Teacher!!!! He hit me!!!
 

Hey all you teachers out there . . .

Let's hear your success stories. What is the MOST strokes you have been able to help a person whack off (uh huh) his game using your Yellow Koolaid Principles?

How about a little before and after? And what process did you use? How long did it take? What was the person like? World class sprinter? Dork? Demented psychopath eating fried chicken upon a grassy knoll?

Just how good are you boys?

Up the Middle With Fred McCrary
 

No world-class sprinters, Colonel, but I just had a half-day private session yesterday with Atlanta Falcons fullback Fred McCrary. He made phenomenal progress. I'll bust into the Video Vault and put up the Before & After in the next day or so.

Sounds like a good lesson
 

Lynn,

That sounds like a good lesson. Those guys have some incredible strength. I was working with Todd Bowman before the storm( Back up quarterback for the Saints). You talk about strong, and he is a quarterback, I can imagine a full back's strength. I look forward to seeing that swing.

By the way it was good to see you in Orlando. How about Christini's? Great food, wine, and music!

Chris

A Swinger and a Swingin' Tune
 

Chris,

You're right, Fred is very strong. And I fully expected to see a Hitter, especially after he described his Stroke to me. But no sir, Fred is a Swinger! And when he learned to set his Flying Wedges (during his Address Routine); to keep his Left Wrist Flat (in Basic and Acquired Motion); and then to Finish Swivel (in Total Motion)...Whoa! Talk about Compression!

And, yes indeed, Christini's was great. You mentioned the music...

I must say that is the first time I've heard Cherokee, the legendary very up-tempo jazz tune, played in an Italian restaurant on an accordion. The chords change every two beats, and it is a real fingerbuster. Not only did the guy play the tune as written, he improvised two 12-bar choruses over the changes. And right at our table. Wow!

Impressive
 

It sure looked like he knew what he was doing. It sounded geat too. I could not appreciate the complexity until you explained it to us. After that i was really impressed. And to think learning or teaching an effective golf stroke is hard! Good night. I guess if he played with Ray Charles he must be able to hold his own!

Location, Location...and Time
 

Legend has it Ray challenged Arnold Palmer to an 18-hole match: $1,000 per hole.

Palmer gleefully accepted, asking only "Where and when?"

And Ray replied...

"My course.

Midnight."

I happen to have one. There is no number of strokes in this story, though.

A guy (forget his name), a former college volleyball player, in his late 30's came over with his wife and one of my students to audit the lesson. They never saw a golf ball in person before, let alone touched the club. They were just curious for what their buddy was excited for.

During the break, my student asked me to try the couple just for fun. The wife, also a vollyball player but hurt her back back then, only did the putting.

The husband, however, started with:

1)holding the putter and then

2)the posture,

3)the shoulder turn only (or degree-of-freedom no.1) pendulum motion with "LAG" going back-and-forth to fix the head and the pivot till the bottom of the putter head consistently touching the lowest point in the middle of the stance without any movement to the arms, wrists and hands,

4)a regular "1--2--" putting stroke without a ball starting with the putter in the middle of the stance and having the finish held,

5)do 4) with a ball in the lowest point, yet without any intention of hitting it what so ever, just "sustain the LAG" to the finish, till consistently sending the ball to the target 5 feet away, also keep reminding him that a "machine" only does what the program says, but doesn't know the presence of a ball, nor care about the result.

6)do exactly 4) then 5) for chipping except more speed and range of motion and move the ball slightly toward the right foot and then replace the putter with a sand wedge and then a pitching wedge, a 9-iron and an 8-iron (no time to, otherwise, go through a driver),

7)do exactly 6) except adding wrist bent (or degree-of-freedom no.2) for "vertical-hinging" pitching,

8. do exactly 7) except adding "forearms turn/roll" (DOF no.3) and "left wrist cocking/uncocking" (DOF no.4), or a back-and forth toe-up at waist height with the shaft prarllel to the ground and target line,

9)do exactly 8. except adding "arms raising" (DOF no.5), or simultaneous DOF no.1 through 5.

About one hour later at the end of 9), this guy hit his pitching wedge 100 yards dead straight shot after shot. End of the "experiment" and saw nothing on this guy's face.

He never come back and I doubt he will (even play).

I'm still trying to repeat that "experiment" with, yet, another person.