Love the way Mike teaches. He puts it into language that the student uses. For me it's skipping stones. I pretend I'm a kid on the beach. I've skipped 10,000 stones and when I picture that in my golf swing I have distance and accuracy all day long.💥

Mike is the best teacher on KZread

@toddheugly

2 ай бұрын

He is great!! I’m one of his instructors based out of Utah. He is a great mentor.

@toddheugly

Ай бұрын

What about me haha?

What I have found adopting Mike’s teachings is that the getting the grip right and the getting wrists to hinge right is 80-85 percent of getting the swing right. When I do that correctly, things that are in the other videos almost happen by themselves. My mistake has been to leap forward to the other build blocks before cementing that super important fundamental. I have a net in the garage and plan to spend a couple months on only grip and wrist hinge (right hand only, left hand only then both). I’m hoping some day to get a lesson from Mike, but feel like it’s so foundational to get that basic thing right that the valuable time working with him would be less productive until I get my hands doing the right thing.

@clstrat837

Ай бұрын

We all struggle with it. You are dead on about the grip and the wrist. I find that getting the grip right forces me to use the wrist correctly or else it is in fact a giant hook so in reality it becomes a check on my wrist technique.

@toddheugly

Ай бұрын

I’m one of Mikes Certified Coaches. You are correct and the next thing to work on is the softness in your arms and wrists. Then the “Malaska Move”.

FINALLY I understand how to get rid of my flip. Hit and run!

Cricket paddle 😂. Great swing by the way. Beautiful sounding shots .

3 weeks ago I started drilling myself on this Malaska swing (mostly focus takeaway for me), adding 7 yards on average to my 7 iron shots, but for me more importantly, the compression is improved dramatically as well as dispersion. Eureka. This really works for someone that's been taking the club inside for 20 years to be soooo much less dependent on wristy timing to get the face square at impact.

Since I visualize this mini baseballstick on the golfpath: 🎉 party-time!! Even out of the bunker is solved with this. Thanks 🙏🏻 Greetings from Conny, The Netherlands

Tremendous lesson! Awesome instruction!

the drill you did with how your legs and hips move cured my shanks!

So my right arm is longer than left. How will this affect the golf swing or alignment’s?? Thx Mike.

I think you are one of the best golf instructors. Period. I have enormous respect for you, but... I have to qualify what you said. The left wrist does go into extension after impact. No question. But, there is rotation, too. Hack motion sensors prove this is what the greats do. Players like Tiger and others have quick amounts of rotation just before impact. If you just use extension of the wrist, you will open the club face. It has to be a little of both.

@ReSourceEnergetics

2 ай бұрын

That is true, the issue is where the rotation is. Rate of close through the hitting area is decreased with this release. Eventually most pros go 90 degrees open to 90 closed, also everything is relative to the swing arc. Alan

I like your view. I have a left drop foot, basically about 10% strength in left fall through left foot. It is permanent from back issue. I have mostly a hands swing but can maybe drive it 175 or so. I try to hinge wrists and get left wrist flat but no speed. I cannot finish strong on left side. Suggestions?

Hey Malaska, I just watched your video and I must say that it was really informative and well-made. I was wondering if I could help you edit your videos and repurpose your long videos into highly engaging shorts? I can also make high CTR thumbnails for your channel

Can we see a close up of the desired grip?

Mike, excellent video thanks. However something has confused me for some time I understand the release you teach here, no forearm rotation. Yet when you teach the L to L drill, which is also great, your forearms clearly cross over. So the two lessons look inconsistent. What am I missing?

@knicksfeva

2 ай бұрын

I had this same struggle but what I have started to understand is relativity. This video is not an individual lesson with you. This is conversation to the masses. Which is why you typically see so much contradiction industry wide. IMO a lot of the good ones are sending similar messages but they have different client bases that have different problems so they are speaking to what they see on a daily basis. Mike typically probably sees people that rotate the arms, wrists and hands way to much to square the club face so his general message is to not have forearm rotation to find middle. However there are plenty of KZread videos that Mike has done that talks about the lead arm being a rotator. If ur someone that doesn’t rotate at all you would need to “feel” that the club rotates a lot to get to middle. If you are someone that rotates alot then you need to feel no rotation to get to middle. Same message just different sides of the coin. I think the key is to find out for certain(or risk spinning your wheels) on what you as an individual do well and don’t do well and get instruction/tips catered to that side of the coin.

@toddheugly

2 ай бұрын

I’m one of Mike’s coaches. Your forearms are going to crossover post impact.

@clstrat837

Ай бұрын

Think of it more as a feeling rather than what is literally happening. To say there is zero rotation of the clubface is preposterous. Just try to imagine the wrist moving like shooting a basketball and don’t worry about the forearms. If the ball still goes right then you’ve got to fix the grip. If the grip is right and you’re hooking then you have to fix the wrist action. That is my understandinf

@toddheugly

Ай бұрын

@@knicksfeva the lead arm is a rotator not a dragger. The arms cross over at P8 or just before. Too much thought put into it.

Just hit it easy **crushes it** 😂

He’s trying to explain the bell because he’s finally feeling the difference between hand path moving left through the ball and clubhead working on its own path

Me having never played baseball: "Great, now I have to learn two swings?!" 😅

Mike, if you threw the club down the target line releasing the club at parallel…..would there be rotation of both forearms.? I say yes - any reply welcome 😊

@toddheugly

2 ай бұрын

Post Impact? Of course there would be.

@jacobr4558

Ай бұрын

Yes your forearms would rotate as an effect not a cause! Because the club is rotating the momentum would take your forearms and make them rotate! There's a big difference between that and rotating your forearms to release the club! If you try to make your forearms the cause of the face rotation you are going to be a very erratic golfer! Whereas if your forearms rotate as an effect you're probably a pretty good player.

Mike, this changed my swing when I saw your video with Ashley Huziung. Inevitable question... Same with the driver and long clubs? Can you make a follow up with long clubs?

@ToraxReborn

2 ай бұрын

Should be very similar in concept but.. the golf club has a different forces around it.. so yea

@CKGolfer

2 ай бұрын

Agree, but wouldn't you like to see Mike tell us?

@ToraxReborn

2 ай бұрын

@@CKGolfer that could be trade secrets haha

Mike, how do i get a private lesson with you?

He is a great coach and i watch him all the time but these American teachers need to understand people like me who live in the uk have never thrown a basket ball or hit a baseball in my life

cmon Mike.. show him the table tennis forehand.. lol

Great video, but cricket paddle!!! Ridiculous, it’s called a bat

@LegolasFan69

2 ай бұрын

Lol I thought it was a paddle too! Looks like one

Um, Garrett was a MLB pitcher……there’s a reason NL went to the DH😂

Its not.

@toddheugly

2 ай бұрын

What is not?