"Finally, No More Stroke Thoughts" - Will that be your epitaph?
The golf columnist in The Globe and Mail wrote today:
"The perfect swing is all in my head".
He has written instruction books with several top players and instructors. He has had instruction from many top instructors and players, many serving up the single fix that will cure his stroke, but doesn?t.
He went on to wonder why golfers, no matter how much instruction they receive or how much they practice, do not improve.
Why did some top ranked golfers, such as Seve Balesteros and Ian Baker-Finch lose their swings and have to withdraw from competitive golf. The pool world is littered with players who have regressed.
The 45-minute lesson or a package of five lessons does not work. One top golf instructor refuses to take on a student for less than one day that includes on-course instruction. Ideally, he?d like to work with a student for at least six months.
Randy G recommends that students only practice what he preaches for at least three weeks after taking his course to ingrain the proper stroke.
I found this board when, for the first time, I was playing regularly with players much better than me. I was looking for good instruction material. What I found was of very poor quality.
Most books give stroke mechanics, but none that I read gave the Randy G ? Scott Lee version.
Every book, when discussing shots, failed to religiously cover the various components of a shot:
Contact point of cue on cue ball
Speed of the shot
The contact point on the object
Ball movement after contact
Instructional videos are almost always amateur efforts shot with a single stationary camera that never shows the cue in contact with the cue ball. If you watched the Kinister video posted a day or two ago it is simply shoot particularly shots repeatedly. It assumes that the viewer knows how to shoot the shots. It is not for someone new to the game.
Match video has similar problems
Snooker matches are inevitably shown with a tight shot of the table, never a full view of the player when making the stroke.
Pool videos rarely show
The player?s stroke
The contact point on the cue ball
It seems to me that instruction and match commentary could be improved considerably if slow motion shots of cue and object balls were available for analysis. These are precision games and the student and the public should come to appreciate what is required.
In the end, the best instruction the columnist received was:
"Stop thinking. Just hit the damn ball"
When I am in the zone that is all I need to do.
The golf columnist in The Globe and Mail wrote today:
"The perfect swing is all in my head".
He has written instruction books with several top players and instructors. He has had instruction from many top instructors and players, many serving up the single fix that will cure his stroke, but doesn?t.
He went on to wonder why golfers, no matter how much instruction they receive or how much they practice, do not improve.
Why did some top ranked golfers, such as Seve Balesteros and Ian Baker-Finch lose their swings and have to withdraw from competitive golf. The pool world is littered with players who have regressed.
The 45-minute lesson or a package of five lessons does not work. One top golf instructor refuses to take on a student for less than one day that includes on-course instruction. Ideally, he?d like to work with a student for at least six months.
Randy G recommends that students only practice what he preaches for at least three weeks after taking his course to ingrain the proper stroke.
I found this board when, for the first time, I was playing regularly with players much better than me. I was looking for good instruction material. What I found was of very poor quality.
Most books give stroke mechanics, but none that I read gave the Randy G ? Scott Lee version.
Every book, when discussing shots, failed to religiously cover the various components of a shot:
Contact point of cue on cue ball
Speed of the shot
The contact point on the object
Ball movement after contact
Instructional videos are almost always amateur efforts shot with a single stationary camera that never shows the cue in contact with the cue ball. If you watched the Kinister video posted a day or two ago it is simply shoot particularly shots repeatedly. It assumes that the viewer knows how to shoot the shots. It is not for someone new to the game.
Match video has similar problems
Snooker matches are inevitably shown with a tight shot of the table, never a full view of the player when making the stroke.
Pool videos rarely show
The player?s stroke
The contact point on the cue ball
It seems to me that instruction and match commentary could be improved considerably if slow motion shots of cue and object balls were available for analysis. These are precision games and the student and the public should come to appreciate what is required.
In the end, the best instruction the columnist received was:
"Stop thinking. Just hit the damn ball"
When I am in the zone that is all I need to do.
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