Instruction Too Technical

[teamroper60]

Originally Posted by Patrick57

You're not going to go away are you. OK I suck you're right. But my students don't suck. The system sucks. Their improvement would be better without 'outside-in' interference.

You have stated twice that you are unhappy with the results your students have obtained by your teaching.  You have also shifted blame three times now by stating it was the fault of an outside force.    It is incumbent upon the instructor to find a way to teach the student, it is not incumbent upon the student to conform to the teacher's methods.   Your own statements clearly indicate your methods are not working for most of your students.   Your statements also make it clear you will readily shift blame for this onto anything else, rather than accept that your methods are not working.

You need to face reality, the vast majority of your students are not succeeding because you are either unable (possbily) or unwilling (most likely) to make adjustments to your methods to fit the student.  So you are partially correct......... YOUR system sucks.

[The Tin Man]

Human golf instruction is very technical compared to Troll instruction.

An 9 foot, 1200 lb Troll  handed me an Iron Studded War Club and pointed to a rock  the size of my head.

"HIT BALL IN HOLE........OR.... I HIT YOU IN HOLE"

Simple and direct. It's amazing what one can accomplish playing in FEAR.

PS: Gotta go.......a cop is writing me a ticket for Feeding the Trolls.

[nevets88]

Richie3Jack's blog recently talked about this:

http://3jack.blogspot.com/2012/03/con-of-popular-golf-instruction.html

Quote:

If you follow golf swing instruction enough, inevitably you will hear golf swing instructors say the same thing ‘you have to teach the golf swing in simple terms.’ Of course, this will then be utilized as an attack against other instruction like M.O.R.A.D. and The Golfing Machine as being ‘too complex’ and ‘the teachers are trying to prove how smart they are.’

I used to believe this as well.

... snip ...

To me, the teacher’s real job is, come hell or high water, to get the student to comprehend the information and be able to eventually implement that into their own game. If that takes some simple terminology, great. But, inevitably there will be times when complex and thorough information is needed.

The key is for the teacher to figure out the method that works best to get the student to fully understand it. Which has always been every teachers job in every profession to begin with. Golf should not be viewed as an exception.