David Leadbetter's A Swing Presentation at the 2015 PGA Merchandise Show
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Been playing over 50 years and have been chasing a golf swing most of my life......'till now. Caught on to this swing after a small bucket, and it's so easy to repeat. Almost all my shots, after I figured it out, were right on the button.
I half heartedly tried this swing a few years ago and didn't get on with it so went back to my old hacking ways. Recently after sheer frustration with the lack of consistency in my game I went back to it, bought the book and started to do it PROPERLY.
It would not be an exaggeration to say it has completely transformed my game, I'm finally enjoying playing golf.
If you are considering trying this swing you have to be committed to it, don't go in half heartedly, and trust me you will get results sooner than you think.
Some people on this thread are saying it's just a money making exercise, who cares if it works and helps people! The guy is allowed to make a living.
So, Thank you David Leadbetter for saving my sanity and helping me to finally enjoy playing golf.
Played golf for 40 years. Got it down to a 5. Currrently a 7. Taking the club back on plane with a flat left wrist in a consistent manner is very hard to do. Have heard for years about standing the shaft up on the backswing without really knowing why. Well, if you do, when you make a move to hit the ball all the shaft can do is fall or flatten on plane for the downswing. The whole concept here is to make it easy to steepen, then have the shaft flatten automatically without having to think about it. I know, I know, Leadbetter has pitched a lot of stuff over the years, but this is very simple stuff.
Just tried in the range after 3 days watching youtube and buy A swing E book for very cheap price USD 2.5 equal Rp 32.000 Indonesian Rupiah. Fix my hook problem with driver and iron thanks for butterfly kind a grip and hit it much longer than i used to be .. Mr David ... you just made my life much much easier.... thank you so much...
I planed to master this swing via your Leadbetter Golf Academy in Jakarta.
I watched the video last night, Played today and surprisingly I was hitting the ball longer, straighter and on line. A swing will be my swing.
cant wait for the book Leadbetter! ive play for about 2 years and been trained by farid guedra her in sweden. I follow you for a time now leadbettr interactive. and it really heled my game. But i think this book will help the last part for hitting under instead of over the top.
This is now my swing. All I had to do was try it and I'm convinced. I don't care what the tour players are doing. I agree with David it is time for a shakeup in golf instruction. Everyone keeps throwing the same stuff out there and it is too complex. Do this with your knees, do this with your hands, spine angle, rotation, roll, hinge, cupped, flat, coil, etc. This swing has simplified everything. The last golf book I bought was Ben Hogan's fundamentals of golf. I purchased this book because the swing worked for me.
What are your stats?
Gir
Fir
Clubhead speed
Handicap???
Ive been working with this A swing for the last 6 months and it's nothing less than brilliant it has helped me hit the most solid shots of my life and reduce my handicap from 17 to 11 this year man I'm psyched thank you so much!!!
+Yale Loiacono Great to hear Yale! Keep working at it and you'll see that handicap keep falling! We'd love to see your A-Swing progress videos, you can upload them and have a Leadbetter Certified Instructor give you a few tips and analysis here: edufii.com/i/72dbf522e3. Hope to see you in there! Keep up the good work.
Yale Loiacono
This has help me so much another guy from my golf course I go to sometimes showed me this swing then I looked it up on here but has me hitting nice draws and yea choking up a bit helps great swing thanks
I'm 69 years old, have been stuck on 17 handicap for several years. Two years ago I suffered a complete rupture to my left quadriceps so have trouble swinging being very inconsistent. I shall give this a really good try and report back.
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ive been playing golf for about 3 days now lol. ;)
do you think its good to try to learn the A swing right away?
I don't have the money for a coach or something. I am just going to the driving range and I got a mirror behind me to see what I am doing.
great videos thanks a lot!
Very similar to Abe Mitchell teachings from the 1930's, only he would load his rear hip at address so it was higher than the lead hip, this would prevent you from pulling the ball left and there was no sliding backwards in takeaway. he wanted two knuckles showing in his lead hand grip and no more, he promoted having the forearm muscles and leg muscles feeling wound toward the target so when you brought the club backwards you felt the tension created. He brought the club back with the cluhead closed and when the rear arm wont go any farther he brings it up at the elbow this bringing the club up vertical and when he reaches the end there is all this tension just waiting to be delivered back toward the ball and down the line. The lower body movement brings the club on plane and the result is great consistent contact and direction and power unleashed at the ball. Been practicing this technigue and have lowered hdcp 2.5 pts and trending lower still. Hitting from the short grass is everything.
I have been trying the A swing, I still have to practice a lot but I agree, I am hitting my driver at least 30 yards longer
As a senior with only average athletic skill, I like this swing. My only comment is that there is NO type of golf swing shape that will fix a more fundamental problem like failure to constantly accelerate through the ball. Its easy when working on a swing change to back away from an accelerating swing to a constant speed swing with a weak, waist high follow through because your mind is on ingraining a new mechanic. This lack of acceleration/rhythm produces bad results and the person ends up thinking the mechanical change is not working when the problem is lack of acceleration through the ball with an appropriate tempo for the club length and players athletic ability. Rhythm and acceleration through the ball is a prerequisite to making swing shape changes. I think this is a major reason that recreational golfers have not gotten any better in the last 20 year.
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He's working with Lydia Ko the now 18 yr old golfing phenom of the LPGA.
I'd like him to demo the swing w/ a long club like the driver. I've been trying this swing w my 7 iron and I can do it, but w/ the longer clubs I tend to strike the ground before the ball. Isn't this what Jim Furyk does ??? Upright backswing followed by a looping-around whip to an inside-to-outside downswing?
+Duncan Jaenicke Duncan, Web.com Tour Player Ryan Blaum has demonstrated the A-Swing with driver and longer clubs in the other videos on this channel. For more in-depth help with your A-Swing, check out the All Access Training Space: edufii.com/i/72dbf522e3
+Duncan Jaenicke Hi, It works with the driver too but needs a bit of practice. My game changed immensely since I bought and followed this organic approach. If you get the back swing right the impact is automatic. I still get some bad shots but 95 out of 100 are great. So don't give it up and practice with the driver without a ball first.
"Synchronisation is the big word"…..15 letters.
This seems almost identical to the swing model taught at Kensington Golf School in London where Leadbetter took lessons / observed teaching when he started out as a teaching pro. The pros there have written best-selling books outlining this method called 'The Swing Factory', 'The Golf Delusion', and 'The Impact Zone'. I wonder if Leadbetter has read these books?
***** You don't think so? What about the hands-in, clubhead-out takeaway? The instruction to not twist/roll your wrists and not rotate the forearms in the takeaway so as to avoid the clubhead whipping in behind you and keep it in front of the hands? This is key to both methods. Leadbetter's seems an exagerated version of their method, and in fact in their 2nd or 3rd book (can't recall which of top of head) they advocated a similar exageration of their method. There's photos in it where the clubhead is still outside the hands quite far into their backswing, an exageration they advocate.
***** I've read and own (too) many golf books and i don't think this common fundamental is unique to them. But you'll be aware of the huge importance they put on it and exagerate the steepness of the backswing plane with the club shaft pointing inside the targetline due to no hand twisting and no forearm rotation (the latter seems far from a universal teaching...i'm not saying it's right but it's what they teach). Keeping the clubhead still outside the hands as the backswing continues past the takeaway is not an industry-wide convention and what i see in some of their books differs from most other books i've read in this regard. Leadbetter takes this to an even more extreme version right to the top of the backswing, but i see similarities. Just my opinion and i might be wrong. I agree about their self-promotion which is over the top.
***** Agree the no hand twisting is far from unique (though no forearm rotation seemed unusual to me and something leadbetter's a swing would seemingly share) and agree that the difference is more a case of where they put their emphasis, which was mainly on the part of the backswing immediately after the takeaway, the transition between the takeaway and halfway back, and continuing to avoid hand twisting and forearm rotation there. I've not seen this degree of obsessional emphasis to this part elsewhere, but i guess you're right in that it's just explained differently elsewhere. Leadbetter is similar as he is also placing most of the emphasis now in not twisting the club open and not rotating the forearms. The emphasis seems similar to me.
***** I didn't say "invented by" i said "taught at". I can see that my original statement that the swings are almost identical is wrong. Happy to admit that. I do still see a big similarity in the aspect of the swing in which both methods place, by far, most emphasis.
Now, skip Bayless is instructing gol??!! 🤫!
The only issue I have with this is the fact Lydia Ko had the best swing in the world arguably before she changed her swing and was number one in the world. So why fix something that wasn't broken at all?
Golf gets boring if nothing to strive for or learn. And she is very young. Changed swing out of boredom.
@@brodyforster1119 But there was no point, she had absolutely no weaknesses and she dominated the women's game like Annika used to do. She is a once in a generation talent but they she gets bored and changes her swing? Professionals change their swings in an effort to get better, yet she seemed to want to get worse.
@@cameronbrunet6485 yes weird for sure. Watch some of her interviews post Leadbetter. She literally says it. She was bored being #1 nothing to work toward. I get it. And for us mere mortals it seems crazy but makes sense. Like you accomplished the ultimate. So now what...
reminds me of Steve Martin in the movie "Leap of Faith" - rather comical.
made so much money from the x factor
hoping to make money now from the A factor
no wonder less people are playing golf
I have been a hacker for more than 25 years and I'm sure this won't help me a bit
One thing i have found some success with is concentrating on the swinging of the club head, rather than what my arms, hips or whatever are doing.
+Barney le dilly Barney, although The A Swing may not be for everyone, we guarantee it'll help simplify your swing to achieve the level of consistency to enjoy the game. We don't guarantee we'll make you into a tour pro, just have more fun playing the game! We'd love to hear your feedback after reading the book and giving it a try!
Cheers!
thanks for the comment, but i've already read maybe 50 golf books in the last 30 years, including 2 from david leadbetter. not one of those 50 books has helped me improve my game.
i have seen my first real game improvements since "feeling the weight of the swinging club head" as tought by Ron Sisson on his Real Swing Golf youtube channel. that's my one and only swing thought i have to this day - can't be any more simple than that.
also, i have made some refinements to my swing, using shawn clement's youtube channel, with regard to my set up for ball first contact and the release of everything to the target rather than at the ball.
i don't get to practise or play very often, but when i do, i'm having fun, hitting the ball better than i ever did. (even better with a beer in hand)
I have had the Joe Dante "The Four Magic Moves" To Winning Golf"..for fifteen years and Leadbetter thinks he invented this!!!! He never mentions the wrist break which is the secret to Dantes grip....also quit turning the hips so much...just slide the hips laterally, as they will not have any choice but to turn eventually.
mic on his nose
the conventional swing is already simple. The fact that most amateurs dont do it correctly is because they fail to engage on a regular basis with a good coach or never take a lesson full stop. DL's swing won't make a blind bit of difference.
Trigmachine
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This is pretty much the same backswing that Butch Harmon had to cure Rickie Fowler of
Wrong. Rickie's pre Harmon backswing was extremely flat and well behind his right shoulder at the top. From there he dropped it even further inside and had to rely on great hands / timing to consistently square the clubface. Butch got his backswing more upright. He still drops it down from the top, but now the club's in front of him. This Leadbetter swing is simply an exagerated version of his new move.
Jay McFarland Not quite. The distinctive move of Rickie's pre-Butch swing was clubhead way outside hands on initial takeaway; a move he would exaggerate on pre-swing. This led to extremely steep (not flat as you say) shoulder tilt on the backswing. That initial move is pretty much what Leadbetter is teaching now.
You need to look at a swing comparison, bro. His shoulder plane pre and post Butch are essentially the same. It's his takeaway and resulting arm position at the top which are quite different.
+Jay McFarland Ricky Fowlers pre butch swing is Davids A-swing
+bellatrixg
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Yes bro, let’s look at a comparison. Look at UA-cam video “Rickie Fowler Swing
Change Breakdown” at 0:24 to see Rickie’s old, steep swing on the left. It is the same position that Leadbetter has the guy in at 15:24 in the video above.
Harmon fixed this defect in Rickie’s swing and the guy became an elite
golfer in 2015.
At 22.29 Dennis is getting clubhead inside hands. That is not A swing
I'm hook if my club face close. I hate hooked short
+Toua Yang Toua, check out the A-Swing All Access Training Space, we'd love to take a look at your swing and get that hook taken care of! Join here: edufii.com/i/72dbf522e3
Cheers!
DL
Joe Dante was doing this technique in the 50s , Dr Gary Wirren endorsed it and said it was the swing of the future, David Leadbetter re packages the method calls it his own and I have to say I have lost all respect for David Leadbetter because of this. As a teaching professional I have been teaching this method for years with success, but I never tryed to pass it off as my technique, shame on you David. The book and the technique (The ORIGINAL) is the four magic moves to better golf available on Amazon
Andrew Linch Not so. Dante advocated curling the left wrist under by pushing down with the right palm, where as Leadbetter cups the left wrist.
@Andrew Linch
Shame? Thats a bit much Andrew. There’s nothing new about anything in the golf swing after all we need to own our own swings. I admire him for making a stellar career out of golf instruction.
David ruin Lydia ko game. She's playing bad after learning from David. I feel like her before swing was way better. Now her swing doesn't look great or play well as before
i doubt that mate. lydia just won the major
+Amir Khan168 (Amirkhan168) Check her record before she started working on these swing changes! The only reason she is playing well is because her athletic talent can compensate for her incorrect body movements better than most.
+Alex Lee Alex, Everyone is indeed entitled to their opinion, but let me remind you that Lydia has won 8 LPGA Tour events, 1 of which being a Major Championship, since starting with the Leadbetter Academy in early '14. Not a bad run in my book!
+The Leadbetter Golf Academy She is reverting back to what she use to do with her old instructor! Lydia is better off being a stubborn student and not listening to Leadbetter. To give credit to Leadbetter for those wins is an insult to her old instructor. If you don't believe that she is doing what she did with her previous instructor check out Kelvin Miyahira's YT page.
Lydia Ko has 15 LPGA Tour wins in five seasons, ten more than Michelle Wie has in ten seasons (plus 7 partial seasons).
I dont usually bother to write comments after watching stuff on UA-cam but had to here , this is really one of the most obvious sales pitches I have ever seen , fellow pros should have walked out ! When will golfers see through the jargon , its complex stuff that 90% of golfers dont need and cant do physically , notice his A swing pupils all extremely fit young talented golfers , this style and method coaching is a thing of the past and actually reduces enjoyment and participation numbers in the sport , sorry David but I dont agree with you , respect your successes but beg to differ .
***** A) he is selling a book to help golfers B) yah I notice the extremely fit, young senior golfer with a pot belly on stage.
***** The entire point of the PGA SHOW is to provide a platform to provide a sales pitch.
@Austin Curtis
I’m 53. A decent hacker off 10.3 at a course with 127 slope. Narrow fairways and some small greens in anybody’s language. My short game and determination is what has got me to 10.3 but, it has been my long game that has also kept me to 10.3. I bought a net and started hitting balls and in doing this tried to swing like Jim Furik in front of a video. I nutted it. The video showed an amazing high position at the top with a shallowing and rotation that has helped me nail my irons (Hogan Apex) with effortless power from PW to 2i. It was my own ‘discovery’ of this swing that brought me to this presentation.
Old people and colours = nightmare
SigolF
It’s s not the orange and the old guy.
It’s s the orange and the beige. FFS.
Every time Denis was about to get to the good part leadbetter cut him off! Rather annoying!
Too much waffle !
Denis looks like an intelligent version of Joe Biden....
Standard of golf is not improving?.... wtf is he on about? What standard is he talking about? How can you judge something like that.. BS
+Steven Tyers He's saying that despite the huge collection of knowledge on the golf swing the majority of golfers are still bad, and the game is not as popular as it should be, because people see it as too difficult, and quit after a while. He's referring to the masses not the pros.
+Colton Brendel and its fcking expansive lol
Ive tried this, and im sorry but i feel its a whole lot of NOTHING....I Feel the bottom line here is Book Sales to the masses until they discover it simply a waste of time ! I feel like ledbetter is simply tryin to sell HIS book ! Its almost as though these two guys cant figure out what to say about the swing... I Dont mean to be criticle but i simply do not see the Vision here, besides the fact that (they claim) its a back swing that it is 20% shorter..Uhmm Ok I Will continue to study this and try to discover the vision here as of no i See no real benifit at all...Except the V-Plane and Transition really feels very powerful