The Secret Is In The Dirt

[Richie3Jack]

I was curious as to how many people have read this book. It's actually an e-book.

Personally, I really enjoyed the book, one of the best I've ever read. I disagree with some notions, particularly that Hogan was telling us 'the truth' in 5 Lessons and I'm not even convinced that 'the move' was something Hogan did or was his 'secret.'

However, I think it leads us in a very important direction of foot action, using the ground, lower that COG and use that pivot to really drive yourself.

I remember the first time I tried this I had a couple of times where I hit some enormously powerful shots. Like flying a 3-iron past a 228 yard flag and hitting a 3-wood on Trackman that measure around 265 yards, and doing both in the winter.

But, I was starting to learn TGM and wanted to stick with that protocol and not mix things up and now that I'm learning ABS, I'm just applying that use of ground force method instead. Still, I reference SITD quite a bit.

Plus, there's a lot more information and insight that I found incredibly helpful. And Mike has that type of 'charm' that makes it fun to read.

One thing I also loved was how the book was designed as it allows for free updates and has YouTube videos attached to it. I've been contemplating writing a golf book of my own to help friends who are higher handicappers who always ask me a lot of questions on the swing and have the book serve as a reference guide and this is the way I'd like to see it written.

Anybody else have experience with this?








3JACK

[nothere]

Mar 18, 2010 10:20:41 GMT -5 Richie3Jack said:

I was curious as to how many people have read this book. It's actually an e-book.

Personally, I really enjoyed the book, one of the best I've ever read. I disagree with some notions, particularly that Hogan was telling us 'the truth' in 5 Lessons and I'm not even convinced that 'the move' was something Hogan did or was his 'secret.'

However, I think it leads us in a very important direction of foot action, using the ground, lower that COG and use that pivot to really drive yourself.

I remember the first time I tried this I had a couple of times where I hit some enormously powerful shots. Like flying a 3-iron past a 228 yard flag and hitting a 3-wood on Trackman that measure around 265 yards, and doing both in the winter.

But, I was starting to learn TGM and wanted to stick with that protocol and not mix things up and now that I'm learning ABS, I'm just applying that use of ground force method instead. Still, I reference SITD quite a bit.

Plus, there's a lot more information and insight that I found incredibly helpful. And Mike has that type of 'charm' that makes it fun to read.

One thing I also loved was how the book was designed as it allows for free updates and has YouTube videos attached to it. I've been contemplating writing a golf book of my own to help friends who are higher handicappers who always ask me a lot of questions on the swing and have the book serve as a reference guide and this is the way I'd like to see it written.

Anybody else have experience with this?








3JACK

I think that's a great idea especially if you can link it to some Youtube videos ala Shawn Clements as sometimes the written instruction can get interpreted differently by different people.

When it's well explained in a visual form it clears up the " i wonder what he means". Hope you can do it, hey if Jeff can anybody can. Just kidding Jeff,enjoyed your videos as well.

[needham]

some of the best "instruction" I have seen in some time.SITD really unlocked some TGM concepts for me.

the book is good but hte vids are great.

[gmbtempe]

The video's in the book are they just the same free youtube's or are they specific to the book?

[needham]

Mar 21, 2010 0:21:51 GMT -5 gmbtempe said:

The video's in the book are they just the same free youtube's or are they specific to the book?

some of both

[jerryg]

I think Mr. Maves does a wonderful job of making sense of TGM and unlocking many of the difficult to decipher theories of the golf swing. I have SITD and frequently look at the videos for clarification and confirmation of what I am after.
Mike and Elk on their historic visits to golfers of the past and hickories is fabulous.

[Richie3Jack]

I'm interested in Mike and Elk's upcoming works as well.

I'm a firm believer that the modern equipment has hurt golf swings. I think the modern drivers really don't help the actual *golf swing* much, but their actual *performance* is far better than the vintage drivers.

However, I think the modern irons have absolutely destroyed golf swings. I think if you're a golfer who doesn't want to work on their swing and just wants to get the ball up in the air when they play once a week, then go grab those GI or Player CB irons. But if you are a golfer that really wants to improve and lower their handicap, you're killing yourself using those type of irons. I think even the modern blades with lightweight shafts are swing killers.

I came to these conclusions from the following:

1. Throughout my junior golf days I used both blades and CB's, but was primarily a blade player and struck the ball well and developed a good swing as a junior.

2. In my college days I was playing Ram FX Tour Grind blades, which you can probably stir your coffee with, and my coach told me to go to some Titleist 962 CB's with graphite shafts which consequently my ballstriking dropped dramatically.

3. All of the friends I knew that were great ballstrikers, legit high level even on the PGA Tour type ballstrikers, grew up playing blades.

4. Reading Michael Lavery's 'Whole Brain Power' book goes into good detail why doing activities that do not require precision of your motor skills will quickly erode those motor skills.

The new work with Elk and Sevam1 is supposed to get into that. I've found that with new iron shafts and standard length shafts, I can hit vintage blades just as far as modern steel shafted irons unless those irons have the lofts really strong. I also don't find it a coincidence that Sevam seeks Lag Erickson's thoughts and advice.




3JACK