Because I played baseball as a kid all the way up to high school pretty well after playing golf for 5 years this in ONE video solved ALL my problems. I was able to consistently think about swinging a bat to make good contact as opposed to all the swing guru's voices in my head. Gave me immeasurable confidence - my last two outings I shot high still as short game needs work but I was able to shoot 2 birdies and won a closets to the pin in a skins game with some much better (for now) golfers. This instruction made me look forward to stepping up to the tee box a whole lot more. Years of watching golf video gurus and no one ever broke it down like this and made it so simple and relatable. THANK YOU!
What I have found adopting Mike’s teachings is that the getting the grip right and the getting wrists to hinge right is 80-85 percent of getting the swing right. When I do that correctly, things that are in the other videos almost happen by themselves. My mistake has been to leap forward to the other build blocks before cementing that super important fundamental. I have a net in the garage and plan to spend a couple months on only grip and wrist hinge (right hand only, left hand only then both). I’m hoping some day to get a lesson from Mike, but feel like it’s so foundational to get that basic thing right that the valuable time working with him would be less productive until I get my hands doing the right thing.
We all struggle with it. You are dead on about the grip and the wrist. I find that getting the grip right forces me to use the wrist correctly or else it is in fact a giant hook so in reality it becomes a check on my wrist technique.
Love the way Mike teaches. He puts it into language that the student uses. For me it's skipping stones. I pretend I'm a kid on the beach. I've skipped 10,000 stones and when I picture that in my golf swing I have distance and accuracy all day long.💥
3 weeks ago I started drilling myself on this Malaska swing (mostly focus takeaway for me), adding 7 yards on average to my 7 iron shots, but for me more importantly, the compression is improved dramatically as well as dispersion. Eureka. This really works for someone that's been taking the club inside for 20 years to be soooo much less dependent on wristy timing to get the face square at impact.
Since I visualize this mini baseballstick on the golfpath: 🎉 party-time!! Even out of the bunker is solved with this. Thanks 🙏🏻 Greetings from Conny, The Netherlands
I like your view. I have a left drop foot, basically about 10% strength in left fall through left foot. It is permanent from back issue. I have mostly a hands swing but can maybe drive it 175 or so. I try to hinge wrists and get left wrist flat but no speed. I cannot finish strong on left side. Suggestions?
I think you are one of the best golf instructors. Period. I have enormous respect for you, but... I have to qualify what you said. The left wrist does go into extension after impact. No question. But, there is rotation, too. Hack motion sensors prove this is what the greats do. Players like Tiger and others have quick amounts of rotation just before impact. If you just use extension of the wrist, you will open the club face. It has to be a little of both.
That is true, the issue is where the rotation is. Rate of close through the hitting area is decreased with this release. Eventually most pros go 90 degrees open to 90 closed, also everything is relative to the swing arc. Alan
Mike, excellent video thanks. However something has confused me for some time I understand the release you teach here, no forearm rotation. Yet when you teach the L to L drill, which is also great, your forearms clearly cross over. So the two lessons look inconsistent. What am I missing?
I had this same struggle but what I have started to understand is relativity. This video is not an individual lesson with you. This is conversation to the masses. Which is why you typically see so much contradiction industry wide. IMO a lot of the good ones are sending similar messages but they have different client bases that have different problems so they are speaking to what they see on a daily basis. Mike typically probably sees people that rotate the arms, wrists and hands way to much to square the club face so his general message is to not have forearm rotation to find middle. However there are plenty of UA-cam videos that Mike has done that talks about the lead arm being a rotator. If ur someone that doesn’t rotate at all you would need to “feel” that the club rotates a lot to get to middle. If you are someone that rotates alot then you need to feel no rotation to get to middle. Same message just different sides of the coin. I think the key is to find out for certain(or risk spinning your wheels) on what you as an individual do well and don’t do well and get instruction/tips catered to that side of the coin.
Think of it more as a feeling rather than what is literally happening. To say there is zero rotation of the clubface is preposterous. Just try to imagine the wrist moving like shooting a basketball and don’t worry about the forearms. If the ball still goes right then you’ve got to fix the grip. If the grip is right and you’re hooking then you have to fix the wrist action. That is my understandinf
Hey Malaska, I just watched your video and I must say that it was really informative and well-made. I was wondering if I could help you edit your videos and repurpose your long videos into highly engaging shorts? I can also make high CTR thumbnails for your channel
Mike, if you threw the club down the target line releasing the club at parallel…..would there be rotation of both forearms.? I say yes - any reply welcome 😊
Yes your forearms would rotate as an effect not a cause! Because the club is rotating the momentum would take your forearms and make them rotate! There's a big difference between that and rotating your forearms to release the club! If you try to make your forearms the cause of the face rotation you are going to be a very erratic golfer! Whereas if your forearms rotate as an effect you're probably a pretty good player.
He is a great coach and i watch him all the time but these American teachers need to understand people like me who live in the uk have never thrown a basket ball or hit a baseball in my life
He’s trying to explain the bell because he’s finally feeling the difference between hand path moving left through the ball and clubhead working on its own path
Mike, this changed my swing when I saw your video with Ashley Huziung. Inevitable question... Same with the driver and long clubs? Can you make a follow up with long clubs?
For years I had a "baseball swing" and people asked why I drive like that. I could hit the ball farther, but was questioned repeatedly. I was once told at a driving range to watch everyone else and see how they do it. Fortunately I'm hard-headed enough not to listen to bullshit.
Because I played baseball as a kid all the way up to high school pretty well after playing golf for 5 years this in ONE video solved ALL my problems. I was able to consistently think about swinging a bat to make good contact as opposed to all the swing guru's voices in my head. Gave me immeasurable confidence - my last two outings I shot high still as short game needs work but I was able to shoot 2 birdies and won a closets to the pin in a skins game with some much better (for now) golfers. This instruction made me look forward to stepping up to the tee box a whole lot more. Years of watching golf video gurus and no one ever broke it down like this and made it so simple and relatable. THANK YOU!
Mike is the best teacher on UA-cam
He is great!! I’m one of his instructors based out of Utah. He is a great mentor.
What about me haha?
What I have found adopting Mike’s teachings is that the getting the grip right and the getting wrists to hinge right is 80-85 percent of getting the swing right. When I do that correctly, things that are in the other videos almost happen by themselves. My mistake has been to leap forward to the other build blocks before cementing that super important fundamental. I have a net in the garage and plan to spend a couple months on only grip and wrist hinge (right hand only, left hand only then both). I’m hoping some day to get a lesson from Mike, but feel like it’s so foundational to get that basic thing right that the valuable time working with him would be less productive until I get my hands doing the right thing.
We all struggle with it. You are dead on about the grip and the wrist. I find that getting the grip right forces me to use the wrist correctly or else it is in fact a giant hook so in reality it becomes a check on my wrist technique.
I’m one of Mikes Certified Coaches. You are correct and the next thing to work on is the softness in your arms and wrists. Then the “Malaska Move”.
I’d get the lesson. Mike will help you.
Love the way Mike teaches. He puts it into language that the student uses. For me it's skipping stones. I pretend I'm a kid on the beach. I've skipped 10,000 stones and when I picture that in my golf swing I have distance and accuracy all day long.💥
I love this channel. One quibble - pitchers pronate so much more than I ever realized
3 weeks ago I started drilling myself on this Malaska swing (mostly focus takeaway for me), adding 7 yards on average to my 7 iron shots, but for me more importantly, the compression is improved dramatically as well as dispersion. Eureka. This really works for someone that's been taking the club inside for 20 years to be soooo much less dependent on wristy timing to get the face square at impact.
FINALLY I understand how to get rid of my flip. Hit and run!
Since I visualize this mini baseballstick on the golfpath: 🎉 party-time!! Even out of the bunker is solved with this. Thanks 🙏🏻 Greetings from Conny, The Netherlands
the drill you did with how your legs and hips move cured my shanks!
Cricket paddle 😂. Great swing by the way. Beautiful sounding shots .
Tremendous lesson! Awesome instruction!
I like your view. I have a left drop foot, basically about 10% strength in left fall through left foot. It is permanent from back issue. I have mostly a hands swing but can maybe drive it 175 or so. I try to hinge wrists and get left wrist flat but no speed. I cannot finish strong on left side. Suggestions?
So my right arm is longer than left. How will this affect the golf swing or alignment’s?? Thx Mike.
I think you are one of the best golf instructors. Period. I have enormous respect for you, but... I have to qualify what you said. The left wrist does go into extension after impact. No question. But, there is rotation, too. Hack motion sensors prove this is what the greats do. Players like Tiger and others have quick amounts of rotation just before impact. If you just use extension of the wrist, you will open the club face. It has to be a little of both.
That is true, the issue is where the rotation is. Rate of close through the hitting area is decreased with this release. Eventually most pros go 90 degrees open to 90 closed, also everything is relative to the swing arc.
Alan
Mike, excellent video thanks. However something has confused me for some time
I understand the release you teach here, no forearm rotation. Yet when you teach the L to L drill, which is also great, your forearms clearly cross over. So the two lessons look inconsistent. What am I missing?
I had this same struggle but what I have started to understand is relativity. This video is not an individual lesson with you. This is conversation to the masses. Which is why you typically see so much contradiction industry wide. IMO a lot of the good ones are sending similar messages but they have different client bases that have different problems so they are speaking to what they see on a daily basis. Mike typically probably sees people that rotate the arms, wrists and hands way to much to square the club face so his general message is to not have forearm rotation to find middle. However there are plenty of UA-cam videos that Mike has done that talks about the lead arm being a rotator. If ur someone that doesn’t rotate at all you would need to “feel” that the club rotates a lot to get to middle. If you are someone that rotates alot then you need to feel no rotation to get to middle. Same message just different sides of the coin. I think the key is to find out for certain(or risk spinning your wheels) on what you as an individual do well and don’t do well and get instruction/tips catered to that side of the coin.
I’m one of Mike’s coaches. Your forearms are going to crossover post impact.
Think of it more as a feeling rather than what is literally happening. To say there is zero rotation of the clubface is preposterous. Just try to imagine the wrist moving like shooting a basketball and don’t worry about the forearms. If the ball still goes right then you’ve got to fix the grip. If the grip is right and you’re hooking then you have to fix the wrist action. That is my understandinf
@@knicksfeva the lead arm is a rotator not a dragger. The arms cross over at P8 or just before. Too much thought put into it.
Hey Malaska, I just watched your video and I must say that it was really informative and well-made.
I was wondering if I could help you edit your videos and repurpose your long videos into highly engaging shorts? I can also make high CTR thumbnails for your channel
Mike, if you threw the club down the target line releasing the club at parallel…..would there be rotation of both forearms.? I say yes - any reply welcome 😊
Post Impact? Of course there would be.
Yes your forearms would rotate as an effect not a cause! Because the club is rotating the momentum would take your forearms and make them rotate! There's a big difference between that and rotating your forearms to release the club! If you try to make your forearms the cause of the face rotation you are going to be a very erratic golfer! Whereas if your forearms rotate as an effect you're probably a pretty good player.
He is a great coach and i watch him all the time but these American teachers need to understand people like me who live in the uk have never thrown a basket ball or hit a baseball in my life
Can we see a close up of the desired grip?
Just hit it easy **crushes it** 😂
Me having never played baseball: "Great, now I have to learn two swings?!" 😅
He’s trying to explain the bell because he’s finally feeling the difference between hand path moving left through the ball and clubhead working on its own path
Of all people to demonstrate with we chose a pitcher
Mike, how do i get a private lesson with you?
Mike, this changed my swing when I saw your video with Ashley Huziung. Inevitable question... Same with the driver and long clubs? Can you make a follow up with long clubs?
Should be very similar in concept but.. the golf club has a different forces around it.. so yea
Agree, but wouldn't you like to see Mike tell us?
@@CKGolfer that could be trade secrets haha
cmon Mike.. show him the table tennis forehand.. lol
For years I had a "baseball swing" and people asked why I drive like that. I could hit the ball
farther, but was questioned repeatedly. I was once told at a driving range to watch everyone else and see how they do it. Fortunately I'm hard-headed enough not to listen to bullshit.
Great video, but cricket paddle!!! Ridiculous, it’s called a bat
Lol I thought it was a paddle too! Looks like one
Um, Garrett was a MLB pitcher……there’s a reason NL went to the DH😂
Its not.
What is not?