the simple way is using a remote. hold it in your right hand (for right hander) with buttons facing target like you are addressing a ball. move through backswing, making sure buttons face you, not the ground or behind you. You probably do this already. At the top of the backswing you realistically cant aim you palm toward you, to do so would require unnatural flexing of the right wrist, but the idea is not to break down at the top. I suppose it is the idea of keeping your wrist cock up and down not front to back, which = slappy shot. The right hand toward you is only a swing thought from setup through the top and back to impact, at which point proper release makes it impossbible since the buttons then would point down at the ground.
That is the basics of the idea as I got it from the tape. Maybe that will help explain the idea
AJ simply puts a different spin on a very simple golf swing. don't waste your money like I did. You can get similiar information watching the Golf Channel for free. The truth about Golf is that each individual will eventually have to find a swing that he/she can repeat under stressful conditions. This takes time and will not happen after watching a 30 minute video. I take a little bit from all the guys who have been around the game a while. AJ is no different. The nail scenario simply mentally forces the golfer to accelerate through the swing as the Golf Club maintains less than 1 sec contact with the ball. The best thing I got from AJ was his chipping techniques which I use quite often.
Hmm I see.. I find that ensuring my takeaway position was correct followed by a smooth transition to the right hand waiter position at the top effective. Perhaps AJ's videos were really meant for the beginner and therefore we have so many mixed feedback on them. To be sure, there are more than one drill for each muscle memory goal, and probably all of them are just as effective.
To answer a few posts in one, yes, my handicap went down 30 percent, and yes, I hit my drives 30% longer - in one range session. I got it on a Thursday, watched it, went to the range Friday, and Saturday morning shot the easiest 90 of my life. What I think has been my problem subsequently is that I figured I "knew" AJ's stuff after that and then went about trying to "improve" my golf swing. I also went to a weaker grip. Big mistake. But this post isn't about my problems
What the one guy said was right on - he gives you a sense of awareness of the clubhead/clubface.
Look, bottom line is, he WILL get you hitting more fairways, period. He will teach to control your tee shots. It's so easy by his method it's almost comical. The chipping techniques, as someone else said, are great, too. Those two alone - the driving and the chipping - can take 10-15 strokes off any round easy if you're a hacker like most of us are. And I'm talking immediately. Long term, it will make more of a difference than that.
One poster said it will make your drives 30% longer for the guys hitting it 200 yards off the tee. Well, 30% of that is SIXTY YARDS. That's going from 200 to 260. Most guys will tell you they hit it 275, 280, etc. Complete and utter nonsense. Most guys haven't ever SEEN a 280 yard drive much less hit one. I would say most guys exxagerate their average tee shot by as much as AJ says he will improve it. And you'll hit the fairway to boot.
What I like about him is his simplicity. Someone said you will get the same out of watching the golf channel. I respectfully - and completely - disagree.
Golf channel: slow takeaway, one piece, legs steady, shift weight, don't turn hips, turn hips, straight arm, no straight arm, position at the top, position half way down, close the face, don't cast, flat wrist, inside-out, shoulder turn, chin up, head down, don't sway, do this, don't do this, and on and on and on and on.
AJ: Move the clubface from slightly open as you go into the hitting zone to slightly closed just past it.
You tell me which is easier to grasp. And aside from which is easier to grasp, AJ is right! A perfect golf shot does not result from a perfect golf swing.
If you think all the Golf Channel and Golf Digest instruction articles are the way to go, let me ask you this - how does the clubface sit in your hand? Most golfers, I would venture to say, have no idea. I certainly didn't. And how can you play golf not knowing what each movement of your hand does to the clubface? It's like playing tennis with your racket attached to your hand by a rope and just flailing about with the rope, hoping the racket hits the ball.
I think the majority of people who don't "get anything" out of this will not do so because they'll try it once, not immediately go out and shoot 67 with 8 birdies like they want to, and cast it aside.
Is AJ for high handicappers? Sure. If you're trying to go from a 9 to a 6 or a 6 to a 4, spend your money elsewhere. But if you're looking to go from shooting 115-113 each weekend (with 6 mulligans - you know who you are) to shooting an easy 90, he's your guy.
Bottom line is, if you're like most golfers, you'll blow $100 on any manner of nonsense trying to improve your game. INMO, AJ is the best $100 you'll ever blow.
I don't know...I'm one of those high handicappers, but I don't see what AJ is offering that's going to make a difference. Perhaps if I watched the whole video set I'd get it, but then again maybe not. I'm not sure I want to spend $100 to find out.
I realize that AJ is selling a product, so he doesn't want to give it away. On the other hand, it's precisely *because* he's selling a product that I'm skeptical. Does he have some "secret" that will make me a better golfer? Does he have a special unorthodox approach to hitting the golf ball? I've read what people have posted here, and looked at the video clips, and I'm as clueless as ever. I haven't seen or read anything that would incline me to drop $100 to watch the whole thing.
It may be a useful thing to visualize using the club face to hammer a nail into a wall. I believe that visualizations like that can be powerful and important.
But what else is he offering? Is it primarily a way of thinking and visualizing?
I don't know...I'm one of those high handicappers, but I don't see what AJ is offering that's going to make a difference. Perhaps if I watched the whole video set I'd get it, but then again maybe not. I'm not sure I want to spend $100 to find out.
If it doesn't work, send it back, he'll give you your loot back.
Originally posted by ubizmo
Does he have some "secret" that will make me a better golfer? Does he have a special unorthodox approach to hitting the golf ball?
Yes and yes.
Originally posted by ubizmo
I've read what people have posted here, and looked at the video clips, and I'm as clueless as ever. I haven't seen or read anything that would incline me to drop $100 to watch the whole thing.
You really have to see the whole thing to understand it. I don't think watching clips will help.
Originally posted by ubizmo
But what else is he offering? Is it primarily a way of thinking and visualizing?
An understanding of how the golf club works. There are more misconceptions about the golf club and how it should be used than perhaps anything else in the history of mankind. AJ dispells them.
Quote of the month:
"It's easy to see golf not as a game at all but as some whey-faced, nineteenth-century Presbyterian minister's fever dream of exorcism achieved through ritual and self-mortification." ~Bruce McCall
Here's my question - do you think that $100 would be better spent on personal instruction by a live teaching pro rather than the Truth by AJ?? I am not interested myself as it is mentioned this is not for the low handicappers, but for many of the people I am in contact with... my answer is always lessons, but some of you have seen the whole video and are happy with the results.
Well, I am sold. I am going to blow my $100 and see if it works.
I will let everyone know what the results are. I guess my thinking is, on some golf courses it costs $50/ round or more. A new club costs $300 or more. $100 for the videos sounds interesting. I am a 20 handicap. That means I should be down to a 14 in short order, right??
Another funny thing the one guy said. Some many hacks say they hit the ball 260,270 or 280 but I don't think I have ever seen one, other than on TV. Maybe if the wind, sun and moon are all in proper alignment but not usually.
An understanding of how the golf club works. There are more misconceptions about the golf club and how it should be used than perhaps anything else in the history of mankind. AJ dispells them.
I'll be interested to see what chessbum makes of it.
The main point in the video clips that I did see is very similar to the point made by Greg Willis in his "right-hand drill", i.e., the two axes of wrist motion, and which one is relevant to striking the ball. I get that. But knowing it hasn't helped me to DO it.
I hadn't ben online in a while,its good to see that the videos are getting noticed, they've worked wonders for me. I'm sorry I wasn't as good as explaining everything as the other posters, but that's because it has to be executed and if you focus on the three things AJ teaches you, execution of a good shot will surely come. Its when you try all the extra stuff that screws up your contact. If you do end up trying the methods, the important thing is to really go at a moderate pace, I found that this helped me alot,in the video AJ explains that our hands understand the momentum better at a moderate pace and as we practice that and gain faster momentum throughout practice.
Can someone help to clarify, which swing planes are AJ, Leslie King, David Leadbetter and Ben Hogan teaching on?
AJ has a one plane swing, but says not one word about swing plane on his videos. Ledbetter also teaches a 1-swing plane, as did Hogan.
If you want to learn about Hogan (and I also happen to think this is the best instructional book ever, 50 some-odd years after it was written), pick up Ben Hogan's Five Lessons: The Modern Fundamentals of Golf.
Yikies.. I've been reading books by David Leadbetter, and also Nick Faldo (who happens to quote David a lot anyway). I am worried that I might be picking up contradictory tips... Am quite surprised actually, cos I always thought that the one-plane is "new school", yet all the big names that I know off now seem to be actually using and teaching the one-plane swing?
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