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.

 

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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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.

 

For full power, finish your backswing !

A few days ago I decided to chronicle my first practice session of the 2014 season. Here is one element of my swing that I discovered quickly that was not allowing great ball contact and a consistent ball flight. It happens to be the 3rd on my list of 7 “swing killer positions and movements” in the Amazing Angle swing training system!

Completing your backswing is the 3rd position in the swing training system. Observe the 2 pictures below provided by V-1 golf.

Note that the shoulders have rotated on a plane that was set up by the original posture position at address. The spine position is stabilized, as shown through a steady head position. The left arm, one of the sides of the original “triangle” at address, has remained “firm”. One important part of this position, if it is going to provide maximum power in the downswing, is the function of the “right shoulder”, for right handed players. We all have been taught that the “left or forward shoulder should be turned at least 90 degrees getting your back turned to the target. For all you seniors especially, experiment with the position of the “right shoulder”. Make sure to feel the right shoulder pull back away from your chest. This will allow for a “fully loaded and coiled” backswing.

Practicing this position in a warm up session with your Amazing Angle swing trainer will prepare you to make a great end of the backswing position!

As always, practice slowly and deliberately!

 

First practice session for 2014

Time to get started ! I hope this will be a great season for you and I. I am now 62 years old and like most other seniors, I am experiencing those inevitable happenings that occur in golf and life that we are not expecting and are certainly not happy about, (ie), loss of distance, being tired, etc.

To combat these inevitabilities, I have done quite a bit of work at the gym this winter doing golf specific exercises, and a significant amount of work on the elliptical, accompanied by regularly applied “slow and deliberate practice” with the Amazing Angle.

Since “golf fitness” has become such a hot topic with tour pros, I have decided to devote some time to this subject as it results to both golf and life, throughout this golf season.

Today however, I am going to state exactly how my first practice session will be conducted. In the next post I will comment on how and how much
the preparation improved my abilities over last season.

To begin, I will be starting the session with a dozen full swing reps with the Amazing Angle, slowly and deliberately ! There will be an effort to create more club head speed by focusing on post impact and a balanced finish. For everyone out there also starting practice soon, I believe it is super important to get off to a good start by trying to focus on moving club head speed from early in the downswing, (incorrect), to later in the swing, impact and post impact. Slow and Deliberate practice can help you focus attention on these positions.

The ball striking portion of this practice will only contain 60 practice balls. Starting out you seniors especially should treat your golf muscles with care.

1) Will devote about 10 practice balls to the line drill with a wedge, chipping mode, concentrating on impact position and “forward divot”. Get the idea in your head early on that the back of the ball will be struck first creating a divot that occurs consistently in front of the line.

2) 10 balls devoted to a pitching stroke, same idea of creating back of the ball contact.

3) 10 balls devoted to full swing mode with pitching wedge.

4) 10 balls devoted to mid iron full swings. Picturing the images of these swing sequences will be very helpful before actually hitting balls.

5) 10 balls devoted to your favorite hybrid.

6) let the “big dog” eat on your last 10 practice balls.

For this practice session especially, I will focus on paying attention to “back of the ball” contact during each of these segments, while trying to get my speed to occur later in my swing.

The next post will provide details of my results. We will see how “slow and deliberate” practice pays off! For those not familiar with the concept of deliberate practice, check out my website. http://www.amazinganglegolf.com.

 

An explanation for the development of the Amazing Angle golf swing trainer !

Based upon my observations over the last 20 years, during real time instructional sessions with my students, I found that those students who had chronic problems striking the golf ball adequately, demonstrated the tendency to violate one or more of the 7 positions and movements identified in the Amazing Angle swing training system.

These 7 positions are readily accepted as critical basic swing positions and movements currently being taught by golf instructors.

The number and severity of these violations were directly reflected in the players’ inability to arrive at a functional impact position thereby degrading the ball strike and the players ability to control ball flight.

After doing research on how human beings learn, I discovered that the experts have identified how and why some people become “super learners”. This process of learning that produces “genius quality results” is referred to as “deliberate practice”. Deliberate practice is simply breaking a total, whole movement down into its basic parts, practicing the parts until perfect and then putting the parts back together again. The more any student practices in this fashion, regardless of the motivation, the better the student will become at the whole movement.

Because we know from observation that all good players don’t look alike, consider Jim Furyk, Bubba Watson or Fred Couples just to name a few, we know that the positions and movements that these players demonstrate must be able to be “individually customized” without jeopardizing the ability to strike the ball effectively and control the ball flight consistently. In the Amazing Angle swing training system, I call this “customizing functional positions and movements”.

When doing their due diligence practice with the Amazing Angle, my students were consistently able to develop effective “customized” positions and movements in their golf swings. Through what I now refer to as “slow and deliberate” practice, students consistently improved ball striking by becoming better at the 7 positions and movements targeted by the Amazing Angle swing training system.

In other words, there was no confusion about what to practice, students knew exactly where their violations were occurring, and were able to improve or eliminate them!

It is important to stress the fact that the students who were the most successful in improving their golf swings, were the ones most dedicated to practicing “slowly and deliberately” during a regularly scheduled and applied practice regimen.

Simply, the patented “user friendly” design of the Amazing Angle golf swing trainer makes it easy for anyone to improve their golf swing, anytime or anywhere!

 

The revolutionary way to practice and improve your golf swing !

My newest asset, Englefield Business Advisors, has just posted the new Amazing Angle 3.0 DVD at “AmazingAngleGolf.com” in the Tutorial section.

I have worked very hard to get this video arranged to help any golfer improve their swing by practicing slowly and deliberately with the Amazing Angle swing trainer.

Please view the video, about 20 minutes, and let me know what you think.

 

Knee drive, head position and “lag” in your golf swing !

Here is a look at the head position from address through impact. Notice that the head starts at address slightly above the horizontal line in the circle. In the second photo you can clearly see that the head position has moved below the line as the shoulders coil into the end of the backswing. It is clear then that as you wind up the backswing, the coil effect is heightened as the torso posture is maintained, never allowed to release up. Movement of posture up in the backswing is a ” killer move” !

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In the next 2 photos appreciate "lag" maintenance, and the "knee bowing effect". The knees are driving forward and the Amazing Angle "contact ball" has stayed connected to the forearm. The most frequent “killer move” by high handicap players is a “throwaway” of lag, represented by a disconnection of the “contact ball” at this point. Practice with the Amazing Angle at this critical point in the golf swing will improve consistency and quality in the distance and accuracy of your shots.

Please practice slowly and deliberately and visit http://www.amazinganglegolf.com for more information about the Amazing Angle swing training system !