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Announcing a blockbuster, 2-day coaching and teaching event!

Brian Gay and Lynn Blake / 2009 PGA Championship at Hazeltine

Alignment Golf!

Where: The Faldo Institute, Orlando, FL
When: January 22-23, 2012
Time: 9:00 AM – 5 PM
Cost: $495 (PGA) / $550 (Non-PGA) / Includes lunch

Lynn Blake, GSED, Director of Instruction, Lynn Blake Golf, LLC, will lead this event. Lynn was one of a handful of instructors trained personally and certified as Master Instructor by Homer Kelley, author of The Golfing Machine. Together with his staff instructors, he will open the door to a new understanding of the golf stroke, one that promises dramatic results in both your teaching and your game.

In a 61-page Workbook, here’s a sampling of what you’ll learn:

• A proven System – not Method -- for learning and teaching golf
• The Stroke Pattern concept – 24 components and ten trillion ways to get it right!
• 21 Principles that govern all golf strokes
• Hitters versus Swingers and the ten key differences in their stroke patterns
• Key alignments in each of the Three Zones (Body, Arms and Hands)
• The Twelve Sections of the stroke and how to translate precision mechanics to feel
• How to use the Flat Left Wrist and its three ‘feels’ to control the clubface
• How to create and sustain Lag Pressure Point pressure -- The Secret of Golf –– to control the clubhead
• How to get on the Inclined Plane – and stay on it -- to control the clubshaft
• The Pivot Center concept – the key to Balance and Centered Arc
• Low point and why it matters
• Understanding the Delivery Line and the clubhead’s Arc and Angle of Approach
• Using the Delivery Line and Delivery Path concepts to guide the clubhead and hands from the top to the finish
• The Magic of the Right Forearm
• How to use the three basic Plane Lines and their nine different target line-stance line combinations for complete body and ball control
• Why open and closed stances really matter
• Educating your hands in their three planes of motion and nine wrist conditions
• The difference between Left Wrist ‘roll’ and ‘swivel’ and how each is used
• The Power Package – what it is and how to accumulate, load, store, deliver, and release it
• Achieving mechanical advantage using the Law of the Flail and the Endless Belt Effect
• The three kinds of lag and why two are never released
• The four sources of power, how to vary each from maximum to zero, and how to achieve maximum trigger delay
• Four ways to regulate power – clubhead mass and speed -- from drive to putt
• The six essentials of a correct pivot and how to use it to produce centrifugal force, on plane motion and a centered arc
• Foot and knee action controls for maximum balance and precision application of power
• The difference between hip action and hip turn and how to use it for maximum on plane right shoulder turn thrust
• The difference between grip pressure, pressure point pressure, and especially, lag pressure
• ‘Dragging the wet mop’ and why its feel is so important
• How to use the right arm to achieve width and structure in the golf stroke
• Three loading actions and five release triggers
• Two alignments that will radically and instantly improve almost anyone’s short game (including your student’s and probably your own)
• A 45-item checklist for all strokes, including four alignments for a perfect Start-up, seven alignments for a perfect Top, six alignments for a perfect Impact, and five alignments for a perfect Finish
• Why the myths of ‘preserve the triangle’, ‘swing towards the target’, and the ‘inside to along the line to inside’ clubhead path are so destructive (and what to do instead)
• The three procedures and three visualizations of an effective pre-shot routine
• A five-step process for a winning mental game

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