There isn't a better golf instructor anywhere than Mike Malaska.

Mr. Malaska, your advice is so down to earth. I was so tired of this piece by piece, frame by frame approach. Too much to think about. You teach BIG pictures that have helped me greatly. Thank you!

Have had 100s of lessons and Mikes videos make more sense than all my lessons added together👍👍👍👍👍

Ideally the body and club work like a Trebuchet with the backswing and downswing pulling the primary lever tight across the chest so it is able to fly off explosively in the downswing as hips reach 45° open “hitting the wall” just as lagging shoulders and arm come back parallel with shaft horizontal and club head mass able able to whip around the hand into the back of the ball similar to how the projectile in a Trebuchet whips around the lever arm in a sling. The mass of the lead arm flying of the chest drags the club head mass through the ball similar to how a catapult pulls a jet off the deck of a carrier. What pulls the hands and club straight down the target line instead of just whipping it around the body is the how a golf side bends and orients the lead arm more vertically before it flies off and accelerates faster and with a different force vector that when connected. The reason pros and other good ball strikers hit the ball with more force are they do those two things: release the lead arm mass and side bend to guide it down the target line. If a recreational golfer learns to do those things they will hit the ball with more club head speed and striking force but most take the advice to “maintain spine angle” and “stay connected” too literally because that cause and effect is not explained to them.

Every video of Mike is like a little gold nugget of wisdom I find!

@maralvor

3 жыл бұрын

Big nuggets!

@JL8n

3 жыл бұрын

💯

Mr Malaska...King of kings, love all your golf education on KZread.

There's no doubt that the 27 dislikes are from instructors who know that if everybody took the same approach to the game that Mike does, they'd all be out of business.

I need a video of you just swinging. Talking a little bit but just repping swings. I learn so much listening to you. However, I learn even MORE by watching you do it. Makes it easier for me to replicate.

@jacobr4558

3 жыл бұрын

Actually that's not true of golf. The swing is 100% INVISIBLE! All you see when you watch are "effects" and not "causes".

Excellent video Mike. Wisdom and experience and alot of education.

Mike, I am 72 yo learning golf on KZread. You are one of my gurus. As a kid all I played was baseball. Then some tennis, lacrosse... If I hit that soft drive like you did out to 235 yards, I would keel over dead, a happy man. Thanks for all you do.

Best instructor

Best teacher by far! Can't believe it took me so long to find him. Only in golf is instruction so technical for a motion that takes less than a second.

That is without doubt the best and most informative golf video I have ever seen, and I’m 67 too. Thanks Mike I will make every effort to follow your excellent advice.

Finally golf instruction that is actually helping me. I was starting to think I would never get back to the consistent scoring I had way back in my 20s. I can see retirement and good golf in my future. Thanks Mike

Funny, now sudfenly the malaska move is not There! In fact, the club head falls behind his hands in the downswing, exactly what he told us not to do in other videos! Kind of confusing?

always very insightful videos, thank you!

Incredible really ,I've been playing seriously for two years and to see Mike teach how to swing is sooo refreshing to the mind!!!! Ty Mike there hope out there for the average golfer to get better !!! Ty again

Short takeaways….Rahm and Finau….amazes me from what I think I’ve learned 😂

Mike! If it weren't for you, I would not have gotten to the highest level! One day I must thank you in person.

Quality instruction!

This video is right on!

best instructor on the internet--by far

Another way of getting the appearance that the left side is pushing back is to drive the right side onto the target. That drive requires the left side to get out of the way, and results in the butt of the club pointing at the target. Thus the clubhead is accelerated and speed results. So, drive the right side and don't focus on the left side moving back and away.

Enjoyed the video thanks

Thank you for all the effort, you put into explaining all the details on your videos. I've only come across them on KZread during this lockdown, so can't wait to try them out in practice. I'd appreciate if you could do a Video, by going through the range of clubs in your bag i.e Driver to PW and explain how the inside/over the top move changes for the different shaft/swing lengths ? I can't say that I have mastered the move yet, also a little concerned whether in cold UK winter temperatures, I will still be able to execute it. Looking forward to it!

This man is even beyond legend status.

Mike, as always thank you for amazing content. You mentioned “your hips work correctly”. For a while I have been working on literally turning my hips. The move you taught me is working amazing, but now when my hips work the “old way” I get a big pull left. What are the drills that can help me get my hips to work correctly? Thank you!

I am sitting here shaking my head at the fact that drive went 230 in the air. I am a fit 50 year old man with a slender but muscular build and I can barely drive the ball 200 yards total! Surely I can repeat what he just did on that swing and if and when I am able to do that I would be thrilled to get to that level! lol. I can't wait to get out to the range and work on these things!!!

God I think I finally get it, after watching these videos about momentum...my ball striking is so much better...the best way to understand it was to think of it like I'm swinging a sledge hammer or a super heavy club...start it back and the club just takes over...I get in trouble when I try to manipulate things

I thank you very much ! 🤠💞💞💞😎

Carry at 235 sounds great for me :) another video by Mike, you are the best!

@petezrinski5238

3 жыл бұрын

Much respect for Mike but there in NO WAY that swing produced a 235 carry. NO WAY!

Mike, excellent video. I have been taught that tempo and rhythm are the keys to distance. The challenge is that it starts with grip pressure at set up and realizing that the pressure changes during the swing that effects the fluidity. Hitting the ball flush on the face at impact consistently is where I have the most trouble. Any suggestions?

Mike where do you teach out of and how much a lesson?

If you were to watch a video by a Brit named Danny Maude called “Effortless Swing - The Catapult Method,” Maude explains that if you get the club catapulting early it will cause your body to move backward and out of the way as the club goes through. If you buy into this, then what Mike Malaska discusses here, pushing backward with left leg to get out of the way it an EFFECT and not a CAUSE. I know that’s ironic because Mike is big on instructors confusing cause and effect. What is doubly ironic is that Mike himself, using different language, actually does teach directing the clubhead’s momentum “behind” you to generate angular momentum and have the club “whoosh” by you. My view means nothing to you but if you follow Maude’s method, which is the same thing a guy named Steve Pratt teaches in his videos under the label of an “outthrow”-meaning you seemingly release the club backward and early to get it moving in an arc with great angular momentum-you will feel extraordinary speed, and your body will naturally react to that by hitting the “right” positions as the club goes by as if swinging on its own. (Confused yet?). Watch Maude as he drops this into his explanation: “throwing it out away from me” (toward 8 or 9 o’clock with 12 as his head, 6 the ground and 3 toward the target) as if I’m throwing it behind me,” and watch Pratt do the same thing (“out-throwing” toward 8 or 9 o’clock) in two or three videos. Then if you’re not brain dead, you can watch the granddaddy of them all, Mike Austin, Pratt’s mentor, explain it in a grainy video (search Mike Austin) along with his prize pupil (another guy named Mike who can kill it) as throwing from the top, as if casting, to get the club catapulting. If you buy that golf instruction is confusing because feel ain’t real and instructors do confuse cause and effect, then the real source of the swing that causes the other stuff to be done right and your body to hit the right positions in response is this: getting the club spinning or catapulting early. That’s where speed is. One more way to say it: in good players, the body stays behind the ball at impact-you know the image. I’m suggesting to you that watching those players move that way-even backward-is an effect, not a cause, an effect of naturally offsetting the angular momentum of the club. (Whew!)

@m3toz4

3 жыл бұрын

does your physic knowledge help you score lower?

Tremendous Mike. Roll on end of lockdown!

Great video Mike as always. One question at 2:02 you say the right hip does NOT go back. Are you saying the right hip does not move as the left leg pushes back? Just a tad confused.

Merci!

@MalaskaGolf

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the contribution! Glad you found this video helpful!

Remember the MOUSE back in the day? Can you comment on him? Thanks for all your doing.

Mike. I live 3-5 miles from Robbinsville. Glad to hear you’ve got a student near me. Chris if your interested in teaming up with one of Mike’s website students, let me know through this thread. Harry from North Hanover.

Mike, Can you please tell me the secret about hitting the ground after the ball. Is it created by the turn or by the weight transfer. I have struggled with this for years and would like to be hitting the ball more crisply before hanging up my clubs. One of your more senior fans from Bonny Scotland a golfer for over 40 years. Many thanks.

Very helpful, I finally got that aha moment

Your videos have helped me so much! I first found you over on Erics channel where I FINALLY understood how to "turn my hips" the correct way. I have binge watched a ton of your videos! I understand technique matters more but I DO find being strong helps. I can pretty much keep up with the guys distances. I am a new golfer and I hit my driver 240 and 7 iron 150 but I don't fully understand the sequence of the golf swing. Can you PLEASE make a video on the backswing- how to take the club back correctly, how to know if you're in the right position, how much does the size of the backswing matter. Thank you for all your instruction! I have been practicing the L to L drill every day since I found your videos!

@davidhester9716

Жыл бұрын

Find Mike’s videos where he talks about pivot points. I think these videos could help you find the correct position for your backswing, specifically the first pivot point. Good luck!

Have you explored the issue of tempo. I would like to see you talk with John Novosel Jr. with Tour Tempo and incorporate his tempo training into your principles.

Hi Mike, My golfing career is similar to what you went through and for me the changes you adopted are golden. At 70 years old, the throwing motion and releasing from the top are working awesome after just two weeks. I tied my lowest round ( 1 over 72 ) 3 days ago. that score was from my 30's. I was wondering if you saw the u-tube video from Eric Cogorno with Steve Pratt entitled - The throw out method on 4/24/2020- which seems like an accelerated tipping motion that you advocate. Could you please comment on that action ? It seems to work well but I am very new at it and I wonder if I'm being too greedy to get more speed. I hope to shoot my age this year---BIG THANKS TO YOU !!!

how you sequence. Please elaborate thanks

If I'm able take an easy poke like the one you took 6 1/2 years from now (at your age) and carry the ball 230, consistently, and keep it in the fairway, I'd be a happy golfer! I will start working on things to develop better fast-twitch muscles, but more importantly, working on better timing, and tempo. Thx for posting!

I can’t seem to get the shaft in line or under my right forearm, from down the line angle. Really have been trying this, bringing the hands down and tilting the club out technique, and I love it already. But in slow mo video my shaft is still well above my trail forearm. Any tips ? Also that right forearm underneath the left look really isn’t there either. Thanks!

@sween221

4 жыл бұрын

Wondering how much right side bend is even in your head, if that could be part of my issue. Thanks

I'd love to carry it 235. He asks, "How far do you have to hit it?" If you carry 235 and get a 20 yard roll, you have 255. You can shoot under par with 255 yard average length drives - easily.

Not saying you are wrong about relative importance of the factors but if strength was not a significant factor wouldn’t the girls be able to hit it just as far?

Thought Mike was wearing chuck Taylors

Your iron swing hits the checkpoints with the tees adjacent to your toes (different video). Why does it seem like this approach is abandoned in your driver video?

Personally I have no interest in developing a “shorter” swing because Father Time will do that for me naturally 🙃 I figure keep my flexibility up, keep the swing long because as I get older I know it’ll shorten.

i hit my best drives after watching your L to L off one foot. even resorted to it on course

🤠💞💞💞😎 ! Come from Viet Nam !

I guess the $64,000 question then is how do you get the sequence right?

@mija1701

4 жыл бұрын

Yes and please explain, step by step, the proper sequence ...

Do you look at the ball on your entire swing through impact ?

Really getting tired of golf instructors throwing fancy physics - centripetal force, acceleration... - and making asses of themselves. I like this channel for golf, physics not at all. His golf teachings are spot on.

What about these long drive champions that hit it over 450, spend all their time in the gym, brute strength go into shot after shot.

how do you see bryson dechambeau who eliminates levers? he seems to be adding 30-60 yards to his drives. can you do a video on that?

DJ, Lehman, Malaska, Ditka, and Chick Norris, in a cage match. Who wins?!?

235 yards with this speed and effort, my god at this speed i can't hit more than 235 centimeters..

If strength and muscles don’t help drive it further what about Bryson DeChambeau?

I do not see any Joe Nichols effect in this backswing,momentum or forward swing. Confusing it is!

That can't have gone 235yds in the air. Not saying it didn't, just can't believe it

I solved the swing. I created my own swing theory from nothing. I then unified my own theory. I'm afraid to say anything because people will just steal it then change the words. I account for things people don't even think about or think its settled science.

He's just flicking at the ball and carrying it 235. If I absolute smash a driver with all my effort and catch the clubface perfectly it carries 230. :(

I agree with lots of what you say and your philosophy of swinging the golf club but please stop mixing up and misappropriating physical properties. Are you thinking of the weight of the club and arms when you talk about momentum? If you are talking about club head speed it equates to momentum. Momentum = Mass x Velocity, I don’t see the Mass changing. It is the result of all you have put into it in the way of forces. Likewise Force equates to Acceleration. Please don’t talk about centrifugal/centripetal force as if it contributes to club head speed. It is the result of your bits travelling in an arc around your body. It act perpendicular to the arc not along it. Thank you for the videos though, I do always watch them and I can they are the result of many years and much rumination. You’re much better than most of the others.

@richardbolen1929

4 жыл бұрын

Move the body in the proper way and do it fast. I will take a golf lesson from Mike Malaska over a Physics lesson from you any day.