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I don't think this is the same thing. This is an amendment that would apply to all public CA college admissions, applying directly to prop 209. The topic here is referring to changes in admission policy of the UC system only, which was first brought up in the old article you mentioned, but only recently took effect.

I have been looking for real numbers on what this has done, but I've yet to come across anything. It looks like it was supposed to go into effect in late 2012, and if that was the case I'd imagine it'd be too soon to make sense of the numbers yet. Again, policies such as this are really meant to increase the number of underrepresented minorities at UC's, without explicitly making race a factor. This is a good thing. This doesn't mean that they'll let just anyone in. A 4.5 GPA is going to get you into a UC regardless of race. But more than likely the intent is to open up the pool of candidates and allow those with solid, but not spectacular academics feel as though they have a chance because of other factors along with their good grades. The UC admissions policy can be intimidating, and I never applied despite carrying a 4.0 GPA, playing varsity baseball and football, being a saxophone player in the music department, AND being Mexican-American. I can't imagine how daunting it can be for those who were not middle-class like myself. So if this is able to get a few more kids to apply with already strong credentials, and bring up the numbers of underrepresented minorities at the expense of other similarly qualified applicants, awesome. But again, I think that 4.5 GPA is still going to fly. It's important to realize that no one wants a free pass in--I feel like this is an outdated but still prevalent stance on stuff like this. If someone is let in to a UC who is in over their head, that is good for no one. I am a huge fan of the Community College system in California, and as a TA/graduate student at a UC currently, I see the effect of small class sizes and close contact with professors has on those kids when they transfer. I went to a CSU and experienced the same environment there. There are other ways of increasing diversity that make sure people are ready for the college-experience. I do feel for the most part that applicants let in to UCs because of policy change will still absolutely be qualified.

Happy to--sign up!

Thanks--was watching and it stopped saying coverage had concluded, but it's up now

Is this streaming anywhere?! I'm at work and the GC and PGA streams wrapped up and I'm missing all of this awful greatness!

Lots of numbers that disagree with you there.

Ditto this. There are reasons that underrepresented minorities exist that go beyond not just being able to "pull yourself up by your bootstraps". I'd also say that it's a big jump to say that this doesn't have to be alleviated by letting all of the minorities in, therefore reducing the number of qualified students. There are other ways, especially in California. CA junior college-to-UC/CSU transers for instance. That all being said, I agree that this is not a good policy. The fact that their own internal study showed that Asian, Latino, and Black population would be reduced and they still want to push forward with this is head-scratching. It appears that a chunk of this is coming from dropping guaranteed admittance to students who graduate in the top 12.5% of their class to the top 10%.

The guy who ran our team, our coach, kept things very simple. We lifted three days/week, with each workout based around the comp. lifts: bench, squat, DL. The main lift would be 6 week cycles of prog. overload using board presses and full range of motion bench, box and regular squats, and rack and regular DLs. For bench, we would then do some type of heavy top range of motion, like bench off pins, and we also did tons of tricep high rep stuff. We lifted in single ply bench shirts, so it was important for locking out purposes. The other two days would be the main lift, plus accessory work. Sets of 8-10 reps on things like reverse hyperextensions, good mornings, heavy 45 deg. back raises, pull throughs, etc. We'd often have something like farmers walks or tire flips as well, and then very high rep upper back/trap work on DL day. Never really did more than 12-14 sets total for the whole workout, but always kept getting strong. Keeping it simple never goes wrong. I am a big fan of Jim Wendler's 5/3/1 program for when I just don't want to get to complicated with my training....highly recommend that for a good, simple workout, with tons of flexibility thrown in depending on your specific goals.

I love this. I competed in powerlifting for a few years, and this sounds like a workout we would do on a Saturday morning after a competition or use a log for the overhead for a strongman workout to mix it up, with maybe some tire flips thrown in. Big and simple!

I just found out about this yesterday and signed up right away! https://www.edx.org/course/bux/bux-sabr101x-sabermetrics-101-1558 This is an online course being offered through edx about the awesome science of baseball analytics. The professor, Andy Andres, has taught this class for years at Tufts, and has even had Bill James in for lectures. From the course page: This course will cover the theory and the fundamentals of the emerging science of Sabermetrics. We will discuss the game of baseball, not through consensus or a fan’s conventional wisdom, but by searching for objective knowledge in hitting, pitching, and fielding performance. These and other areas of sabermetrics will be analyzed and better understood with current and historical baseball data. The course also serves as applied introduction to the basics of data science, a growing field of scholarship, that requires skills in computation, statistics, and communicating results of analyses. Using baseball data, the basics of statistical regression, the R Language, and SQL will be covered. This course has been successfully taught at the Experimental College at Tufts University since 2004. Many of its former students have gone on to careers writing about baseball and working in various MLB baseball operations and analytics departments. You can audit the class for free, and go through it online at your own pace. You can also pay a small fee to get a course completion certificate, but that puts you on the hook for all the assignments and exams. You still get access to all materials if you audit, which is what I'm doing. I'm a big fangraphs reader and proud owner of The Book , but definitely get lost in some of this stuff--I think this will be a fun course to really understand some fundamentals and then be able to follow the more nuanced things even more. If you decide to sign up, post in here. If there are enough people signed up, maybe we can get a thread going come May (when it starts) to discuss the lectures and assignments--should be a good time!

I'm working on pretty much the same piece that you are (from your swing thread), and also use primarily mats. The nice thing is, video will show you very clearly for this elbow move if the picture is changing or not. It can suck not having feedback from the shot itself, but I feel like getting a real good idea what a heavy/fat shot on the mat feels like is key because they still can fly so well. Just video, video, video!

Neither of the March dates were ever going to work for me, but I'm excited to get in on one of these in the future. Even more so if you guys ever feel like getting some Santa Cruz beach time in!

Quote: Originally Posted by nevets88 I tell beginners to get used - you can get a set of brand name irons, a hybrid, wedge and putter for $200, you just have to help them out, make sure they don't get counterfeits. Or if they want new, a complete set with bag made by a company like Wilson or MacGregor for $200 at Rockbottom. I wonder if the big name brands don't offer lower priced alternatives because they want to keep a "premium" image. I also wonder why companies don't make starter type sets, but this makes sense to me as anything else. I currently play one of those Dick's sporting goods box sets (Walter Hagen's...woo!). Adams has a Tight Lies set that Dick's carries , and this set I've seen marked down to under $400. Looking back, I wish I would have purchased the Tight Lies set or better yet to have purchased used stuff and pieced together a nice starter set. The problem is, when you are new to golf and don't know people who play, the off-brand box sets seem like a killer deal because of all the clubs and extras that are included (bags and headcovers, f*** yea!!), and the fact that it's all brand new. The truth is, though, that I am happy with my purchase. They aren't great clubs at all, but they're certainly playable and I'm learning on them. Eventually, I'll make my upgrade through used gear (already starting, slowly), but for now, my Hagen's will do. Knowing what I know about how beginners play the game, TM, Nike, Callaway and others should build quality club sets for beginners that include: Driver; #5 hybrid, 7-PW,SW and a GOOD putter. There's your 8-club set. Put the sets in a branded carry bag, (filled with balls!) and put a price tag on it of $300 or less. Consider offering these sets as an investment in the FUTURE of golf AND for your company. dave Oh man, if this would have been an option, I know I would have been all over it. If I was just starting now, I'd still lean probably to used, but at the time that I did start, this would have been awesome. But when you can sell a driver for that same price, I wonder if they just figure, "why bother?". It may be an investment, but when I upgrade, I'll be upgrading to these guys regardless of what my starter set was.

Thanks a bunch for the insight. I checked out the butt against the wall drill and there are definitely some feels described there that hit home for me. Plus, in the video, I can see my right knee coming in, and my head back, and misses I fight are huge pushes and overdraws. I will keep the priority recommendation from Mike at the top, but this drill seems very easy to spend time on at home and in the backyard--awesome stuff. That right elbow for me also feels absolutely like a power move. I was a racquetball player for years, and having a right elbow/upper arm close to parallel to the ground (or in that area) is a pretty standard forehand set up, and feels second nature to me, so it's tough go against that.

No worries! I'm open ears

Anyone else having difficulty breathing between whistles? What a game, so far!

Leaving a few very specific ideas without clarification or suggestions on how to get there isn't really instruction, especially if you are going to then assume that a beginner, even on this forum, knows what to do with that. These myswing threads are great because the people on this site are happy to help golfers get on a good path with a good plan. Beyond just the golf swing X's and O's on this site, there are a lot of great teachers , and much to learn about giving quality instruction.

Working on my trail elbow staying "inside-the-seam" on the backswing. It doesn't look very different from last time looking at it, but it's definitely slightly better when checking from a posterior view. Gotta develop a feel that translates to this move better. One thing I've noticed is that my backswing is initiated mostly by two different feels, depending on where my head is at. One way is with feeling my shoulders "sliding" back, which this swing is an example of. Another that I noticed tonight, is more of a sharp turn, with the left shoulder dropping more quickly. This feeling seems to get me better ball contact, and also makes a more pronounced difference in how my right shoulder/elbow look when trying to work on the drill from above. It also feels like I have much more room when I make my downswing. That being said, it's very tough to feel this every time, and I end up sliding. Does that make any sense to anyone?

I voted yes, because as a beginner, it is so tough to find good instruction when you don't know anything about the golf swing. I feel like for a lot of people who decide it's time to get better, they don't just come straight to TST and start working on 5SK drills--rather, they might spend six months or longer (like this guy) digging through a lot of garbage and trying quick fixes, which often times can come from pros on TV/internet, especially when you are seeking free advice. I know I tried lots of pro advice, with nothing sticking, and it took a long time for me to realize how good the instruction was on this site because I was (and still am) so ignorant of the golf swing.

I literally laughed out loud at both of these. My wife is always yelling, "are you golfing again?!?!", because I might take a little shoulder turn while cooking or walking by a mirror. She can sense even the most subtle of moves at this point--it's pretty hilarious.

Between rain and going to the ATT, today was my first day on the range to hit balls with this bit. I have been taking lots of dry swings and lots of mirror work in the house to get the feel going, and it was nice to take it out there today. On the range, I typically hit lots of push draws, and miss with pushes. With the feel of keeping pressure points, this turned into lots of dead pushes initially. No problem--kept working it, lots of pausing and rehearsing in between, and eventually my flight turned into straight to straight-cut. Out of my 100-120 balls, I literally only hit 2 push draws, where typically that is my dominant ball flight (the last 4 months anyways). There were also, of course, the 15-20% uglies (for me, mostly fat and the occasional cold shank). There was a point where I started really struggling to pair this with a straight left wrist at impact for some reason (something I have worked a lot on). I didn't want to be working on two things at once, but fortunately, the pressure point feel is a little easier to get into auto-pilot after a few good rehearsals, and then focus more on straight left wrist. This turned those pushes and push cuts into dead straight. When both were going, the contact felt fantastic. I really love this feel. Between keeping the pressure point in my upper arm and also the pressure points with my elbows, the sensation is this nice "coiled" feeling. I will hopefully get some video of this over the weekend (broke the iphone--d'oh!), and post to see how it looks when actually hitting balls.

What a day and what an event. I was able to get to PB at about 7:30 this morning, and walked all 18 at both PB and Spyglass, seeing both for the first time. I don't think my jaw came off of the ground until I was back on a shuttle home. So beautiful. The course conditions look incredible, though we are in for some wet weather this week/weekend in the Monterey Peninsula. At Spyglass, I caught up to Dustin Johnson playing with the future-dad-in-law. There was NO ONE at Spyglass, as most people had made their way to Pebble for the 3M Celeb Challenge. But with this group, there were 20-30 following, 95% were following with 10 Gretzky jerseys each. DJ was going hole-to-hole with no one even looking at him, and Gretzky was signing autographs at every hole. Wonder if that had anything to do with them only playing 9..... Another highlight was getting to chat with Mark Wilson and Doug LaBelle as I followed their group (including Aaron Badds) to finish up. Both were so nice and happy to talk--really hope they do well. LaBelle particularly seems like the nicest dude ever. I'll be back on Friday, and hope to catch Phil and Jason Day at Pebble. I'm throwing in a few favorite photos and videos in the next post!!