The best five teaching ideas/instruction keys from the forum

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James Marshall (Hogan1953)

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Brian,

You've been interacting personally and via the forum with hundreds of golfers and quite a few teachers in the last 3 or 4 years. What would you consider to be the top five new ideas/images/instruction keys that you've learnt/picked from everybody's contributions?

My best so far, in no particular order, I've only here for three or four months and obviously haven't read everything and that have helped my students progress are.

1. Your image of having the clubface pointing at the ground/mat through impact.
2. EDZ's idea of banging a nail attached to the ball at impact point into the ground with the clubface. I stuck a big screw in a ball last month and having been using to good affect with my students. They certainly remember the image.
3. Flashlights for plane tracing
4. Twistaway, two students are currently enjoying improved golfing using this.
5. golfbulldog's ideas about the pivot's function to sustain lag pressure.
 
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Jared Willerson

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I'll have to agree on the flashlights...

The idea that has stuck with me the most from the forum and got me coming back were the ideas in "Never Hook Again"...it turns out I don't need that stuff as much as I thought, but that pattern got me through a rough couple of months.
 
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Great post. I hope this goes far. I agree with the twistaway. I can honestly say that I do NOT slice anymore. Don't even use the twistaway anymore, just a FLAT left wrist.

Also would like a link to #5.

-Thanks
 
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Brian and Croker conversation

bcoak said:
5. golfbulldog's ideas about the pivot's function to sustain lag pressure.

Link?
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Not really a swing thought/tip but rather a definition of "pivot"

Pivot is whatever you zone 1 components ( ie . body) has to do to allow player to maintain lag pressure.

Peter Croker and Brian describe different pivots, but ,if attached to correct other components, they both achieve the same goal.

Peter wanted a universal definition - impossible if you try and give absolute specific movements to follow - let it do whatever it wants so long as lag pressure maintained.

PS. TWISTAWAY is a real "top 1" concept!!!
 
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Jim Kobylinski

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pieman said:
how about explaining number 1? wouldn't that close the face and draw or hook the ball excessively?
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It would if you "flipped" the clubface in an attempt to it. However if you are ROTATING the left arm properly you won't, you can even fade it if you want.

I did it for all to see in the Orlando School.
 
birdie_man

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It's true.

I used to be skeptical...

But it works.

And it's not just something you can use for training or to show ppl "Hey it's possible."

It's a damn good way to play golf.
 
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hcw

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jim_0068 said:
It would if you "flipped" the clubface in an attempt to it. However if you are ROTATING the left arm properly you won't, you can even fade it if you want.

I did it for all to see in the Orlando School.
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if you do #1, does it deloft the club?
 
birdie_man

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Like this:

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Roll er open in the backswing....roll er closed thru Impact.

Believe it or not....it's very reliable and not hook prone if you do it right.....if you have lag and tilt.
 
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Spike

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Five Instruction Ideas

There are many ways to deal with the learning/teaching process and it is clear to me (thank you Brian, PaulH) that if these processes do not conform to the 3 Imperitives and 3 Essentials (hey, there's 6 instruction ideas) you will have very little chance of finding Golf Heaven.

Here are just a few of the Concepts that I use that work.

1.The Hands are the Source of Motion (Educated Hands) - Swivel Disks Drill

2.Push not Pull - 9 Major Alignments = Using the Pressure Points

3.Golf as a Two Target Game - A to B = B to T

4.No Conscious Weight shift - Precision Pivot Drill = Steady Center

5.Alignment at Impact - Shaft in line with the Left Arm from Ball to Shoulder (Flat Left Wrist)
 
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bony

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birdie_man said:
Like this:

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Roll er open in the backswing....roll er closed thru Impact.

Believe it or not....it's very reliable and not hook prone if you do it right.....if you have lag and tilt.
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Thanks birdie_man
 
curtisj76

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Hey Bony-

A great drill that I picked up from Yoda is to make a fist and then do what the picture shows. Just a fist, it's so simple! I never understood this until I tried this drill. He says after you mastered the movement with just your fist you can then go to a club that's choked down. I LOVE IT!!
 
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Bigwill

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About the clubface facing the ground feeling; I stumbled upon this feel one day on the range a couple of years ago. I hit everything great, long irons, wedges, driver, straight and high. Don't know why I left it on the range that day. Maybe I need to revisit it...
 
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