GOLF SWING Natural or Learned?
improve golf swing December 9th. 2018, 1:15pmThe golf swing is a combination of nature and nurture. You bring to the game your natural ability, and then combine it with the knowledge of those successful golfers who came before you.
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This video helps you to learn how to use your arms and hands correctly in a golf swing.
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December 9th, 2018 at 1:20 pm
Natural talent gives you a head start in acquiring the skills needed to play very well. However, there are definitely Tour Pros whose skills were acquired and are definitely not athletes. Golf requires too much technicality , precision, emotional control and intelligence for athleticism to dominate alone.
December 9th, 2018 at 1:49 pm
I believe it’s very much understanding how you personally learn. When we are very young we learn my mimicking. Very little verbal instruction is needed. After time we can read and understand language better so we can add reading and listening to instruction.
I believe we all have a preference. I do best with basic verbal instruction and then mimicking what I am shown. Some coaches are very technical ( TGM) and I get lost. Just show me. ; I don’t care about the why. I will see the results if it works.
December 9th, 2018 at 2:35 pm
A decent amount of coordination and some good lessons when you start will produce a pretty good golfer. The trick is to get off on the right foot. Most amateurs don’t grip the club properly and are doomed from the start.
December 9th, 2018 at 3:15 pm
Great video—thank you!!
December 9th, 2018 at 3:57 pm
Excellent commentary that is applicable beyond golf!
December 9th, 2018 at 4:00 pm
I follow your advise and its work .The whole idea is to hit the ball from inside .Thank you very much .
December 9th, 2018 at 4:50 pm
I taught myself how to play golf I’ve had a few free lessons during high school. That’s about it I shoot in the 70s and 80s now.
December 9th, 2018 at 5:41 pm
Christo also has a shining light guiding him to greatness. It’s so very obvious in this video.
December 9th, 2018 at 6:17 pm
Sage advice. Thank you for inspiring us!
December 9th, 2018 at 6:19 pm
My thoughts are, what are the expectations of the individual. Many average golfers try to play like the pros and unless you get the hours to practice and train, which most of can't because of life and responsibilities, it's just very hard. If you keep your expectations in your reality, ma be getting your handicap down to a particular number is your reality and be happy with that. We all have different abilities, physical strength, flexibility or not, just except your limitations and just enjoy the game, being with friends, the outdoors, exercise if you can walk 18 holes. Be true to yourself.
December 9th, 2018 at 7:17 pm
Thanks for response. This game humbled me as well and still does being a football player for alot of years i thought i could muscle that ball…. Oh was i wrong once i decided i really wanted to get better i really found out movement patterns in golf were totally different from what i thought.. Thanks again
December 9th, 2018 at 8:15 pm
It sounds like it's my comment you're talking about. I just wanted to let you know that I've always been fairly talented and did well with anything I pursued including golf when I first started because all I knew was that the point of the game was to get the ball in the hole with as few shots as I could. I never thought about how I held the club or how I hit the ball. Then I got talked into lessons and it all went down hill from there. Struggled for years thinking the latest new swing thought was the answer. It would always work at first but then stop. Eventually I got so bogged down with swing thoughts that I barely knew which end of the club to hold. I ended up quitting for five years until recently I came across a video teaching nothing but feel. Literally closing your eyes or just looking straight ahead and hitting golf balls by feeling where the club head is in space. This trains you to be completely tension free, stop the hit instinct and focus only on the outcome. So I say all that to say that I WAS defeated because I got taught to obsess over every position in the swing but now that I've let go of all that the game is easy again and I'm better than ever. If I want to hit a draw I don't start changing my ball position, closing the face or think about swing path. I literally just think draw and my body does whatever it has to do based on my intention because it already knows how at least to some degree and it will get better the more you actually play the game.
December 9th, 2018 at 8:19 pm
Great answer cristo but the one thing you forgot is the honesty you have to have with yourself in whatever your working on. You have to get over yourself to really decide your going to get better
December 9th, 2018 at 8:43 pm
So glad you made this video. I have always been athletic, but I’ve always struggled with golf, especially the full swing. My miss is a fat shot, had a few lessons that helped a bit but I didn’t really score much better. A playing partner told me maybe this was as good as I could get at golf. I don’t really believe that but he could be right. Your vid gave me some hope that maybe I still can improve. Thanks.
December 9th, 2018 at 8:46 pm
A very nuanced question indeed. Having taught golf for 30 years doesn't make responding to it any easier.
But I'll say a couple things.
In my opinion, the number one challenge to any golfer, is having the correct intentions of motion. And that is extremely unlikely to occur "naturally". For many reasons human beings conceptualize the striking of a golf ball in very wrong ways. That is almost universal. Add the fact that there are just so many bad and contradictory ideas in "instruction" floating around and well, you've got a disaster going on. So, most golfers are so confused at all times, or wrong but certain, that whatever natural talents they have never get seen. If you get the conceptual stuff understood, and then the right intentions most people can play very good golf.
However, there are two areas that natural ability will show, speed production, and short game feel for distance.
Those are not improvable upon but minorly by human beings. You're either going to have speed or not. And you're either going to have excellent distance feel, or not. Minor improvements yes, through practice and drills, but never going to be a great player with either missing. Its just the roll of the dice.
The beauty of golf though is you can make up for deficiencies with your mind, tactics etc.
Anyway, that's my two cents.
December 9th, 2018 at 9:00 pm
Your very best offering, very honest and true
December 9th, 2018 at 9:16 pm
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December 9th, 2018 at 9:54 pm
Great insight. Finally. Thanks.
December 9th, 2018 at 10:17 pm
Best description I’ve ever seen or heard about what goes on during the swing. Thanks!
December 9th, 2018 at 11:09 pm
Excellent explanation! Thank you.
December 9th, 2018 at 11:20 pm
Excellent, The clarity and the detail of the wrist rotating toward you head was a very helpful!!!
December 9th, 2018 at 11:25 pm
Great Video . My way of looking is that the lowerbody/torso work against the ground and the shoulders/arms/hands work against the grip/club
December 10th, 2018 at 12:05 am
This is a gem, sir. Thank you.
December 10th, 2018 at 12:15 am
This is an excellent, very clear, and very accurate description of the function of the arms in the golf swing! You did an great job of explaining the actions of these components. Thanks a lot for your video!
December 10th, 2018 at 12:27 am
Hogan
December 10th, 2018 at 12:57 am
The right wrist rotates slightly .could you explain this move and why it is needed because after close to 50 yrs of golf I never heard of this before and it may turn out to be a missing piece for me.
December 10th, 2018 at 1:27 am
Great golf tip… but seriously you need to do professional voice work. In 30 years of working in broadcasting I have never heard such perfect elocution.
December 10th, 2018 at 1:30 am
Hi Jonathan, first I want to say that I am a terrible player, but I have seen and gotten to know some of the greatest players in the world, my father Yoshi Mizumaki being one of them. You're downswing position in 5:53 is misunderstood. The hands are way too high and the plane is over the top. Nearing that position, both hands need to be closer to your right pocket and your elbows should be around the same height off of the ground. Unless you have hands like Tiger or a lower back like Zach Johnson, your downswing will most likely produce a pull-cut.
December 10th, 2018 at 2:22 am
Très confus quand même
Jamais entendu un truc pareil…
December 10th, 2018 at 2:31 am
it reall help my swing
December 10th, 2018 at 3:09 am
Good One
December 10th, 2018 at 3:35 am
Thank you so much! It was very useful.
December 10th, 2018 at 4:32 am
The downswing and the lag created by holding the angle from the top the backswing is great explanation. I also know the club shallows by rotation. However I am confused by the rotation part. Your in a bend position. Should you press down towards the ground creating compression which then makes you "lift up" going through the shot? Not throwing the chest outward but downward. And I also feel my hips opening up when rotate upper body. What actually goes on here?
December 10th, 2018 at 4:33 am
Great explanation about the mechanics of the golf swing. I am trying to teach myself not to go over the top and with this video I might be able to get some key thought patterns to prevent this motion. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
December 10th, 2018 at 4:49 am
This is perfect but only if the right shoulder stays low and turns and does not come up and out of plane – otherwise the fulcrum from this downswing then disrupts the plane of rotation. Most of the shoulder rotation is actually coming from the left shoulder. So wrist break depends on shoulder mobility and plane into the backswing and also how far the wrist break wants to go.
December 10th, 2018 at 5:16 am
I tried to help you as you stated you cannot properly strike a golf ball and do not understand swing or alignment! The Bible states that a wise man appreciates constructive chastising, while a FOOL rebukes it! My last bit of advise to you is to take two weeks off from golf, then take up bowling!
December 10th, 2018 at 5:48 am
i was gonna try waiting tables like this until you said not to 🙂