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Originally Posted by Martee
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Lagster....
I think stickney article in the frist four type of instructors provides how each teaching style would need to be handled.
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The Analytical Teacher
The analytical teacher uses technology as well as computers within their lessons and their desire is to help the student understand his or her own motion, as well as becoming a student of the game.
Planes, pivot, impact alignments, etc., are terms that are familiar to this teacher’s students. These teachers excel with players who need logical and not vague answers to their swing questions.
Usually, analytical teachers are best for intermediate to advanced players as they tend to move to quickly through the basics. Remember that the teacher’s job is to inform and explain the what’s and why’s of your swing, not to impress you with what they know.
The Feel Teacher
The feel teacher speaks of sensations and reactions of biomechanical motions that produce effective swinging motions. They tend to focus on the effects of swing flaws, but not always. They are great for the player who is sensation-oriented. Vague explanations are the complaint from most of their students when the instructor says, “Just feel this…”
Feel teachers can only tell you what they have felt personally or what they have been told is felt while working on certain motions. They don’t have all the answers, but they can get you started on the right track to feeling what it is that you need to do in order to improve.
The Psychological Teacher
Take a pill but don’t take the whole bottle, Harvey Penick said. He was a psychological teacher to the core. These teachers tend to focus on introspective techniques, allowing students to figure out what needs to be done.
These teachers tend to be “old-school” players of the game. Sadly, we have all but lost this type of teaching style today thanks in large part to the advances in video and computers. Books by Tim Galloway, Bob Rotella, Richard Coop, etc., all have ideas as to improving your current game by just using your mind more effectively.
The Model Swing Teacher
This type of teacher is good for about 50 percent of their clientele but terrible for the other half. When you try and fit everyone into the same mold, it works great for some people, while others just can’t do it to save their life just because they simply can’t swing that way.
However, if you go to a model teacher and you do swing like that model innately, then you are in the right place. For the player who likes and agrees with the model taught and who has the physiology to do so, there is no better teacher in the world.
People who agree with position-based instruction should go to this teacher from day one.
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I know that the following wont be popular or agreed with but I do think Mr. Kelly had it right. You need an AI. In fact if you want to argue that Mr Kelly was 100% right or 100% wrong in total regarding the book, this is a section area where I believe that he was wrong. He contradicts himself by saying that this is for all golfers, but yet to be successful he does state clearly that you should use an AI. It is the AI's job to be able translate so he can communicate in the best means for the student to get the information, be it terms, drills, etc. And each student may and will probably be different to degree, just as each golf stroke. At a minimum I beleive that Mr. Kelly caused a confusion factor in how some believe that the average joe golfer can build a golf stroke by him/herself, I strongly support the need for an AI guidance.
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Good information Martee!!
I agree that not many probably can get much from the book without seeing an A.I..
As far as teaching styles... there probably are not many Harvey Penick types left, I agree. He would try to give the student only one task to do during a lesson, if at all possible. The lessons were usually only 15 minutes. He did not use video.
If a teacher can take the TGM concepts, and incorporate them in such a way as to satisfy different learning styles... he should be successful.
If an "artist" goes to see a pure "mechanic", for example, he may have problems, and vice versa.
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