No way, teach well over 1,000 different people per season and more than half come thinking they should drive their hands down and out --- The hands ahead along with hitting down with them has been mainstream golf instruction for the past 15 years. Even in the welcome to golf classes I do with large crowds, they have heard the concept. The forward hands handle drag is a disaster when the golfer goes down and out trying to match their hand low point to their club head low point. The point of the whole Explosive Golf Show and this discussion.
OK - so this is based in physics and describes what actually happens in a good swing. And I'd agree that there are lots of folks, largely c/o the internet I'd say, who have got maximum lag and big fwd shaft lean into their heads as desirable concepts. So this is good stuff to fix their concept of how the swing works, and like lots of people on this thread have said, will make many golfers intensely more relaxed about a little bit of left wrist bend, maybe some left arm flex and other good things.
But this surely isn't about to evolve into a one-size fits all Jacobs/Manzella Method, is it? You're still going to be fixing faults and moving people towards better D-plane conditions by whatever means possible and to hell with whether the golfer looks like an arbitrary model or not.
So what I'm trying to get my head around is this. When an average golfer comes for help with their slice - are you still going to fix the face with grip and twistaway and roll. Or does your understanding of how to line up the shaft mean that now you'll just be teaching folks how to square up a too-open face in time for impact?
And for the guy whose swing bottoms out a couple inches behind the ball - are you still relying on FATS and pivot action and COFF-drills? Or would you give more shaft lean, and a more downward AoA,
to someone who needs it - by working on the away from the target hand motion at the beginning of the downswing?
Apologies in advance if I've bastardised some of your research - but you hopefully get the general thrust of the question.
) of what the isufferably talented players rub our spectacularly average noses in. If you apply force across the shaft you can "cast" as well as well as get super-leany and "dig." Seems likes like a two for one. If you can reduce a lot of crappy golf to a basic root cause (applying force across the shaft) then I would say (regardless if has been hinted at here and there before) "MJ" (Manzella/Jacobs) have a coup. This is almost as revelatory to me as the D-plane...almost. 