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I skeptically bought this DVD program, knowing I could return it. I've never been so angry after a purchase of a product. Why, you might ask??? Read on!
The anger from the program wasn't because of the program itself. It's that it made me so mad at my golf Instructor, I wanted to spit nails.
I think Leadbetter either purchased, or definitely teamed up with the V1 folks and changed V1 Golf into a much slicker production. The improvement is actually better, not just slicker.
The DVD set is a 4 DVD set. The first 3 are all instructional and cover most aspects of the swing. The 4th DVD allows you to use video of your swing and go through a step by step, from setup, takeaway, backswing, downswing, and follow-thru...and compare it to Chas Howe III for correctness and a model showing what it looks like wrong.
I've been taking monthly lessons since starting back playing in July 05. Over the last 7-8 months, I have been terribly inconsistent. I have progressed to hitting more and more beautiful shots but....still falling apart to where I can't even hit the ball sometimes.
So, back I go to my local instructor and he gets me in a grove by hitting tons of range balls until I get it right. Off I go to feeling really confident, play a half of a round or a round pretty solid and then wham...back to the struggles.
I have called around to a ton of instructors in my area and none of them use video for instruction. Why, so they can keep getting idiots like me to continually spend $50.00 per hour getting nowhere fast.
Once I video taped myself, I was amazed...just how good my swing was over all but....a few points that were terrible that we've never worked on. These areas were the root of my struggles.
The 4th DVD not only identifies your faults very accurately, it then chooses a set of drills that Ledbetter walks you through to help in each area.
For 99.00, and free shipping....I've found this is one of the true bargains in all the play better golf **** I have seen.
This program was such a help and delight, I started boiling thinking of the how much I've spent on lessons vs. this program. Yes, I think my instructor would eventually get me there.....a couple thousand later. But, I guess I'll never know. I won't be going back!
If you are taking lessons and struggling...and your instructor is not using video....CAN THEM FAST! It is easy to video yourself and use a program like Leadbetter Inteactive or a site like this to help you accelerate your improvement. You have to see yourself!!!!!
As a follow-up....I bought this program over 2 months ago...when it first came out. At that time, I was looking at V1, Cswing, etc....so I could video tape myself and get someone here to take a look at imy swing faults. For some reason, I couldn't get motivated to do the filming (felt a little funny dragging the video stuff to the range and swringing in front of a camera). I saw the commercial on the Leadbetter product and thought....my kids would benefit from it. I watched the first 3 DVDs and found them helpful, nicely produced, but....just more information. However, it was frustration over my latest collaspe that caused me to get my butt out there and film myself. Before uploading the file here, I thought I'd see how the 4th Leadbetter DVD worked and ended up spendng 6-7 hours on it. I was addicted. SEEING IS BELIEVING!
I now have a series of drills that I can fire up and go through...in my living room, den, office, or bedroom. I can slap another video of myself on there to see if there is improvement.
I got the most benefit from this program by not looking at one swing. I filmed 4 swings with my driver both downline and face on. I did the same thing with a 7 iron. So, when the program asked, does your take away look like this, I would run through all 8 views of my swing (either downline or face on)to see if the error was there in any of them. The program made this very easy to do. You don't have to be a video nut to work this program. A simple video camera (mini dv is best), a firewire cable and a PC w/DVD player is all that is necessary.
I'll stop my rambling now. In case anyone thinks I'm associated with this product, I'm not. (you can do a search on my previous postings to see my frustrations) Just thrilled to find something so beneficial at such a great value. I didn't find anything I didn't like about this product. It even tells you how to video tape yourself for best results.
Now, off to scalp my stuck in the past instuctor.
The anger from the program wasn't because of the program itself. It's that it made me so mad at my golf Instructor, I wanted to spit nails.
I think Leadbetter either purchased, or definitely teamed up with the V1 folks and changed V1 Golf into a much slicker production. The improvement is actually better, not just slicker.
The DVD set is a 4 DVD set. The first 3 are all instructional and cover most aspects of the swing. The 4th DVD allows you to use video of your swing and go through a step by step, from setup, takeaway, backswing, downswing, and follow-thru...and compare it to Chas Howe III for correctness and a model showing what it looks like wrong.
I've been taking monthly lessons since starting back playing in July 05. Over the last 7-8 months, I have been terribly inconsistent. I have progressed to hitting more and more beautiful shots but....still falling apart to where I can't even hit the ball sometimes.
So, back I go to my local instructor and he gets me in a grove by hitting tons of range balls until I get it right. Off I go to feeling really confident, play a half of a round or a round pretty solid and then wham...back to the struggles.
I have called around to a ton of instructors in my area and none of them use video for instruction. Why, so they can keep getting idiots like me to continually spend $50.00 per hour getting nowhere fast.
Once I video taped myself, I was amazed...just how good my swing was over all but....a few points that were terrible that we've never worked on. These areas were the root of my struggles.
The 4th DVD not only identifies your faults very accurately, it then chooses a set of drills that Ledbetter walks you through to help in each area.
For 99.00, and free shipping....I've found this is one of the true bargains in all the play better golf **** I have seen.
This program was such a help and delight, I started boiling thinking of the how much I've spent on lessons vs. this program. Yes, I think my instructor would eventually get me there.....a couple thousand later. But, I guess I'll never know. I won't be going back!
If you are taking lessons and struggling...and your instructor is not using video....CAN THEM FAST! It is easy to video yourself and use a program like Leadbetter Inteactive or a site like this to help you accelerate your improvement. You have to see yourself!!!!!
As a follow-up....I bought this program over 2 months ago...when it first came out. At that time, I was looking at V1, Cswing, etc....so I could video tape myself and get someone here to take a look at imy swing faults. For some reason, I couldn't get motivated to do the filming (felt a little funny dragging the video stuff to the range and swringing in front of a camera). I saw the commercial on the Leadbetter product and thought....my kids would benefit from it. I watched the first 3 DVDs and found them helpful, nicely produced, but....just more information. However, it was frustration over my latest collaspe that caused me to get my butt out there and film myself. Before uploading the file here, I thought I'd see how the 4th Leadbetter DVD worked and ended up spendng 6-7 hours on it. I was addicted. SEEING IS BELIEVING!
I now have a series of drills that I can fire up and go through...in my living room, den, office, or bedroom. I can slap another video of myself on there to see if there is improvement.
I got the most benefit from this program by not looking at one swing. I filmed 4 swings with my driver both downline and face on. I did the same thing with a 7 iron. So, when the program asked, does your take away look like this, I would run through all 8 views of my swing (either downline or face on)to see if the error was there in any of them. The program made this very easy to do. You don't have to be a video nut to work this program. A simple video camera (mini dv is best), a firewire cable and a PC w/DVD player is all that is necessary.
I'll stop my rambling now. In case anyone thinks I'm associated with this product, I'm not. (you can do a search on my previous postings to see my frustrations) Just thrilled to find something so beneficial at such a great value. I didn't find anything I didn't like about this product. It even tells you how to video tape yourself for best results.
Now, off to scalp my stuck in the past instuctor.
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