MdlT is Yoda level shit. I played in college and at 60 maintain a 4 index. I have tried every method of change trying to be “perfect” I get radically different feels and sometimes in stretches it works. When I filmed over the years on video every method looked almost the same. Therefore I truly understood my swing was my swing. Technically fairly sound and looks good but never consistent until I realized the answer lies in the stuff he teaches, not positions. Once I learned how to swing the club and put it in motion and “leave it alone” my ball striking was more consistent. Back with the hands, through with the arms, let the body react and swing the club at your target. It works. Thank You and RIP Manuel. Legend.
Best, simplest, and easiest way to swing the golf club I have ever seen or heard. “Swing the golf club back over the right shoulder( for right handers ) then swing it back over the left shoulder in one uninterrupted motion in the direction of the target”.it doesn’t get any simpler than that. No mechanics to screw you up…. Just You! if you don’t do it that way!!!!. Brilliant!!!! Thank you Manuel. RIP.
Been playing golf of and on for 50 years at a very average level (approx 18 hcp). After reading Manuel’s book (&Ernest Jones) and practising an arms based swing and stopped sliding the hips, my game has improved by 5 per round and continues to improve. This video sums up Manuel’s approach wonderfully Thank you so much for posting.
What a wonderful and insightful man, whom always believed in what he taught ( I never knew or spoke to Manuel ). I say this, after listening to other's who have been fortunate enough to be taught by Manuel. I'm very sure many would like to wind the clock back to have lessons from Manuel!!! A Beautiful and intelligent man. 4th time watching this...
WOW! Great to see this on you tube! I had this presentation many, many years ago on VHS. Lost it on my many relocations :-(! I attended many of his teaching clinics at Moon Valley CC in the late 90, early 2000s! What changes he could make with a student in a short time. I would challenge any of the current teachers to do the same! In the sessions I had with him, he completely changed what I was trying to do! More focus on the club, less with my body. Needless to say, he improved my swing motion. I still focus on the ideas he gave me in our sessions. My only regret, I wish I would have had his expertise 20 years earlier. NO QUESTION, MANUEL AND ERNEST JONES WERE THE PREMERE TEACHERS THIS COUNTRY EVER HAD! RIP, MY FRIEND MANUEL!
MDLT changed my game from trying to allowing. I no longer have a million thoughts over the ball. I’ve actually thought of ordering a custom golf bag and putting MDLT letters on it. To always remind myself on each shot that MDLT method is the swing on every shot.
I love his teaching method . He’s a genius his dad must’ve been a genius also. All the other instructors put so much stuff in a persons mind there’s no way a person can even make solid contact .thinking about all these different movements from the body and positions. I’m finally getting my swing back after trying all this crazy stuff for the last three or four years. It is so refreshing it makes the game fun again! Thanks
Much better than the series you posted earlier. The sound is clear and Manuel does not get interrupted with questions from the peanut gallery. This was great. I use his method and it has done wonders for me. Thank you.
U know what I feel like sometimes with golf pros I feel like alot of them have elitist mentalities and purposefully teach golf more difficult because they like the power of being better than everybody and don't really want u to get better but love telling u what to do over and over even though u cant grasp it! However this Man is genuine and really seems to want to improve golfers worldwide!!
I'm a former PGA instructor. I still teach/coach from time to time because I love it. According to the instructors who teach the Jones/de la Torre system only about 10% of professionals in the US teach to be club centric. The other 90% teach body centric. I don't know how true that is but I can tell you this. From my experience, as well as from published studies on learning motor skills, what Mr de la Torre espouses is far superior. I was coached by the first authorized instructor of the Golfing Machine and I've been immersed in the "swing the clubhead" philosophy. Those two methods are in either end of the spectrum in the extreme but have similarities. Although my mind works in a technical fashion, I prefer the swing the clubhead system. It works for me and I enjoy golf more than I did before. I no longer care about what my body does because it's reacting to what my hands are doing with the club. I can't alter a reaction, I can only alter actions. Just give it a try. "Feel the clubhead weight, swing it over your trailing shoulder with your hands then swing the ENTIRE club with the arms forward to the target in one uninterrupted motion to the finish". Simple. I love it.
@@dougkercher3364 I’ve worked with 4 before getting one that was very down to earth and it was a guy named Jeff Bygrave out of Paxon Hollow golf course in Newtown square who made me feel super comfortable and not like an asshole cuz I was 35 years old and just getting into golf and didn’t understand golf lingo at all. So yea the first 4 we’re talking to me like I was a lost cause. Now 3 years later I’m a 9 handicap thanks to Jeff!! I know there are a lot of awesome instructors but there are a lot of assholes too
When l let my body and mind take over the swing, I hit beautiful shots. It all falls apart when I try to over power my swing. It's not that that complicated. Good lesson.
My god, I drove the driver with the ball at the center...... and what a straight strong shot it was.... now i started to doubt those modern instruction...
Doubt them for sure. But never doubt yourself. He is 100 percent correct. In my opinion the almost 600 tips that have been regurgitated in golf magazine through the years are parasites to our brains that serves to only decrease our ability to swing the club head and send our ball to the target. Cheers. Believe in yourself and once you have the correct swing as he just said: 'Let it go!"
Amazing teacher! I still can't get over the comparison between his and George Carlin's speech pattern out of my head though... One a comedy genius and the other a golf pro. Either way, a potent delivery of information.
Listen to this man if you want to feel the crisp powerful contact the best players get. This works. Don’t try it and if you hit one bad shot try something else . Stuck with this. A lesson from a legend 👍
This style of swinging makes golf so much more enjoyable. It has dramatically improved my swing by re-wiring how I think of my swing and how I set up. Not that difficult.
I’m late to this teaching method , but even a single trackman session has conclusively proven to me that de la Torre’s method works. Club speed faster, low point 3” ahead, face, path and face to path all within 1deg of neutral, ball speed and smash factor up. And all I did was take the clubhead back with my hands to right shoulder, then move entire forearm , hands and club unit to left shoulder using arms ( upper arm).. no manipulation, no other swing thought. It was like someone else was doing this, it was effortless both physically and mentally and no matter how fast I swung, I finished balanced. Truly wonderful, truly simple and with the advent of technology like Trackman, I had immediate proof that this technique gave optimal impact conditions without any complicated swing thoughts, the ball just got propelled towards target. Do I have the mental strength to stick with this? Time will tell.
Thanks for sharing this video, real eye opener In understanding the philosophy of keeping it very simple, The problem now is to unlearn and discard all the terms of information that had been loaded and took really keep it simple just to swing it …. Very well articulated , these are not instructions but explanation
When you consider that 90% of golf instruction is based on moving the club by moving the body, Is it any wonder that many people quit the game or spend most of their lives learning how to swing a club rather than developing a sound swing and then learning how to just play golf!
You should listen to David Leadbetter & Nick Faldo video Valderama... it's like the opposition of what we just saw.. & they made a video on his supposed change that gave him success..??? Give me a break
Absolutely. We had big drivers before he passed. The clubhead still goes in the center, being larger it means the ball is a bit further forward than with a classic driver or any iron. These "ideas" have been working since the beginning of golf and taught to other golfers for nearly 100 years. I wish I'd learned these things much sooner. There's no going back.
"Let it go!" Let the the negative parasitic thought behind you golf swing go. Let the person who tells you to keep the head down go. Let the teacher who insist on more Lag on you club go. Let the X ant Y factors go. Let Gravity go. Let anyone who ever promised you the swing of tomorrow go. Yes once you got it right; simply let it go.
@@benjaminhogan3157 that "data tech crap" is relevant to anyone that swings a golf club. Concepts are tested and confirmed or dismissed based on the data. Being a ludite in a world of information makes you look silly. Argue for your limitations if you like or use information available to you to be the best version of yourself possible. You don't need to be a pro to benefit
@@ocat1979 Of course not. Now everything is measured and measurable. All swing theories can be measured for effectiveness and thrown out if proven to be ineffective or less effective. For example 'Stack n tilt' should now be referred to as 'stack and wilt'. For any given swing speed, golfers can now get the maximum efficiency and play better golf
Ernest Jones has been expounding the gospel of swing, not hit, for many, many years. I do not think the golfing world in general disagrees with Ernest. They cannot; his idea that the hands are even 90% of the game can be true, but his doctrine ends abruptly, because he does not go the step further and tell his pupils HOW to use their hands better in order to advance in their golf. I find that most of my pupils have a swing. You can go on swinging a club till you are blue in the face and never gain a yard in length unless you work on the ‘heart of the swing’ - the just-before-and-after-impact section. This cannot be glossed over.” - HENRY COTTON. Bear Back. Dunn.
MdlT is Yoda level shit. I played in college and at 60 maintain a 4 index. I have tried every method of change trying to be “perfect” I get radically different feels and sometimes in stretches it works. When I filmed over the years on video every method looked almost the same. Therefore I truly understood my swing was my swing. Technically fairly sound and looks good but never consistent until I realized the answer lies in the stuff he teaches, not positions. Once I learned how to swing the club and put it in motion and “leave it alone” my ball striking was more consistent. Back with the hands, through with the arms, let the body react and swing the club at your target. It works. Thank You and RIP Manuel. Legend.
BY FAR the best golf instructor to ever teach the game... RIP Manuel
@Coolhand850 who? I know tons of instructors. 90% are all body focused.
Best, simplest, and easiest way to swing the golf club I have ever seen or heard. “Swing the golf club back over the right shoulder( for right handers ) then swing it back over the left shoulder in one uninterrupted motion in the direction of the target”.it doesn’t get any simpler than that. No mechanics to screw you
up…. Just You! if you don’t do it that way!!!!.
Brilliant!!!! Thank you Manuel. RIP.
Been playing golf of and on for 50 years at a very average level (approx 18 hcp). After reading Manuel’s book (&Ernest Jones) and practising an arms based swing and stopped sliding the hips, my game has improved by 5 per round and continues to improve.
This video sums up Manuel’s approach wonderfully
Thank you so much for posting.
What a wonderful and insightful man, whom always believed in what he taught ( I never knew or spoke to Manuel ). I say this, after listening to other's who have been fortunate enough to be taught by Manuel. I'm very sure many would like to wind the clock back to have lessons from Manuel!!! A Beautiful and intelligent man. 4th time watching this...
Excellent communicator. Just recently purchased his book. Happy these are here as resources. What a truly awesome way to think about the game.
WOW! Great to see this on you tube! I had this presentation many, many years ago
on VHS. Lost it on my many relocations :-(! I attended many of his teaching clinics
at Moon Valley CC in the late 90, early 2000s! What changes he could make with a student
in a short time. I would challenge any of the current teachers to do the same! In the
sessions I had with him, he completely changed what I was trying to do! More focus
on the club, less with my body. Needless to say, he improved my swing motion. I still
focus on the ideas he gave me in our sessions. My only regret, I wish I would have had
his expertise 20 years earlier. NO QUESTION, MANUEL AND ERNEST JONES WERE
THE PREMERE TEACHERS THIS COUNTRY EVER HAD! RIP, MY FRIEND MANUEL!
👍👍👍
MDLT changed my game from trying to allowing. I no longer have a million thoughts over the ball. I’ve actually thought of ordering a custom golf bag and putting MDLT letters on it. To always remind myself on each shot that MDLT method is the swing on every shot.
This is the best explanation and demonstration for gripping the golf club that I have ever seen.
I love his teaching method . He’s a genius his dad must’ve been a genius also. All the other instructors put so much stuff in a persons mind there’s no way a person can even make solid contact .thinking about all these different movements from the body and positions. I’m finally getting my swing back after trying all this crazy stuff for the last three or four years. It is so refreshing it makes the game fun again! Thanks
Much better than the series you posted earlier. The sound is clear and Manuel does not get interrupted with questions from the peanut gallery. This was great. I use his method and it has done wonders for me. Thank you.
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His book and the video that goes with it are great.
after I watched all your videos, it is changing my life😇
At last someone who's genuine and not full of B S ideas and false positions a breath of fresh air 👍😁👍
U know what I feel like sometimes with golf pros I feel like alot of them have elitist mentalities and purposefully teach golf more difficult because they like the power of being better than everybody and don't really want u to get better but love telling u what to do over and over even though u cant grasp it! However this Man is genuine and really seems to want to improve golfers worldwide!!
In defense of Professionals. PGA turned down simplfied methods of doing the golf swing
I'm a former PGA instructor. I still teach/coach from time to time because I love it. According to the instructors who teach the Jones/de la Torre system only about 10% of professionals in the US teach to be club centric. The other 90% teach body centric. I don't know how true that is but I can tell you this. From my experience, as well as from published studies on learning motor skills, what Mr de la Torre espouses is far superior. I was coached by the first authorized instructor of the Golfing Machine and I've been immersed in the "swing the clubhead" philosophy. Those two methods are in either end of the spectrum in the extreme but have similarities. Although my mind works in a technical fashion, I prefer the swing the clubhead system. It works for me and I enjoy golf more than I did before. I no longer care about what my body does because it's reacting to what my hands are doing with the club. I can't alter a reaction, I can only alter actions. Just give it a try. "Feel the clubhead weight, swing it over your trailing shoulder with your hands then swing the ENTIRE club with the arms forward to the target in one uninterrupted motion to the finish". Simple. I love it.
How many golf pros have you had this personal experience of a power trip with?
@@dougkercher3364 I’ve worked with 4 before getting one that was very down to earth and it was a guy named Jeff Bygrave out of Paxon Hollow golf course in Newtown square who made me feel super comfortable and not like an asshole cuz I was 35 years old and just getting into golf and didn’t understand golf lingo at all. So yea the first 4 we’re talking to me like I was a lost cause. Now 3 years later I’m a 9 handicap thanks to Jeff!! I know there are a lot of awesome instructors but there are a lot of assholes too
@@philsar22 Saraceni? It can't be a coincidence. Are you related to The Squire?
When l let my body and mind take over the swing, I hit beautiful shots. It all falls apart when I try to over power my swing. It's not that that complicated. Good lesson.
My god, I drove the driver with the ball at the center...... and what a straight strong shot it was.... now i started to doubt those modern instruction...
A lot of bad instructions out there
Doubt them for sure. But never doubt yourself. He is 100 percent correct. In my opinion the almost 600 tips that have been regurgitated in golf magazine through the years are parasites to our brains that serves to only decrease our ability to swing the club head and send our ball to the target. Cheers. Believe in yourself and once you have the correct swing as he just said: 'Let it go!"
Amazing is it not. How we have been programmed.
The best teacher ever !! Thanks for posting these videos .
Yes I agree right up there
Amazing teacher! I still can't get over the comparison between his and George Carlin's speech pattern out of my head though... One a comedy genius and the other a golf pro. Either way, a potent delivery of information.
Manuel talked so much sense but it seems like most people prefer complicated.
Well it's just really great & I love this way of passing on knowledge
I am a follower of this mans teachings....wish he was still alive because I would take a lesson with him but fortunately we have his video series
Listen to this man if you want to feel the crisp powerful contact the best players get. This works. Don’t try it and if you hit one bad shot try something else . Stuck with this. A lesson from a legend 👍
Thanks, John. And also, thanks with the help to my email question. This video provided further clarification.
Great man and instructor
@@jerryinsc Sadly missed
Instructors are always talking about changing the golf swing. Why don't they discuss improving the golf swing?
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This style of swinging makes golf so much more enjoyable. It has dramatically improved my swing by re-wiring how I think of my swing and how I set up. Not that difficult.
I’m late to this teaching method , but even a single trackman session has conclusively proven to me that de la Torre’s method works.
Club speed faster, low point 3” ahead, face, path and face to path all within 1deg of neutral, ball speed and smash factor up.
And all I did was take the clubhead back with my hands to right shoulder, then move entire forearm , hands and club unit to left shoulder using arms ( upper arm).. no manipulation, no other swing thought.
It was like someone else was doing this, it was effortless both physically and mentally and no matter how fast I swung, I finished balanced.
Truly wonderful, truly simple and with the advent of technology like Trackman, I had immediate proof that this technique gave optimal impact conditions without any complicated swing thoughts, the ball just got propelled towards target.
Do I have the mental strength to stick with this? Time will tell.
Smart clothing smart talking smart information WINS
Nothing has changed, beauty is a Constant of nature, peace and love.
Thanks for sharing this video, real eye opener In understanding the philosophy of keeping it very simple, The problem now is to unlearn and discard all the terms of information that had been loaded and took really keep it simple just to swing it …. Very well articulated , these are not instructions but explanation
Thankyou no questions from the gallery
love it.. i dont know a better way..
When you consider that 90% of golf instruction is based on moving the club by moving the body, Is it any wonder that many people quit the game or spend most of their lives learning how to swing a club rather than developing a sound swing and then learning how to just play golf!
David Arbelaez , it really is destroying I agree 100%
You should listen to David Leadbetter & Nick Faldo video Valderama... it's like the opposition of what we just saw.. & they made a video on his supposed change that gave him success..??? Give me a break
Pity Seve didn't go to this guy when his game was ailing..
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Not just a lesson on golf, but also on life
Great video!
Moe Norman brought me here
Moe Norman thought that Manuel was the greatest teacher.
Thank you so much for sharing
Genius..miss him
Certainly a good combination especially when u believe in yourself
WHAT A great teacher
Does his idea of the golf swing still work today with modern drivers?
Yes
Absolutely. We had big drivers before he passed. The clubhead still goes in the center, being larger it means the ball is a bit further forward than with a classic driver or any iron. These "ideas" have been working since the beginning of golf and taught to other golfers for nearly 100 years. I wish I'd learned these things much sooner. There's no going back.
"Let it go!" Let the the negative parasitic thought behind you golf swing go. Let the person who tells you to keep the head down go. Let the teacher who insist on more Lag on you club go. Let the X ant Y factors go. Let Gravity go. Let anyone who ever promised you the swing of tomorrow go. Yes once you got it right; simply let it go.
GOLD!
not getting any sound after the opening screen.
One Swing Thought........Swing.
Cottonmouth is no joke. Gotta breathe through your nose.
I have difficulty separating the target from the flag. In my game, the flag is rarely the target but I seem to get fixated on it. Lol
Great coaching for the time but... it didn't age well in the new era of information (force plates, trackman, GC quad, gears, enzo etc)
It’s still correct even with all the tools available
He's talking about the concepts everyday players should have. Pros need all that data tech crap, not handicap amateurs.
@@benjaminhogan3157 that "data tech crap" is relevant to anyone that swings a golf club. Concepts are tested and confirmed or dismissed based on the data. Being a ludite in a world of information makes you look silly. Argue for your limitations if you like or use information available to you to be the best version of yourself possible. You don't need to be a pro to benefit
So physics are different now?
@@ocat1979 Of course not. Now everything is measured and measurable. All swing theories can be measured for effectiveness and thrown out if proven to be ineffective or less effective. For example 'Stack n tilt' should now be referred to as 'stack and wilt'. For any given swing speed, golfers can now get the maximum efficiency and play better golf
Genius
Ernest Jones has been expounding the gospel of swing, not hit, for many, many years. I do not think the golfing world in general disagrees with Ernest. They cannot; his idea that the hands are even 90% of the game can be true, but his doctrine ends abruptly, because he does not go the step further and tell his pupils HOW to use their hands better in order to advance in their golf. I find that most of my pupils have a swing. You can go on swinging a club till you are blue in the face and never gain a yard in length unless you work on the ‘heart of the swing’ - the just-before-and-after-impact section. This cannot be glossed over.” - HENRY COTTON. Bear Back. Dunn.
I never had a slice. This works fantastic for me. I don't need more length. Accuracy and dependability are fantastic, and trump distance in my game.
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The reason people suck at golf.