Arguably, your best video to date Marcus!...wonderful stuff..everyone watching can identify with the current golf teaching methods which largely just keep you roped in to getting more and more lessons. You’re changing golf training methods, one video at a time!...marvellous!
Ive just told the guy at Golf Sidekick (who I Follow as I like a lot of his on course strategy vids) to start watching your stuff (someone else did too). He’s been getting some lessons and is just trying so hard to control backswing/sway/left leg/right leg....blah blah!...painful to watch if I’m honest.
Fantastic work Marcus, great explanation! After checking on Steve (backswing) , do we imagine other mates to the leading side? Turn to each (right, in line) for a draw or straight shot? One thing that my swing did not have access to was the ankles/knees, I was too focused on the hips. Now I feel how ankles transfer to the knees and then hips. Focusing on hips only (the tip I got) made me hook and hook because the upper body would take over. I guess with that intention in mind, I would start the kinetic sequence too high and over rotate per body.
Funny but serious video. Thanks. You have mentioned in other videos about using the trail hand/arm to push down to accelerate the club. Do you have a video that explains how to do that properly. When I have tried it becomes a flip. Thanks
This is absolute gold !! My own experience .. I stopped getting golf advice or lessons, can t play with voices in my head , rather self learned the swing by trial and error. Very thankfull for your video s explaining "experience" with body mechanics. the swing .. Worst advice .. take away the club on a straighter line to the targey .. felt like swinging an axe rather than a golf club .. body swaying , left foot slipping back, and an incurable slice.
I only discovered your videos 2 days ago and I can feel massive improvements in my swing already. Just want the courses and driving range to be open so I can see results now. Thanks in advance
Loved this video. I have recently come back to golf after a 7 year layoff due to sholder injury. I am now 72 and would love to see how senior golfers like me can generate a reasonable club head speed and ball flight.
Marcus are you posting up to a straight rear leg in backswing then in the transition are posting up to a lead side front leg in the downswing. Should I sequence my downswing by pressuring into a straightening lead leg as my 1st move or a flexed lead leg. Marcus you have great content & understanding of how to correctly swing a golf club with 'swung' & not 'hit' being the critical difference.
Excellent Marcus. I’ve introduced so many movement compensations to my swing over the years that I don’t really know how or what to correct. I have considering taking lessons from the local pro to “straighten me out” and repair my swing. Instead, after watching a few of your videos I’ve built a balance board and ordered a set of wobble pads and a set of rotating discs. I’m looking forward to my first round after using these movement aids for a few days. Thanks for all your insight. Looking forward to booking a session with you once we are allowed to travel to and around the UK again.
Amazing!! Years ago my coach was Frank Callan (Steve Davis’s coach) I went every Tuesday to Blackpool (Snooker, in case you were wondering) when we played he would always have a cigar in his mouth, with ash threatening the table with every shot(never happened), he made a hundred break(often) with' said Cigar’ and his chin 6 inches above the cue! He talked through every shot he made as if he was walking down the road with ease! The simplicity of his execution was beyond me at the time! I asked one day if, rather than have a lesson we could just talk, we sat and had a coffee, of course I was intrigued about Steve Davis! Frank told me that he had asked Steve whether it would be okay to share the “business” (as they called it) and apparently Steve said, yeah sure, most wont get it anyway! Turns out that the “Business" was just eye to ball, rhythm and trust! I had a great talent but didn’t trust myself enough! heyho, my golf is getting better though! Marcus you are nailing it!
Tension free swing - great to see this, I've always liked to be as effortless as possible, but I feel sometimes it becomes to ridiucous and there becomes 0 intention other than being relaxed and not using the swing weight properly. Cheers for this mate 👌🏽
Thanks Marcus, great video. At 14:45 when you talk and demonstrate some force across the shaft, you are doing it easily with one hand half way down the shaft and you say the body reacts to that. You're "pushing" the golf club. Could you tell us a bit more about HOW to do that when we have taken our 2 handed grip on the handle? Are you talking about more trail hand action "pushing" across the shaft in the downswing? I'm a bit confused because it seems like you're saying push on the shaft with your train hand to apply force across the shaft but then at 16:27 you say the forces are coming from the ground up. I'm just trying to fully understand as I think what you are telling us now is really great and I don't want to go out and try to apply it incorrectly. Thanks so much.
It's a drill to sense where and when the release of the clubhead is and how the body reacts to this release. It's not about trying to create those forces with the arms. Use the body action to generate these forces 👍
What can i say, Again a massive insight, so obvious when you think about it! Makes so much sense , i have not had a lesson yet with Zen golf, but i have implemented so much of what was said in lockdown and my swing feels so different but so comfortable and effortless Cannot wait for all this mess to be over so i can get up there and complete my swing with Zen golf another fantastic insight to the swing mythology ( if that’s the right word) zen the myth buster stay safe everyone see you soon
Great vid Marcus. Can't wait until the end of March when Ican Zen my driver on the first tee! I've received all these advice tips in lessons. I still have one pre-paid with a local pro. He was going on about grip and first parallel. Mind you, I was hitting it awfully at the time.
I have been hearing the 5 mantras for the 20 years I have been playing golf. Have I really improved ? Have I turned up on the course with 100's of swing thoughts to apply to my game ? I have tried the transfer of weight with a make shift board and followed your previous natural movements and boy has it made a difference to my swing in the net. Can't wait to get on the course and try it. If I lived in the north I would certainly visit for a lesson
I was always told I was lifting and dropping my head. I got obsessed with it. Then I had a zen lesson with you. I realise I'd forgotten about it until you brought it up again here!!
Just watched the video. In particular was interested in what you said about creating tension. When putting I have my left hand below right and always feel like my left hand it fighting to control the stroke. After watching the video I tried practicing my putting with my right hand only. Felt much uch better and I consistently had a better roll on the ball and holed out more often than before. Could be the way to go. Just need to get out on the course to see if it works for real.
We often get in the way of natural movement by trying to conform to some kind of model thinking it will help when in actual fact it just adds more noise. Pleased it's helping 👍
Head still & straight left arm. I know there is more teaching involved in a one on one lesson with you, but I can't help feeling like I'm stealing from you. Thank you.
Thanks, even if someone tried to copy (and they are) there's much more content, rationale, depth and understanding required to configure it to create a functional learning environment. If guys try copying this they maybe worse than if they just stuck to their normal script. Thanks for your support 👍
Just wow! Every position we try is just a mental constraint. Just swing the club like it feels good, what a novel teacher! Got any zen happening in Ontario, Canada?
I think you missed level shoulders on the backswing, which is being taught and completely stymies leg, hip and feet rotation and moves the head all over the place...love your channel and keep up the good work!
I was told that I had lazy hands. Had to accelerate the speed of my hands/upper body. Result, my upper body took over my swing, a complete disaster for years, until I saw your videos. Now am concentrating on my ankles, the rest is following and getting great results. With the lockdown, I only have Optigolf to practice with, but seeing a difference is speed, mostly with driver, fairway woods and hybrid. Lot’s of work to be done with irons, hands still too quick.
Aim for the hazard ! Hold up , that might ok with your swing thoughts theory . Or maybe not , ask Dave if he's still giving lessons please ? Reactionary Golf , only way to learn . Another genius teacher . Cheers
I kind of think if you have a stiff lower body but not stiff hips then you can shorten your backswing substantially. The twisty pads would work just fine with a tighter swing.
What do you suggest for someone that moves their head/body too much laterally towards the target by pushing off trail foot too much too early? You have to flip hands just to make contact. Yet, you say let the body move naturally. Head, feet, ankles, knees, legs, hips etc. For this person they have to try and rotate while leaving room for arms to come through by moving lead leg around and backwards rather than pivot around lead leg with trail side early extending out and around...thereby taking the room of the club. How to swing naturally without sliding and early extending trail side??
It's all individual specific so what one person needs another may do the opposite. If you do the right exercises and have the right midset you will allow your body to self optimise and your movement will improve in respect to your intention. You're thinking golf swing atm, stand on an ice rink, you will stabilise quickly. How did you do it? No technical thought, it was a reaction to the environment and task constraints. I'd suggest shifting your attention onto task constraint exercises and observe how your body responds with a movement solution. There's plenty of exercises in my back library of lesson videos for you to explore and take a more self discovery approach instead of thinking about fixing movements born out of a golf conditioned coaching approach. Challenge the body in the right way and we'll learn a lot about ourselves and how our body wants to do it instead of doubting what we're doing, second guessing, and trying to manipulate our movement 👍
@@GRFGolf Thanks for concise reply. I do get your philosophy and like how you teach. It is a totally different mindset to the norm. However as one who has had plenty of coaching and does a bit of studying of the golf swing, it is really difficult not to notice certain idiosyncrasies in the swing and try to self correct. What do you mean by task constraint? I have looked at many of your videos and would gladly take a lesson if you ever came to Australia haha. H/cap is 5 and should be lower on the basis of all the shots still left on the course after most rounds. I think key is letting it all go and just let body do what it knows how to. Thereby removing all the brain-noise!! Cheers.
What about ball placement affecting my shot? I watch all your videos and my game has improved greatly but never heard you talk about ball placement to feet
@@GRFGolf I just came back from driving range and put all your advice into action. I had the best day I have ever had at the range and could hit within 15-30 feet of target 95% of the time. Can’t wait to take it to the course. You brought my game from 27 handicap to 16.2 this year but my best game has been 7 over par and I know that is all your style of teaching. Many thanks!
Thanks Mick, language is powerful, it's context is interpreted differently by each one of us. Golf is full of jargon with pre loaded connotations and we are all influences massively by this. At the end of the day movement doesn't need language, just intention 👍
@@GRFGolf As always, not only great advice but the right advice with "Why", most tutorials I watch, tell what your doing wrong and how to correct it, but you tell us How and Why.
For me the “overswing” is wasted arm movement- or too much arm and not enough shoulder turn. In my youth, I played against Azinger. He was one with an excessively long backswing. The golf coach at his junior college got him to shorten his backswing - and he became damn good as a result. But he didn’t shorten or restrict his shoulder turn, just the excessive arm swing. But you are right: free up your body to find “your swing”.
Only really had the one about keeping your head still from playing colleagues. I have been told in lessons (some years ago) that I moved my head too much vertically - i.e. lifting on the backswing and dipping on the downswing. Strangely, I see some teaches promoting that kind of pattern these days.
Sorry couldn't resist this or get the GhostBusters theme out of my head😜 If you're in a jam and you just can't Swing, Who ya gonna call? Myth Busters!!! If you're Zens all gone and ya can't find it nowhere Who ya gonna call? Myth Busters
@@GRFGolf Sorry I just couldn't resist that one. It looks like Boris is letting us out of jail on the 29th March, does that mean that my lesson on the 30th will go ahead? 🤞😊
Marcus……you’ve just replaced the ultra-confusing “greatest coach in the world” !! The relax portion of this video resonated with me. Appreciate all your content.
Brilliant Marcus watching and learning from you for a while now. I reckon i swing so well mates will ask me for advice . i now have five pieces of advice to give them which will totally mess them up. They still have not heard about you thank God.(and i wont be telling them until the bank account is fairly full. Then i will direct them to you) Hope this is not considered cheating.. Thanks again wonderful stuff. Pick up something from every video you do. Brilliant.
An idea for a great video would be to show how "zen-swing" prevents injuries. Example with keeping the head still which gives you a bad spine angle tilt.
I started watching the videos and using ground forces to power my swing starting about 2 months ago. I am 74 years old and walk the course 3 times each week in Thailand. Before I did, but now, I have no old age aches and pains after playing. Instead I feel exercise refreshed after each round, the same way I do after recreational swimming.
Jesus christ this lockdown. I'd have been over from Ireland for a lesson a long time ago if I could. I'll be over as soon as I can. I really feel like it would sort me out because im all over the shop haha!
If you started a cult I would be member 001 😁 The only way I can explain it is All other coaches I have seen on you tube teach us how to pump water from a well. You teach us how turn on the tap 🤯🤯🤯🤯 I started watching your stuff the other week and since then I've not shut up About it to any golfer who will listen and more importantly I've not had 1 single swing thought in the last week and a half of golfing, an I've played 9 rounds ⛳🏌️♀️ Im about 3% there with the feet but changing my focus to 90% my target and ball flight thoughts and reverse engineering the hole rather than 90% looking down on the ball thinking all the crap in the worlds checklist of swings has freed up my brain and body and taken away all swing thoughts and I'm hitting the ball much better 😊😊 I can't wait till my feet start to take over and all the power, consistency, control of ball flight, distance and confidence will come as part of the package 😁😁😁😁😁 Keep up the good work fella, i guarantee that withing the next year after seeing how you coach alot of other coaches will be changing the way they look at the way they teach. 👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋🤟
33 seasons of keeping my feet planted on the ground and focusing on the ball (aka: keeping my head still) thru impact have all led to one thing....a short, chicken wing golf swing that results in very little yardage. I’m starting to see why my 7 iron only goes 135 yards on a good day! 😩
Over the years ive rejected these 5 worst tips by eventually trusting my athletic/sporting ability over obviously stupid tips.But you have to be aware of your athletic strengths/weaknesses Although im old and 240lbs i have very mobile joints so i have to work on stability and igniting loading the muscles around the joints, but in an athletic way,probably for injury prevention as much as performance.But in the past due to my flexibility it was "connection" (stuffing things under armpits! etc)that ruined me! I now know it is an illusion caused by good sequencing.
Thanks so much Marcus for freeing up all of our swings. I'm 71, have played for 58 years and taught for 40 years including tour pros. I personally have been locked up with tension for 30 years due to modern instruction trying to hit positions and the biggest killer of them all, the X Factor (lower body resistance). Everyone needs to look at videos of Jones, Snead, Nelson, Hogan and Trevino. All played from the ground up, just as you emphasize. Thanks, cheers from Florida.
I just went to a lesson and was told everyone of these things. I played a round it was worst one of my life. Couldnt hit anything. Thanks Marcus for telling how it is
MONEY!!! These top 5 messed up my distance with longer irons to driver. the restriction of the body cause aches and soreness to my back and lateral hip area. The timing of the transition was an issue with my short wing too. I just feel more restricted keeping the body turning on an axis.
Thumbs Up if your teacher is asking you to do EXACTLY these 5 things for years. Thumbs Up if you feel sad and frustrated because he is the ONLY teacher you have access to. Thumbs up if you would like to fly to Marcus every lesson you have and cry on his shoulder.
Man ... together with WOTP (Golf Sidekick) ... love your approach. With your point on the moving the feet ... I've got something really strange that I naturally do but almost everyone seems to have comments about. Just before my start of the backswing I do a little back-step with my back foot. Sort of kicking of the backswing ... in my last golf vlog you see this consistently ruclips.net/video/DI0cOUNMpfM/видео.html ... any tips? Or just let it be as long as I do not get an undesired sway with the head? Context ... I started at 50y and am now close to 2 years playing. Stay metal, Eric. 🤘🏻😎🤘🏻
My biggest issue is for whatever reason I cannot get a sense of using the ground with my feet. I feel rather "disconnected" from the ground when I make a golf swing resulting in too much upper body and almost NO lower body.
@@GRFGolf I have watched a TON of the videos and they all make sense. I know its something in my back swing where I just can't feel the pressure in my feet allowing me to push off with my right foot...when I get to the top of my back swing I feel as if I have "lost connection" with the ground and there is nothing to push off of...not sure if that makes any sense. Wish I could get out to you for a few lessons...but I am in the Great Northwest (Washington state) across the pond from you. Thanks for the videos!
Marcus, that was brilliant👍 ! I've been told pretty much all of those - I'm just going to tell them to shut up in future - and I must get a pair of those balance discs.
My mate Paddy knocked down his drive on the first in St Andrews. When we got to his ball he asked the caddy "what did i do there" the caddy replied . " not sure Sir was that i a good drive or a bad drive",
Number 3... My mate gets a really lose elbow when he's made a series of poor shots it can normally be improved by making aware that his arm is more floppy that a 95 year old's ............
So, are you not against a bit of head movement in both directions? Obviously there's a huge amount of golf content online and a lot of this content can in some ways seem a bit contradictory to one another. There's a lot of videos that condemn head movement, especially backward head movement. Cheers
Drop a comment below the worst swing tip you've ever had 😂 ⬇️
Keep your head down. 🤣😂
@@mrgerrytube 🙈
Don't Overswing! This was at a fitting at American golf! I walked out, just before they pulled out a strike board 🤣
Take three weeks off, then learn to bowl!!
@@davidrodgers6784 😂😂
This guy is the best golf instructor seen in 30 years of searching. Revolutionary
Man you have hit a home run. This is great golf information that everyone can take to heart. Thanks for staying on top of how golfers think.
Arguably, your best video to date Marcus!...wonderful stuff..everyone watching can identify with the current golf teaching methods which largely just keep you roped in to getting more and more lessons. You’re changing golf training methods, one video at a time!...marvellous!
Thanks mate, pushing back the tide 😂
Ive just told the guy at Golf Sidekick (who I Follow as I like a lot of his on course strategy vids) to start watching your stuff (someone else did too). He’s been getting some lessons and is just trying so hard to control backswing/sway/left leg/right leg....blah blah!...painful to watch if I’m honest.
Definitely the best instruction video yet. So much in here at a basic level.Thanks.
Great stuff Marcus brilliantly explained not just telling us why they are wrong but explaining why!!!
Time to produce a DVD of your teaching Marcus!
Fantastic work Marcus, great explanation! After checking on Steve (backswing) , do we imagine other mates to the leading side? Turn to each (right, in line) for a draw or straight shot? One thing that my swing did not have access to was the ankles/knees, I was too focused on the hips. Now I feel how ankles transfer to the knees and then hips. Focusing on hips only (the tip I got) made me hook and hook because the upper body would take over. I guess with that intention in mind, I would start the kinetic sequence too high and over rotate per body.
Funny but serious video. Thanks. You have mentioned in other videos about using the trail hand/arm to push down to accelerate the club. Do you have a video that explains how to do that properly. When I have tried it becomes a flip. Thanks
This is absolute gold !! My own experience .. I stopped getting golf advice or lessons, can t play with voices in my head , rather self learned the swing by trial and error. Very thankfull for your video s explaining "experience" with body mechanics.
the swing .. Worst advice .. take away the club on a straighter line to the targey .. felt like swinging an axe rather than a golf club .. body swaying , left foot slipping back, and an incurable slice.
No matter how old ur videos, golden nugget info .
I only discovered your videos 2 days ago and I can feel massive improvements in my swing already. Just want the courses and driving range to be open so I can see results now. Thanks in advance
That's brilliant mate, not long to go now. Enough time to watch the back catalogue on You Tube 🤣
@@GRFGolf haha already all over that pal.
Loved this video. I have recently come back to golf after a 7 year layoff due to sholder injury. I am now 72 and would love to see how senior golfers like me can generate a reasonable club head speed and ball flight.
Marcus are you posting up to a straight rear leg in backswing then in the transition are posting up to a lead side front leg in the downswing. Should I sequence my downswing by pressuring into a straightening lead leg as my 1st move or a flexed lead leg.
Marcus you have great content & understanding of how to correctly swing a golf club with 'swung' & not 'hit' being the critical difference.
Thanks, you can explore sequencing your downswing into a flexed lead leg ready to extend and unload.
Pure genius. What you did for Liam's swing made me a believer. Other lessons he had did not come close to the one he had with you.
Excellent Marcus. I’ve introduced so many movement compensations to my swing over the years that I don’t really know how or what to correct. I have considering taking lessons from the local pro to “straighten me out” and repair my swing. Instead, after watching a few of your videos I’ve built a balance board and ordered a set of wobble pads and a set of rotating discs. I’m looking forward to my first round after using these movement aids for a few days. Thanks for all your insight. Looking forward to booking a session with you once we are allowed to travel to and around the UK again.
BEST CONTENT ON RUclips!!
Amazing!! Years ago my coach was Frank Callan (Steve Davis’s coach) I went every Tuesday to Blackpool (Snooker, in case you were wondering) when we played he would always have a cigar in his mouth, with ash threatening the table with every shot(never happened), he made a hundred break(often) with' said Cigar’ and his chin 6 inches above the cue! He talked through every shot he made as if he was walking down the road with ease! The simplicity of his execution was beyond me at the time! I asked one day if, rather than have a lesson we could just talk, we sat and had a coffee, of course I was intrigued about Steve Davis! Frank told me that he had asked Steve whether it would be okay to share the “business” (as they called it) and apparently Steve said, yeah sure, most wont get it anyway! Turns out that the “Business" was just eye to ball, rhythm and trust! I had a great talent but didn’t trust myself enough! heyho, my golf is getting better though! Marcus you are nailing it!
Great story and thanks for sharing. Really appreciate your support 👍
Tension free swing - great to see this, I've always liked to be as effortless as possible, but I feel sometimes it becomes to ridiucous and there becomes 0 intention other than being relaxed and not using the swing weight properly. Cheers for this mate 👌🏽
What a fascinating video. Can't wait to try some of these tips. I wish you were in Sussex! Don't think I'll ever visit a pro for lessons...Thank you.
I'm Sussex based and went to see Marcus last year! Well worth the journey 👌🏽
I love these little chats that bring me back to reality.
Thanks Marcus, great video. At 14:45 when you talk and demonstrate some force across the shaft, you are doing it easily with one hand half way down the shaft and you say the body reacts to that. You're "pushing" the golf club. Could you tell us a bit more about HOW to do that when we have taken our 2 handed grip on the handle? Are you talking about more trail hand action "pushing" across the shaft in the downswing? I'm a bit confused because it seems like you're saying push on the shaft with your train hand to apply force across the shaft but then at 16:27 you say the forces are coming from the ground up. I'm just trying to fully understand as I think what you are telling us now is really great and I don't want to go out and try to apply it incorrectly. Thanks so much.
It's a drill to sense where and when the release of the clubhead is and how the body reacts to this release. It's not about trying to create those forces with the arms. Use the body action to generate these forces 👍
What can i say, Again a massive insight, so obvious when you think about it! Makes so much sense , i have not had a lesson yet with Zen golf, but i have implemented so much of what was said in lockdown and my swing feels so different but so comfortable and effortless
Cannot wait for all this mess to be over so i can get up there and complete my swing with Zen golf another fantastic insight to the swing mythology ( if that’s the right word) zen the myth buster stay safe everyone see you soon
Thanks my man 👊
that'll be £200 please. great stuff Marcus. I'm finding it hard to watch other tip .videos after watching yours. paralysis by analysis
Great vid Marcus. Can't wait until the end of March when Ican Zen my driver on the first tee! I've received all these advice tips in lessons. I still have one pre-paid with a local pro. He was going on about grip and first parallel. Mind you, I was hitting it awfully at the time.
Eight it is. Phenomenal progress in a session unleashing the natural built in swing. 👍
I have been hearing the 5 mantras for the 20 years I have been playing golf. Have I really improved ? Have I turned up on the course with 100's of swing thoughts to apply to my game ? I have tried the transfer of weight with a make shift board and followed your previous natural movements and boy has it made a difference to my swing in the net. Can't wait to get on the course and try it. If I lived in the north I would certainly visit for a lesson
Great video. Makes so much sense. I live in Sheffield so I must come for a lesson when I’m allowed!! Good stuff.
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I was always told I was lifting and dropping my head. I got obsessed with it. Then I had a zen lesson with you. I realise I'd forgotten about it until you brought it up again here!!
Sorry 😂
You are brilliant! You are changing my mind and game in ways I’ve never thought possible!!!! Thank you so much!
Thank you x
I wish I could come see you for a lesson, definitely the best teacher on you tube
Thanks Dominic 👍
Brilliant and can't wait for lockdown to do one. So keen to get down to see you guys !!!
Just watched the video. In particular was interested in what you said about creating tension. When putting I have my left hand below right and always feel like my left hand it fighting to control the stroke. After watching the video I tried practicing my putting with my right hand only. Felt much uch better and I consistently had a better roll on the ball and holed out more often than before. Could be the way to go. Just need to get out on the course to see if it works for real.
We often get in the way of natural movement by trying to conform to some kind of model thinking it will help when in actual fact it just adds more noise. Pleased it's helping 👍
I'm hopping across the pond to see the Zenmaster after lockdown ends. Great concepts Sensei!
Look forward to it 👊
Wonderful exposition - thanks and subscribed
This is a great video. Marcus, you’re a smart guy
Head still & straight left arm. I know there is more teaching involved in a one on one lesson with you, but I can't help feeling like I'm stealing from you. Thank you.
Thanks, even if someone tried to copy (and they are) there's much more content, rationale, depth and understanding required to configure it to create a functional learning environment. If guys try copying this they maybe worse than if they just stuck to their normal script. Thanks for your support 👍
Thanks Marcus. You've the talent to make things simple.
Thank you, happy it helps
Best ever from anyone. Thanks
Marcus have you got a link to buy your grf board
Just wow! Every position we try is just a mental constraint. Just swing the club like it feels good, what a novel teacher! Got any zen happening in Ontario, Canada?
Exactly, self imposed constraints based on perception influenced by many things. Most often a coach! Sorry only me and my assistant teaching this.
Can relate to every point. Left arm thing especially.
pure class great video Marcus keep them coming
I think you missed level shoulders on the backswing, which is being taught and completely stymies leg, hip and feet rotation and moves the head all over the place...love your channel and keep up the good work!
Heard them all Marcus !!! Keeping the left arm straight and head down was the first pieces of advice I was given 😂
Absolute belters aren't they?! Ruined many a golfer 🙈😂
I was told that I had lazy hands. Had to accelerate the speed of my hands/upper body. Result, my upper body took over my swing, a complete disaster for years, until I saw your videos. Now am concentrating on my ankles, the rest is following and getting great results. With the lockdown, I only have Optigolf to practice with, but seeing a difference is speed, mostly with driver, fairway woods and hybrid. Lot’s of work to be done with irons, hands still too quick.
Lazy hands 🙈 who thinks this shit up 😂
Marcus what a great video 👍🏻you make it look so easy can you send me a link for a board cheers Pete
Cheers Pete. Will do 👍
Great video. I need to have lessons with ZEN golf.
Aim for the hazard ! Hold up , that might ok with your swing thoughts theory . Or maybe not , ask Dave if he's still giving lessons please ? Reactionary Golf , only way to learn . Another genius teacher . Cheers
I kind of think if you have a stiff lower body but not stiff hips then you can shorten your backswing substantially. The twisty pads would work just fine with a tighter swing.
What do you suggest for someone that moves their head/body too much laterally towards the target by pushing off trail foot too much too early? You have to flip hands just to make contact. Yet, you say let the body move naturally. Head, feet, ankles, knees, legs, hips etc. For this person they have to try and rotate while leaving room for arms to come through by moving lead leg around and backwards rather than pivot around lead leg with trail side early extending out and around...thereby taking the room of the club. How to swing naturally without sliding and early extending trail side??
It's all individual specific so what one person needs another may do the opposite. If you do the right exercises and have the right midset you will allow your body to self optimise and your movement will improve in respect to your intention. You're thinking golf swing atm, stand on an ice rink, you will stabilise quickly. How did you do it? No technical thought, it was a reaction to the environment and task constraints. I'd suggest shifting your attention onto task constraint exercises and observe how your body responds with a movement solution. There's plenty of exercises in my back library of lesson videos for you to explore and take a more self discovery approach instead of thinking about fixing movements born out of a golf conditioned coaching approach. Challenge the body in the right way and we'll learn a lot about ourselves and how our body wants to do it instead of doubting what we're doing, second guessing, and trying to manipulate our movement 👍
@@GRFGolf Thanks for concise reply. I do get your philosophy and like how you teach. It is a totally different mindset to the norm. However as one who has had plenty of coaching and does a bit of studying of the golf swing, it is really difficult not to notice certain idiosyncrasies in the swing and try to self correct. What do you mean by task constraint? I have looked at many of your videos and would gladly take a lesson if you ever came to Australia haha. H/cap is 5 and should be lower on the basis of all the shots still left on the course after most rounds. I think key is letting it all go and just let body do what it knows how to. Thereby removing all the brain-noise!! Cheers.
What about ball placement affecting my shot? I watch all your videos and my game has improved greatly but never heard you talk about ball placement to feet
Self organising around experience. Practice different ball positions and explore 👍
@@GRFGolf I just came back from driving range and put all your advice into action. I had the best day I have ever had at the range and could hit within 15-30 feet of target 95% of the time. Can’t wait to take it to the course. You brought my game from 27 handicap to 16.2 this year but my best game has been 7 over par and I know that is all your style of teaching. Many thanks!
You’ve certainly turned golf training into a more common sense approach. I makes things totally understandable and logical. Great video again.
Thanks Mick, language is powerful, it's context is interpreted differently by each one of us. Golf is full of jargon with pre loaded connotations and we are all influences massively by this. At the end of the day movement doesn't need language, just intention 👍
PURE GOLD!
It's all great advice, but I feel like I'm 5 - 0 down at half time and your giving the team talk. LOL. Love your vids.
Bit of motivation out the Neil Warnock book of man management 😂
@@GRFGolf As always, not only great advice but the right advice with "Why", most tutorials I watch, tell what your doing wrong and how to correct it, but you tell us How and Why.
For me the “overswing” is wasted arm movement- or too much arm and not enough shoulder turn. In my youth, I played against Azinger. He was one with an excessively long backswing. The golf coach at his junior college got him to shorten his backswing - and he became damn good as a result. But he didn’t shorten or restrict his shoulder turn, just the excessive arm swing. But you are right: free up your body to find “your swing”.
Another great video, im always told i swing it too flat, but any other way just feels so unnatural!!
Matt Kuchar's swing is as flat as a pancake, and he's won over US$51,000,000 on tour.
Great explanation 👌
I‘m am a Lefthander, playing Righthanded... Is it enough just to use the left Arm??? Greetings from Germany!!!
Use whatever you want 😂
@@GRFGolf ok, thx Mate!
Great presentation!
Only really had the one about keeping your head still from playing colleagues. I have been told in lessons (some years ago) that I moved my head too much vertically - i.e. lifting on the backswing and dipping on the downswing. Strangely, I see some teaches promoting that kind of pattern these days.
Often see vertical movement, no problem with it
Sorry couldn't resist this or get the GhostBusters theme out of my head😜
If you're in a jam
and you just can't Swing,
Who ya gonna call?
Myth Busters!!!
If you're Zens all gone
and ya can't find it nowhere
Who ya gonna call?
Myth Busters
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@@GRFGolf Sorry I just couldn't resist that one. It looks like Boris is letting us out of jail on the 29th March, does that mean that my lesson on the 30th will go ahead? 🤞😊
Marcus can I purchase zen board etc m8 top content sir love watching this channel
New pre order release soon 👍
I hit my irons terrible today my woods were great short game great irons were off today not sure why another of fat shots
Really great information. 💡 thanks
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Marcus……you’ve just replaced the ultra-confusing “greatest coach in the world” !! The relax portion of this video resonated with me. Appreciate all your content.
Brilliant Marcus watching and learning from you for a while now. I reckon i swing so well mates will ask me for advice . i now have five pieces of advice to give them which will totally mess them up. They still have not heard about you thank God.(and i wont be telling them until the bank account is fairly full. Then i will direct them to you) Hope this is not considered cheating.. Thanks again wonderful stuff. Pick up something from every video you do. Brilliant.
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#4 was the one I worked at for a long time Marcus .
I think most people have focused on that at some point only to create more problems
Superb video! 🙏🏽 you!
An idea for a great video would be to show how "zen-swing" prevents injuries. Example with keeping the head still which gives you a bad spine angle tilt.
I started watching the videos and using ground forces to power my swing starting about 2 months ago. I am 74 years old and walk the course 3 times each week in Thailand. Before I did, but now, I have no old age aches and pains after playing. Instead I feel exercise refreshed after each round, the same way I do after recreational swimming.
Brill. Marcus pure gold 👌
Not only have I received all of these pieces of advice over the years but I may or may not given some of them to others 😬 lol
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Jesus christ this lockdown. I'd have been over from Ireland for a lesson a long time ago if I could. I'll be over as soon as I can. I really feel like it would sort me out because im all over the shop haha!
When is your zen infinity board for sale?
New pre order coming soon
A lot of similarities Gravity Golf 👍
I do all five? Can’t understand why I’m not improving....
Booked in for April so hopefully see you then Marcus.
If you started a cult I would be member 001 😁
The only way I can explain it is All other coaches I have seen on you tube teach us how to pump water from a well. You teach us how turn on the tap 🤯🤯🤯🤯
I started watching your stuff the other week and since then I've not shut up About it to any golfer who will listen and more importantly I've not had 1 single swing thought in the last week and a half of golfing, an I've played 9 rounds ⛳🏌️♀️
Im about 3% there with the feet but changing my focus to 90% my target and ball flight thoughts and reverse engineering the hole rather than 90% looking down on the ball thinking all the crap in the worlds checklist of swings has freed up my brain and body and taken away all swing thoughts and I'm hitting the ball much better 😊😊
I can't wait till my feet start to take over and all the power, consistency, control of ball flight, distance and confidence will come as part of the package 😁😁😁😁😁
Keep up the good work fella, i guarantee that withing the next year after seeing how you coach alot of other coaches will be changing the way they look at the way they teach.
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👍 Nice words, means a lot and thank you
Can't wait for my lesson in July he will have his work cut out fixing me 😂😂
Each shot is different due to natural conditions . So adapt . Humans are masters at it . So is Marcus .
33 seasons of keeping my feet planted on the ground and focusing on the ball (aka: keeping my head still) thru impact have all led to one thing....a short, chicken wing golf swing that results in very little yardage. I’m starting to see why my 7 iron only goes 135 yards on a good day! 😩
Enlightenment, the future is bright now mate
Over the years ive rejected these 5 worst tips by eventually trusting my athletic/sporting ability over obviously stupid tips.But you have to be aware of your athletic strengths/weaknesses Although im old and 240lbs i have very mobile joints so i have to work on stability and igniting loading the muscles around the joints, but in an athletic way,probably for injury prevention as much as performance.But in the past due to my flexibility it was "connection" (stuffing things under armpits! etc)that ruined me! I now know it is an illusion caused by good sequencing.
Thanks so much Marcus for freeing up all of our swings. I'm 71, have played for 58 years and taught for 40 years including tour pros. I personally have been locked up with tension for 30 years due to modern instruction trying to hit positions and the biggest killer of them all, the X Factor (lower body resistance). Everyone needs to look at videos of Jones, Snead, Nelson, Hogan and Trevino. All played from the ground up, just as you emphasize. Thanks, cheers from Florida.
Thanks man ❤️
@@GRFGolf I left out Nicklaus. Old people forget.😊
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I just went to a lesson and was told everyone of these things.
I played a round it was worst one of my life. Couldnt hit anything.
Thanks Marcus for telling how it is
I'd ask for my money back if I started hearing any of that stuff 😂
“What’s that thing you do at the top of your backswing.” ;)
Brilliant!
MONEY!!! These top 5 messed up my distance with longer irons to driver. the restriction of the body cause aches and soreness to my back and lateral hip area. The timing of the transition was an issue with my short wing too. I just feel more restricted keeping the body turning on an axis.
Thumbs Up if your teacher is asking you to do EXACTLY these 5 things for years. Thumbs Up if you feel sad and frustrated because he is the ONLY teacher you have access to. Thumbs up if you would like to fly to Marcus every lesson you have and cry on his shoulder.
Lol, I've got a big shoulder to cry on 🤣
Man ... together with WOTP (Golf Sidekick) ... love your approach. With your point on the moving the feet ... I've got something really strange that I naturally do but almost everyone seems to have comments about. Just before my start of the backswing I do a little back-step with my back foot. Sort of kicking of the backswing ... in my last golf vlog you see this consistently ruclips.net/video/DI0cOUNMpfM/видео.html ... any tips? Or just let it be as long as I do not get an undesired sway with the head? Context ... I started at 50y and am now close to 2 years playing. Stay metal, Eric. 🤘🏻😎🤘🏻
I love sidekick
@@GRFGolf absolutely WOTP works. Your vids go way mor in the body so these two combined might be the winning combo. 🤘🏻😎🤘🏻
Nothing wrong with that move btw 👍
@@GRFGolf Thx. 👍🏻 🤘🏻😎🤘🏻
My biggest issue is for whatever reason I cannot get a sense of using the ground with my feet. I feel rather "disconnected" from the ground when I make a golf swing resulting in too much upper body and almost NO lower body.
I've got plenty of lesson videos in the library on here showing how people achieve this 👍
@@GRFGolf I have watched a TON of the videos and they all make sense. I know its something in my back swing where I just can't feel the pressure in my feet allowing me to push off with my right foot...when I get to the top of my back swing I feel as if I have "lost connection" with the ground and there is nothing to push off of...not sure if that makes any sense. Wish I could get out to you for a few lessons...but I am in the Great Northwest (Washington state) across the pond from you. Thanks for the videos!
Marcus, that was brilliant👍 ! I've been told pretty much all of those - I'm just going to tell them to shut up in future - and I must get a pair of those balance discs.
Word.
Brilliant
My mate Paddy knocked down his drive on the first in St Andrews. When we got to his ball he asked the caddy "what did i do there" the caddy replied . " not sure Sir was that i a good drive or a bad drive",
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Thanks Marcus if Carlsberg did coaching this probably the best coach in the world?
Could murder a pint 😂😂
I've only had one lesson, the pro got me to keep my left arm straight 🤦♂️🤣
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PS maybe Monty is the only good example of a head still merchant i can think of but he has a lot of lower body movement like you describe
No 1 & 5 were the common ones for me 😂
Number 3... My mate gets a really lose elbow when he's made a series of poor shots it can normally be improved by making aware that his arm is more floppy that a 95 year old's ............
So, are you not against a bit of head movement in both directions? Obviously there's a huge amount of golf content online and a lot of this content can in some ways seem a bit contradictory to one another. There's a lot of videos that condemn head movement, especially backward head movement. Cheers
Not against it at all 👍
Think I’ve been told to do (or not to do) all of those things over the years lol
You and the rest of us I think 🤣