Amazing Angle demo day hours finalized!

The Amazing Angle demo day at the Golfsmith store, Sawmill Rd location, has been finalized! Saturday June 14, between 10 AM and 2 PM.

Come see the Amazing Angle, learn about “deliberate practice”, and register for a chance to win one of the most effective golf swing trainers on the market.

See you there!

 

Amazing Angle demo day at Golfsmith this Saturday!

It is my pleasure to announce the first demo day for the Amazing Angle golf swing trainer.

Please come and visit us this Saturday 6/14, at the Golfsmith store on Sawmill Rd.

This is your opportunity to see and feel how the Amazing Angle can help you improve your golf swing, anytime and anywhere, utilizing the principle of “slow and deliberate practice”.

Before you leave, don’t forget to register for a FREE Amazing Angle provided by your Golfsmith store!

 

Two very important viewpoints on practicing your golf swing!

These are two viewpoints regarding how you practice most effectively. One from a wise old sage who was one of the most elegant and brilliant teachers of the golf swing, Mr. Percy Boomer and another viewpoint from a contemporary master of learning, Mr. Daniel Coyle. Here is what Daniel Coyle has to say about “practice”:

“Q: Why is targeted, mistake-focused practice so effective?
A: Because the best way to build a good circuit is to fire it, attend to mistakes, then fire it again, over and over. Struggle is not an option: it’s a biological requirement.”

Excerpt From: Coyle, Daniel. “The Talent Code.” Bantam Books, 2009-04-28. iBooks.
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This is the contemporary way to express scientifically how human beings perfect “positions and movements” such as those found in the golf swing!

Next, is how this principle would have been expressed in earlier years, before scientific proof! , by a master teacher, Mr. Percy Boomer:

“We will simplify the things you have to learn by stringing them together, (chunking) into cycles of sensation, (habituating neural pathways), because they are easier to remember”.

I have placed the terminology I use in the Amazing Angle swing training system in parentheses. What is true is always true! It is Amazing to me how an old idea can be so right then and just as right when expressed in modern scientific terminology!

The Amazing Angle swing training system is based on these principles. If you want more information on how to improve your game visit http://www.amazinganglegolf.com.

 

Becoming a good player depends less on talent and more on hard work!

“I have always maintained that excepting fools,
men did not differ much in intellect, only in
zeal and hard work.

—Charles Darwin”

Excerpt From: Coyle, Daniel. “The Talent Code.” Bantam Books, 2009-04-28. iBooks.
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Seriously, deliberate practice with the Amazing Angle will bring you fantastic results with your golf swing.

 

Witnessing a hole in one

Yesterday I had the pleasure once again of witnessing a hole in one!

Playing at Kinsale Golf and Fitness, my friend Dave Watkins knocked one in on hole #17, a very tough par 3 at 163 yards.

It was a great day, a little chilly but who cares when you get to play a great course with great friends.

Witnessed also by David Haley Jr. , and Ethan Tracy. Bonus, the beer also tastes better when purchased by the hole in one boy!

 

My personal fitting for the new TaylorMade SLDR Driver!

Well, I finally did it! After fitting hundreds of people for golf clubs over the last 28 years, I had another professional club fitter, Mr. Nick Gardner, TaylorMade staffer, fit me for the new SLDR DRIVER.

DO NOT BUY A NEW DRIVER until you attend a TaylorMade Demo Day and get professionally fitted !

There is just too much technology to explore in this driver, to buy a driver off the rack.

Nick and I must have gone through at least 20 combinations before we hit pay dirt! Nothing was off the table. Even though I am 62, we went through the full contingent of possible shafts, even stiff flex, before the perfect shaft was decided upon. You cannot know which shaft suits your personal golf swing until you experience all possibilities.

In the old days, the goal of fitting was basically to fit for the correct shaft. In the “technology and science age”, fitting is totally different. You will not believe what you can do with this SLDR club head! The possibilities seem to be endless.

The reason the fitting is important, is that science has now proven that a 17 degree launch angle and 1700 spin rate is perfect for all ranges of club head speed. We as contemporary golfers must be reeducated to the fact that these optimum numbers can only be achieved with a higher loft setting and a center of gravity that is lower and further forward in the club head. These attributes, only 2 of the many built into this driver, can only be found in the SLDR club head.

The result for me was truly amazing. My ball flight was higher, but the ball seemed to stay in the air forever creating much longer carry yardage with optimum rollout.

Bottom line, you should take advantage of this new technology. I strongly suggest that you give the SLDR driver a try! This game is too hard to play with anything but a professionally, personally fitted driver! Golf is too important to settle for 2nd !

Always remember to practice slowly and deliberately.

 

Practice makes permanent, not perfect!

Myelination is the physical principle of how your body’s nerve fibers insulate themselves when doing repetitions of positions and movements, (golf swing positions and movements), to become stronger and more efficient! It is in fact the concept of muscle memory!

This is the principle that the Amazing Angle was founded upon. Perfect repetitions done repeatedly “slowly and deliberately”.

“Research reveals that after a habit is strongly rooted in place, which is to say that after a behavior is sufficiently myelinated, that habit will be the most likely behavior to come out of a repertoire of behaviors.”

Excerpt From: Valiante, Giovanni. “Golf Flow.” Human Kinetics, Inc. , 2013. iBooks.
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Check out http://www.amazinganglegolf.com for more information about “slow and deliberate practice with the Amazing Angle swing training system!

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Tiger’s back surgery!

It is interesting to me that in light of Tiger’s back surgery and withdrawal from the Masters, that the pundits now seem to be rethinking what golf practice should be about.

The issue is, do you have to practice with the Navy Seals to be prepared to play the PGA tour? Respectfully, I am a big believer in staying in golf ready condition. However, 2 and 1/2 hours in the gym everyday could be overkill!

I heard the discussion on Morning Drive leaning towards “slow” practice!

Let’s work on and improve some key positions in your golf swing slowly and deliberately, especially impact, in conjunction with putting, chipping and pitching to lower scores!

 

Information on the Taylormade SLDR Driver

It seems that we golf product consumers have been laboring under the false assumption that our drivers, (tee club), should have the center of gravity in the back of the club with a low loft of 8 or 9 degrees, and produce a high spin rate of 3200. The joke has been on us for many years.

Last night I attended a very informative presentation by the club designers and sales representatives at the Taylormade company.

Testing and experimentation now prove to my satisfaction that our drivers have been designed improperly.

In the old days, wooden headed drivers were 11 or 12 degrees in loft, to produce a functional ball flight. When metal woods came out, I was surprised to see that the physical lofts were much lower 7, 8, or 9 degrees, with tour players commonly playing 7 degrees.

Of course we all want to “play what the pros play”. However, in this case, playing a low lofted driver, we now know was harmful in terms of distance and directional control.

So, here is the take home. The magical numbers for producing maximum driver distances are 17/1700. A 17 degree launch angle accompanied by a 1700 spin rate, regardless of your club head speed will produce optimum driving results.

I always felt that we had been playing drivers with too little loft. If this is the future of golf, and I believe it to be true, you deserve to see if this new technology can revolutionize your game !

 

What it means to be an impact based golf instructor !

As a 25 year golf instructor, there are two important pieces of information that I consider every day as I teach new students and work with my regular clientele.

1). There are many DIFFERENT looking golf swings that are very effective,
2). Regardless of what a swing looks like, the players mannerisms, the player must be able to arrive at a functional impact position.

So, to me it is important that a student be able to understand and execute a position at impact that will produce an effective and consistent ball flight.

It seems to me then, that if you want to improve your golf swing or if you are starting out as a new player, you should become proficient at a “chipping” stroke, which for success depends on a perfect impact position. Or as Bobby Clampett, the creator of the “Impact Zone” puts it, you should teach from the “green, back to the tee”.

Perfecting your impact position in a “chipping stroke”, which is a small golf swing, allows the student a chance to become proficient at “impact”, the most critical time of a larger faster golf swing, in a small slow and deliberate training process.

When the “chipping” stroke is mastered the student can move on successfully to larger more sophisticated golf swings and produce consistent, correct impact positions and predictable ball flights.