The New Slapshot Golf Move with LEE DEITRICK
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Modern GOLF talk starts at 12:32
No need to apologize for the history, especially about Tom Tomasello, that was the best part of the video.
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Ok. Don’t play golf, but can say this old dude is a great instructor. And even at his age he could probably wrap you up!!
He was my wrestling coach in 1984 as well as my math teacher. Technical, and tough as nails!! I remember him tossing our heavyweight around like a doll. He weighed 240 and could bench press 440 lbs!! I called this man sir. Great to see him still teaching and sharing his passion with others. I learned many things from him!!
Thumbs up for this awesome microphone work! nice and clear thanks to you guys supporting the channel!
This is incredible stuff! A true gem! I love the explanation of the hip plane virtues in respect to being able to just turn through with your body versus the Torso plane/shoulder plane where you would require to uncock and roll to be able to pivot through. The precise point where you have so many pros arguing about so succinctly put. A true gem!
Malaska's principals have changed my golf life for the better.
Mr. Deitrick, thank you so much. I had been pushing the ball out due to coming in to high like you stated, now i am coming in lower on plane and hitting it straight Thank you for a great lesson. .
This is Mike Malaska . Malaska is ahead of the game with his teaching. I started doing this two years ago thanks to Mike. Glad to see others are jumping on board.
I got a lot from this video. Very timely for me as I am working on similar changes in my swing.Thanks for the work you put into it.
I have watched this video 25 times yet I have never gotten as much out of it as I have today.
Your work will last for a long long time.
This is a fantastic video.
I like the slower pace and detail of this video. The closer you get to matching the shaft at address, the less forearm rotation is need to square the face. Great video Brendon.
This is a very interesting and informative video, along with a little history about the evolution of the golf swing and the main players that have caused the changes to our concepts of it. Years ago I had a conversation with a CPGA pro Mark Evershed, he talked about how the hands work in the golf swing, he said, "in the downswing they go through, in and up." His concept came from Tom Tomasello, and I never really understood what he was trying to tell me. After watching this video and Mr. Deitrick's explanation things are clear. I am off to the range, thanks.
Super interesting stuff B. Looking forward to the next vid.
This is the best lesson so far. You're swing looks the best i've ever seen when you did the drag drill.
I would like your videos more with a little more listening and less interruptions to your guest comments.
This was great... this is basically a right hand slap or throw on the downswing. This is very powerful and accurate. What this clarified is.. if you stop your rotation.. it breaks your left wrist.. and if you continue to rotate with the throw, the left wrist is flat. Thank you for posting this session!!
Learning to be consistent on ball address, I like the vertical shaft at Impact, I find hand bowed back and front keeps from pulling
one of the best content on golf ive seen in a while ... there is a British coach Dan Whittikar who talks about the similar concepts too .. attaching the link to his page below...
but Lee Deitrick has done an amazing job clarifying so many swing concepts... thank you very much for this video.
looking for ward to a video for us guys who tend to fire the lower body early and leaving hands behind leading to blocks and hooks.
What a great video...I could have listened to you and Lee for hours. :-)
Brandon, the payoff of this starts at 36:40 through your swing at 37:45. Your swing on that was great, by the way! And the swings were contrary to your old concept of having the handle lead the clubhead past the left thigh. You demonstrated both well. This demo was an eye opener for me, thank you!
Great video...thanks so much👍
The slap/spank shot move from P7 -P9 is the only way to keep the club face square.
Pulling the handle and trying to hold the face or the flying wedge is not the way as you stated.
Thanks so much for this video👍
Very well done and I use the slap technique, For me timing has always been a issue. I hit Dixie cups quite often because the noise at impact helps me to time the hit aka release.
Good stuff Brendon. at 33:20 he seems to be demonstrating the Malaska "feel" imo.
Haha, when I saw the title of this video I wasn't expecting much to be honest. Turned out to be very informative!
Very interesting conversation especially at the point where he shows when you jerk up the club goes faster. Great video
Left arm straight back and swing with right hand like throwing a bowling ball. Did wonders for my swing.
Yep that can work too. My feeling is whatever gets you hitting the ball consistent distances without any two way misses is golden. The problems arise when you are playing well and want just a little more and start experimenting! Pandora's box! There are so many variables to the swing that mismatches occur when you make swing changes. Golf is the ultimate living puzzle.
Brendon /Lee ...thanks very much...great vid ...re roof/gutter analogy ...I've always been told my wrists should be in ulnar deviation thru impact ...this would make my hands incorrectly lift off "the shingles" as Brendon says (40:50) ...is this ulnar deviation to be avoided at impact??
Left wrist is level at address. On the backswing the left wrist is cocking and somewhere close to 90* at top. On the downswing the left wrist moves from 90* back to level at impact where the left arm is straight and the right arm is slightly bent. The left wrist has been uncocking on the downswing but not fully uncocked at impact. It will get fully uncocked past impact as both arms straighten, or as the right arm straightens the left wrist uncocks. Uncocking is ulnar deviation.
The Tom Tomasello tapes in Australia are available at Lynn Blake Golf
Tom's vids from Australia, great instruction, Lynn Blake posted them. Great stuff.
Fascinating history and explanation of the lead arm pulling plane vs. the rear throwing plane angles. Have there ever been any teaching specialists or theory for lead arm dominant golf? There are many stealth righties playing lefty and vice versa that find success but CZcams has little beyond flying wedgery for us.
By far, the most informative video you have EVER posted. Kudos.
I am an instinctive golfer I have felt this up pull for years but never knew what was really going on. From the very top of my golf swing my immediate thought was to prepare to begin pulling up. I was an 1 index in my formative years, back them we didn't have teaching like this. This video addressed a lot of my own Curiosity about swing motion. Unhinging the golf head as early as possible ( Jack Nicklaus) has always been my feel. Trying to hold the angle has screwed more golf swings than any one concept. Thanks to " Be better golf" for all his interviews and his great passion.
Yeah holding the angle is very difficult and leads to joint problems with the elbow primarily. It is possible to play solid golf this way but you better be physically very strong in the wrists and forearms
Great video. Glad to see Lee speak highly of Michael Jacobs and Brian Manzella. I got a lot out of the one lesson I had with Brian.
Yeah that piece Brian did on Sergio about the left shoulder moving down back and out had me playing the best golf of my life although it was physically taxing at 56 yrs old!
Left pull presents toe down dynamic lie if your ha do are higher. Was dynamic lie consider in TGM?
The Tom Tapes of his Australian tour are on VHS and I think you can get them from either Peter Croker or Peter Knights at the Yarra Bend golf academy Melbourne. His presentation over 2 days in Cairns, North Queensland is still the best I’ve ever seen and is my teaching bible. 😀
Lee it's the Tomasello Chapter Series (with Peter Croker) you're talking about it's on CZcams. Tommy gave me that video as I left his studio in Myrtle Beach (October 1993, I was probably one of Tommy's last student to take a private 3 day school). I sent the video tape to Lynn who made the nine video chapter series. Tommy's instruction is very close to Mike Bender. Tommy used standard hip action Mike uses delayed hip action with the shoulders and pressure point 4 to start the backswing. The downswing is identical with both forearms starting the downswing.
Question for Lee...great video by the way... How do I reconcile pushing against the ground with my left side, straightening and moving the handle around to the left with my right shoulder not staying back as a result? Does the sustained lag counter the right shoulder not staying back? I've played with this motion for years and my ball tends to squirt a little right, I know I should just close the face or rotate my left hand so the wrist is a little more right of level, and from that I get that my right shoulder is coming out a bit more than it should and getting me off plane. Where do you teach?
Try 3/4 swings and maintaining the side bend longer as well as keeping the head more sideways and the shoulders on a more vertical angle through impact
Really good video and liked the explanation about how the swing has evolved, that context is extremely useful because it's easy for people to confuse "old fundamentals" with "new" but it's happening due to access of scientific and launch data.
Also Sasho video? Uh, yes please.
czcams.com/video/2cj1gTfKeTs/video.html
Brandon, check out Dan Whitaker golf, his methods are all about what you are exploring on here. Very consistent swing moves
steven brown very true!
Modern Rotational Golf swing - body driven - ala Hogan! It's the only way to hit it like a Tour Pro! :) DW is the man; but I like a lot of stuff Lee is saying here. Very similar vein to DW.
Nick Hough Geoff Jones Slicefixer is where all these guys got this info from DW took it from Geoff. This is fact, I was there.
Prime example of modern day golf instruction. I'm so lost and confused. In Monte we trust.
In Between Clubs except that's not how Monte historically swung the club, he still doesn't. I like Monte and think he does a nice job,but that's not how he swings it.
I watched Pat Perez doing the pull up drill at 37:00 on the range at TPC Boston this week. He was striping it.
great video on the release!
Thanks!
Brandon, your swing looked the best when you did the drag drill. I feel like you should let the handle pass your handle faster vs trying to drag it. I think that's in line with what you guys were saying about slapping the ball, Monte doing no turn cast drill, etc. doing so will require keeping your back to the target longer. Just a thought...
it looked good. Wasn't a swing tho. I would like to get that look in my real swing more
I meant let the "club head" pass your handle (or hand) faster vs. trying to keep your hands in front of your club.
why make the whole swing so technical and complicated for the average golfer ?
I believe this teacher is the very best cutting edge to this point in golf understanding.
Dan Wittaker is your man, started seeing Dan Sep 16 12 months ago in Manchester at his ace studio. Teaches very much what Lee is talking about. I went to see Dan after getting 50 point ones back on my h'cap 7.9 to 12.9 with no reductions, after one session, I won the monthly medal and my h'cap went down to 11.5 unfortunately since then, I fractured my wrist, got over that, then drove down a hole and injured neck and not played since March, as soon as I'm recovered I will be back to see him, he's awesome.
Wait this guy can change ball flight in follow through or direction? Is that what he's saying?
The Tomasello instruction videos are posted here on CZcams by LynnBlakeGolf. They are identifiable by the headings Chapter 1, Chapter 2, ... etc by Tom Tomasello.
Is this an angled hinge follow thru ?
I agree with Mr. Deitrick that this is where the golf swing is heading. Square to path is the most efficient use of clubhead mass. It produces dead straight bullets if you get path right.
I don't agree if it's implied the "stand up" move is something you _do._ It's something that happens if centripetal force is properly managed, because that is essentially what it is.
Very good -thank U. U both talk about so many of the old guys- but no one mention the great Mike Austin and his release Method , which in my opinion is more or less the same as a throwing action as Jim Hardy calls it.
Yeah Mike Austin was really incredible in his depth of knowledge combining anatomy and physiology to the golf swing. Had he been more patient and diplomatic he would be known as one of the best golf instructors ever. His setup position with the left arm and the proper motion of the hips helped me immensely to shoot my first subpar rounds!
Ground reaction forces is all well and good but it will lead to more hurt backs.
Yes. It does put a toll on the back. At 57 now I have to go the gym regularly or I could not swing this way!
Great discussion. Welcome to the "Modern Rotational Swing"!! It's not that "new" though. Probably best taught and demonstrated on CZcams by Dan Whittaker. Dan and some of the other CZcams gurus like Dana Dahlquist, George Gankas, and Clay Ballard have really refined the teaching of these concepts way beyond theory and discussion. They apply it in lessons and are getting great results. Totally opposite of the so-called "upper body driven swing", "right arm dominant swing", and the "let's not think about lower body pivot/rotation swing", etc. LOL.
This old dude seems really cool and knows his stuff. Why does he not have youtube videos?
Caddiesense he's 73, that's not old! I'll try to get him doing some CZcams videos.
32:04 to 34:21 in which Lee is giving his response to your Malaska question is EXACTLY what Malaska talks about. From "handle in clubhead out" to what is considered a "square clubface" on the backswing. To me, Lee explanation is exactly consistent with Malaska's teaching.
Great video Brendon! I do like the consistency of the rotational swing ala Dan Whitaker and this teacher although I have my doubts about the average (read aging) golfer being able to generate speed with it. Seems to be effective for young fit athletes who can turn quickly like the new breed of golfers on the tour or up and comers under instructors like GG. It still seems to end in injury for them as well though. I'm leaning more towards Malaska and a little more use of the hands and arms. Great content as always. A quick observation if you'll let me, I think your inside takeaway starts with your forward press move.
Yeah I agree with you as I have tried every method and system under the sun. As I have discovered entering the champions tour age + it is much easier on the body to swing with very relaxed arms and wrists aim a little to the right and let everything release freely but not as far left as Lee explains.Although if you maintain your fitness this modern method will definitely give you more accuracy and distance but it is physically more challenging. Unless you are playing competitively I would advise anyone either lacking flexibility,strength and or balance and coordination to use a swing more modeled after many of the women pro golfers letting the legs and hips power the swing. Mike Austin and Paul Wilson use a more body friendly swing model to emulate albeit with some loss of accuracy.
The confusion for me was that I was trying to get shaft lean by getting my hands forward of the ball (pulling or pushing them ahead). What helped was feeling the hands not go forward of the trail thigh but then turning (pivoting) my body to get my hands forward and shaft lean. Not pulling my hands through to the ball has allowed me to get open and hit the ball with my pivot.
+Jason Sweeney great! 👍🏼
I just got what you are saying. That is a really brilliant thought. thanks!
Yeah, I wish I would have gotten it earlier. Dana talking about the hockey slap shot (and Lee above), Monte talking about closing the club face with your body, multiple teachers mentioning not handle dragging. Just never got it. I always thought I should return the hands in front. Now in my transition its just getting to a good P6 with the club face oriented to the ball (square to back line), and COM behind my hands and then just rotate hard through. If my hands go past my thigh before I rotate it shortens the radius too much and I have to flip
Jason, you are on the right track!
I'm also doing a body driven swing where it feels like like swinging shoulders out and down which then brings/flicks club out in front with no use of arms and hands to square it up sort of feeling of going over top but shoulders going down
This man has class.
I adamantly follow Brian Manzella and Michael Jacobs. I’ve been to New Orleans to do lessons with Brian. I see Lee and many others on Manzella 360, Jacobs 3D and on Post Modern Golf, all really good guys. Brian and Mike have been trying to bring the truth of the golf swing to the forefront for years!! Their passion for the game is second to none. You should try doing something with them! Good job with this channel! I have been following Mike Malaska recently due to your videos with him. I believe there are many similarities between them. Keep up the good work.
Golfing Machine calls your new follow thru angled hinging. Causes fade spin.
Another way to think of it is you have a ring in the ground in front of you where the ball would be w a rope through it. you have the end of the rope in each hand and you pull on the rope w each hand back and forth. good for letting him do most of the talking also. Good vid.
I think Lee scouted his previous videos and realized he better do most of the talking!
That's gold
I love this shit, I feel like I'm on this journey with ya, I went more malaska than reaction but we still started shanking it at the same time! No this just open a whole new winter practice to get better! Kind of links the Dana,gg pivot with the malaska over the top from the inside. Interesting!
Thanks. Shanking started with my when I tried to change my takeaway. Tony from reactionary golf helped me fix it. RG is the best IMO
Interesting... After working on the Malaska move, I also had a terrifying bout of the shanks. I think Lee and Malaska are both on to something (same thing): Malaska's idea of getting the clubhead out in front is another way of getting the face to close down a little earlier, and like Lee, bringing the handle (with the left hand) lower. It was ironic that the "slapshot" description was similarly recalling the Malaska drill with separated hands (hockey). I think the shanks may have arisen from both the momentum of the 'thrown' clubhead heading outside the line and my inability to keep the hands from drifting away from my body on the downswing. Also interesting is the synergy with Monte S suggesting that the clubhead will never actually get caught up to the hands because of our turning through (and the acceleration of the swing). Downside of all this "exploration" has been an inability to "just swing the damn thing" during competitive rounds... Mebbe next year...
I had a VHS tape of NGF when i started golfing
Isnt this a slap hinge release?
What about the timing issue? When does the pivot turn begin. Before or after P6?
p5.
What did Ben Hogan say about timing? "There is no such thing as timing only execution of movement".
A lot of this teaching is exactly what long time golf teacher and Hogan swing expert Greg McHatton teaches and talks about. Christo Garcia (myswingevolution) has several good videos with McHatton demonstrating and explaining. McHatton said one important aspect of swinging like that is having a fast enough pivot that the right hip stays ahead of the right shoulder through impact. I came away thinking that unless you are very athletic its hard to have a pivot driven swing where the hands start going up before impact automatically such that you can avoid any conscious raising of the hands.
That's true freddy - it is A LOT to do with glute/leg/pelvis/core strength and flexibility. Many people overlook HOW powerful and flexible modern pros are, however, you can achieve the same with tai chi type strength+flexibility work, but it's slow progress, there is NO one secret, just lots of littel pieces that make a whole. I have never seen any instruction from them but those Tathata guys do the same type of move and tai chi 'esque training. I use my own combos of exercises to develop my own core/lower body etc, and it does make a difference, but it can take months of doing a little bit everyday to start to notice. ELite golf perfromance also have some good strength/flexibility stuff that is relevant to the golf swing.
@@nickough That's interesting and I have long thought more needs to be done around developing strength-flexibility and balance. To sync all this up the golfer needs really solid balance and tempo, the body needs to be strong at its core.
I've found my own benefits from better strength training, being "golf fit" makes a huge difference to your scores and enjoyment.
Gold!
Hands in and club head goes out, push away and up for power, feels like a hockey slap shot, feels like a flat spot at the bottom of the swing.......looks like what Mike Malaska has been saying all along is getting very popular!
Yeah Phil Rodgers taught this a long time ago. I used his method and was hitting very accurate short and mid irons with baby draws.
Awesome!!! More kind of rotational swing with body pivot, while closed clubface perpendicular to spineangle, that produces the lag and “traps“ or “slaps“ the ball ... just a turn through. Whats about the right hand? Still dominant in downswing? Most amazing! But feels like more control. What about working the ball? Fade and draw. How is that controlled to produce shots with curvature?
Same move just change set up. Face closed to path or face open to path, that gets your curve.
BE BETTER GOLF Just saw DJs swing in slowmo. I think hes not or barley initiating the downswing with his hands. Hes pivoting from top and extremly keeps the tilt in his spine while wrists keept bowed. Whats your opinion on that Brandon?
To me slow motion doesn't show it. In regular speed (the speed we live at) I see him plant that left leg and then throw down and around. Its all get tot he top and the super athletic reaction.
In regular speed its not all parts its all at once.
BE BETTER GOLF Ok you are right. Slowmo tricks us. The feeling is totaly different. Maybe its way way different. My thought or “feeling“ on this is from top... push in the ground with left feet, ignition with right shoulder down and body pivot slighty begins before club comes into the “slot“ to create that lag, than turn with spine tilt and trap or slap the ball. Most everything with “dead hands“ that are bowed. Lag is produced by pivot. Right?!?
I would like to see an episode (at least) with Shawn Clement... ☺️
Please God, I have worked with Shawn. So much easier than all this stuff. I just cut the damn grass and win tournaments all the time.
That would be awesome!
I totally agree, time to speak to Shawn.
Yep, I'm with all you guys. I remember mentioning Shawn on a Mark Crossfield video, but no response.
Agreed!
this should be called the evolution of golf , like 40 years to the modern swing!
Tom Tomasello was a genius and a gift to the game.
Scott Shields Yes he was, his teaching lives on through one of his students, Cooper Osborne, check him out👍
@@drkside53 Also Peter Croker System
@@BamaPaul Thanks for that will check it out👍
Exactly what Sean Foley use to teach how to use the ground
...chapter two...=...holy grail of golf...
Moe Norman is also known for Natural Golf too
Tom Tomasullo...the MASTER...
Easy lessons, look at Manuel De La Torre. The best swing and easy.
Review your Mike Malaska videos, it's what he teaches.
i played a lot of hockey when i was young. i always wished i could hit a golf ball like a slap shot. back then didn't think about much except take the stick back and give it a good wack on ice and skates. seemed so simple. why is golf so hard?
Going to look into this, great comment!
You should get sponsors and do a give away👍🏼
I just hate mailing stuff out. I'll do it if I can do the giveaways in person, lol.
Tom Tomasello was a great teacher. My best friend who played on the Clemson golf team took lessons from him back in the late 80’s. Clemson used to send all of their players to him.
Wish he would have spent more time on Tom Tomasello and what he was showing Lee in those tapes regarding the right arm release or karate chop as he explained, simple and powerful way to swing the club. He was a legend✊
That was amazing, very informative and exactly what I need to do.
Practically all my golfing career I've been a thin/toe shot golfer.sometimes fat,after countless hrs of CZcams videos of mark crossfield and others alike where they try to teach this throwing of the club head out..I've been more consistent .i try to bring my hands back to address at impact to combat the high handle
The demo by Brendon near the end was what Clay Ballard teaches.
Watched Mark Crossfield say the other day , the hands are at their lowest at the back leg, with the handle rising up and in through impact ,as the club head is fired down at the ball.(Lockey flick)
What's new here is, Lee is saying, the hands go through impact as a consequence of the pivot
"Ok, just gotta remember all this stuff before I whack the golf ball...."( still on 1st tee, 4 hrs later)
lol ...I actually have dreams (nightmares?) like that where I am never ready to hit
I hear ya brother. I like Brendans channel but this is gobbledygook. Same old stuff told with different buzz words. Golf guys talkin' about a slapshot when they probably have never played hockey, let alone taken a slapshot, lol
Yeah, he already said that "most of this stuff is already out there". There's more than one way to teach, and this is Lee's way of explaining it.
What do you expect from a guy who teaches the latest golf swing fashion of the decade...?
slap starts at 21 min in.
Where is the slap shot move?
Reminds me of Gankas' ideas.
Gregg McHatton's comment on the hands coming up prior to impact ala Hogan. The comment is about 1 minute long within this long video of a lesson Christo had with McHatton. I indexed in to the start of the comment...
czcams.com/video/4TIM1cHxHss/video.html
....chaper 2...it's all there....
Please credit TT...not explicitly stated...but implied..
Please learn to let the teaching pro speak.
I agree let the teaching pro talk
Brandon, this is such valuable material! However, I find the sidebars with all the golf schools of thought difficult. It obscures the message of what the slapshot technique is about. It would be wonderful if you were to re-edit this video and just put in the material that says 1.) what it is, 2.) how to do it, 3.) drills to support learning it. Go back with new interview questions and add some video to this discussion. Avoid discussing in this video what other schools of thought say. That does not help (me) understand what this one says. Thanks for the material and great discussion.
horizontal vs angled hinge...make your own shot...a draw or fade...
Trahan says down is free, so stand up afap - as fast as possible
Steep, shut, and completely mind f$&@ed! Good luck digesting this and actually making a golf swing!
D Carlson
If it's too complicated for you Carlson disregard..no need for the extracurricular comments!
Too complicated? Where did I say I don’t understand what he’s teaching? I get it perfectly fine, it’s just that he’s making players steep, shut, and just begging for a two-way miss - hence the “mind f$&@ed” comment. It’s really not his fault though, this is how one has to swing with the upright, offset garbage being put out by the Big 5 OEM’s these days.
Think I understand but boy, it was a lot of work.
same as top speed golf
Just curious. When he says "low point (of the clubhead) is the left shoulder" what exactly is he talking about? There is a whole lot of variability there. "Left shoulder" could be a pretty wide area -- anywhere from the armpit to the tip of the shoulder. If you look at all the slo-mo video of tour players you'll see a lot of variability in low point depending on the player, the type of shot they are playing, the club they are hitting and obviously their ball position at address that they choose and there is significant variability there. Just looking at video it appears that low point of tour players might be anywhere from just forward of the middle of the sternum to maybe the tip of the lead shoulder. Isn't that sort over a dangerous generalization and oversimplification to make.
You said it Thomas, it depends. On a stock shot, tip of the left shoulder is the low point of the club. Lee contends that the low point of the hands is along the right thigh though.
Club face slightly closed moving slightly in to out. How one does it is whole another story .
Brendon and BE BETTER GOLF guys. How come no one on here ever mentions John Erickson or Bradley Hughes and the Advanced Ball Striking(ABS) concepts? Just curious? Not representing them at all, but I know they have to be known. Especially if you are someone who is obsessed with elite ball striking and not just the modern bomb a driver 340 low spin knuckle ball(1800spin) and then wedge it on. They have been talking ground forces, preaching rotation and pivot and not flipping or swinging out to the right for years. They study all the great ball strikers of the past to great length. What some may argue with is that the lighter, more upright lofts on todays clubs, along with club offset may help get easy speed its hurting the quality of the strike and not encouraging or rewarding the lower handle and pivot through the impact. Club makers know that people are going to raise the handle, crack a walnut between their ass cheeks, stall and arm swing and flip or rotate the face hard... Love the channel and learning so much!
Completely agree with you re Bradley Hughes. He was a great ballstriker and his early videos are a revelation. The audio is a bit iffy but they are well worth watching for the explanation of the swing principles.