by far the best and most concise teaching. everything has made sense, and it works on the course.
@soolee29622 ай бұрын
Eureka! Found what I was looking for in this video. Thanks, Mike. Good teachers make things simple because they know the essence.
@markmatthews68392 жыл бұрын
Mike,I’ve been trying to figure out the golf swing for decades. You have the answers. I’ve been watching your videos for months, and I subscribed to your channel. I shot a personal best round yesterday- 79! You are the man!!
@rabidas613311 ай бұрын
Excellent tip... very very practical...
@jasonburling16822 жыл бұрын
Wow, all these simple tips make such a huge difference . My wrist was going up & down & not back and forth. No more cupping in the wrist & fades have gone Thank you Sir
@jeffcaidler5722 жыл бұрын
Mike,this video is the ah ha moment that ive needed ,Ive watched alot of videos .Im inspired by your knowledge of the game and your teaching.
@SpitSharp2 жыл бұрын
I would like to think that we’re all winners with these great tips you put out, thank you.
@Murf18022 жыл бұрын
Thanks Mike for all your Help, it's been all positive!
@justjohn545 ай бұрын
I would go to the range, hit 100-125 balls, go home and later felt like I was in a car wreck! This move makes my life sooo much easier. Thanks for saving my golf life in retirement!
@richardcutt7272 жыл бұрын
Very powerful lesson. Only 1 correct wrist hinge. The body reacts to the swinging of the club and the timing of the hit. Mike is teaching Henry Cotton and also truth. If I think body, its over.
@mattmc10832 жыл бұрын
I throughly enjoy the simplified direct manner in which you teach golf.
@VimMitt8 ай бұрын
Agree with you. Rest of lessons on youtube are waste of time sir. Thanks.
@otomotom18792 жыл бұрын
So true. Malaska method is pretty much the same as Tiger/Butch Harmon year 2000. I saw all the videos above. I feel my hips (back swing and downswing) getting out of the way (push back and push back force). I copied Tiger's back swing. (Similar to Malaskas) when I'm abt to complete back swing, I just move a bit my upperbody to the left and get my hands down club head out Malaskas move. And voilà, L to L finish and finally I'm hitting like Tiger. Doing this steps all the other good things happen. I really don't think abt anything else than what I wrote above. Malaska is the best.
@pebaus2 жыл бұрын
Congratulation to 100K! Its not easy to obtain! You sure have a way to explain things in a simple and understandable way, which I appreciate very much.
@MalaskaGolf2 жыл бұрын
Thank you! Really nice to receive that feedback.
@Madaboutthailand2 жыл бұрын
The best coach on KZfaq by miles 👍
@MalaskaGolf2 жыл бұрын
Thanks Liverpool 1977!
@pjpcadet2 жыл бұрын
Not only on you tube!! He is a master class teacher well known everywhere in the USA! I can say he has upgraded my game like nobody else.
@albalatbat758211 ай бұрын
Thanks Mike for this easy to understand lesson and Congratulations!!!
@sgodlike79112 жыл бұрын
Well said! I always show people what a curveball hand/wrist motion looks like. Then ask if they want to throw a curve ball or a fast ball.
@jackenphoy7451 Жыл бұрын
I was taught that the hands should follow the body not the other way and it works for me!
@etneb20yorme47 Жыл бұрын
Your golf swing lesson is the most effective and should be taught by other golf instructors.
@jaretzaslow144911 ай бұрын
I have no talent accept I’ve always had a good throwing arm. I’m definitely gonna give this a shot. I’ve taken practice swings with this and seems the most natural way to swing. Keeping it athletic. Let’s do this boys and girls ⛳️
@DjDaveVA2 жыл бұрын
Love the content! and congrats on 100k! The way you describe how a golf swing works just makes sense.
@MalaskaGolf2 жыл бұрын
Thanks Dj Dave! 👍
@gainbear88532 жыл бұрын
Congratulations on the Subs. Feels like I’ve been listening to you forever. I still occasionally watch the golf channel VHS tape with Jim Flick “Vision, Feel, and Rhythm”. Great stuff. Very helpful.
@MalaskaGolf2 жыл бұрын
Thanks Gain!
@pete3953 Жыл бұрын
Mike You probably won't read this comment but I wanted to say "thank you" for emphasizing the key movement of the wrist is the hinge, so that you are adding club head speed when unhinging, in the direction of the target line/ ball flight. So my question is why do the vast majority of teachers seem to ignore hinge and instead emphasize wrist cock, which as far as I can see, is an action at right angles to the target line?
@marcusoleary4518 Жыл бұрын
I don’t understand that either!
@pete39537 ай бұрын
@@marcusoleary4518 And a year later, Mike has provided no explanation. Very disappointing since he clearly is someone who has thought deeply about the golf swing.
@FittinToGet2 жыл бұрын
Best lessons on KZfaq...
@wadepatton2433 Жыл бұрын
Yes. This is the best way to swing. I has less thoughts (set up cues for me still in my conversion from "normal" instruction), less tension, control given to physics rather than "how to move your this or that". Swing the thing.
@crispyduck17065 ай бұрын
I’ve been rotating my left arm way too much - this is golden
@parkersmithphoto Жыл бұрын
At 3:05, watch in slow motion, the shaft is clearly rotating, toe up at parallel to ground, to square at impact, and toe up again in follow through parallel to ground. What Mike is demonstrating is what Jim Hardy calls an RIT release for the single plane swing, but then when he hits the ball, the shaft is rotating.
@lasalinks2 жыл бұрын
Wow this video is fantastic. Thanks for putting this great explanation out there
@chrisachille43852 жыл бұрын
Excellent tip. Do this and ball striking will improve quickly..
@bailey1183 Жыл бұрын
Feel like this video led me astray. The idea is right through impact, but without that context I tried to keep that trail hand squared to my swing arc too far on the way back and through. Result was improper wrist hinge and no speed. I’ve had much more success forgetting about “wrist only works in throwing motion” and allowing a little more rotation in wrists and forearms. I’d even point to the 3:00 mark of this video- the hand action he deonstrates without the club does not seem to match when he actually hits a ball
@harudad2 жыл бұрын
why i found this channel so late! thank you for your great lesson
@elias-di3bi2 жыл бұрын
Great video, will try it today on the range
@jeromekemmer81482 жыл бұрын
Grats on the 100k subscribers, Mr Malaska.
@MalaskaGolf2 жыл бұрын
🎉
@pulldpin672 жыл бұрын
What a great lesson!!!
@richyclubsport51552 жыл бұрын
Congratulations on 100k subscribers, well deserved
@MalaskaGolf2 жыл бұрын
Thanks Richy! Appreciate it.
@gioseg742 жыл бұрын
great video and congrats for the 100k...nice to see that you started to answer...ciao from italy
@stevenwhiting8941 Жыл бұрын
Excellent explanation, this may help me, Thank you
@timothyslaughter476 Жыл бұрын
Any look at golf instructions forums will quickly make us realize that golfers don't agree on much. I've seen less petty arguments and disputes at my family Thanksgiving dinners. But we can agree that a good impact position has the hands leading the shaft and clubhead. So however fast you swing the clubhead you better be swinging the hands and handle quicker. Personally I focus on swinging the grip in sync with my rotating hips. The club shift is a constant and one of the few laws of consistency in the game of golf other than the stationary ball. Yes there is some torquing of the shaft but for all intents and purposes its a constant. So by focusing on the hand swing and path simply following my hip turn im able to avoid casting and clubhead throw away which causes me all kinds of issues. It fells like a smooth connection in my swing. Not the connection where my arms are locked in too tightly to my torso and I feel bound up but just more synchronization between my hands and body. The clubhead is always lagging in this scenario and I get into a very good open impact position. Just a thought that works for me. I also no longer feel the need to kill the ball. I definitely swing fast but no harder and faster than I can swing my hands. Much better balance of myself and also the balance of the club during the swing.
@christopherwilliams20922 жыл бұрын
Congratulations! I will share with my golf group and hopefully continue growing.
@MalaskaGolf2 жыл бұрын
Thank you Christopher, appreciate the share!
@braga7862 жыл бұрын
congratulations on your 100k. the. arm and wrist actually work like skipping rock
@georgegonczarek25012 жыл бұрын
Great stuff. One thing i m not sure about is where the wrist hinge occurs in the back swing. Some say not until u r at the top of your back swing: bearing in mind each person has a back swing distance b4 the wrist hinges????
@puredistancegolf2 жыл бұрын
Great video and congrats.
@jgrudenicstrumpet43692 жыл бұрын
Awesome explanation!! Thank you.
@grahamjones73712 жыл бұрын
Agree with the right hand action,most golfers over 14hcp should work on it and get it first,if like most they are right handed playing right.But it is the ability to get onto the left side that gets you down to 7hcp and if you can use the left side even lower!
@Hacker-xe8yv2 жыл бұрын
I get at least 20 yards more swinging the club with my hands than belly whipping it with my hips or driving with my feet or legs or turning my torso/shoulders. They all come into play but in support of the hands swing the club. My ball contact is also much better than with the other methods which may account for some of the extra distance.
@arhalimi58832 жыл бұрын
Beautiful coach ..
@marclissoway2638 Жыл бұрын
Mike I always enjoy the info you tell us. I have been told to tuck my right elbow ( I’m right handed ) in to my side more to gain power. What’s your opinion? Thanks. Marc
@attuser7167 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the explanation. I still have a problem with right hand release and getting to L on the follow through.
@luisjuarez12002 жыл бұрын
Congratulations on the 100k subscriptions!!!
@MalaskaGolf2 жыл бұрын
Thank you! 🎉
@johnmoore6452 Жыл бұрын
AS ALWAYS… very good
@JerryCappuccino9 ай бұрын
Good stuff! Thank-you
@t8219889 ай бұрын
Mike, what happens when you come into impact and you are in a stuck position? You have to roll the club face, don’t you? Therefore, you cannot work the hands the way you suggest. This is what I find. Please correct me if I’m wrong. Thanks.
@kevynnightingale41212 жыл бұрын
Really helpful stuff.
@CallMeJackWagon2 жыл бұрын
If you're rolling over during the downswing, look at your backswing, odds are you're not taking the club back square, you're rolling in the backswing and compensating in the downswing
@izgubicu5 ай бұрын
Hello, great vid!! Can you tell me why, when I swing faster with driver, the ball is low and left? But, when I swing slower, the ball is high and right?? Thanks
@kennethmay17862 жыл бұрын
love it!
@DIOS10 Жыл бұрын
Excellent Sir. But but that action you state, doesn’t it make the left wrist sort of look like a scoop action at impact ? If we do the bowed fashion look like the gold world states then the wrists can’t perform your way ??.
@chrisachille43852 жыл бұрын
Ball striking will improve dramatically if you practice this wrist action.
@w78552 жыл бұрын
Love this. But what about the vertical hinge? Aren’t there other drills you’ve shown to hinge upward and then swing back?
@BB-vj9tz2 жыл бұрын
Congrats from Germany! Trying to follow your approach is working fine for the irons! But Mike, why do I tend to push the long irons ad woods? Any thought/tip on that issue? Wrong arc? Again many thanks for your content as my handicap is dropping nicely after dialling into your technique!
@mattb.60572 жыл бұрын
Mike great Instruction simple intuitive golf. How can one get private lessons?
@nathanperry95936 ай бұрын
Swinging left through impact without twisting the clubface around.
@legend90182 жыл бұрын
Excellent 🏌🏻♂️
@MalaskaGolf2 жыл бұрын
Thanks 👍
@peteg89202 ай бұрын
Is it important to keep your trail foot planted till after impact ?
@eddiebrown6872 жыл бұрын
Hand action looks simple without a club. When you hold a club though it's harder to reproduce that same feeling with a grip running through your hand. That's why the club face gets manipulated.
@Eqnotalent2 жыл бұрын
My biggest issue with this when do you let your wrist go? And no matter how square my face is to the ball it still fades due to the up/down tilt of the wrist.
@ssbsnb12008 ай бұрын
Where exactly should I feel I'm throwing it? Directly at the target? 45 degree upward?
@robertprestonsr24532 жыл бұрын
Better add in some shoulder turn... you cannot get an inside out arc without getting the front shoulder to rotate back and under the chin...*backswing*-- then getting the back shoulder to swing and rotate through the strike zone as you swing forward, down, and through the strike...( the SHOULDERS are the LAST point of connection of the fingers, then hands, then arm bones and elbows to the BODY itself... the body will pretty much move in tandem with the shoulders because it "has to") The actual amount of addition of the wrists cocking or uncocking to impact is kind of "optional" and secondary.... as in adding feel to the impact... but, all in all, in my view, shoulder swing is the heart of a good golf swing....(look again at your own video here and watch your shoulders..)
@gibsonjk42 жыл бұрын
Hey Mike great video good information you ever hear of Jim venetos and jv swing its the swing system i use and just wanted your take on it
@creamabdul-jabbar6722 Жыл бұрын
Play my best golf when I think of my hands getting to my lead thigh at impact. If I get out of that and try do some other crap I play crap I get stuck
@garyfinkbiner6252 Жыл бұрын
Mike. I've been practicing this, but my irons are going left, or a over cooked draw. Any thoughts,? Thanks
@biden-putin-stalin Жыл бұрын
I have always read and heard that the dog wags the tail. This appears to be the opposite of that?
@GermanBullitt2 жыл бұрын
Once your brain understands what the "downswing" is, your motions getting natural and athletic. The word downswing is missleading (in my point of view) cause the swing to the ball is a underhand throw which goes UP. If you try to hit down to the ball, you will never have it.
@jcee68865 ай бұрын
👍🏻
@joem27452 жыл бұрын
If my right hand flaps straight back, then my swing will be extremely flat, and I'll never be able to touch the ball.
@bobadkins73772 жыл бұрын
That’s a good video and good explanation.
@MalaskaGolf2 жыл бұрын
Thanks Bob. Glad you liked it!
@rikgeestman39962 жыл бұрын
Every pitcher pronates when throwing...
@drdbl13482 жыл бұрын
Have to point out that what you're demonstrating with your right hand motion is clearly not what you're doing when swinging the club. Just look at 3:05 in the video. This may be what you feel, but not what is actually occurring. Maintaining vs throwing away right wrist flexion is not a minor issue. You clearly are maintaining more flexion.
@nVG_Tv2 жыл бұрын
100K 👍
@MalaskaGolf2 жыл бұрын
🎉
@rogermoores94162 жыл бұрын
Mark Evershed.
@mr752042 жыл бұрын
Hi there! I love the channel. Have you ever done a video about clearing the hips to help with early extension? I want my belt buckle to be facing target at impact. Think Morikawa. Any drills?
@MalaskaGolf2 жыл бұрын
Hi there! Mike has discussed this on the site, here's one video where he discussed clearing your hips, but there are several more if you use the search. www.malaskagolf.com/videos/ask-mike-body-motion-fire-your-hips
@gainbear88532 жыл бұрын
There is a video with Mike and Eric Cogorno that talks of lead and trail hip movement as a linear force. Should be an easy search. Along with the release technique in this video, it’s an absolute must watch.
@hiramruiz90672 жыл бұрын
How does this promote forward shaft lean??? I could see this promoting a scoop or thin shots. This action should promote a slowing down at the point of impact...It goes against what every good teacher says.
@jesusluna75802 жыл бұрын
If you listen to what Mike says, you can try for years on getting shaft lean and you won’t get any better! You will get worse. Pro’s spend more time on the range than you spend at work. Just saying! Mike is a great teacher!
@hiramruiz90672 жыл бұрын
I'm a 2 handicap and hit more balls than u do in 2 years in one season. As a former PGA member, this makes no sense!!! U never know who you're speaking to !!! So b careful
@oldprogolf72922 жыл бұрын
I agree, Mike is simplifying the hand action too much. There is also wrist cocking and arm rotation in the release. Different players have different amounts of each depending on grip and wrist position in the downswing. The right hand is not square to the swing plane through release as Mike suggests. My own belief (retired, disabled UK PGA pro) is that forward shaft lean is a myth, it just happens in any good swing. Many modern players have more because they rotate their shoulders so fast into the follow through instead of just allowing the momentum of club and arms to pull them there. This is why so many pros are getting back trouble so young (Woods, Morikawa, Zalatoris). Vardon, Jones, Snead, Nicklaus all had slight fsl at impact, all had free-flowing swings so I do agree with Mike that the body should follow the hands (and club). I ruined my back at age 33 copying Lee Trevino. Look after your spine.
@pjpcadet2 жыл бұрын
Hi Hiram! My swing speed has immediately increased with this wrists motion. I say immediately, no need to hit 1 million balls on the range. Concerning good teachers, who is a great teacher? My belief is that a great teacher is the one who finds the key and the words to make you get better. Malaska, Cogorno, have these skills. You can also try Stack and Tilt , if the pro knows how to communicate he will be a great teacher. I’m not sure the majority of pros teaching the same method are necessarily right. Not wrong but not always right. However, I can understand it makes some feeling safe by doing a unique golf swing…
@hiramruiz90672 жыл бұрын
@@pjpcadet go check out Mike bender
@larrypruitt39196 ай бұрын
Is that not a flip?
@lutzchoco12 жыл бұрын
Hands will react or not to arms body relationship... The rest doest not matter
@sergesa47352 жыл бұрын
At 3:05, your palm is facing in front of you, not downwards as you claim at 2:33. You are not doing what you are teaching because it would be impossible. If it were, the face of the club and elbow at the top of the swing would be facing downward making the weirdest chicken wing. Just try it. What you teach simple does not happen :( And no, one does not throw a baseball like you said. The kinetic chain is a succession of movement which go from the large articulations to the small ones.The small parts always follow the large parts.
@ElSupremo52 жыл бұрын
Glad you said it! A pitcher doesn't throw like that they pronate massively! Just like a tennis serve
@chrisachille43852 жыл бұрын
Keep right wrist extended thru impact. Malaska is correct. Do that drill!!
@redrockdoc11 ай бұрын
Mike is not consistent ! He has a different swing on every video !!.