And He Seemed Like Such A Nice Young Man...!

[mgjordan]

Lynn,
Don't sell yourself short. I can't begin to tell you how much I learned, and continue to learn, from you. You teach TGM in the most understandable way and your demonstrations are crystal clear. There is nobody, in any field of work, that I have met who shows more enthusiasm for his work or clients/students than you. With your guidance and some blood, sweat, and tears, I think anyone can build a solid, repeatable, technically correct stroke as well as have a strong foundation of "machine" knowledge behind it. Most instructors view their students as somewhat stupid and incompetent when it comes to understanding anything about the mechanics of the golf stroke. You don't do that. You explain to your students what they need to know and if they don't understand, you keep giving explanations, demonstrations, and examples until they get it. You also have a true belief that your students can reach the level of ball striking that they want to reach and that is inspiring.

[Toolish]

The video link does not seem to work for me. Has this video beeen removed?

The stills look very good!

[neil]

The main thing I learned during the workshop, and the most important for me personally, was the right forarm pickup and planeline tracing. My backswing was fairly low and flat and I brought the club to the inside. Lynn got me set up with the club on the same plane as my right forarm and taught me how to pick it up the turned shoulder plane. I also tucked the right elbow in and down like Hogan. Lynn taught me that it was okay to let it "fly" a little bit more. This is something that I worked on with Brian Manzella too. It allowed me to free myself up and and get in a position to have more down in my swing and produce more power. I also benefited from the stretch band around my knees. I have always had very active hips and, while still over-active, the drills to quiet my lower body helped me get more consistant contact. The thing I really got, more than improvement in my own swing, was the understanding of the concepts and ideas in TGM. I can now understand and explain many things that I had no clue about when I attended the class.

Since attending the workshop, I haven't played or hit balls too much, but I have worked on my swing every day doing indoor drills and mirror work. It is great, for me anyway, to work on my swing slowly. It is hard to change mechanics and feels at full speed hitting shots. I love working in a mirror and being able to visualize what I am doing. I have an obsession with having a visually attractive swing and I HATE doing anything where I cannot see myself performing it. It drives me nuts not to know what I look like making a change. I have been working on keeping a still head. I have always had a lateral slide/lunge move in my upper body on the start of the downswing. Now, it is pretty much gone. It could still be better, but I am happy with the progress. I have been working on driving the right shoulder more downplane with a little bit more axis tilt. I have been working hard slamming my dowels against a suitcase packed with towels. Getting my hands further ahead of the ball and over my left foot is my focus for this year. The last thing I have continued to work on is my plane. Since the workshop, I overdid it a little and developed overly steep plane. I have worked to flatten it back out a little bit to get on the turned shoulder plane. I worked so hard on getting more "up" that I stopped having enough "around". You have to have a balance.

Matt,how far can you hit that suitcase!