non-trapper, which most folks are, I'll give them a 3 minute TWISTAWAY ONLY lesson, and fix the heck out of them and improve their path/clubface/and shaft lean.
On that, my research showed, from what I saw, the most improvement of any, from a positive change in mechanics principle.
Three minutes of semi-frantic scrambling to hook my MacBook Pro up, and I was off an running.
Too bad most of them were going to be real helps in getting the crowd going.
I had quite a few teachers ask me to expound on my ideas after the talk, and as an "audition" for a "run" at the PGA Summit, I did OK.
I will post some of the numbers and pictures from my slides in this thread, as soon as I can.
That was my first words to someone after walking off the stage in Cambridge, Mass, at the 3rd BGTT Summit at MIT.
I did OK.
Here's the scoop.
If you present at MIT, you have to—or are supposed to—pick one little detail of the swing or putting stroke, or something to improve the body physically, and test it, using MIT's criteria, and present the finding in your 45 minute talk (which includes question time).
This limits the heck out of you. At the first Summit, the second one and even at this one, some folks just "presented" an idea, untested.
Anyhoo, I presented the idea that if you give me a non-hooker, non-trapper, which most folks are, I'll give them a 3 minute TWISTAWAY ONLY lesson, and fix the heck out of them and improve their path/clubface/and shaft lean.
On that, my research showed, from what I saw, the most improvement of any, from a positive change in mechanics principle.
A+ for that part.
My speech started well, but at about the three minute mark, my PowerPoint slides had lost their pictures in the process of transferring them to the house computer.
Three minutes of semi-frantic scrambling to hook my MacBook Pro up, and I was off an running.
Half a letter grade deduction from the Italian judge.
The rest of the speech went well, but the crowd was a little tired at that point from all of the speeches, and about 20% of them had left from travel reasons.
Too bad most of them were going to be real helps in getting the crowd going.
Probably cost me another half letter grade.
Anyhoo, I hit some Triples, quite a few singles, and a double or two.
(Sorry, couldn't resist. You can see Fenway Park out of the window.)
I made them laugh, I made 'em think, and I made my points.
I had quite a few teachers ask me to expound on my ideas after the talk, and as an "audition" for a "run" at the PGA Summit, I did OK.
I will post some of the numbers and pictures from my slides in this thread, as soon as I can.
Got my carpenter jeans on, and I'm off to "the house."