Address Posture

[O.B.Left]

Hey, are you following me around?

I don't think that he listens to his new teacher. The guy coudn't fix Charles Barkley. How hard could it be? I had it figured out in five minutes. No Wedges, No on-plane forearm, etc. No Pivot, etc, and after how many weeks he still sucks. The Blind leading the Blind.

Did you see those drills with a thousand balls lined up on tees. How STUPID is that. I don't have any other word for it. Sorry.

Ya know whats even more scary? Tiger can't help him either. What does that tell ya.

Add no steady center to his radius too.

If only he'd walked and whacked those lined up balls Wild Bill Melhourne style. You cant bob too much when doing that drill. I love the dang thing.

[Daryl]

Add no steady center to his radius too.

If only he'd walked and whacked those lined up balls Wild Bill Melhourne style. You cant bob too much when doing that drill. I love the dang thing.

You're right O.B. That would communicate the idea to him and it would force him to make some corrections. But not a thousand of them. Just enough to teach him the motion and feel.

[O.B.Left]

Agreed. Hank worked him too hard. Maybe tried to break him of his bad habits by exhausting him. Poor guy, its more than a golf problem maybe.

[Daryl]

Agreed. Hank worked him too hard. Maybe tried to break him of his bad habits by exhausting him. Poor guy, its more than a golf problem maybe.

I think it's a golf problem. I think that he's gotten so much bad advise, he doesn't know what to do (he's taught positions, not alignments). We've seen worse than him get better. Unfortunately, Hank thinks that if someone does something a thousand times, he'll learn something new and teach himself the Golf Swing. Barkley is not Ben Hogan and even Ben had the advice of 100 other Pro's. Hitting a thousand balls isn't practice.

One of the Problems with Golf Instruction is that Teachers have about a dozen tricks up their sleeve. If one teachers tricks don't work, then find another teacher with another set of tricks.

[powerdraw]

personnaly, he worked so much on the full swing, i wonder if he would've started and the baby stage, putting and chipping, then work on pitch, maybe there would be no whacky spasm stuff once pitch was done with...

who knows, what do i know!

[Daryl]

personnaly, he worked so much on the full swing, i wonder if he would've started and the baby stage, putting and chipping, then work on pitch, maybe there would be no whacky spasm stuff once pitch was done with...

who knows, what do i know!

Yes. I think that you are 100% correct. Baby stage. Basic, Aquired then Full Stroke. The Basic motion is a part of the Full Stroke, so break it down and teach in sections.

[Yoda]

. . . he doesn't know what to do (he's taught positions, not alignments).

CB has the full-swing yips. As one who has encountered a similar problem in the simple putt, I understand (as few do).

At LynnBlakeGolf, we teach MOTION. Motion learned MECHANICALLY; aligned GEOMETRICALLY; and performed (ultimately) SUBCONSCIOUSLY. [For the record, these lines are copyrighted.]

I watched only a handful of minutes of the CB / TGC experience. Knowing the pain being experienced, I could not watch any more. I know I could help -- in ways left unexplored -- but that opportunity did not come my way.

The Yips are a terrible thing.

And their origin must be understood before they can be overcome.

[okie]

At LynnBlakeGolf, we teach MOTION. Motion learned MECHANICALLY; aligned GEOMETRICALLY; and performed (ultimately) SUBCONSCIOUSLY. [For the record, these lines are copyrighted.]

Nice, Yoda! I alternated between cringing and wincing watching Sir Charles attempting to execute Haney's habitualized ignorance! That is not to start a tirade against Haney...he appears to be a very sincere person. What he never seems to be able to do is tailor-make his instruction to Chuck's needs. It seemed as though he would give the same treatment to everyone. If you cannot diagnose do not prescribe! My wife became quite tired by me shouting "Two minutes with Yoda!" Heck two minutes with Bucket!

I do not think I have ever had the grown version of the yips, but I have had issues from close range from time to time. I have recognized two negative tendencies that other may recognize.

1. Power accumulation disorder (also known as scraping the bottom of the barrel)

a. Not being aware of how to zero out or add power accumulators creates a great deal of indecision which leads to adding (surge splurge) or subtracting power (limp-losing) in fact you can do both during the same stroke!

2. Hinge-hysteria (hell-rhythm hands)

a. Not selecting a hinge action, again creating a great deal of uncertainty and crossed wires.
b. I prefer an angled hinge action on the greens but using all three during an actual round has proved helpful...just not at the SAME time! The horizontal hinge has proven very helpful when putting from long range and from the fringes. TGM provides the versatility that makes choice meaningful (note the last sentence is copyrighted!

[12 piece bucket]

Heck two minutes with Bucket!

I get a lot done in two minutes . . . typically with time left to eat Pop Tarts and stuff.

[Yoda]

TGM provides the versatility that makes choice meaningful (note the last sentence is copyrighted!

This is good, okie, really good. Your words now loom large in golf's cyberspace, and they deserve the personal copyright guaranteed when you post on LynnBlakeGolf.com.