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 Normal
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.
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.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/HmfJfSZVzydP/
On The Wright Path
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.
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.
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.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/mssVRDHi0g3X/
El Campeon Driver Spec Comparison Plus
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.
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.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/ZJSpG3V7hoWc/
Be Determined With Our Open Stance
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.
Steepening Arm Swing Quickly In Open Stance Practice
Yesterday, I took it upon myself to show you all how to marry ball position to adaptation. And, though my words were tempered by three hours of ball-striking and certain dehydration, I think my assumptions and disclaimers made it into the spot. I hope so, anyway.
Remember, I am in retraining mode right now. Also, these measures are to bring about the fastest possible conversion. Many cannot force themselves into what amounts to ”Golf Swing Shock Therapy”. It’s fine. However, I am way too impatient to take the safer road. I need it now.
Apparently, I cannot add my FlightScope numbers after posting. so I’ll include them here. Keep in mind, radical swing changes never accompany optimal numbers due to hesitancy. My goal, as articulated in my talk, is ”Path”. Notice how path gets less extremely left with shorter clubs. Then, also notice ball position married to shorter clubs. We have direct correlation.
In a couple months, when I’ve moderated this motion, my data will reflect more optimal speeds and impacts. Smash Factor (The ratio of ball speed to clubhead speed) and Path will be my only concern. I find those two metrics alone describe the quality of our impact. All other stimuli is visual, which is what guides our ball-striking development.
My reason for steepening arm swing quickly in open stance practice is to optimize impact with balanced movements. Otherwise, I would have to rotate too much on my leading side with a flatter arm swing. Anyway, I’ve undertaken this process because I overdid my flattening. Therefore, I have to undo my over-flattening. I’m sure that makes total sense. I may need more water.
Good luck with your own adaptations. If you have any questions, just drop me a note on Bitchute.com or here, and I’ll get back to you asap.
There’s madness in methods, There’s madness in methods, etc. ad infinitum.
Ever feel like you need proof or genuine reverse engineering of your favorite subject – your golf swing? Then, why is it we have not entered that discussion in the last century or more? More specifically, why have we lionized golf swing personalities without questioning their knowledge? Relax, you’re not to blame.
Furthermore, have you noticed the number of catchy methods proliferating the golf scene over the last thirty years? A method is ‘Orderly arrangement of parts or steps to accomplish an end.” Natural Golf, One-Plane, Stack-and-tilt, and A-Frame come to mind. Methods even exist in other disciplines. For example, Keto, Adkins, Transcedentalism, Jungian, Freudian, Vedic, Western, Scientific, and on are methods within disciplines.
There’s Madness in Methods
Methods are a way for lazy but ambitious people to short-circuit the learning experience in favor of gaining income from quick novelty or fleeting notoriety. They invent a way to talk about movement that seeks to encompass everything in what is commonly referred to as an “Elevator Version”.
Elevator versions are usually rife with name-dropping, scientific terminology, statistics, insults, circular logic, and bait-and-switches. And you cannot disagree with them. No no, my friend. Then you become one of those golf swing ‘insert derogatory term here-ists’.
Consequently, the method gurus main goal, in the absence of research or knowledge, is to assume original, unassailable ‘knowledge’. And, since that knowledge cannot be about the golf swing, they focus on marketing a visceral phrase or term to distract people from asking questions about the real foundation of their wisdom.
Methods are created by clever people. Don’t get me wrong. But, they are lazy people. Unfortunately for the popularity-minded method mavens, they inevitably become a cautionary tale or butt of a joke. I cite Hank Haney and his “Hit the outside half of the ball” method. Manuel de la Torre pretty much dismantled that junk single-handedly in one minute. Now, Hank is mass mailing golf gadgets online.
There’s Madness in Methods
Due to the laziness inherent in these ambitious, meat-headed line-cutters, they introduce madness into the discourse of the golf swing. Their expanations become more like word salad. ‘Much ado about nothing’ or, even better, “It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” – Macbeth.
Take your pick of ANY GOLF INSTRUCTOR ON EARTH, AND LISTEN TO WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT THE GOLF SWING. Then ask why ‘that statement’ is important; why that position or movement is necessary. They will NEVER go that far. If they ever do, its because they’ve read and memorized my work.
I recently took part in a PGA teaching seminar where the concept of ‘intent‘ was finally discussed by the presenters. What a novel idea! I’ve only been talking about it since 2010. They didn’t combine it with any other adjacent discipline though. Seemingly, our golf world controllers seek to compartmentalize knowledge to shorten their learning curve and maintain, as George Costanza said, their “delicate genius”. It won’t work. I and my students are too far ahead for their relevance to last.
Golf Methodologists will stop others’ digging by stating how their expert statement applies to ‘their players’. What they really mean is, “according to my (imaginary) sources. Let’s stop talking about it now”. What better way to insulate their delicate genius than with the ‘higher power’ gambit.
I am BEGGING you all to test your instructors and coaches knowledge. Why are you trading your hard-earned money for celebrity instead of knowledge? I suppose its easy for someone like me, who is unaffected by celebrity, to say ‘That’s crazy’.
Most celebrities have no idea how they even became famous. Celebrities are unwitting by-products of “Western Culture” or, as Living Colour sang, “Cult of Personality”. Fame is born of ambition. But, ultimately, ambition cannot exist in the presence of knowledge, and vice versa. Therefore, the more you learn about the golf swing here, the less able the lazy are to get your lesson payments.
For example, ambitious people (Go-Getters) invented the phrase “I can learn the job after I get it”, and “I can fake it ’til I make it”, etc. Golf Methodologists are among this group. Unfortunately, ambition blinds people to the affect they have on others, who either become assets or liabilities, keepers or disposables. And I don’t see people that way.
Our golf method ambitioneers, like celebrities anywhere, push their ‘buyers’ to the microphone and deride their sellers – both without ever discussing how their method betters the human condition. Suffice it to say, their ascent comes without grounding in real, studied knowledge. It’s madness. And we all know it.
Subjective explanations are not proof. They are wishes. Therefore, my question is, why are people emptying their brains and resumes on me all the time? People find out I am opening my Open Stance Academy at beautiful Mission Inn, and they want me to know all about their technical, scientific, athletic work as if they secretly hold the key to my success. It happened again today.
‘I wrote the program for the Olympic bowling team (Don’t laugh. I think it exists). I’ve spoken in sixty countries about friction and spin relationships.’ What this eager gentleman was probably saying was that he now, without his intellectual necessity, has time to establish his legacy. Hence, as if associating with academy directors means educating them, he gets one step closer to writing his memoirs.
I’m sorry if I sound snarkey, but he never even mentioned why his work mattered to the achievement of goals. Ambitious people never do. And, why is it important? Data and scientific words for anatomy, movement, spin, and friction constitute definitions without a difference.
Data and definitions measure and describe what happens during the achievement of goals. Further, it’s not as if our collection of information ceases to be informative and morphs into performance programming. For example, can we put a co-ax cabled spike in the back of our heads to learn to fly a helicopter yet!?
Subjective Explanations Are Not Proof. They Are Wishes.
Ultimately, pushing data as adaptative learning simply creates an industry. Bobby, Ben, Sam, Arnie, Jack, and Lee relied on impact feel and ball flight feedback to sharpen their skills.
Ambitious coaches and instructors love to use smart-speak when none of it changes our adaptive performance instincts. IT. IS. INCIDENTAL. KNOWLEDGE. In other words, it’s a distraction – just like ‘keep your head down’ or ‘fire your hips’. They represent useless junk-think feeding distracting ‘Expert’ smart-speak. So, enough with the smart-speak, people.
Just concentrate on why we do anything. Why are our ideas important to our human condition? Why did we study the data and measure the coefficient of friction in the first place? And, oh, by the way – why did that last 4-iron shot not please me as much as the prior?
Sorry. Had to vent. In conclusion, allow me to make a suggestion. If the ‘expert’ you’re listening to doesn’t at least touch on ‘why’ their subjective explanation is actively, foundationally important to goal achievement or adapting to circumstance, turn them off. Walk out. …I’d hate for anyone to get dumber for listening to them.
For another example, we know what we put in our bodies determines our health. That also includes information fed to our brains. If we take in junk, we weaken our body. Diet in food and information is proof of disease or health. Consequently, the days of discussing literal and metaphorical ‘treatments’ as ‘cures’ are over. Proof requires objectivity and success without exception.
I’m going to write another piece real quick about Method Golf Instruction. See you in a bit.
The following video is my Open Stance Session on February 19, 2022. Remember, please, this is just meant to show you all the improvement process. And, it’s more convenient than to travel to film one of my students doing it. Anyway, this was a big step forward for my ball-striking. Although my set-up still feels awkward, my movement matches up pretty well already.
Open Stance Session
This is a private session on the tour end of Mission Inn’s ample practice facility. No one is around, therefore I could narrate free of distraction and the discomfort of self-consciousness. With only a two week hiatus in January, my practice is roughly 30 days old. I’ve been hitting 300-400 balls per session – five days a week. However, only in the past week have I changed my ball position to affect my mechanical compensation seen here.
I describe my extreme motion as a “Ball Forward Chop Move”. It pretty much still looks like a golf swing, though, doesn’t it? What our swing feels like versus what it looks like are infrequently similar. Students are always surprised to see how small the visual difference is with a very strange move. That’s just how it goes. However, if your set up is intentional, your movement will comply. I have the advantage of knowing what set and swing cooperates with my set-up.
You may see Tour players rehearsing some very strange movement before they hit a golf ball. You should know they are triggering a feeling they want ‘in-swing’ without worrying about achieving mechanical exactitude. I cannot help but wonder how many younger players, in the absence of explanation, are copying these movements and posings without knowing why they are doing them. Nevertheless, this was fun. I’ll get my FlightScope going for my next Mission Inn session. I want to see what my numbers look like.
If you want to book a spot with The Open Stance Academy at Mission Inn Golf School, I should be receiving my contract soon after much delay. Stand by for updates. In the meantime, my Open Stance Session on February 19, 2022 will provide information you can use to help yourself.
Retrain your backswing for downswing success by employing my Ball Forward Chop Move. That is what golf swing/set-up adaptation is all about anyway. Moreover, we consciously separate our motion from our set-up to find where we want our process to settle.
For example, I’ve included two Open Stance Academy on Bitchute.com videos of my own process to help you create expectations for yourselves. Change is not a one-and-done session proposition. Constant, dedicated, execution of the idea is the only way to master your swing. Blue is before Red.
Finding Steeper Impact
Retrain Your Backswing for Downswing Success
I have to tell you all, my set feels like it points directly behind me at the top. Obviously, it is only a little left. However, the sensational and mechanical expression of my idea has me hitting such strong and long shots with such beautiful ground interaction. Currently, my objective is making this backswing set feel repeated. Then, my objective becomes to rip solidly through impact with a well-timed turn.
The Hale Irwin move is gone. His was my attempt to steepen impact with my existing backswing. However, all I got was a shallow Hale due to my “Too flat” club set. Lee Trevino’s swing is more like my current idea. Steepen the backswing which allows using the legs and body to shallow a desired amount. Lee was the best, after all. … Hogan was second. Moe was third.
A man hitting behind me paid me a nice compliment (which actually wasn’t). He told me I swing like Hogan. (I don’t, as you can see). But, his heart was in the right place. I appreciated it. Then, I thought, “You know, I wouldn’t want any of my students to swing like Hogan as their prototype.”
I’ve had a couple people tell me my swing is no good. And, although they never offer elaboration, my ego can facilitate an expert game without trying to conform to an unspoken ideal. We should concentrate less on moving like this pro or that. We should employ a good idea, like our Open Stance, and move like ourselves.
However, I would love all my students to work as hard as Hogan. You see, his move was only “Great” because he hit millions of balls to make his flippy move work for him. Theoretically, anyone with self-direction and tireless work ethic can gain absolute control of their golf ball. No number of coaches or therapists can do as much as good, old-fashioned, intentional practice.
As for myself, at 300-400 balls per session, I should have my ball-striking back at a high level in two months. However, I hope to increase my output to 500 by March. By June, I should be ready to play competitively again. Join me.
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