HOMEMADE - “The Smart Stick” co-inventor Martin Hall

[Tom Smart]

John: I think Jeff is right you have way to much time on your hands. You are abviously a bitter man. For the record I want all who read this to know that nobody has been paid to endorse the Smart Stick. Any of the persons you see listed on our site have given me permission to use their name without any compensation because they believe in the product and clearly see the the great benefits of use. At some point to sell to the masses a player endorsement will become critical. This is no secret and goes beyond golf training products. In our business there is no better example as to the power of endorsement than the Medicus product line. Does anyone think that without the Tour Players behind the product it would have been a successful product. The Medicus is now in its 14th year and still going strong. Another example is the Speed Stick. Prior to VJ endorsing the product it sold very little and as Dane Wiren from Golf Around The World told me they could not keep it in stock after the VJ endorsement. This is simple marketing and at some point going forward all products need horespower endorsement and even this is no guarantee to success. I hope that you sell millions of your new trainer going forward as it sounds like a great idea. Our experience has showed that the lasers cannot stand up to be smashed into a golf ball and then the ground. Martin and I did test lasers in a club over the winter without long term reliablity of the lasers being able to absorb impact forces.

[purehitter]

John: I think Jeff is right you have way to much time on your hands. You are abviously a bitter man. For the record I want all who read this to know that nobody has been paid to endorse the Smart Stick. Any of the persons you see listed on our site have given me permission to use their name without any compensation because they believe in the product and clearly see the the great benefits of use. At some point to sell to the masses a player endorsement will become critical. This is no secret and goes beyond golf training products. In our business there is no better example as to the power of endorsement than the Medicus product line. Does anyone think that without the Tour Players behind the product it would have been a successful product. The Medicus is now in its 14th year and still going strong. Another example is the Speed Stick. Prior to VJ endorsing the product it sold very little and as Dane Wiren from Golf Around The World told me they could not keep it in stock after the VJ endorsement. This is simple marketing and at some point going forward all products need horespower endorsement and even this is no guarantee to success. I hope that you sell millions of your new trainer going forward as it sounds like a great idea. Our experience has showed that the lasers cannot stand up to be smashed into a golf ball and then the ground. Martin and I did test lasers in a club over the winter without long term reliablity of the lasers being able to absorb impact forces.

Tom,

You are right about the endorsements and I am working on products for Medicus. They are interested in the 3-D laser swing trainer as well. Here is where I am coming from. I left the music business at the age of 30 and invested the money I made so I could retire at 40. I turned 40 and after a few years of retirement I decided to start teaching part time and started Rover Golf as well.

Ten years later and I am working full time again with Rover Golf and not doing many lessons. I have decided in 2009 to go back to the original plan of part time teaching. I started Golf Academy Live.Com for lessons and shows about the golf swing and it will be my outlet for lessons.

I am selling Rover Golf and some of the swing trainers and starting The Smart Golf System which will have a few swing trainers for my instruction. I decided many years ago not to go the infomercial route but it is something you might want to do.

I have heard that you are working with Lynn to sell your Smart Stick on his forum, so to respect his forum I will no longer post about the Smart Stick and ask the moderator of Lynn’s forum to remove the post I wrote about it.

[mb6606]

Monitor your Hands Johnny boy not the clubface or green dot. The tracing allows the hands to 'roll ' on line properly without employing inferior position golf. I remember being one of the early posters about the smart stick after seeing a prototype in a bag of an instructor at a golf course I play at in NJ. I can't remember Tom coming on here to sell his product in the same vain as you do. I don't know how he got to Barclay but he was a perfect fit working with Hull, Noel, Castner, Fort, and EdZ. Maybe you should take a lesson in marketing from him. Lynn once handed out a small laser that you pinched with pp#3 finger to traced the plane line- in fact you can just point at it and run back and forth to train your right forearm tracing- cheaper still.

Over and Out.

monitor you hands- forget the clubface, - the hands are boss (and right in front of you)

Right on! You can use all the dowels and sticks but it just isn't the same feel as monitoring the sweetspot (#3) with a real club in your hands. I am probably one of the all time best laser plane line pointers but unfortunately there is so much more to a good strike then simply pointing a laser at the plane line.

[Yoda]

Right on! You can use all the dowels and sticks but it just isn't the same feel as monitoring the sweetspot (#3) with a real club in your hands.

Understood, mb, and I agree. But, first . . .

You must learn to Swing the Hands! Only then should you add the Club "to develop its TOTAL equivalent in Lag Pressure Point Feel" (Homer Kelley / 5-0).

Fortunately, a wide variety of training aids exists to bridge the gap between Swinging the Hands and Swinging the Club. And that is exactly the way we attacked the problem with all the 'Left Wrist Benders' at The Barclays.