Malaska Golf // Release From the Top // How Your Hands Get the Club in Position
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- Опубліковано 20 кві 2019
- This is the comment that came to us from a malaskagolf.com member in regards to a video about how your hands work relative to the swing arc:
The true power in your method comes from feeling the release starting from the top with just your trail hand. Boy does this give speed and hence momentum. Problem is with both hands on the club that feeling is somewhat more subtle. Any drills to make this feeling profound. love all your lessons?
So, Why is it hard to feel the release from the top once I put my left hand on? The swing feels different than it looks. Learn to exaggerate to get the feeling for you hands and how your arms need to work to get the club in position.
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I’m back two years later to reiterate my view that this lesson by Mike is the most important golf lesson on the internet. If you learn this move, you’re a player. My wild-ass guess is that 95+ percent of the people who “take lessons” off UA-cam do not employ this move and have never felt the club take off “on its own” from the top with them just holding on for the ride. These folks pull/drag the handle to one degree or another and even if they hit it straight they will never know the feel that pros experience with every swing, i.e., what it’s like when the club does most of the work. The good news is that when you get it, you’ll know it. It’s an unmistakeable feeling. And though I’m just another UA-cam amateur with no credentials, I offer you this: other than practicing your short game, the best thing you can do for your golf game-meaning working on your swing-is to find this Malaska move. Go to the range and practice until you find it-IT IS SUBTLE. Just keep searching-don’t get frustrated.
Easily the best UA-cam Coach, I won't listen to anyone else anymore!
This is like a pro secret and has helped me so much in squaring the face on the downswing!
Great video, Mike! Love the simplicity of this one.
I am a scratch golfer and shot rounds of 5,6,7,8 under with this as my swing thought for the day... It is deff about directing momentum in the right direction!!
Another ''haha moment'' for me ! Keep up the clear and simple golf instructions Mike !
I was a 3-4 time a week player for many years.. got away from it for many years and have taken it up over the past 3 years. Not 3-4 times a week but 1-2... trying to be as good as I was years ago is frustrating at times but Your videos have helped my game in many ways... thank you..
Ive played golf for a long time and i'm a decent player off about 5 handicap but had a few years off. I'm going to start up again and have started practicing and watching some videos etc. I've never really understood the concept of the club head being behind etc but for the first time i think i have it. I love the tennis racket and steering wheel analogies how it steepens the attack without coming over the top. I'm now squaring the face a bit too much and striking the ball much better and just have to stop it going left but that will come with more time. The best feeling in golf for me is crunching an iron and this has helped me massively get my enthusiasm back for the game. Cheers Mike, you are the man.
Mike, your lessons are so clear and logical, to do it right is quite another thing… I did it wrong for 15 years, and now, with 70 on the clock, i want to try to get my swing better. I also found that when i dorsal-flex my left wrist a bit on the swing upwards, its much easier to release on the way down, and stay „in the slot“. Great lessons Mike, thank you and stay healthy!
Malaska is awesome! Watched MANY golf channels...Malaska is far and above the only channel you need. Watched others and tried taking it to the course or range with poor results. After I found his channel I went in a week from a 95 to a 80 something player! No exaggeration!
Two years ago, I made a suggestion to people who couldn’t feel what Mike was talking about when they tried his “steering wheel” idea. I reiterated Ben Hogan’s feeling at the top, that he began his downswing by feeling he was pulling an arrow out of a quiver. You can find my comment in this comments to this video. My comment helped some people. Here’s another idea that may help you feel what Mike is talking about. Hank Haney is all over UA-cam golf videos with his anti-slice promotion. When he gives a lesson to a slicer, one of the things he tells the guy to do is to square the club face earlier in his downswing. If you were told to do this, what you would probably do is make a subtle turn/twist of your wrists around half-way down or a little later. Well, just to get the feel of the Malaska move, do what Hank says right from the get-go: start squaring the club face as the very first thing you do to start your downswing. I don’t mean rotate your wrists hard. Do it softly but feel like you start squaring it just as you start down. Just a subtle twist, what you would naturally do if you were told to square the clubface early. Hopefully, you will feel the club taking off on its own in its path to the ball.
I’ll give this a go at the range. I’m a pretty good player (+2) but could do with a bit more distance off the tee. And I get pull-hooks under pressure, having to rely on my short game a lot.
Mike out of all the moves on u tube its the only thing that works for me you are a genius
Thanks for clarifying how subtle the hand movements are during transition, Mike. You original explanation of “tipping the shaft” was a little too exaggerated especially for golfers who habitually come over the top. You make some great distinctions in this video and explain them well. This definitely represents an evolution of your teaching and should help many golfers who routinely get the club stuck behind them and have to flip through impact.
I just found your channel today. I spent $ on private instruction which did not help me produce the results I was looking for. After watching a series of your videos, my swing is evolving to be more effective and effortless. The swing myths that you debunk have helped me unlearn some very bad habits. Please, please keep up the great content!!!
I have found this feeling too. But I describe it as keeping the club face square to the arc and swinging on plane both back and through. God I hope this is it coz I have just about tried everything else. Thanks mike. 🤞👍
Thanks, great presentation
Thank you for your relentless patience. "Subtle move", "both arms", Monica video. Aha moment for me. Cheers!
Love this, puts you on top of the ball!
Thanks I think you’re right! Finally someone showing the secret to Golf.
In my opinion a good explanation of the ”Malaska Move”. Thank you.
Mike said he was using the Joe NICHOLS analysis of the golf swing
I have discovered the feeling Mike talks about. A small, subtle move at the top gets the club going and I feel like I’m just hanging on for the ride. I discovered it a year ago, and after playing golf more than fifty years. The way I discovered it was doing something Ben Hogan described as his feeling when he starts his downswing: “I feel like I’m pulling an arrow out of a quiver (strapped across his back, like Robin Hood). You don’t do that by pulling downward, you can’t get an arrow out that way. You do it by pulling slightly up and away from you. If twelve o’clock is above your head, you pull the arrow out of the quiver by pulling toward ten or eleven o’clock. That starts the club rotating right from the top, and it builds angular momentum fast and shoots by you. If you’ve never felt that, it’s a surprising feeling. Club shoots by and squares itself.
Steve, OMG after following MM for 3 years & turning the steering wheel & bumping for the change of direction, I tried your way & WOW, the speed was uncontrollable at first. STARTLING is what I would call it. Kind of reminds me of how an MLB batter points the handle end of his bat at the catcher in order to get the barrel to accelerate over the plate. I still feel I owe MM the price of a year's subscription as his process has been more effective & valuable than the thousands I've wasted on lessons, range balls, range time & swing aids. Thank you again !
I've been practicing this and still can't get that feeling. Any other advice Steve?
Thank you for adding that idea to the video. It has helped me tie my intensions together, Thanks!
I think I see what you guys are getting at. Trying it first thing in the morning!
@@mattprudence8633 Try it slow. Make sure your hands are moving away from your right ear, back along the target line, NOT downward. If that doesn’t work, here are a couple of other video sources: Look at Steve Pratt’s videos where he talks about the “Outthrow.” Another is by a guy named Danny Maude: search “Danny Maude catapult.” The point is this: rotation is fast, linear movement is slow-that’s handle-dragging.
Unbelievable! This is the 3rd video this am. on this move combined w/ the Strasbaugh, Malaska, Ledbetter,etc. split grip ball hitting drill and I had an epiphany! Went to my outside net and hit balls w/ split grip, took normal grip w/ relaxed arms and hit w/ the same feel w/ hands & shaft returning to impact in the same space, that’s it!! I will email you, Thanks, John
John Harrington what kind of net do you use?
Ken Gardner , a Haack Pro ( I’m serious 😂 ) 7x10 Golf Net by Rukket Sports ( www.rukket.com) look for sale ! Lifetime warrantee, good product and nice people! John
Best advise on youtube. I went from 120's to 90' just listening to your advice. Just picked up the game 1 year ago loving it and all your wisdom.
True sorry....2 months ago, I got cocky with my new swing mike helped me developed. So I started listen to other couches trying to inch out more constancy and acrrucary. Lost my feel for the club and was back in the 110 - 120 zone.
After months of frustration a light bulb went off and Last week cirlcled back to your fundamental. Like clockwork I am making solid contact again back in the 90's
Thanks Mike!!!!
This is similar to Mike Austin method and what David Duvall does, great stuff and it has helped me a lot.
Good stuff....thanks for posting
Thanks Mike!
Masterly explanation
$1000.00 tip. Way to go, Mike!!
Thanks Mike for the steering wheel image. That helps.
I'll add this to my 19 other swing thoughts.
Thanks Mike
Almost like Harvey Penick's magic move (the little red book) - that right upper arm has to drop & adhere to the right side. Perfect impact position precursor.
I literally shot a 66 with this tip people so good!!!! No coach I have taken a lesson from has ever said anything close to this! Go in your yard and do this
Finally feeling this move....
The Best ever!!!!!
Mike changed my life! I've been a golfer who shoots 71 one day & 84 the next..lately I've completely lost distance with my irons and have been beyond frustrated! I've watched hours of his videos and am hitting the ball better than ever! Hit all but one fairway yesterday & got my power back!!! Thank you coach Malaska! Your method of the swing is "Not" complicated & very effective!
Trying this swing at the moment... was particularly keen to see how much club head speed can be generated. I see no degredation compared to my old swing (laying the club flat at the start of the downswing), plus I am on or close to plane almost every swing. My experience right now is that this swing is going to be far far more consistent on the golf course. For me - a mid handicapper - it's easy to execute IF the arms and hands are VERY relaxed through the entire swing.
Thanks for watching.
You are too kind.
Thank you for debunking the golf swing.
Very well presented.
"debunking"?
No doubt! He gives the clearest instructions I've ever seen!
"all of a sudden when you have speed, momentum and centripetal force and all that, what you're feeling like you're doing won't look like it at all" Yes!! That's why I think it's near impossible to learn by trying to copy video or slowmo-footage, aside from comparing the resulting movements. You can't see the forces, only the resulting motion of those forces.
Mr. Malaska, finally got the feel for tipping the club and letting momentum drive the swing and OMG,OMG,OMG,OMG,OMG,OMG What a powerful, effortless and accurate way to swing the club. Been watching your videos for a number of years and I finally get it. I’m a 7 handicap and last year when “all the timing struck” I got within one bad swing of shooting par (74). Thank you so much for your efforts on the proper swing and I can’t wait to get on the course this weekend! You’re the best!
He has the gift of simplifying something that so many over complicate. When I finally got it and stopped pulling the handle it was "wow" the effortless speed.
Mike like your teaching methods and thorough explanations. I am 69 play off 18 in uk links golf, lowest I've been 15.5 would love to get to 9. I cannot for the life of me follow through to a high finish. Any advice would be most welcome. I leave 5 shots out there by 3 putting so if I can get closer hopefully my handicap will come down, many thanks for the videos and advice.
Nice. Love your channel. This is something I do naturally to get the club face square on the way down and to swing on the correct path downwards and with speed. I used to pull with left arm and fire the hips but that was all kinds of slices and shanks lol
Notorious left arm dragged here! Tough to feel the left arm rotating due to thinking I’ll rip the ball clear left... patience and practice! 😊
In the downswing, the club must rotate to create angular momentum and speed. Linear movement is slow. Here is a way to think of the downswing: imagine you are standing on the middle of the club shaft. You look left at the grip and right toward the clubhead. From your perspective, in the downswing, the grip and the clubhead are never moving in the same direction at the same time. Always opposite directions, e.g., rotation. A good downswing consists of two jobs: getting the club rotating early is the job of the hands and arms. The second job belongs to the lower body: get out of the way so as to minimize interference with the onrushing, rotating clubhead. Malaska teaches you to push backward, especially with the left hip, making room for your hands and, as a consequence, the club. Here’s another metaphor: you’re a matador, and the onrushing, rotating golf club is a bull. If you get in the way, you’re obstructing the club, and the only way clubhead meets ball is if you stand up and flip with your hands. It may be subtle, but that’s what you’re doing to one degree or another: interfering and slowing the club down and moving it off-plane.
I have been trying to use this method for a while and I've made small improvements but after a while I regress to old habits. The feel of swinging "level" has been a game changer for me. But I've found that instead of thinking about the "bump" at the top and pulling my hands down (which leads me to pull hook) or trying to keep my back to the target (which makes me hit it fat) I instead think about how a bicep curl works. At the top I feel like my right forearm drops kind of like how you would lower a dumbbell if you had your elbow on your side. Once I'm there I can tip the club out and swing" level" letting the momentum run the club into the ball. I think I see Mike doing the same thing with his right arm. Would that be correct?
Hey Mike, watched several of your videos. I am a bogey golfer (typical outside/in swing) at best and 75 years old. I played 18 using your teachings for the first time this week. The first nine was very uncomfortable and i shot 48, but was starting to feel better by the end of the nine. The second nine I shot 40! Never shot that all last year. Thank you, thank you. My question is: what roll does the left thumb play in the downswing/release of the club? I felt pressure on the left thumb at the top of the back swing and it feels like the thumb is like a lever or spring on the downswing. For the first time ever I could tell exacting where my wrists were unhinging. Is there anything to this? I could not find and videos talking about the left thumb.
Great point…if you drag the grip for too long you loose your opportunity to release the head/face in the forward swing.👍🏼
What I also like about this it makes your hips get involved the way they need to be if your hips don't open the club will come over the top but when your hips open you leave the club a little more behind into the slot
Hello, I just discovered this video and I find it very instructive, thank you! I have a question though: do you apply this subtle move to all clubs?
I have completely changed my golf swing to adopt this exact approach to hitting. What I have also incorporated given my tennis background is the simultaneous very slight firing of the right elbow like a pitcher in baseball would also do at the same time that my Right Hand rotates to face backwards. If I do each of these at the same time I get a perfect easy powerful couple yard draw. The temptation once you start swing like this is to fire the elbow more and more but while it creates more speed you can quickly lose the ability to control the clubface through impact and the draws become hooks. I love this way of swinging - it is so easy to replicate and your ability to deliver solid contact explodes. Mike, I would love you to comment or do a similar video and comment on the right elbow and whether or not trying to use this slight firing of the elbow is worth the increased power / consistency tradeoff. Many thanks. Paul
Does the arms/hands drop first (on the right side of the body) before your arms rotate / direct the club face to the ball?
I’m a little confused about this concept. We see you go from the “waiter’s tray” position to a position where the right palm is facing the camera. I almost can’t make that move happen. Does the move require the right arm to rotate counter clockwise? I can do that and make the right palm turn down, but not away from the target (towards the camera).
Thanks Mike, u make golf simple
I’ve used on golf course with Driver with great results !!- any adjustments other than setup and ball position that u would recommend with irons -Thks Mike- wish I knew this years ago - would have saved a lot of aggravation.
The feeling I'm working with for this move is at the transition to the downswing starting downward, I feel like the butt end of the golf grip wants to point behind me. Keep rotating and get to a balanced finish.
Agree with you here and mainly do that using my trigger finger
This is nuts! Your protege, Milo Lines, teaches the exact opposite of this! He teaches “turning the doorknob” clockwise or to the right from the top of backswing. So what is it man?!
Mike - what is your opinion of the Impact Snap training aid?
Mike - is your so called Malaska method similar to the RIT expoused by Jim Hardy?
Hi i have a question and its bothering me for long long time. During the downswing and knee level , do we really have to manipulate or force the wrist to release the club for ball impact ? Or is it really just a downswing for the ball impact and only follow through with club release ?
Please what is the best drill for this move. Something I can do inside or outside
Question. When Jack said he released from the top was he feeling the steering wheel affect at the top or half way down like you are showing?
The harder you want to hit it , the more you do the move ????? Or the faster you do the move?
Hi Mike, can you give your thoughts on where the right (RH player) shoulder should be at top of backswing - I end up not making a full shoulder turn feeling almost restricted by the right shoulder. My right arm folds up and I lose width in the backswing. Should I be trying to pronate my right shoulder outwards to get the club further away from my body or is there a better way to create width?
The best way to create width is to rotate your core/chest while keeping your right arm straight until your arms reach the 9 o'clock position. You need to maintain front bend and shoulder tilt, ie don't lose golf posture during the backswing.
Seems this would take a ton of time and talent to learn. It’s very subtle.
Welcome to golf lol
Mike...
1. Why take the Club and Wrist back on a different path to Down-swing ?
2. Why not simply assume position of ideal down-swing... after checking your impact address position... just like in Baseball. And release and follow-through just happen naturally ?
Mike has the magic move if you understand it you will play great golf ⛳️
Mike, you have given me the mental concept of the downswing and I have never played better golf in my life. However, I still struggle getting a consistent backswing. Can you put across a similar comprehensive concept going back? Thanks in advance.
Good idea, I would also like to have a comprehensive concept about getting to the top, and also through impact. I have a habit of releasing with my wrist and cause a chicken wing with my left arm. I play off 4 and have learnt to play this way but it kills my consistency.
I’d love to see a conversation between Mike and GG. Both great instructors, but differing views on the golf swing. Both have great info.
Very different mechanism to swing, one is club driving the body, the other is body driving the club.
Hung Phan how can the club drive the body? Something has to act on the club to get it moving. GG teaches lots of successful players not sure if Mike has any pros or high level amateur players working with him?
Ablgolfmom I think what he means this is arm driven swing .The body just responds like if you threw a ball. I bet there is a lot of players he coach that play high level golf .
Paul Malone does the body power the swing or does it react to the arms is a debate that has been going on in many sports for years. I don’t think it will ever be decided but it is a fact that in top level swings force is created from ground up and from the body out to the arms. While many feel that all they are doing is swinging their arms and the body responds correctly, but what if it doesn’t respond correctly?
@@ablgolfmom6211 Mike really press on getting the momentum of the club going on the correct path from the start of the DS before you adding body power by pushing back left hip to accelerate the club. If you can use more body power at the top and still make the club momentum to start correctly then it even better, but I think it is very hard to do . Rory can do it, but not any amateur. Many player swing easy and still hit far like Payne Steward, Ernie Ells, Fred... So I think 2 school of swing is using torque and using momentum. Mike use momentum of the club and just add power later. Rory use more torque.
This is the most underestimated move in golf. Getting the sweetspot back where it’s supposed to be pointing and gets the club back in front. Just wonder from which level you can teach this?
Mike, I love what you're doing here. I have a question for you on the "move". When I "shallow" out my arm plane and pull the handle in close while letting the clubhead run out to he ball I find that I hit everything off the toe. Even when I practice in slow motion it seems that the middle of the club will not reach the middle of the ball. I've tried standing closer to the ball and addressing it off the heel but that seems to lead to all sorts of problems. Am I exaggerating this too much or is there something else I'm missing. I am a 3 handicapper and I love the simplicity of this idea. I'm just trying to find the middle of the face at this point.
You are all over this Mike, however as simple as it sounds it is so hard to get for many ,me included until recently. I have bought your book and all the rest and still couldn't get it until recently. I have just devised my own training aid prototype that works beautifully.
Would you like to discuss further?
I got this for 3 months when I was hitting 70% of greens in regulation..then I lost it...had to go to a body swing..
Find it again yet?
@@Beantown85 nope..gave up
As soon as that bump happens you can then completly unload almost around like a baseball swing. As soon as i combined this move with a very loose feeling of bouncing off the top during transition - my club head speed wwnt from 88.9 to 101.5. Much consistency seema to be happening now because of this as well.. I think im getting a big time gain in speed because i believe this is solving my early extension.
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I've been releasing the club from the top, for years.
To release the club from the top, your ams have to be moving super slow!
Remember : the faster your arms move the slower the clubhead goes!
The best way to slow your arms down in order to speed up the clubhead, is to have deadfalling arms.
This is easier said than done, as your reactive brain will try and flex the muscles in order to create a false power source.
To overcome this the feel is that your arms are very heavy at transition, and to achieve this your pecs traps arms and muscles surrounding the spine, also need to relax.
Done correctly your arms will feel very heavy and very slow.
Now you can strike the ball with your body mass and properly flex the shaft
This is a feel, we're there is no intention to either strike the ball, or rotate, as when wound up the body will deadfall, in a rotational manner, in phaze with the very heavy and deadfalling arms, which in turn, allows the clubhead, to be mechanically coupled to the rotating mass.
If the arms feel light at transition, which 99.9 % of golfers feel, their will be tension in the arms, which because they won't be moving at the speed of gravity, will be out of phaze with the rotating mass.
As a consequence, remember that the clubhead, always wants to escape from the rotating mass and if it only has the mass of the arms to escape from, that's a piece of cake, resulting in a possible flip and lack of compression.
I am 59 years of age and have been striking golf balls, since 1969.
Mike: You have said that Joe Nichols wanted you to stand the club up at the start of the downswing. Would that create the same momentum necessary to get the club going correctly? Golfnut
For me, it is easier to just think to reverse the way your club came up. If over think it, it is hard to do. If you don’t swing fast, there is not enough momentum, then you can strong-arm the club. Mix speed and thoughts is not good...
Justin Rose uses the "Anti-Malaska Move" golf swing action.
See - newtongolfinstitute.proboards.com/thread/696/justin-rose-practice-move
In my right hand, this method feels like I'm throwing a submarine baseball pitch.
Ah this is super simple
To complement what Mike is teaching, Justin Rose provides a very similar (if not the same), instruction on 'the feel' of the downswing and into the ball. Refer to Rose's video ua-cam.com/video/JXGSFxOf-Iw/v-deo.html It's a great compliment to Mike's teaching methods.
Wait a minute.....wait a GD minute!!!! I think I just had an epiphany @ 1.41!!!!! Rotate your left hand as you start your down swing???? You mean you don't pull down as hard as you can??
Dave Duvall hit it this way too I think
This along with the feeling of swinging the club horizontal will give you the exact feeling he is describing. Try it.
I went from shooting low 70s to shooting high 80s. 🤦♂️
Hey Matt! The reason why I believe you are shooting in the high 80s now is because your breathing pattern isn't correct in your downswing. Next time you're at the driving range, make sure to breathe twice in the downswing. Thanks and like this comment if this helped you!
It's like throwing a stone
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The unspoken rule not revealed here is that the hands ALWAYS need to stay in front of your chest throughout the WHOLE SWING. Every tour, mini-tour, college & low handicapper keeps their hands in front of their chest throughout the whole swing, especially at impact.
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