Post by imperfectgolfer on Dec 26, 2023 23:52:29 GMT -5
Watch this BBG video featuring Marcus Bell.
The title of this BBG video implies that it deals with the topic of clubshaft shallowing, but it ends up with MB also talking about how to square the clubface.
I think that MB may be one of the worst golf instructors I have seen in a BBG video - and it is not easy to be worse than Tony Luczak or Mike Malaska.
MB talks endlessly in a rambling manner where he switches from one "idea" to another "idea" without providing a rationally coherent explanation as to how these different "ideas" are connected, and he never provides a rational biomechanical explanation on how a golfer should actually execute a clubshaft shallowing action or a clubface squaring action.
Some of his claims are downright crazy!
The title of this BBG video implies that it deals with the topic of clubshaft shallowing, but it ends up with MB also talking about how to square the clubface.
I think that MB may be one of the worst golf instructors I have seen in a BBG video - and it is not easy to be worse than Tony Luczak or Mike Malaska.
MB talks endlessly in a rambling manner where he switches from one "idea" to another "idea" without providing a rationally coherent explanation as to how these different "ideas" are connected, and he never provides a rational biomechanical explanation on how a golfer should actually execute a clubshaft shallowing action or a clubface squaring action.
Some of his claims are downright crazy!
For example, starting at the 19:07 minute time point of the video, MB talks about how the golfer has to rotate the clubface. Note that he holds the club handle in his trail hand at the 19:20 minute time point and does a strange motion involving his trail wrist to rotate the clubshaft about its longitudinal axis.Then he irrationally implies that this trail arm's rotary clubface-closing action must occur throughout the downswing - even including the early-mid downswing!!!
At the 20:10 minute time point of the video, he demonstrates a drill that he calls a "toe deep divot drill" where he shows a motion where he hits the toe of the clubface into the ground and bounces it up while folding the arms. He does not explain what is happening biomechanically during his drill and what biomechanical action is actually causing a clubface-closing action, and he does not explain how it relates to the clubface-closing phenomenon that must happen in a "real life" golf swing action. MB then states between the 21:23 - 21:43 minute time point of the video that the drill is giving him a "feeling" of how to square the clubface while it is still lagging behind the body!!!
Between the 22:45 - 23:00 minute time point of the video, MB states that if the drill action is slowed down that it would show that the trail wrist is in flexion and that the trail elbow is in flexion at impact - as supposedly happens in the "top players" at impact!!!!!!!!! That MB-assertion is well beyond the limits of being crazy - especially when you note that MB's trail wrist is markedly extended when he hits the ground during the drill!!!!!
Between the 23:00 - 23:23 minute of the video, MB states that the body does not understand language and it only understands sensory input ("feelings") and MB actually seems to believe that tapping the toe of the clubface with a golf ball is providing some form of sensory input to the body!!!!
Then, MB immediately makes another crazy claim starting at the 23:32 minute of the BB video where he states that the forces that are being creating by the pivot motion of the body are going to counterbalance the rotary torque happening at the level of the club!!! What does that assertion mean?
Things get even worse between the 24:00 - 24:20 minute time point of the BBG video when MB states that the body's rotary motion, which may include springing up off the ground, actually squares/stablises the clubface by "some unspecified counterbalancing mechanism" with respect to the rotary torque happening to the clubshaft!!!! MB then states at the 25:00 - 25:18 minute that one has to "wake up the body so that it can be responsive to what is happening at the end of the chain"!!!! What does that mean?
I cannot personally relate to MB's idiosyncratic golf instructional approach. Can you? If you can, please explain what you find of value.
Jeff.