Post by imperfectgolfer on Oct 3, 2023 12:57:09 GMT -5
Here is Brendon's latest BBG video where Milo Lines is teaching Brendon how to better perform his driver swing golf swing action.
I harbor many negative opinions regarding Milo's golf instructional approach and this video specifically epitomizes what I really dislike about the way Milo teaches a student-golfer on how to biomechanically perform a driver golf swing action.
Milo, like many golf instructors, often teaches a student-golfer to swing in a similar manner to the golf instructor's particular/personal golf swing methodology. For example, Milo favors a very strong lead hand grip and he will often try to change a student-golfer's lead hand grip from being weak-or-neutral to becoming very strong - even though that student-golfer has no swing faults related to his personal choice of a weak-or-neutral lead hand grip.
I harbor many negative opinions regarding Milo's golf instructional approach and this video specifically epitomizes what I really dislike about the way Milo teaches a student-golfer on how to biomechanically perform a driver golf swing action.
Milo, like many golf instructors, often teaches a student-golfer to swing in a similar manner to the golf instructor's particular/personal golf swing methodology. For example, Milo favors a very strong lead hand grip and he will often try to change a student-golfer's lead hand grip from being weak-or-neutral to becoming very strong - even though that student-golfer has no swing faults related to his personal choice of a weak-or-neutral lead hand grip.
Other swing elements that Milo strongly favors is an exaggerated squat move during the early downswing that involves a greater degree of hip joint and knee joint flexion and a very rotary pelvic/upper torso motion between P4 => P7.5+. Milo also favors the use of a CP-arm release action, which is a major focus of Milo's golf instructional teaching in this specific BBG video.
I agree with Milo that if you look back a few years and examine Brendon's "old" golf swing action that Brendon had a strong tendency to shift his pelvis too much targetwards during his early downswing, which was combined with a tendency to early extend ("goat-hump"), and that combination caused his arms to be trapped behind his trail hip area at P6. Then, Brendon would fling his arms across his stalled body pivot motion between P6 => P7 which resulted in uncontrolled arm/wrist motions through impact. However, over the past few years, Brendon has made large improvements in his pivot motion during the P4 => P6 time period.
In fact, Brendon is now capable of performing a superb golf swing action - as seen in the following video where he trained with a GEM device.
Brendon's driver golf swing actions in that video were superb. Note that he used a pivot-induced TGM swinging action and he used the intact LFFW technique with an on-plane golf swing motion. He had no problems with his takeaway action and he used a very efficient DH-hand release action through impact - as seen in this capture image from the 10:09 - 10:18 minute time point of that BBG swing video.
Note that he is efficiently performing a DH-hand release action that is combined with a CF-arm release action.
I think that type/pattern of golf swing action represents the optimum way for Brendon to perform a driver golf swing action if he does not have the flexibility to perform a CP-arm release action.
In this current BBG video, Milo is trying to get Brendon to perform a CP-arm release action through impact to ~P8. Milo talks about "cutting through the mid-section of his body" in the early-followthrough when he stands on the targetwards side of Brendon - see the 9:59 - 10:15 minute time point of the BBG video.
Then, after receiving that particular golf instructional advice, Brendon performs a slower "air swing" at the 10:22 minute time point of the video.
Here is a capture image at his impact position.
That's a great impact position!
Note that his pelvis is well open at impact. Note that he has maintained his spinal bend inclination angle and that he has an open upper torso alignment at impact. Note that he has maintained a bent trail arm and bent-back trail wrist into impact. Note that his hands are very close to his body and that they are being directed inside-left immediately post-impact.
If Brendon could routinely perform his driver golf swing action like that, then he could routinely perform an efficient CP-arm release action like Viktor Hovland - as seen in the following capture image.
Note that VH is using a CP-arm release action combined with a DH-hand release action and that causes his clubhead path to move inside-left very soon after impact and it also allows his clubface to remain square to the clubhead path between P7 => P7.4+.
To make that pattern of early followthrough action biomechanically possible a golfer must have the flexibility to continue to actively rotate the pelvis counterclockwise during the early followthrough and he must also have the spinal flexibility to get enough right lateral bend in order to get his shoulders to rotate more steeply (more like a ferris-wheel) through impact to P7.4+. The golfer must also be able to get the trail shoulder well downplane through impact so that he can maintain a slightly bent trail arm and a still-slightly extended trail wrist to P7.4 (image 2).
Brendon is physically capable of performing all those necessary biomechanical actions when he swings his driver slowly, but I do not believe that he can do it when swinging his driver fast enough to drive the ball >300 yards (as seen in that GEM device video).
Here are capture images from two driver swings (recorded between the ~10 - 13 minute time points from his latest BBG video) - after he received Milo's golf instructional advice.
Note that he is manifesting his usual driver golf swing pattern where he manifests a CF-arm release action, and not a CP-arm release action.
Note that his pelvis is borderline open at impact and that his upper torso is barely open at impact. Note that his trail shoulder is well back at P7.4 and he is not moving his trail shoulder far enough downplane under his chin between P6 => P7.4+. Note that he is therefore "running-out-of-trail arm" and that his trail arm and trail wrist have fully straightened at P7.4.
If Brendon does not have the flexibility to perform a CP-arm release action like Viktor Hovland, then why is Milo trying to teach him that golf instructional approach?
Here is Joaquin Niemann performing a CP-arm release action + DH-hand release action through impact.
Although both VH and JN have the flexibility to swing a driver through impact using a CP-arm release action + a DH-hand release action, most pro golfers do not have that flexibility and they therefore choose to use a CF-arm release action through impact.
Here is the routine arm/hand release action that Tiger Woods used in his driver golf swing action in the early 2000's when he was still physically in great shape.
Note that TW does not continue to rotate his pelvis actively through impact (like VH).
Note that his trail shoulder is still so far back that he "runs-out-of-trail arm" between P7 => P7.4 causing his trail arm/wrist to fully straighten by P7.4 (image3).
Note that he is using a CF-arm release action.
I think that Brendon should swing like Tiger Woods, and not like VH and JN, if he cannot gain the flexibility and requisite body/arm motional skills to perform a CP-arm release action like VH/JN.
Why is Milo so focused on teaching Brendon how to perform a CP-arm release action when swinging a driver if he has not first demonstrated that Brendon has the requisite flexibility to rountinely use that technique?
Jeff.