[Yoda]

...MizunoJoe said “It would be much more instructive to see Yoda take the student in Ben's lesson and make him look like Collin”...

As promised, we will today put up a four-part Silent Video wherein I take an absolute beginner -- Vickie Lake -- from The Land of Can't to the Land of Can. The Gateway, as always, was the Flat Left Wrist.

The video was shot the weekend before MJ wrote his post and was never intended for the site. Nevertheless, it meets head-on the issue of Effective Stroke Training in the earliest stages of learning Golf. You will be forced to look, Look, LOOK because, unknown to me, the battery on my external microphone had died. Frankly, I view that circumstance as providential, because your attention will not be diverted by 'words' from the visual and kinestethic process used to effect the learning.

Vickie first learns to keep her Left Wrist Flat while swinging without a ball. As you will see, that discipline immediately vanishes when she is confronted with the task of actually hitting the ball! As the lesson progressess, she gradually gains the ability to make the correct motion and hit the ball at the same time.

Near the conclusion of our time together, Vickie was hitting little pitch shots with a truly sound Golf Stroke. All was not 'perfect', of course: Like a newborn colt, her Motion was still a bit wobbly, but its character was in place. And though you are unable to hear it, many of her Strokes actually resulted in the sound of pure Compression. A sound, I might add, produced in one hour that has yet to be achieved in the lifetime of the majority who play the Game.