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loosen up the grip and keep it that way during the swing.

having a wife that dont understand golf is a call for divorce.

Even if Breed advice is sound it wont matter. If your technique is flawed you cant expect that would work to produce scores you want. you still will blow up holes and the score will be about the same. You can practice to improve technique or target pratice. just not both at the same time. when your technique becomes more solid you do more target practice. either way your scores go down. Having bad technique and doing target practice isnt a good idea IMO.

You can simplify things I am all for it but it dosnt matter if your a tour player or not due to most of those are cluless anyhow in regard to learning and swings. My favorite with Hall is when he teaches swingplane and Holly hit it so much left after the drill and clearly it dont work to make a good golf swing. You dont need to think and have swing thougts when swinging, even when your learning and re-tooling to a new swing. If you simplify the learning and dont understand how the brain and perception works and then also teach swings that is complicated and timing dependent it wont help with simplifying... Its then likely to confuse the reader or the one watching.

young and cant get laid, of course it hammers his performance...

USA is filled with a ton of asian immigrants. LPGA as any lady tour needs a annika who dominates. look at the PGA tour when Tiger is average. Unless you have some personality its not that interesting with Golf.

Main difference is how the ball hold the greens. I agree on the Gamer ball, best ball for the price bar none. if your swing speed is up to snuff you can go to a more expensive ball. I played tested a few and more expensive is softer and hold greens better however for practice it wont matter. Main reason for most to have a better ball is placebo. it feels better ;) A good 3 part ball will cover most needs. Its what I play with mainly.

Golf instruction isnt better than what an high handicap today can expect to do. unless your able to be consistent in the long game, scratch game is out of reach.

He was a lot longer as a Young kid. long enough to shoot 59 several Times in competition. he was also way above 80% in greens and fairways. his head injury as a kid made him akward and since society has low tolerance for geniuses and autism he never made it on the PGA Circuit.

80% of golfers has 18-36 handicap. 10% or less reach single. every year 1200 or so golfers try to get one of 30 spots to earn a european tour card. you need to shoot 3 under each round for 16 rounds. Unless your a 64 or so shooter at your home course regulary , forget it. scratch play is way easier to have.

You disagree with how Greg Norman did swing then? "65% of The Shark's weight is STILL on his right side with the club head 12 inches from the impact position. " http://bradleyhughesgolf.com/Page_7.html sliding people wont have that ratio due to them will move to early on their left side and since they dont understand how their body should move will struggle with its instruction. Hip is attached femur head, wont move much as your describing how the pelvis moves with the side of the body moving to position to support the weightshift a transfer in progress.(kinda need to understand that if you want people to slide their hips properly) Your images all post the left side moves left and a Golf Pro will allow the pelvis to open in an angle naturally aka half-turn that happens due to moving the kinectic chain in order to be on plane. since an amateur is badly instructed and never learned how to do a kinetic chain sequence from their local pro it wont help them to move the right knee unless they also have a proper foot position with left foot for a righty and understand how their upper body should move in unison with it. All that will happen when the golfer understands how to be on plane. I agree you didnt describe it wierdly, just in a way that complicates things. ;)

slide=kinetic chain done right. wont help a golfer if they dont do the kinetic chain properly and then think slide, teaching them hands on is different than offer a suggestion trough video or a forum. Foot position affect how the hip and pelvis moves also. Hips dont equal pelvis. For me its not semantics due to hip dont moe that way the pelvis does. What is wanted is to move the kinetic chain in order of sequence and no hip slide will ever do that. Moving the right knee to fix the spinning out might help but if the footplacement isnt properly it wont help much. Moving the body in a proper kinetic chain then all those things happens, the pelvis opens up in a angle as its designed by evolution in the sit down move noted Sam Snead did. The chain happens when the foot placement support it and when your on plane. Normal golf instruction goes against how the body been moving trough evolution. Making it really complicated to do something really simple.

Its a halfturn to a point. Or else you defy human evolution and anatomy. tests with golf pro´s show weight is in right foot at impact and split after on the left side. Indicating a transfer in process. Cant slide hips they are not made to slide. wrong terminology if you ask me. to meet the slide criteria the pelvis needs to do a halfturn to create the diagonal angle needed. Or else there is no slide possible.

slow, Mike Austin did 155mph+ back in 1930´s.

scratch players who plays a course set up for Pro´s dont shoot under par. its a different game then no mistakes allowed. your average scrore vs the best score comes into play then.

Normally, a kid taking up golf, building enough variation in the game of golf takes around 10 years. so if starting at age 9 at age 19 they should be able to play high level golf unless ruined by a golf instructor. so 10 years or 10k hours is about right as any kid going for tour do practice a lot also in similiar levels as Dan does. Talent is grown and your not born to be a golfer. People overestimate the timeframe needed, the feedback required and also how much perceptions runs the golf swing. Now, you can make the travel faster than 10k hours or 10 years if the practice is built to provide a skill increase in the different segments of the game. 2k+ hours and 6 handicap or so is not shabby at his age. to be 10 shots better from where he is now is the real challenge.

Depends on who you ask. What people believe, dream and are able to you never know until you give it all. 39 years old hitting it here, + handicap. work I did with him 4 hours over 2 days this last sunday/monday. first two swings are day one. the last two swings at the end of day 2. spot the difference. [VIDEO]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O5hoai-byg[/VIDEO] And here is me hitting a hybrid, just plain cold here atm. oh I am 48 years old. [VIDEO]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zwm7HxniZ8[/VIDEO]

Oh, please give an example of that then. I taking lessons from someone really good at what they do, I met PGA trainers who doing work with players and they dont know what they are doing. They either make the swing hurt their back or making it a short swing. First session I had with the golf pro who spent years playing I added for him 50 yards with driver and 30 with irons with one session. Last round of the season the 6 october we had a local competition at the club, 7celsisus, cold rain and really wet conditions. 9 hole a long driving price was on fairway, agaisnt half as old kids I won that. Not bad for a sick old lateral moving all over the place swing ;-)

Rest of game is solid. Health is a big issue, most of times I cant even hold a spoon and eat soup when it happens. one reason I spent most time working the shorter game as it dont require as much energy. lateral movement dont matter as the question is, do you get to impact or not properly. I played in match play vs equal or better opponents, seldom if ever loose. I played for fun mainly for most of my golf. 3 years ago decided to overhaul my technique and found golf instruction basically is filled with theory and myth and is highly complicated. so I went with a Mike Austin based swing principle as it made most sense and even there there is confusion. so I worked to define the golf motion and as I done so there is some cut dry truth in regard to popular theory. Yea you can move laterally and add power while still improve accuracy. here is Hans doing just that. [VIDEO]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8exQXzg27AY[/VIDEO]

Been sick for 12 years, so means a limited time spent and current season I could play once a week or less only or body shut down. worst season as far in playtime. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_fatigue_syndrome (CFS) Yea that video is a year old, horrible swing. and yes I took local lessons 2 years ago made a 1 handicap swing in spain last spring 2011 measured by others, figure my back would kill me if I used that for the distance I wanted so I went on to dig it out and the video you posted is from one of those sessions. Goal is still the same, scratch golf. My health is however setting a big limit on practice time and recovery due to it affects cordination, focus and you know life. I am on the right track just take a lot longer than I wished due to above reasons. Had a local competition ending the season a 9 hole one with BBQ after, 9 hole was a long driving on fairway prize, won it and felt good. After being a short hitter 3 years ago 180-220y to 260-290 current season and working trough the mechanics and defining the golf swing during the process I am doing rather well on the things I want to do in golf. I post a video in the spring when season opens here which now is 6 and a half month away.;-) Last swing I had, the day after the 9 hole compeition, really tired cold and rained and range closed but wanted a video to document so hit a couple of my own balls. There be some changes I be making during the spring, set up will now change as I found out how to make impact the way I want and some adjustment in the backswing will happen mainly due to a set up change, I never wanted textbook but effective and consistent making impact. [VIDEO]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-wLEkB-d0s[/VIDEO] This is the guy I coach, changed his swing in 3 weeks. [VIDEO]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1W11EgGqaw[/VIDEO]

Quoting the website, these are the skills needed. An external mental focus An accurate clubhead path through impact A coordinated muscular (biokinetic) chain A tight initial downswing radius A passive release of the wrists The problem still is the human being as well they do read and apply dont make it work in spite how good it might be, just look at five easy lessons the Ben Hogan book and people cant do it from the book. Do things in person as in a lesson is easy as you can provide proper feedback to the player. Helping them adjust to the task in how their muscles act during the swing and where their perceptions are. Reading a book trying to apply that and it wont matter how good it is as it just dont work. in the above skills quoted I dont disagree with them as they all happen in a good golfswing. People still learn the way they think they need to learn and new knowledge seldom alter that as they continue to use the same approach they learned to use. You could also say: 1. Swing to target. (external mental focus) 2. Inside down and out swing path positive angle of attack (Accurate path of clubhead). 3. Proper tempo and rythm ( kinetic chain cordination) 4. Drop into the slot using a half turn with pelvis motion (initial tight radius) 5. Release clothline or puckrelease. (passive release of the wrists) Science only shows us what we already know. It also tends to not be as effective as it also deletes other information bits especially if they contradict the science.

None taken, enjoy your golf.

Well the golf motion is undefined. cant cheat body physics or compensation happens which slows down the swing. some get so passionate about theory that they simply forget that feel creates all things we do in sports. You do need a good structure and definition while learning or else you risk falling into the swingcrack camp.

One challenge - take 5 golfers and do that science and see how you do in 3 weeks. 3 sessions a week. using video to validate feel isnt how the body learns best. The body has already learned the feel and using video to validate the feel without knowing if your doing things right (kinetic chain for example) can be a good way of you know lure oneself into beliveing one does things right without knowing if its right. I seen a ton of PGA instructors use video and the player cant play golf in spite of it. My sisters kid hit 60 shots, way fat up to 4inches behind the ball, he became upset, frustrated and angry even, after a cool down with phone and facebook, I said some things, he adjusted and hit one shot and flushed it, and I looked at him and said, that is how a pro hits it every time and that is how a pro hit feels like. I smiled, he was in shock. He stopped hitting shots fat.

Top players learn what impact is and how to get there in spite of golf instruction. That is one reason you see so many strange swing on tour due to those guys learned impact in thier own way. The golf swing lacks definition, if you ask a golf trainer to define it, they simply cant. There is a few things that has to happen in order that always happen in any golf swing system due to how the body is made and functions. I know how to define that with feel plus evidence so the individual knows what they do when they do it right will happen. Detailed swing instruction aka technique focus slows down the learning process, makes people loose feel and not training feel is a huge mistake. Detailed instruction is common in school, repetition also, you can learn faster with the same amount of practice time if you know how to go about it as described in the talent code. Most are highly uncomfortable with feel based instruction, once they hit it flush and longer and more straight they will go back to what they did before due to friends pressure them or beacuse it dosnt feel its the way to learn it and delete they hit the ball the way a pro does. People believe they can understand it as they have some idea from TV, a book or a Internet forum. Brain and body dont work that way.