“The motion of being an athlete” is what it’s all about. It’s freed me up to where I can’t wait to hit a ball. It’s fun again instead of the job of processing 3,4,5 swing thoughts.
Hey Mike for what it's worth I'm a lifelong under employed musician and the lessons you're teaching here about humility and striving for greatness are invaluable invaluable thank you
When it comes to golf, Mike is the smartest guy in the room...any room he walks into. Great series with Mike Brendan! How I wish I would've known about Mike and the concepts that he teaches when I started playing golf instead feeling like a dog rediscovering his tail! Thanks for the videos!
This is so good. Thank the lord for this man! Both these guys! I love how Mike just stayed with it and figured it out! Love the videos of you 2 together.
Mike- with Brandon you hit a home run. The best teaching around. This is why you are a top 20 instructor in the Nation. I’ve used this excellent instruction and shot a 71, 1 under par, two bogies, and three birdies , 36 on the front and 35 on the back. Believe me Mike is right on! I have reviewed lots of U Tube Videos about golf. I always come back to Mike.
10:50 to 13:20 is pure gold of understanding the golf swing. Feels are the goal and positions are consequences. Brilliant 👏💯and it will make you feel like eureka moment. And you will improve and hit better.
This video so complements Dr Kwon's thoughts on the golf swing. Focusing on motion and not positions has so improved my ability to communicate when coaching. You have really upped my coaching game. Thanks, big time.
Mike, been playing to game for over 20 years and everything you talked about that screwed you up did the same for me. Stumbled upon these lessons and what an 'ah-ha' moment. It changed my swing for better overnight. Thank you so much! Hands down, the best and easiest to understand. The athletic movements makes so much sense. I wish I could take a series lessons with you!
I am here is South Africa and i was thinking how can I repay this man and his talent that has helped me for FREE !! Mike I am going to buy your book and I hope that everyone you helped does the same. Thank you for sharing your hard earned knowledge. I will post this on all your UA-cam videos because you deserve it. BOOKS:= I Feel Your Pain: Let's Make Golf Uncomplicated: Mike Malaska and the new book when it gets released The Invisible Swing Mike Malaska
Awesome. Hope you do much more with Mike. Mike’s videos have completely changed my game over the last 2 years. I’m a former baseball player. I’ve been able to channel his understanding of the swing to greatly improve mine. Especially in weight transfer and how to use your hands. The one area of improvement in Mikes teachings are his drills, IMO don’t translate well to the swing, and that he takes for granted that people are implementing a correct takeaway and backswing. This is where I was stuck. I would encourage all interested parties to check out Athletic Motion Golf. They will teach you the correct takeaway and backswing. Them, Coupled with Mike, are game changers.
I have always been a position guy. My golf pro friend kept telling me “Just swing! Stop thinking about it! But when I did, it was an over the top slice. I’m now 73 and I’m finally getting it...I think. I think the best thing to do is just swing as fast as you can...one freed up motion...then hope the positions happen. As they say, leap and the net shall appear.
I started playing regular golf when I was already 50 but had played a wide range of other sports since I was a child. I got to an ok level reasonably quickly and felt convinced I could easily get to single figures. Then my lessons became more and more focused on trying to get into certain positions, at which point my ball striking collapsed to the extent I felt like a complete beginner. Fortunately I now feel I am climbing out of the deep hole my golf had fallen into. I can relate to so much of this video. Thanks for posting.
I have been watching your videos for about a month now. I've Been playing since I was a Kid (5-6) years old and I too was MUCH better in my early years of 15-19. FROM BASEBALL!!! I fell into the Trap that a lot of us did when we heard "baseball will kill your golf game, pick one or the other" I'm now 31 have been searching for that swing ever since! Mike is the master, he's got "IT" whenever he talks golf its just relatable, I just get pick up on what hes implying. I had been struggling with early extension and too much forearm rotation in my golf swing for the last few years even when passing my PAT. I've played 5-6 rounds since subscribing and my Tee to Green game has drastically improved with simply "be athletic" "my right hand is the clubface". Now my goal is to break 70 this season! Thank you too Both of you!
22:33 to 26:00 pure gold teachings and its the recipe to play well like the pros. All amateurs should copy that. Impact will be solid as ever. Instant Increase ball speed and 45° flight trajectory, beautiful flying balls with spin like Tiger's irons shots. I'm not kidding! These moves, Mike's concept definitely changed and improved my game tremendously in short period of time. Mike Malaska is the best out there.
I understand how he felt. When I first started I took a beginner golf class at a Jr college I bought a $5 pitching wedge when I full swing it I could hit 145 high draw this was 1992 so I decided to go to a pga pro and all of sudden I couldn't hit it. All my clubs went 120yds just the longer the club the higher it went. It took me 2 years to get my original swing back then I went from 27handi to a 6 in a year with no short game at all.
Hey B, you are very fortunate to have access to Mike and his ability to uncomplicate a sport that at times seems to be made intentionally complicated by the instructors paid to help us improve.
I clicked thinking I was going to get the next best swing tip to fix whatever ailment I'm currently battling in my swing... instead I found gold that transcends a single fix or lesson. Cheers gentlemen!
Brilliant video. Mike’s the best ‘big picture’ coach I’ve ever seen. The weight shift to the front leg as the club goes back is so hard for me to do, but in the last few weeks I’ve been getting it! I’m a right handed player but throw with a very strong left arm - it’s definitely been a physiological brick wall in improving my golf game. That and I’m a really bad dancer!
Malaska first talks about baseball swing. I find that I can hit the ball better if I think of the "swing" starting from the up position, not necessarily coming to a complete stop but just get the club back in a decent position without thinking about the backswing then hit the ball by swinging thru to make it fly the way you want it to. In Baseball and every other sport you start in the up position then you figure out how to swing and hit the ball. For ex., if you are trying to hit a low outside pitch or a high inside pitch or a slow off speed pitch, you always start with the bat up and back then you figure out how to hit each pitch, you don't start out with the bat dangling straight down, like in golf.From your up ready position your bat may move back or even up but your whole mindset process is starting with the bat up. When you throw a punch you may rear back a bit but you don't start from your arm hanging straight down. Same with tennis or throwing a baseball, your body may start moving forward as your arm goes back, but you are not consciously thinking about moving the 2 things in opposite directions you're just thinking with my arm back and up, throw the ball forward. A good golfer can hit good solid shots with his feet slightly open or slightly closed, with the ball off his front foot or off his back foot, off an uphill lie or sidehill lie, because they don't think about their back swing they just think from the up or back position, what do I need to do to hit this ball the way I want to.
Wow ,, eye opener!!! Ty guys very intense!! Knowledge is Gold!!! I love the feels in practice to make the swing work !!! Looks nothing like you think it looks !!! Feedback sooo important!! Thanks again guys great stuff,,,,
I sense Mike's concepts from his experience in baseball. Experience in a different sport, i.e. baseball, helps with the athletic moves in a different sport like golf.
Just found this and I think it may have saved my golf game. Was completely stuck for several months, and what Mike is saying about athleticism broke me out of it instantly. Haven't hit the ball this well in a long time, maybe ever. Thanks to both of you! Joe
A few years ago i was goofing around and tried hitting balls with rotor drill on range and it worked so well i took it to course onall full shots...and actually hi the ball just as solid as i had my normal way although i had years of practice the normal way..friends? Laughed so i gave up the rotor swing..i wonder if it might be a better swing if really pursued by an ordinary 16 handicap who has basically peaked out after20 years..it seemed so effortless so quickly...would not some havemore room for improvement???
This is probably one of the best explanations of the golf swing I've ever heard. I understand the camera angle issue. I discovered that a few years ago on my own when I first got a phone that had a high frame rate. I used many different angles and found the right one that was accurate. It's not down the line but rather a little inside. I don't have the technical knowledge to describe it. The thing that I saw in the video was what Mike was describing in the "flow." I would set the phone up on the tripod and leave it run for some time, not just one or two swings. I saw that my practice swings were what Mike talked about. Smooth, with the wind up and a solid release and no tension. My actual swing was about 75% of the speed and very tense. My goal is to now use a practice swing as my actual swing. Weird, I know, but it works! And it's repeatable. Thanks guys!
Change my game put the club back in hands. The right hand now feels like better control easier as well. I still need to work on forward shaft lean. I over all mike the best instructor now when I hear pros talk all make sense. Like tiger always states its hands.
That fits me....when I hit the ball well! When I am 1/4 to 1/3 of the way back.....I am already turning my lower body forward. Slightly..building a tension between my lower body and my arms/club.......like a rubber band. Great video:) Good stuff!
I think the crucial info is at 30.40 where it looks like the impact and swivel looks like it’s off the right foot before finishing the swing on the left
The same thing happened to me with the grip. They told me to weaken it, so I did and I literally thought I could never play golf again for a few days of trying to learn it. I’ve thrown that advice out the window driving over a bridge.
Mark Evershed a Canadian teaching pro who was familiar with George Knudsen and Moe Norman said they both had broken several clubs in the”backswing “. This can be explained by some of the forces Mike refers to toward the end of the video.
When you are demonstrating and describing "walking away", is that the same as transferring your weight to your left foot at the beginning of the takeaway?
I saw an article from Mike Malaska 10+ years ago in GD. I called him and told him how helpful he had been. I think he thought I was a bit of a wack job but that is for another day. The guy is a master teacher not instructor not mechanic...teacher
If I'm gripping a baseball bat I'm having my thumbs wrap around with the other fingers versus the standard "golf grip" has the thumbs going up the shaft. Is this where I should be conforming to the golf grip eventhough my natural baseball grip isn't this?
Yeah the lead hand thin should support the weight of the club at the top. You should be able to hold the club at the top with just your lead arm pinky and thumb. I can show you
What would mike say about someone like Hideki Matsuyama who is a world class ball striker but definitely has that deliberate pause at the top of his swing?
After 62 years of playing this game, I've finally figured some things out. We make golf way too complicated. A framing carpenter pounding nails all day long doesn't think about what his left hip is doing or where his right knee is. He takes his hammer in his right hand (normally), looks at the nail and pounds the nail. Folks, this is golf. It is no harder to hit a ball just sitting on the ground than it is the head of a nail with a 1" circular head of a 20 oz. framing hammer while you're on your knees, up on a roof and working in the wind and trying not to fall. If the carpenter thought about what all his body parts had to do in order to hit the nail precisely, he'd have as hard a time as we golfers do trying to hit that little ball. Get a light weight hammer head and install a shaft on it securely and then figure out how to hit a golf ball with that hammer head. You'll see immediately that your right arm, wrist and hand are the keys to success and not your knees, back, shoulders, instep, hip, chin or left heel. Just forget about the golf swing, concentrate on hitting the ball where you want it to go using the head of the hammer as your "tool". Do this very slowly and deliberately and within a very short time, the golf swing will make perfect sense.
Actually you have it COMPLETELY backwards. Hitting a golf ball correctly is more like a very technical skill. It's more like brain surgery, playing a musical instrument, driving a car. You dont "learn" by doing. You wouldnt throw your child car keys and say to learn on the freeway or play to a full arena at a concert with no skill(just feel it), or cut open someone's head and feel your way around. If you want to learn a golf swing its NOT about the ball at all. It's "learning" to swing a club first(very technical) then learning to hit a ball with your swing. 2 very different skills. As far as hitting a nail with a 🔨...it would be more like hitting a needle with a hammer you hold between your toes. It would recquire some getting used to. We don't make it complicated if anything most people over simplify it. If people respected it for how complicated it was they would be much better.
@@jacobr4558 Golf, if nothing else, is certainly a game of skill. I'm 73 now and have spent 62 years studying the game and the golf swing. I competed with Johnny Miller as a junior and was never in the hunt but still enjoyed it. I've also tried and experimented with a zillion different swings, swing theories and even the Moe Norman one plane method. I've fired my hips. I've done square to square. I've done stack and tilt. I've done the x-factor. I've absorbed knowledge from Eddie Merrins, A. J. Bonar and even Dalton McCrary. I've swung the club and let the club head hit the ball and I've hit the ball. Man, I've done everything. But, nothing every worked. Johnny Miller used to say as a kid he used the "WOOD" method to swing. WORKS ONLY ONE DAY. So at this ripe old age, as luck would have it, I can not touch a club for a week and then go to the range and hit the ball like a pro using my suggested method. It works every single time and all the others didn't. The swing takes a little more than one second. If your swing involves manipulation of any kind, best of luck to you. The same way a carpenter shows up on the job every single day and starts pounding nails without a 20 minute warm up is the same way what I'm suggesting works. I hope people will try it but if they don't, they don't. You'll never hear a carpenter say he had a bad day and couldn't hit the nail to save his life. When you know what I know, you can say the same thing about golf. Thanks for the comment. Take care.
@@fontking1a ironic that Johnny Miller hypocritically suggests you do exactly what he didn't do! He was one of the most technical pros there was! Always tinkering, and very specific with positions and feels. He had a swing coach from a very young age and mastered some very technical skills(nothing like your carpenter mindlessly "hitting"a nail). If it works for you great and thanks for sharing how you feel. You would be an anomaly. Maybe .001% of all golfers and probably still a 10 handicap at best. Golf is science not art. It's hitting lines, knowing which lines to hit and doing it consistently. It's missing in the correct places. It's only art WAY after the science is mastered!
Hmm! I beg to differ. Watch some of Zen golf's lessons. You will be pleasantly surprised. Its about motion. You are complicating a task our bodies are designed to perform. We must give up form for motion because everybody is built differently. Go throw a ball sidearm hit a baseball hit a low top spin forehand. Its an athletic motion not one of positions! You will be shocked how well you can swing without any of the golf teaching mumbo jumbo.
I love the part about the change of direction towards the end of the video. You can create some serious speed just feeling like your hitting a really really hard punch shot. The funny thing is though with a driver or longer club, you will take a full backswing with this idea. it's almost like you are just trying to break/bend the shaft with a very short swing.
I agree, using this concept it feels like you are making half a swing. But looking on video, it is pretty full. It really feels like cracking the whip.
True story. I knew a guy who took things to the extreme and hit 1,000 balls a day for a couple of years because he heard that some pro did it. I thought I'd be in for something spectacular when we first played together and the dude was hitting a foot behind it all day and shot 90 or something. People praised him for his work ethic but he wasted several hours a day by not playing. Imagine if he warmed up and then played 36 holes a day. The practice range offers a very small percentage of the shots you'll hit on the course.
Actually "hitting" balls is NOT the way to learn a golf SWING! The swing is its own mechanical process separate from the ball. If he would have practice 1,000 swings a day and mastered the nuances he would be amazing by now. Example= you can hit a ball perfect with terrible mechanics and shank a ball with perfect mechanics(bad setup) etc. You are getting improper feedback so you would either avoid good mechanics or ingrain faulty ones.
Practice with a purpose on those1000 balls and you will get very good.Visualize where you want the ball to start. Paint a picture. Hit low,med,high fades and draws from all types of lies. You will not need to hit 1000 balls! Lol. Club face and body control just like any other sport!
In football, I preferred to throw to the left side of the field. In baseball, I was a pull hitter. In tennis, I favored hitting cross court forehands. As you can see... There's a pattern here. I think it's why I play golf with a slightly on the weak side of neutral grip. I can play with a strong grip, but it always feels restrictive, and NON athletic to me. I'm aware that I hit the golf ball too high, and I understand why. However, I hit it plenty long enough to score well, and throwing the club head at the ball just "feels" right to me. Stop figting your natural athletic tendencies, and swing the club with speed. Just my two cents...
Hi Brandon, Do you plan on visiting George Gankas again? Also, would you try to hook up with Chuck Quinton, founder of Rotary Swing Golf? He and Mike have transformed my game. IMHO, CQ and his RST instruction has really simplified the golf swing. Check out his Dead Drill info. I think he would bring a lot of great content to your fantastic channel.
Am I supposed to understand or remember half of what was said? Technical talk through the roof, over my head, I've no idea how anyone can understand and apply this practically. Is it any wonder people struggle with this game??
Adam Martin perfectly concise chat between him and Brendon. Very clear and good to follow, if you can’t. That means you are not ready yet to receive his information. And cant comprehend it. That is ok. A lot of of people don’t.
@@arjanpetersen To be honest it just seems like a lot to think about all at once. A lot of technical stuff that I really have no idea what it is....I'm a 3 handicap, I didn't learn the game that way. Being self taught (mostly) I just think there's an easier way for him to get the point across. I don't know, maybe I'm just not educated about the game's technical side, but I had no idea what was said....
He is telling a lifetime story about the various bias we have in golf. The golf industry is full of subjective analysts. It's important to pave your own path in golf. If you know enough about a swing, you should be able to intuitively correct your swing.
There’s a zillion technical golf videos out there if you want technical. Golf is art and science and Mike’s saying don’t get blinded by the science - let the art do the talking when you find yourself over-thinking your golf. Simple and great advice especially to those of us who spend hours on the range getting frustrated.
This wasn't a teaching video per se. It was Mike's personal golf journey. It started out by Brendan asking Mike what he would tell his 25 year old self. Mike has a ton of teaching videos here on YT where he teaches his (Joe Nichols) swing concepts. Do yourself a favor and watch them...if you stick with it, it will change your golf and swing for the better.
When Mike talks you listen. The best instructor out there hands down.
“The motion of being an athlete” is what it’s all about. It’s freed me up to where I can’t wait to hit a ball. It’s fun again instead of the job of processing 3,4,5 swing thoughts.
I am 66 and now killing the ball with control thanks to Mike Malaska's videos and 3 straight weeks at the range. Thanks, Mike!!
There is no one better as far as I’m concerned.
Hey Mike for what it's worth I'm a lifelong under employed musician and the lessons you're teaching here about humility and striving for greatness are invaluable invaluable thank you
When it comes to golf, Mike is the smartest guy in the room...any room he walks into. Great series with Mike Brendan! How I wish I would've known about Mike and the concepts that he teaches when I started playing golf instead feeling like a dog rediscovering his tail! Thanks for the videos!
This is so good. Thank the lord for this man! Both these guys! I love how Mike just stayed with it and figured it out! Love the videos of you 2 together.
Mike- with Brandon you hit a home run. The best teaching around. This is why you are a top 20 instructor in the Nation. I’ve used this excellent instruction and shot a 71, 1 under par, two bogies, and three birdies , 36 on the front and 35 on the back. Believe me Mike is right on! I have reviewed lots of U Tube Videos about golf. I always come back to Mike.
10:50 to 13:20 is pure gold of understanding the golf swing. Feels are the goal and positions are consequences. Brilliant 👏💯and it will make you feel like eureka moment. And you will improve and hit better.
We, as the general public are so lucky that your life took the path that it did Mike, you are a treasure to the golfing world!
This video so complements Dr Kwon's thoughts on the golf swing. Focusing on motion and not positions has so improved my ability to communicate when coaching. You have really upped my coaching game. Thanks, big time.
Mike, been playing to game for over 20 years and everything you talked about that screwed you up did the same for me. Stumbled upon these lessons and what an 'ah-ha' moment. It changed my swing for better overnight. Thank you so much! Hands down, the best and easiest to understand. The athletic movements makes so much sense. I wish I could take a series lessons with you!
I am here is South Africa and i was thinking how can I repay this man and his talent that has helped me for FREE !! Mike I am going to buy your book and I hope that everyone you helped does the same. Thank you for sharing your hard earned knowledge. I will post this on all your UA-cam videos because you deserve it. BOOKS:= I Feel Your Pain: Let's Make Golf Uncomplicated: Mike Malaska and the new book when it gets released The Invisible Swing Mike Malaska
Awesome. Hope you do much more with Mike.
Mike’s videos have completely changed my game over the last 2 years. I’m a former baseball player. I’ve been able to channel his understanding of the swing to greatly improve mine. Especially in weight transfer and how to use your hands. The one area of improvement in Mikes teachings are his drills, IMO don’t translate well to the swing, and that he takes for granted that people are implementing a correct takeaway and backswing. This is where I was stuck. I would encourage all interested parties to check out Athletic Motion Golf. They will teach you the correct takeaway and backswing. Them, Coupled with Mike, are game changers.
I could listen to mike talk golf forever...from Italy....stay safe
I have always been a position guy. My golf pro friend kept telling me “Just swing! Stop thinking about it! But when I did, it was an over the top slice. I’m now 73 and I’m finally getting it...I think. I think the best thing to do is just swing as fast as you can...one freed up motion...then hope the positions happen. As they say, leap and the net shall appear.
I started playing regular golf when I was already 50 but had played a wide range of other sports since I was a child. I got to an ok level reasonably quickly and felt convinced I could easily get to single figures. Then my lessons became more and more focused on trying to get into certain positions, at which point my ball striking collapsed to the extent I felt like a complete beginner. Fortunately I now feel I am climbing out of the deep hole my golf had fallen into. I can relate to so much of this video. Thanks for posting.
I have been watching your videos for about a month now. I've Been playing since I was a Kid (5-6) years old and I too was MUCH better in my early years of 15-19. FROM BASEBALL!!! I fell into the Trap that a lot of us did when we heard "baseball will kill your golf game, pick one or the other" I'm now 31 have been searching for that swing ever since! Mike is the master, he's got "IT" whenever he talks golf its just relatable, I just get pick up on what hes implying. I had been struggling with early extension and too much forearm rotation in my golf swing for the last few years even when passing my PAT. I've played 5-6 rounds since subscribing and my Tee to Green game has drastically improved with simply "be athletic" "my right hand is the clubface". Now my goal is to break 70 this season! Thank you too Both of you!
Hes not lying the putting video made my game do a whole 180, people dont realize the power of knowledge on youtube this is FREE!!
22:33 to 26:00 pure gold teachings and its the recipe to play well like the pros. All amateurs should copy that. Impact will be solid as ever. Instant Increase ball speed and 45° flight trajectory, beautiful flying balls with spin like Tiger's irons shots. I'm not kidding! These moves, Mike's concept definitely changed and improved my game tremendously in short period of time. Mike Malaska is the best out there.
I understand how he felt. When I first started I took a beginner golf class at a Jr college I bought a $5 pitching wedge when I full swing it I could hit 145 high draw this was 1992 so I decided to go to a pga pro and all of sudden I couldn't hit it. All my clubs went 120yds just the longer the club the higher it went. It took me 2 years to get my original swing back then I went from 27handi to a 6 in a year with no short game at all.
Hey B, you are very fortunate to have access to Mike and his ability to uncomplicate a sport that at times seems to be made intentionally complicated by the instructors paid to help us improve.
I clicked thinking I was going to get the next best swing tip to fix whatever ailment I'm currently battling in my swing... instead I found gold that transcends a single fix or lesson. Cheers gentlemen!
Mike is awesome
Malaska and the TXG boys they make you understand golf.
And this video was like the most awesome ever. Golf philosophy 🤟🏼🤘🏾
Brilliant video. Mike’s the best ‘big picture’ coach I’ve ever seen. The weight shift to the front leg as the club goes back is so hard for me to do, but in the last few weeks I’ve been getting it! I’m a right handed player but throw with a very strong left arm - it’s definitely been a physiological brick wall in improving my golf game. That and I’m a really bad dancer!
That is real instruction.
Malaska first talks about baseball swing. I find that I can hit the ball better if I think of the "swing" starting from the up position, not necessarily coming to a complete stop but just get the club back in a decent position without thinking about the backswing then hit the ball by swinging thru to make it fly the way you want it to. In Baseball and every other sport you start in the up position then you figure out how to swing and hit the ball. For ex., if you are trying to hit a low outside pitch or a high inside pitch or a slow off speed pitch, you always start with the bat up and back then you figure out how to hit each pitch, you don't start out with the bat dangling straight down, like in golf.From your up ready position your bat may move back or even up but your whole mindset process is starting with the bat up. When you throw a punch you may rear back a bit but you don't start from your arm hanging straight down. Same with tennis or throwing a baseball, your body may start moving forward as your arm goes back, but you are not consciously thinking about moving the 2 things in opposite directions you're just thinking with my arm back and up, throw the ball forward. A good golfer can hit good solid shots with his feet slightly open or slightly closed, with the ball off his front foot or off his back foot, off an uphill lie or sidehill lie, because they don't think about their back swing they just think from the up or back position, what do I need to do to hit this ball the way I want to.
Wow ,, eye opener!!! Ty guys very intense!! Knowledge is Gold!!! I love the feels in practice to make the swing work !!! Looks nothing like you think it looks !!! Feedback sooo important!! Thanks again guys great stuff,,,,
You bet!
That was great! You guys are very informative and a lot of fun.
Mike, you are my hero
Mike is really inspirational. Wow
I sense Mike's concepts from his experience in baseball. Experience in a different sport, i.e. baseball, helps with the athletic moves in a different sport like golf.
What a good video.
Good job
B you have done a wonderful job getting Instructors
Hoping you going do another playing lesson with him .👍
Just found this and I think it may have saved my golf game. Was completely stuck for several months, and what Mike is saying about athleticism broke me out of it instantly. Haven't hit the ball this well in a long time, maybe ever.
Thanks to both of you!
Joe
Very good video. Dealt with several of the problems Mike had from teaching. Last part was good on transition.
Always great content with MM!
A few years ago i was goofing around and tried hitting balls with rotor drill on range and it worked so well i took it to course onall full shots...and actually hi the ball just as solid as i had my normal way although i had years of practice the normal way..friends? Laughed so i gave up the rotor swing..i wonder if it might be a better swing if really pursued by an ordinary 16 handicap who has basically peaked out after20 years..it seemed so effortless so quickly...would not some havemore room for improvement???
This is probably one of the best explanations of the golf swing I've ever heard. I understand the camera angle issue. I discovered that a few years ago on my own when I first got a phone that had a high frame rate. I used many different angles and found the right one that was accurate. It's not down the line but rather a little inside. I don't have the technical knowledge to describe it. The thing that I saw in the video was what Mike was describing in the "flow." I would set the phone up on the tripod and leave it run for some time, not just one or two swings. I saw that my practice swings were what Mike talked about. Smooth, with the wind up and a solid release and no tension. My actual swing was about 75% of the speed and very tense. My goal is to now use a practice swing as my actual swing. Weird, I know, but it works! And it's repeatable. Thanks guys!
Even with the hands?
Change my game put the club back in hands. The right hand now feels like better control easier as well. I still need to work on forward shaft lean. I over all mike the best instructor now when I hear pros talk all make sense. Like tiger always states its hands.
That fits me....when I hit the ball well! When I am 1/4 to 1/3 of the way back.....I am already turning my lower body forward. Slightly..building a tension between my lower body and my arms/club.......like a rubber band. Great video:) Good stuff!
Do you think this is what the TPI guys are talking about with 'disassociation' of the upper and lower body?
Awesome Mike
when you don't talk only about speed distance and power, your videos are very interesting ! :)
Lights out Mr Mike.
I think the crucial info is at 30.40 where it looks like the impact and swivel looks like it’s off the right foot before finishing the swing on the left
The same thing happened to me with the grip. They told me to weaken it, so I did and I literally thought I could never play golf again for a few days of trying to learn it. I’ve thrown that advice out the window driving over a bridge.
Mark Evershed a Canadian teaching pro who was familiar with George Knudsen and Moe Norman said they both had broken several clubs in the”backswing “.
This can be explained by some of the forces Mike refers to toward the end of the video.
Interesting. When I am practice swinging with that concept, I feel as if I am stressing the shaft greatly. Cracking the whip, no?
Just fantastic.
So position the camera off the trail elbow at address? For down the line view.
Great one! Thanks B
Two thumbs up
When you are demonstrating and describing "walking away", is that the same as transferring your weight to your left foot at the beginning of the takeaway?
It almost seems like it. I am feeling like I am moving left (targetward) after about a foot of backswing. Completely foreign feeling.
I saw an article from Mike Malaska 10+ years ago in GD. I called him and told him how helpful he had been. I think he thought I was a bit of a wack job but that is for another day. The guy is a master teacher not instructor not mechanic...teacher
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Mike when you explain the L to L drill it hardly resembles the swing and impact position in this video, can you please clarify. Thanks.
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So he wouldn’t practice shaft lean and holding lag for hours?
link for his new book?
5:00 Sounds like Hendrik Stenson 10 years ago, but he got it turned around.
Mike, would you say Hideki Matsuyama has a “pause at the top?”
He is moving just super slow I think
If I'm gripping a baseball bat I'm having my thumbs wrap around with the other fingers versus the standard "golf grip" has the thumbs going up the shaft. Is this where I should be conforming to the golf grip eventhough my natural baseball grip isn't this?
Yeah the lead hand thin should support the weight of the club at the top. You should be able to hold the club at the top with just your lead arm pinky and thumb. I can show you
Mike explains many things as if he was Moe Norman :)
What would mike say about someone like Hideki Matsuyama who is a world class ball striker but definitely has that deliberate pause at the top of his swing?
If it works don't fix it!
After 62 years of playing this game, I've finally figured some things out. We make golf way too complicated. A framing carpenter pounding nails all day long doesn't think about what his left hip is doing or where his right knee is. He takes his hammer in his right hand (normally), looks at the nail and pounds the nail. Folks, this is golf. It is no harder to hit a ball just sitting on the ground than it is the head of a nail with a 1" circular head of a 20 oz. framing hammer while you're on your knees, up on a roof and working in the wind and trying not to fall. If the carpenter thought about what all his body parts had to do in order to hit the nail precisely, he'd have as hard a time as we golfers do trying to hit that little ball. Get a light weight hammer head and install a shaft on it securely and then figure out how to hit a golf ball with that hammer head. You'll see immediately that your right arm, wrist and hand are the keys to success and not your knees, back, shoulders, instep, hip, chin or left heel. Just forget about the golf swing, concentrate on hitting the ball where you want it to go using the head of the hammer as your "tool". Do this very slowly and deliberately and within a very short time, the golf swing will make perfect sense.
Actually you have it COMPLETELY backwards. Hitting a golf ball correctly is more like a very technical skill. It's more like brain surgery, playing a musical instrument, driving a car. You dont "learn" by doing. You wouldnt throw your child car keys and say to learn on the freeway or play to a full arena at a concert with no skill(just feel it), or cut open someone's head and feel your way around. If you want to learn a golf swing its NOT about the ball at all. It's "learning" to swing a club first(very technical) then learning to hit a ball with your swing. 2 very different skills. As far as hitting a nail with a 🔨...it would be more like hitting a needle with a hammer you hold between your toes. It would recquire some getting used to. We don't make it complicated if anything most people over simplify it. If people respected it for how complicated it was they would be much better.
@@jacobr4558 Golf, if nothing else, is certainly a game of skill. I'm 73 now and have spent 62 years studying the game and the golf swing. I competed with Johnny Miller as a junior and was never in the hunt but still enjoyed it. I've also tried and experimented with a zillion different swings, swing theories and even the Moe Norman one plane method. I've fired my hips. I've done square to square. I've done stack and tilt. I've done the x-factor. I've absorbed knowledge from Eddie Merrins, A. J. Bonar and even Dalton McCrary. I've swung the club and let the club head hit the ball and I've hit the ball. Man, I've done everything. But, nothing every worked. Johnny Miller used to say as a kid he used the "WOOD" method to swing. WORKS ONLY ONE DAY. So at this ripe old age, as luck would have it, I can not touch a club for a week and then go to the range and hit the ball like a pro using my suggested method. It works every single time and all the others didn't. The swing takes a little more than one second. If your swing involves manipulation of any kind, best of luck to you. The same way a carpenter shows up on the job every single day and starts pounding nails without a 20 minute warm up is the same way what I'm suggesting works. I hope people will try it but if they don't, they don't. You'll never hear a carpenter say he had a bad day and couldn't hit the nail to save his life. When you know what I know, you can say the same thing about golf. Thanks for the comment. Take care.
@@fontking1a ironic that Johnny Miller hypocritically suggests you do exactly what he didn't do! He was one of the most technical pros there was! Always tinkering, and very specific with positions and feels. He had a swing coach from a very young age and mastered some very technical skills(nothing like your carpenter mindlessly "hitting"a nail). If it works for you great and thanks for sharing how you feel. You would be an anomaly. Maybe .001% of all golfers and probably still a 10 handicap at best. Golf is science not art. It's hitting lines, knowing which lines to hit and doing it consistently. It's missing in the correct places. It's only art WAY after the science is mastered!
Hmm! I beg to differ. Watch some of Zen golf's lessons. You will be pleasantly surprised. Its about motion. You are complicating a task our bodies are designed to perform. We must give up form for motion because everybody is built differently. Go throw a ball sidearm hit a baseball hit a low top spin forehand. Its an athletic motion not one of positions! You will be shocked how well you can swing without any of the golf teaching mumbo jumbo.
I love the part about the change of direction towards the end of the video. You can create some serious speed just feeling like your hitting a really really hard punch shot. The funny thing is though with a driver or longer club, you will take a full backswing with this idea. it's almost like you are just trying to break/bend the shaft with a very short swing.
I agree, using this concept it feels like you are making half a swing. But looking on video, it is pretty full. It really feels like cracking the whip.
True story. I knew a guy who took things to the extreme and hit 1,000 balls a day for a couple of years because he heard that some pro did it. I thought I'd be in for something spectacular when we first played together and the dude was hitting a foot behind it all day and shot 90 or something. People praised him for his work ethic but he wasted several hours a day by not playing. Imagine if he warmed up and then played 36 holes a day. The practice range offers a very small percentage of the shots you'll hit on the course.
Actually "hitting" balls is NOT the way to learn a golf SWING! The swing is its own mechanical process separate from the ball. If he would have practice 1,000 swings a day and mastered the nuances he would be amazing by now. Example= you can hit a ball perfect with terrible mechanics and shank a ball with perfect mechanics(bad setup) etc. You are getting improper feedback so you would either avoid good mechanics or ingrain faulty ones.
Practice with a purpose on those1000 balls and you will get very good.Visualize where you want the ball to start. Paint a picture. Hit low,med,high fades and draws from all types of lies. You will not need to hit 1000 balls! Lol. Club face and body control just like any other sport!
I guess 10 fingers or baseball grip really isn't bad at all.
In football, I preferred to throw to the left side of the field. In baseball, I was a pull hitter. In tennis, I favored hitting cross court forehands. As you can see... There's a pattern here. I think it's why I play golf with a slightly on the weak side of neutral grip. I can play with a strong grip, but it always feels restrictive, and NON athletic to me. I'm aware that I hit the golf ball too high, and I understand why. However, I hit it plenty long enough to score well, and throwing the club head at the ball just "feels" right to me. Stop figting your natural athletic tendencies, and swing the club with speed. Just my two cents...
Hi Brandon, Do you plan on visiting George Gankas again? Also, would you try to hook up with Chuck Quinton, founder of Rotary Swing Golf? He and Mike have transformed my game. IMHO, CQ and his RST instruction has really simplified the golf swing. Check out his Dead Drill info. I think he would bring a lot of great content to your fantastic channel.
Same here. The combo of both Mike and Chuck has done wonders for me along with Zen Golf. Zen absolutely no thinking what so ever, all feel based.
@@albertsaccoach6700 Just found Zen golf, it's pure gold, the missing piece to eliminate swing thoughts. Shawn Clement is very good too.
@@maxwired2235 Exactly. No swing thoughts required works for me.
Zen is awesome. Mike has many of the same philosophies but Zen explains it and shows it with the forces that create results in one lesson!
Mike Malaska reminds me of Uncle Rico! Lol
Me, I'm too stupid to learn and too stubborn to give up! 🤦
I need to get a message to mike, can I request this through you and have him reply back to my email address.
A very small percentage of guys make it on tour anyway. Don’t worry about it. lol
What would have happened to Jim Furyk if someone said that he had to change his swing when he started golf.
he might have won 80 times on tour and won more majors
Yep. Have to agree.with his short game talent Tiger couldn't catch him in majors!!
Brings to mind the story of Moe Norman getting swing advice from Sam Sneed. Ruined Moe's Masters moment.
WOW, why do people make it so complicated?????
Am I supposed to understand or remember half of what was said? Technical talk through the roof, over my head, I've no idea how anyone can understand and apply this practically. Is it any wonder people struggle with this game??
Adam Martin perfectly concise chat between him and Brendon. Very clear and good to follow, if you can’t. That means you are not ready yet to receive his information. And cant comprehend it. That is ok. A lot of of people don’t.
@@arjanpetersen To be honest it just seems like a lot to think about all at once. A lot of technical stuff that I really have no idea what it is....I'm a 3 handicap, I didn't learn the game that way. Being self taught (mostly) I just think there's an easier way for him to get the point across. I don't know, maybe I'm just not educated about the game's technical side, but I had no idea what was said....
First!! Lol
Third :(
Mike's right. 95% of golf instruction is 💩
Mikes microphone is good yours sucks
Mike is not the best!
Mike is the Best!
Amount of golf instruction in the video = 0%. The amount of an old man randomly talking = 100%
He is telling a lifetime story about the various bias we have in golf. The golf industry is full of subjective analysts. It's important to pave your own path in golf. If you know enough about a swing, you should be able to intuitively correct your swing.
There’s a zillion technical golf videos out there if you want technical. Golf is art and science and Mike’s saying don’t get blinded by the science - let the art do the talking when you find yourself over-thinking your golf. Simple and great advice especially to those of us who spend hours on the range getting frustrated.
This wasn't a teaching video per se. It was Mike's personal golf journey. It started out by Brendan asking Mike what he would tell his 25 year old self. Mike has a ton of teaching videos here on YT where he teaches his (Joe Nichols) swing concepts. Do yourself a favor and watch them...if you stick with it, it will change your golf and swing for the better.