Instructing the Instructor

[grapegoat]

Today I went and played with a friend of mine and we sat on the range for a couple of hours afterwards. I will not name his name durring this but I will pass along the scenerio. This instructor (Friend) has been a Haney deciple for several years now and has taught for about 25 years total. He is a good guy with the most classic looking swing and finish I have ever seen.

So on the range after we played we were discussing his swing and why he is always hitting the thin shots and how his best club is always his driver while his worst are wedges. I have always noticed something he does and never really said anything to him about. He was commiting one of the cardinal sins, cocking the right wrist and arching the left wrist and loosing his wedges. So we went into the TGM mode and I related some things to him in a different way then Ben Doyle had done previously when he was experimenting with other options and methods. His main complaint was that he could not comprehend the terms that TGM uses and has a hard time relating the words to actions. So we went to the dowels and started getting the Flying Wedges in tact. Once we had the right arm wedge going i explained how the right wrist should not cock and the left should not bend or arch and showed him what this does to the relationship to his swing plane. This was what really started the incubator for him. After he got the right wrist in a bent level and verticle condition and i showed him how to maintain that he was starting to see compression again. He has rarely taken divots in the past and always had problems getting the ball airborn with wedge shots. After he got into a rythm and felt the wrists in a better condition he was taking divots and getting that sought after CLICK off of the clubface.

Now after all this is said and done with he is an excellent instructor with many great juniors and several good college players under his belt as well. One of his standouts is at ASU and is the captain. He has been involved with some of the moderators on this site in years past and now is starting to see that there is something good in TGM. Just because one cannot understand the terms without being explained what they mean does not mean its complicated, just needs to be understud better by the Laymen. All in all this was a day to remember because I was instructing the instructor


Is there any advice on how to bring him over to the BRIGHT SIDE? We chatted about him going down to Rob with me sometime and that way he could get a better understanding from someone that really knows what he is talking about