The Rabbit hole is flooded. Sorry Alice. We are in The Age of Aquarium. The journey to the ‘center of the (Golf swing) earth’ was once spelunking. Now, there is no air down there. Get your scuba gear if you’re looking for the truth about the golf swing today. The medium is meant to slow us down.

I can’t tell you how many times I dreamed of trying to run. Inevitably, I’m suddenly in a swimming pool with water up to my shoulders. Slow-motion, therefore, is the only speed allowed. Pushing the Open Stance philosophy through the quagmire of tips and drills is similarly disquieting. I started forcing myself to wake up and reset. We need, as a golfing culture, to do the same. However, it’s not time quite yet.

Drawing consensus about the ridiculosity of the veil pulled over our eyes by modern instruction, we all need to realize our manipulation. I’m sure Alice would enthusiastically provide us her alarm clock in hindsight. However, since her alarm clock rusted, The Open Stance Academy seeks to open golfing eyes everywhere.

Sadly, cognitive reality and cognitive dissonance cannot co-exist. Samuel Clemens said it perfectly. “It’s easier to fool someone than to convince them that they’ve been fooled”. Our shared deception is also a keystone idea in George Orwell’s 1984. ‘In a world of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.’

Try to be patient. The warped mirror is cracking, and The Mad Hatters are trying to distract us from that fact with bread-and-circus, dance and word-salad. Once considered Sherpas into the unknown, these fancy-boys and -girls are starting to look very silly in their Betsey Johnson-inspired golf swing Haut Coture. Wow.

Take heart. We are living through the darkness right now. And, though the old guard seem like they still call our shots – they are actually circling their wagons trying to figure out how to talk us out of our common sense. They know their relevance depends upon their ability to keep us from noticing the brightening light at the end of the tunnel.

Golf instruction is a personality-dominated enterprise. Charm, wit, etc. replaced common sense and personal responsibility. Strange, isn’t it? The corruption in our golfing world coincided, almost perfectly, with the corruption of our monetary system.

Drips and drabs got the better of us. For example, The Aldridge Act, Bretton Woods, and 1971 Nixon now seem like tributaries to Kelley, McLean, Ledbetter, Haney, and their disciples – now pinching off the oxygen of truth from not only the USA, but golfers as well. We are now dripping with the flood of advice from Mad Hatters one and all.

Why did we enter the rabbit hole at all? Adam and Eve know. When the structures and foundations of our lives are compromised, we are left with Alice’s sense of relativity. Relativism is looking for the rabbit hole when the answers are already a part of us. Without connection to our divine spark, we only feel valuable when someone romances us with commerce and promises. Consequently, over time, submitting to the submersive, extinguishing narrative became “Prosperity”-fashionable for the golfing Joneses. We were just trying to keep up, weren’t we?

We gave up our personal sovereignty so easily in the Age of Aquarium. John Mellencamp wrote “You’ve got to stand for something, or you’re gonna fall for anything”. However, in our current decade, the scales will finally fall away from our eyes, and we will pursue the truth in golf without pretense or provocation by phony palaver. Our rabbit hole hangover will fade, and the Age of Aquarius will drain the Age of Aquarium once and for all.

I’m sure there must be a simpler explanation. Lewis Carroll would be invaluable here.

John Wright – Founder
The Open Stance Academy

“A Lie Can Travel Half Way Around The World While The Truth Is Still Putting On Its Shoes.”

Disinformation Is Not Just Trick Politics

The Grip (a.k.a. The Hands on The Handle)

Disinformation is not just trick politics. Most industries employ the same tactic. Why? The most obvious answer is – to make money. However, there is a better answer… to control the flow of information. Everyone who buys into the prevailing narrative is rewarded for their obedience with groupthink. All who challenge their prevailing narrative are dismissed as ‘Industrialists’ close ranks to defend their tricks.

Furthermore, golf media – like all legacy media – shuts out challengers, which is why social media is so threatening. Ha! For example, I can’t tell you how many times early in my Open Stance career I tried to get a golf magazine publish my writings. Eventually, I realized I would never be on the inside of that club. Hence, I turned to website-building to cure golfing humanity from their disinformation drugs-based comas.

I’ve made my peace with anonymity. However, I will never tolerate lies of any kind that harm golfers. For example, I have begun commenting dispassionately on videos and posts that obfuscate the truth with cleverness or ragged-out drills. The response vitriol is not surprising. Predictably, no one enjoys blaring morning alarm clocks or mirrors that shows us our blemishes.

However, their desperation is what stands out. Respondents are not defending their own knowledge. Rather, they defend their prevailing narrative by employing gaslighting terminology in hopes of discouraging my challenge. What these poor folks don’t realize is… Homey don’t play dat. “Homey” has all the knowledge in the dialectic. And… ‘Homey” don’t quit.

Ultimately, human consciousness only advances when confronted by even inconvenient facts and truth. We must acknowledge is that our challenges help us learn about ourselves. In any event, I get to express my idealism from my own lane. By the way, the prevailing charade won’t last. It Was Only a Matter of Time…

Finally, if anyone knows any golfer still in the matrix who needs a red pill, turn them toward the Open Stance Academy. I’ll try to publish more technical help going forward. Look for me on BitChute and YouTube every now and again. I’m rehabbing an injury received when I moved myself in December. Therefore, videos will be another month or so.

John Wright – Founder
The Open Stance Academy

Everyone Improves With An Open Stance!

“Thesis Creep”

The Open Stance Helps Swings He Has Never Seen

Today (a few days hence), I tested whether straightening my legs means more arms. Eliminating excess knee bend at address is my goal. Of course, whenever I initiate a change, I always overdo. Therefore, don’t worry if my example looks a bit stiff. All I’m doing is creating ‘a movement experiment’.

Obviously, I need to bend more at the waist to reach the ball when my legs straighten. I accept my changes without regard to comfort. I’m encouraged at my ability to make such drastic changes and still make good contact. However, I am concerned that my shoulders are a little open at address.

In subsequent sessions, I’ll redouble efforts to square my shoulders, because my misses are slightly toe-y and my miss is left. One way I mitigate my miss is to “Invert” my spine angle toward the target into impact. I’m not really inverted, but think I am because my body feels strange.

I am intentionally normalizing my ball position (inside my left toe). Consequently, I’ll have to either path my club less outside-in or release my club earlier from my same set position. Either way, I want to be sure not to reroute my club flatter by sliding. I’m flat enough. If I were to shoot my video along my feet, you’d notice how flat my swing is. I want a neutral path as my normal. I can shape my ball with deviations off neutral.

Regardless, don’t let my process details hang you up. I probably shouldn’t even mention my straightening legs, but I want to be honest here. Just focus your efforts on taking a set-up idea (Open Stance and square shoulders), create your unique solution, and make perfect impact – hitting your ball exactly straight at your target.

John Wright – Founder
The Open Stance Academy

Our Shoulders Hook Our Golf Ball, Not Our Hands

The Grip (a.k.a. The Hands on The Handle)

How Our Feet Can Change Our Ball Position

I’m laughing as I write, Repaint! And thin no Morikawa. I always remember the punchline of a joke an old pastor told at our church. “Repaint! And thin no more”. Therefore, I had a short leap to including Colli Mo here. Furthermore, I’m reminded of interesting mixed symbol phrases/tests emails where our brains replace weird symbols with shape specific letters to allow deciphering. Although we hear the wrong words, we understand the meaning.

For example, during my 36-hole Valspar Championship Pro-Am, I talked golf swing with the players. My role as PGA Ambassador is flexible. Therefore, I took an opportunity to bring truth to my groups, who were unanimously steep with thin contact. Though my message is undeniably brief and as broad as a stroke can be, I made my players understand THEY were in control of their improvement now that they had their remedy.

The COO, Heidi, allowed me to cure her struggle with a set-up tweak. Once again in thirty seconds, I imitated her feet and shoulders (Closed and Open) at address. Then, I asked her to reverse that arrangement (Feet Open, shoulders closed to them). Not only did she immediately improve but was celebrated for the rest of her round! She went from thin heel shanks to the heavens and from 5-120-yard drives to over 200. She hit her drive on #7 (Our 16th) 178 yards uphill and into the wind! I estimate her drive was equivalent to 215-220 yards normalized.

My man, Andrew played his wicked pull-slice like my man Wole had at the Palmer. I went over the Physics of impact with Andrew for one minute, and he did the rest. Consequently, his shots immediately improved. He started hitting it hard and straight, like Wole. We were all thrilled. He was cheered. We were all smiling for the rest of the round.

The CEO was great. What a gentleman! Gifted with a BEAUTIFUL putting stroke, John started very well. However, while my attention was on Andrew and Heidi, I lost his window of receptivity. I mentioned it on the second nine, but too late to save his round. Which is a shame, because he hit his first ball about 300yds on #10. I imagine the pressure of hosting the week took its toll on his game.

My afternoon group needed less preaching. Three gentlemen were experienced players. However, P-Ditty (Skeptisaurus Ditty) was not an experienced player. And, when I started asking my question, Ditty didn’t want to hear it. After “15 years away from golf and recent GolfTec lessons” in his head, he didn’t have his ears on. Fortunately, I always bring a pair to share.

Obviously under pressure, P-Dit was an aim left, pull-cutter’s pull-cutter. I caught up to him on 14 (Our fifth) after an unfortunate series of events. I asked P-Skept if he knew the physics of impact with clubface and path. While looking skyward (Eye-roll), he said “no, my GolfTec instructor said blather, bunk, and BS and my X excuse and my Y excuse” is why my ears don’t work.

My first instinct was to allow his resistant struggle, but the desperation in his face kept me after him. After a condensed, impatient-man-explanation, my pitch concluded. Obviously, the next time I spoke, he’d be a listener or a talker.

He became a listener. After his next shot, P-Ditty asked for me to repeat my ‘hurried’ talk. Then, Ditty began processing our exchange. THE NEXT SWING, P-Dit hit his first solid straight shot. From there on, Ditty’s golf guru was not the one hiding behind a golf simulator and computer in a Dallas high-rise. P-D’s main man was walking it with him. Needless to say, Big Ditty took charge of his own improvement and lost his excuses. The only concern that made the entire loop was, “I just need soo much practice” … My Man.

My own experience with the Valspar folks was ideal. They are salt-of-the-Earth people and deserve worlds of success, so go out and buy some Made-in-America Sherwin-Williams and Valspar products. Incidentally, I have no dog in that hunt. Oh, and remember to Open your Stance like Colli Mo. Maybe then you will redeem yourself back on-course for golfing salvation after you Repaint! And thin no Morikawa.

John Wright – Founder
The Open Stance Academy

There’s Madness In Methods

Bruce and Specific Intention

Breed Won’t Read and Ledbetter Copies

Open Stance slow mo is a useful tool for me. By slowing down my overall speed, I can freeze the video on a more specific moment in my swing. Additionally, I feel this is important because at my level of ball-striking, we are addressing the details of refinement. Only a few minutes long, we can see and hear each swing, which brings all our faculties into analyzing and diagnosing errors or inefficiencies. Therefore, as a test case, feel free to critique what you see in my process that stands out to you.

For you who are getting something out of my misery, you probably notice differences between these swings and my swing a month, a year, or three years ago. My YouTube Channel still has some swings saved. If you are interested, those swings are much different than these.

None of my social media swings, until this year, had a goal past neutral pathing and solid strikes. This series reflects as close to starting from zero as I’ve ever been. Again, I hope you are improving along with me. Don’t hesitate to write in with momentary questions, failures, or celebrations.

My outward goal is to engage our golfing public in Open Stance golf. However, it’s not because I want my work validated. I’d be just as happy to find out I’ve been wrong this whole time. I just doubt I’m wrong about the Open Stance, due mainly to the majority of PGA Tour golf swings using the Open Stance as a platform for their precision.

Nonetheless, your improvement will not happen until you own your process. Your process depends completely on your first principles theory. Any first principles theory underlies any and every other logical thought, word, or action conceived…. Kinda like a platform.

John Wright – Founder
The Open Stance Academy

Everyone Improves With An Open Stance!

Questions You Should Ask Before Judging A Golf Swing

Welcome To The Open Stance Academy’s New Home – MISSION INN RESORT

Knocking down normal golf shots with my same swing thought seemed a nice but productive way to sail through a session. Doing my same old thing was getting a bit stodgy. I needed playtime in my range time.

You may wonder about my title. Watch my Bitchute.com video, and you’ll understand the value of creating while you practice. Of course, you need to be fluent in impact physics to apply yourself. However, with ample reps. available, your practice and control over your own process blossoms.

Knocking down shots have multiple advantages. Because wind is an inevitable part of golf, we often look for ball control. Nearly always effective, knock-down shots require altogether less effort. Less speed, less motion, less spin, less exposure to elements, and more shaft lean all combine to ease our ball-striking trouble.

First, we allow our motion to change without pressurizing our situation. Mentally, we take a break from our droning habits to have more adventure. Hopefully, you practice before you apply, by the way. Second, we know to look for our ball flight lower in the air… not the sky. By creating a different expectation, we accept more aberrant misses, which reduces our stress level while improving our attitude.

Third, successful conversion of intention into solid strike makes our intention bear fruit. Moreover, if our solid strike yields a stroke-saving result, we have a story to tell forever. Therefore, knock down normal to play in practice.

John Wright – Founder
The Open Stance Academy

Add Intention To Your Practice

Welcome To My Practice Session

Steepening Arm Swing Quickly In Open Stance Practice

The following Bitchute.com video shows me on the Wright path. The work done over my last thirty days and two months of conditioning and diet are working. Although I have not lifted any weights yet, my speed and distance are increasing simply from productive reps.

My hope is to show you a little bit of the obsessive nature of my work. Whether we call it tunnel vision or focus really doesn’t matter to me. This process is getting us to our end goal faster than any other.

Throughout the video, I’ll discuss what is working and not, how my thoughts and priorities change in any given session, and why changing paths mid-hike can shorten our trip. Positive, intentional corrections during this initial improvement phase are more important than precision. My balance is still off due to corrective measures. However, my focus is still on preparing my club and matching my ball position.

I realize most people don’t have unlimited range balls to hit each day. Try negotiating packages with your local practice facility. Maybe you both win. I can almost guarantee there is a happy middle ground for you both.

Practice nets are fairly inexpensive. If you have room in your garage or basement, you have a conditioning room. Without flying golf ball distractions, we can make more reps per session. Therefore, the time needed to strengthen your hands is condensed compared to range time. Our ability to focus what we’re doing for a few hours a day or evening – THAT determines whether or not we are on the wright path.

John Wright – Founder
The Open Stance Academy

Be Determined With Our Open Stance

How To Manage Your Short Game in Bermuda Grass

We Believe Golfers Should Have Total Control Of Their Improvement

Post Bay Hill Pro-Am, I considered renaming our golf school Open Stance Accelerator. ‘Accelerator’ refers to the improvement rate within your Open Stance set-up. Since breaking bad habits and improving faster are hallmarks of our Open Stance set-up, why not change our name?

No matter our size and shape, our set-up causes our golf swing reactions. Even though your swing stimuli mirror everyone else’s, your Open Stance reactions appear unique visually. Therefore, I thought maybe I’d name my school after your time-relative, efficiency-engendered process. On the other hand, The Open Stance Academy is growing fast on its own. I take special pride in the fact that an idea I promote is taking over our golfing world without thrusting me into their very hot spotlight.

My objective here is to help golfers understand that traditional media have knowingly withheld truth regarding their golf swing and game improvement. Moreover, I want to give people applicable information needed to improve their own golf game, not data or statistics. Data and stats measure, not cause, results.

Applicable information simplifies our learning process, because we already have specific intention, discipline, and determination. Applying information means actively expressing our understanding (Motion). For example, understanding our club face and path at impact, which I explained to Ian Poulter’s Pro-Am partner, liberated his swing and game in one minute of thought and application.

By the way, I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention something. Ian was fantastic with everyone. I really respect his total engagement with all three of his Pro-Am partners. He ‘helped’ them with ‘lessons’ between shots and joked around to keep things light. However, he was clearly distracted. I kept hearing his diagnoses and his “Feeling” he suggested they create while swinging. Being woefully helpful, I thought I’d alleviate his instructional load.

Fortunately, I almost never keep my mouth shut when nonsense abounds. I kept my opinion quiet for fifteen holes. However, on our sixteenth hole, my expertise emerged.

My man (Pictured below) struggled for fifteen holes with a steep, dramatic, pull-slice. His driver flew only about twenty feet high when he hit it solidly. No offense to Ian but knowing each person hears a slightly different voice, I thought my voice might help him. Therefore, on our walk to seventh green (Our 16th hole) I engaged.

After literally one minute of explanation, my new student cured himself. And, although his new evolving swing was still uncomfortable, over the last two holes, he smashed four straight shots. Each was high and hard. Hence, my new friend finished on a high note. I was happy for him. He gave me the idea for Open Stance Accelerator and went from zero to 100 faster than Ian’s Ferrari.

John Wright – Founder
The Open Stance Academy

El Campeon Driver Spec Comparison Plus is a bit of an aside to my current process. Fortunately, getting out on El Campeon for a Driver Comparison plus strategery lesson gives you a slight break from the norm. The following video is my application of work I’ve done mixed with technical club analysis.

I have two choices -a 9.5 X shaft with 3.0 degrees of torque and an 8.5 X shaft with 4.1 degrees of torque. Each has benefits. However, the energy provided by the extra torque also serves to fight a slice, which I do not need. Moreover, the 8.5 is a sledgehammer. Carrying 32g of weighting, my #1 is due for a diet. At a minimum, I’ll have to move the heavy weights to the back of the club for trajectory reasons.

The 9.5, my #2, carries 22g of weighting. After swinging my #1, my #2 feels like a toothpick. However, its trajectory suits me. I have 12g in back and 10g in front. The 9.5 has a cord grip on it, which makes the head feel. Additionally, the shaft flexes a bit less due to grip rigidity. Therefore, I have perhaps a seasonal decision to make.

The lower trajectory may suit windier conditions, which occur in Florida’s Winters. During our Summer, fairways tend to be wet due to irrigating Bermuda, which is a very thirsty grass. Therefore, I might as well fly it as far as possible if roll is a non-starter.

If I were to play in Scotland, #1 would fit the bill. In Colorado or Scottsdale, the extra traj. is the call. However, NONE of this discussion matters if we cannot make precise contact with our ball. All my assumptions here are for perfect impact, which means path, contact, and speed. From there, I’ll defer to Baaz to dial me in.

By the way, Baaz has arrived in Florida. We are beginning our ‘healing of the golfing world’ together very soon at legendary Mission Inn Resort. Book your time soon. OSA Rates will help you choose your accommodations. I will be adding perks to your stay soon. Stay tuned.

John Wright – Founder
The Open Stance Academy

I Just Got Off The Phone With The World’s Best Clubfitter – Gurbazz Mann

How To Manage Your Short Game in Bermuda Grass

Add Intention To Your Practice

Be determined with our Open Stance. It does no good to temporarily “TRY” any new tip in hopes of making ourselves better golfers. We have to take the best idea and make it work for us with determination and discipline. Otherwise, we are just chasing one evaporating dream after another. You know… like Don Quixote – endearing but pathetic.

Without getting too far into the weeds, any of you watching my own improvement process knows I’ve been working from one platform – an Open Stance. You also know that I’ve been working on one idea to undo a less effective idea for six weeks. I’m not nearly comfortable yet.

However, my ability to work on an idea in spite of that discomfort is probably why I improve so quickly. Don’t worry if you cannot persevere with set up strangeness. You can do one thing at a time. My changes occur within, more or less, golf swing triage.

If you have over flattened or lost your desired ball flight or contact, and you have set up intentionally open with every swing, it may be time for some adjustment. Use my example to help open up your own options. Of course, if you ever have questions, I make myself available to answer you.

In conclusion, we need to take divots as evidence we have shaft lean along the plane. We need perfect contact, which is evidence our plane and ball position match. We need our intended ball flight shape, which is evidence we have set the club face properly at address and we return it properly at impact with our swing.

John Wright – Founder
The Open Stance Academy

Reviewing the Open Stance Golf Swing Changes

Laying The Club Off Creates a Pulled Start Line

Great Wedge Play and Passive Acceleration