Wednesday, January 13, 2010

The 'hands on' approach and The Orange Whip


I'm not a big training aid promoter.  It's not that I don't believe in them, it's just that in my teaching I have a very  'hands on' approach to giving my students the proper feel.  I'll move students through, what I feel, is the proper motions with my hands.  To me, this serves two purposes.  One, I'm able to administer the proper feel to my student.  Second, it allows me to feel how ingrained the mistake is that I'm trying to correct.  I'll repeat the feeling for a student a number of times through the course of a lesson.

Teaching aids are designed to correct mistakes in golfer's swings.  Most aids, attack a specific mistake.  Rarely, do I run across a teaching aid that is universal to all golfers.  The Orange Whip is one of the few aids that virtually every golfer can use to their benefit.  It comes in a variety of different lengths and weights.  The whip is good for creating lag, smoothing out your swing, keeping your swing on plane, lengthening your backswing, improving balance, etc... Or one of my favorite uses for it, warming up before a round.
Check out the link.  The inventor and owner, Jim Hackenberg has a winner in my eyes.  And for your best deal ordering on line, use the promo code: timcgolf.

http://www.orangewhiptrainer.com/OWbrochure.pdf

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