My Montessori influence

We shot the new dvd at my home course, Blossom Trails in Benton Harbor, Michigan.  I had no intention of doing another video after writing my book, The Secret to a Great Golf Swing and the dvd On Target Power.  I had thought I had covered just about everything regarding what John Schlee had taught me and all of the adaptations I introduced to simplify everything.  I have learned from teaching that not everyone internalizes information in the same manner.  What works for many may not make the least amount sense to someone else. The new video is a lesson like you have never seen before.  I was a trial lawyer for 20+ years and learned in the courtroom that I had to get my points across to the jury.  Each member of that jury had their own way of learning and it was up to me to find out just what I need to do or say to reach each on of them.  The student in Pure Force Golf is not a beginner by any means.  He came to me with many preconceived ideas about the golf swing and how it worked.  He was to say the least skeptical of what I was teaching.  Rather than argue I broke everything down to simple understandable terms and motions that were easy to understand.  I started out telling him about Schlee and what he taught me.  Then about all I had been through to uncover the physics that were at work in a simple yet forceful golf swing.  I went from the simple to the complex all along the way making certain that he understood what I was telling him.

Many years ago I owned a Montessori school in Santa Monica.  Those 11 years had taught me something about how to present information.  As with the Montessori method everything starts simple with each step mastered before proceeding to the next.  What I have done in Pure Force, without realizing it at the time, was using that same approach.  I am sure you will learn a just how the golf swing was meant to work in its most simple and efficient way.  I welcome you to bring your questions and comments here to this blog.

Mike

Our long awaited new DVD, "Pure Force Golf" is now available!  PURE FORCE GOLF

Parametric Acceleration explained

The golf swing is governed by physics and Newton's laws of motion.  Without getting into the mathematics and a multitude of equations I will endeavor to simplify what is going on.  Take a machine nut and tie it to a string about a foot in length.  Be sure to tie it securely so the nut doesn't come flying off.  Take the string in your hand with the nut hanging.  Start twirling the nut in a circle.  Keep twirling it and try to make the nut twirl faster.  What you will notice is that you have to pull on the string to make the nut go faster.  That pulling force is called centripetal force.  The faster you pull the faster the nut will go.  The speed of that pulling force at the hub of the radius i.e. the string held in your fingers is what Miura termed Parametric Acceleration.  The faster you pull the faster the nut travels.  In a golf swing the string is the player's lead arm (left for right handed player) and the club shaft.  The center point for the swing is the left shoulder.  The faster the left shoulder pulls the faster the club head goes.  Brute force has nothing to do with it.  The pulling action accelerates the club head.  

Hit 'em straight

Mike

www.benhogan.ws

We just put my books Winning Thinking  and The Secret to a Great Golf Swing on Amazon Kindle for only .99 cents each!  Get yours today.  The new DVD, Pure Force Golf will be available soon.  I'll keep you posted.


Mike

You want to improve your golf game

Since you really want to improve your game you'll want this On Target Power and The Secret to a Great Golf Swing.  

Way to go!!!

Way to go!!

 Quid Pro Quo said...

Thank you Mike for saving the rest of my golfing life! After reading The Secret to a Great Golf Swing watching On Target Power, I won the qualifier for our club championships with 74 strokes- from backtee... Can´t wait your new video!

August 25, 2011 4:36 AM

New video shoot

We shot some great footage today!  The challenge was teaching a student who has 32 years of experience using the conventional swing.  He learned today a simple motion that now has him knocking down targets at will.  The 4 time Emmy award winning director can't wait to get to putting the final DVD together.