Instructional Video Critique Topic

[saevel25]

Yea, they are overthinking that golf hole. Maximize fairway, minimize hazards. 

For me, moving to one side of the tee box or other is a confidence thing. It also helps me with aim, and not being influence by the orientation of the tee box. 

[ChetlovesMer]

Okay, he clearly said he'd rather be in the rough on left than on the fairway on the right. Then he hit a shot to the right hand edge of the fairway and said "That is exactly what I wanted to do." 

Huh?

 

1 hour ago, saevel25 said:

For me, moving to one side of the tee box or other is a confidence thing. It also helps me with aim, and not being influence by the orientation of the tee box. 

This

[Ty_Webb]

11 minutes ago, ChetlovesMer said:

Okay, he clearly said he'd rather be in the rough on left than on the fairway on the right. Then he hit a shot to the right hand edge of the fairway and said "That is exactly what I wanted to do." 

Huh?

 

I wondered about that and decided that it looks like the fairway turns right out in the distance. I am not sure how far down his ball ended up, but it might be that it went far enough that it is still in the left side of the fairway. Having said that, it seems like pretty much everything else in the video is bunk, so quite possible that is too.

[iacas]

I'm going to not say anything about this one for awhile. Curious to hear y'all's thoughts on it…

[Ty_Webb]

Well that started off okay - I was with him when he said that the goal is to reduce the gap between your good shots and your bad shots (unspoken, but clearly you want to do that by bringing the bad shots closer to the good shots and not the other way around). And then he lost me. I got as far as "once you've motored the spiral line..." and I just couldn't watch any more of it. So either I'm getting seriously wooshed (not impossible by any stretch), or he's talking a large amount of gibberish. Or I guess some combination of those two things.

[saevel25]

I get the feeling he has come up with a lot of catch phrases to make himself sound competent. He could be right on some things, but it comes out as fake to me. 

It bothered me when he pulled up the graphic of the human body, showing what looked like a muscle that cross the body (hip to opposite shoulder). There are no muscles that actually do that. There is this stretch and pull, but it isn't like a single muscle that is connected like that. 

 

 

Edited 10 hours ago by saevel25

[GolfLug]

I actually really like the video. I feel like it speaks to my own issues of hip movement (lunge towards the ball). I think he also presents a very good and detailed explanation of the why from biomechanical perspective, not forcing the clubs in position and instead let it work a proper planar path by providing it space (hip swivel) the most efficient way.

As far as tech speak/catch phrases etc., that some may not like, it doesn't bother me and even necessary. For eg., the spiral line sounds like it is the same thing as a kinematic chain, but directionally specific along with the set of muscles joints it engages. If the club is not dynamically aligned to the 'spiral line' it will force other compensation like locking joints, etc. That's simple logic, and from my perspective not brought up enough. Good stuff.

[iacas]

2 minutes ago, GolfLug said:

I actually really like the video. I feel like it speaks to my own issues of hip movement (lunge towards the ball). I think he also presents a very good and detailed explanation of the why from biomechanical perspective, not forcing the clubs in position and instead let it work a proper planar path by providing it space (hip swivel) the most efficient way.

Eh. Do your hips back when they swivel like he demonstrates? Or do they tend to go forward as they rotate?

3 minutes ago, GolfLug said:

If the club is not dynamically aligned to the 'spiral line' it will force other compensation like locking joints, etc.

[GolfLug]

2 hours ago, iacas said:

Eh. Do your hips back when they swivel like he demonstrates? Or do they tend to go forward as they rotate?

Mine? Forward. Not like he demonstrates. I didn't think he intended to stay they actually moved backwards in relation to the ground. More a relative move to the rib cage. 

Sorry, Im not sure I understand what the pics demonstrates to counter what I quoted. 

I also want to make sure you understand that I come from a place where I have felt for a while that I have completely misunderstood how the pelvis/torso move globally in the golf swing positionally at some point in my learning so completely open to correction.