NEW Mike Malaska, Fixing Over the Top ONCE AND FOR ALL!

thanks so much for seeing you, remember this guy, yes we are, good to see you, good to see you mate, we just got together again, it was Mike 11 months ago. I saw you here so almost a year, actually it's exactly 11 months because I think I was looking at my ticket the last time it was October 23, 2016 that I was here. What has changed in your mind in the form of your philosophy or what have you seen now that you have opened up your moleska golf? Don't worry, well, what is it really? The interesting thing is that we've noticed that viewers like to watch the typical person swing, see what they do, and then they have an idea that okay, they're over the top.

I mean, it's easy to see that kind of thing, but what am I? I'm going to do to solve it, so I would like to see what the solutions are, which to me is great because people are starting to learn cause and effect. I mean, it's one thing to identify, you know you're going backwards, you're over the top you're cutting the ball, but what's really causing it? Yes, you know, beyond, the face is open or your path is out of place. I mean, that's pretty easy to see, but there's a mental thing and a physical thing, so I'd like to see the process of what I do with people.

Well, let's get straight to the viewer questions and everything else. I'm going to adjust the microphone on your microphone so that it doesn't stick out too much in the wind. It's good, awesome. One thing I'll get into you, you mentioned, is the number one most searched topic on YouTube. I think the number one hardest problem. Golf is surpassed when I swing. It's like you know my wife might say Oh, Brendan, you're done. the top but everyone says oh the solution is easy superficial the axis we know you don't like the term superficial the axis why is that and then let's move on to the top and the best way to pass well when it comes to I want the stick arrive shallow and at the correct angle of approach in case someone is a total novice, what do we mean by show shallow?

When they start talking about a shallow shaft they want people to come up here and they want the first move to be let the shaft drop this way to tip it back to keep the club from turning to the right and I agree that You don't want the club to come out, but is it the shaft you're trying to make shallow or is it the sequence of your body? that opens the arms shallow and allows the club to come in toward the ball at the correct angle of approach. I mean, you can get the club into the ball in a lot of different ways.

I can spin and have the club really behind me and I can spin it, it can go into the ball the right way, I can make my arms go in shallower and the club works and over my hands towards the ball and we have the same numbers in the track, so which one is the most effective. You can do both, but throughout my career as a teacher and player I have found that what I am doing seems to be the most beneficial for me and that the good players I work with are consistent and have the least amount of stress on their bodies. but they can still hit it so far that you're not losing speed, you're creating it in a different way, you know, so everyone wants this shallower shaft, they want the right approach angle to the ball because we all know there are certain numbers that you want to get. the face angle of the approach path to maximize the crush factor on what you're trying to do, there are just different ways to do it, so let's talk about overkill.

I know that when I tried to reduce the before the only thing it does is that the chef becomes shallower, but my hands become more pronounced every time I try to do this, there you come out like this and I have developed a nice meaning, horrible, a little movement in my swing where this happens a little good and God I hate it so where is the most common cause and also the most common cure and something overdone or out of sequence? Well, first, I've spent 40 years doing this and probably 25 or 30 years in corporate America teaching most people who play, yes, and high level players, but the average person first thing that causes them to overdo it. is that they tend to cut the ball so that they lose it to the right and you hit one, so the average person gets up, gets here and turns their shoulders and goes like this and the ball goes to the right and cuts and very weak and very faint while the stick looks, if you look at that slit this vivid, everyone will get our GoPro.

I mean that indentation goes through the ball, you guys can see the alignment bar and yeah, and when you go out to the tea box you see that indentation everywhere, okay, so the question is, are you on top, how do you? do they fix that? Well, after attending golf schools and working with people, thousands and thousands of people, I have tried it in every way possible. Yes, the first thing I think needs to be fixed is his ability to square his face most of the time, his grip. it's off, so when they come in on the ball, the face is open, they cut it and then they try to do their right side and their body tries to catch the face up, so even though they're not feeling athletic, they're being pretty athletic, extremely. because they are reacting athletically to this open face and they would be like they just made two cuts and immediately their body knows I have to do something to realign it correctly and what is its instinct to catch the face. because they think they've heard that your shoulders and your hips control your face, they start twisting their shoulders and hips and usually their upper body long before their lower body, okay, so they come out. of the sequence trying to square the face, so the first thing I do What we do with everyone is work on their grips and get their grips maybe a little bit stronger and make them feel the face turn, so all of a sudden , now that they grip better, they can make the face work a little better and get closer. and where the ball goes well they pull the hook so they fixed the grip and they did it they had the same sequence and now they are doing a demonstration now they are hitting a dead left hand so if you follow the same thing if I kept exactly that same face and say "okay", now that ball went to the left and got hooked a little bit, but I don't want it to go there, I want it to go this way, yeah, well, if I knew that was going to happen. happens every time, suddenly making the club closer to the ball and feeling like I'm going to hit the ball a little more to the right wouldn't be that hard to do because now you trust the fact that the ball is not going to go right, okay, then your path will be fixed, so do you fix the path first or fix the face?

I can tell you over all these years that if people don't have face control, they're not going to fix the road. It doesn't make sense, in my opinion it practically doesn't make sense because they are going to go out to the golf course and maybe they look better in the video but they go out to the golf course without a face controlling the ball it goes to one side and it is terrible if they get control of it. the face, whatever they're doing, they can start making the clubface make the ball go or want it to go, that makes everyone I work with better control of the face, more control of it no matter what. what they are doing.

With their swings they improve ball control, so as a teacher you can fix someone's grip in a minute and a half, but changing someone's sweet sequence can be like a life's work, so what's the key? so that it's okay, we have a good grip where we will assume that, which is difficult to assume, but what is the key to improve that sequence and so many people who are basically from above spinning well, if almost everyone, if I take a ball and the I put a ball in his hand I say, okay, I want you to take this back and I want you to throw the ball down there, yeah, nobody does that, no, they just don't, so all of a sudden, if you take out a player who's never played golf and he does it and then you put it in slow motion which looks pretty good, yeah, yeah, or if you have them, they just hold a club here and throw a ball on the ground down here, like that, yeah. no one no one spins I'll try that Mike Jessica thing so am I aiming the ball where it would be?

Yeah, yeah, so okay, we'll talk about that in a minute about how they get people to throw the ball. No way, if that's your task, yeah, that thing you're going to swing, that's not my golf swing. I wish it were, but I can feel that that's not what I'm doing, we'll see, but that's the task you're trying to create. right there that's what a golf swing is what you just did there and that's why most people have a golf swing in them it's instinct yeah what we've done in our industry is take away almost everything golf instinct and trying to teach people how. walking when they already know how to walk we haven't related it to movement patterns that they already know, so it's a pattern that most people are pretty successful at, yeah, now if you make them feel that pattern, their hips rotate, this is its sequence.

It's good that his body stays out of the way, they change direction perfectly now if you say now, how are you? This is where the problem arises. We have decided that we have to analyze each movement in a golf swing and break it down into The club is doing this, my body is doing that, my left shoulder is doing this, my hands are doing this, you can't, this is emotion, what What you just did was excitement based on all your years of athletics and it's a pretty easy move, it's not complicated. I've done a really good job of extremely complicating something that didn't have to go that far, yeah, in the last year I've had some success, like we were talking about last year, I've had some success with the flamenco drill, one of the things that you suggested and me and other people on the channel had at least 200 opinions of oh here's why the flamingo drill works and here's why this isn't it and I'm so happy I found something that works, really I don't really care why, right, you're right, so if you do that drill, you just did it there, okay, so if I put a ball on a tee here, you take this ball and you put your club right there.

I'm just going to just and then throw it here, okay, yeah, so pretend to be you and just throw it right, just throw it down there, okay, okay, now get ready for the ball, yeah, put your hand on the club, very easy . Do the same, so direct the club's momentum or throw the club head at the ball. Do exactly the same. I mean, why isn't this rocket science? For God's sake, you know it's okay, so you just said, how are we going to do it? I'm still struggling with my change of direction, yeah we just fixed you up, you took a swing, well that's the next question I had before I got to you, more questions from your guys.

I've noticed that I've been in the last year. I've been with about 20 different teachers, interviewing them about their different c

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pts and good things, and many of the teachers have asked me to do an exercise or something that I've hit like a bullseye. I was like, oh my gosh, you know, and then I think, you know, I've cured golf or whatever, there's some kind of disconnect between them, like one thing I did with a teacher two weeks ago. I had great success on the step and I said yes and I was pulling it, yeah, but there's some kind of disconnect between exercises because I'm pretty good at exercises between exercises and the golf swing, like all the things that I want to happen in slow motion or in my golf swing are happening in a lot of these different drills, right, but how do we know how to incorporate that into our game?

Well, the first thing you asked about the practice, so the first thing you have to do is the biggest difference. Well, the biggest difference between the field and the golf course is not. It's not the goal, it's not the score, those are all parts of this, yes, the most important thing is to tie between shots, look on the course, I mean, I can stand here and swing the club the way you want me to swing it , give me three or four balls. because I'm good with my hand, I'll figure out how to square the face, yeah, okay, but now, if I suddenly hit one or two pretty well and you make me stop and put at least a minute between each ball mm- Hmm, now let's find out how much I understand and if I can duplicate this.

Okay, so what's wrong with you? You do those drills and you start doing them and the drill puts the club in a position and all of a sudden you go. if the clubs here my hands do this if the clubs here and you get it by squaring the ball you go and this is great yeah so you go to the first tee well it's been 10 minutes since you hit a ball now you have a different club . There's been time between that and you have your old reflexes and your old belief system about what you think you should do.

Yeah, look, this isn't just about changing someone's swing, you have to change their understanding of the task they perform. you're trying to create so your brain is a taskmaster what the task is if you have a bad task and you think that's what's supposed to happen keep the angle in your wrists shift your weight if you think that's what's supposed to happen what you should do do what you do under pressure, your body will do what it thinks it should do to keep you upExcept, that's how your body works, it's called fight or flight, so you can't just have someone hit the balls and hit them better than before. to understand intellectually and c

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ptually why this is going to work under pressure, then your subconscious under pressure will go away.

I'm going to do it by default because I want to be sure, but if your subconscious still doesn't believe it or understand it. There's no I don't care how many balls you hit, you walk over there, you put a little pressure on it, you're going to do what you think, what your instincts think is right, because right now I feel like the intellects are talking to so many. teachers and you know the whole gamut, but I Intellectually I have a very good idea of ​​what I want to do, but there's something almost like you said in that prehistoric lizard brain of mine that still thinks this is really going to be the thing that kills it.

No, I know intellectually, it is not. but it is very difficult to make a change in that part, you know it consciously, consciously not, yes, but your subconscious still has a built-in task or belief system, just no, no, no, this is what is going to work, yes , that's why you have to be one too. you have to be willing to make adjustments and try different things and see what works for you, yeah, you know, I said no the same concepts are not going to work for everyone, so the most important thing is what I would say to everyone, regardless of the method they are working with.

This is what you want to do now, we've spent a minute and a half or two minutes talking. Okay, can I stand there after those two minutes and take a swing and hit the ball pretty much how I want to hit it? You know, if I can do that, then I probably have a pretty good idea of ​​what I'm doing because I spent the time doing it. I've been a little distracted now that you come here, so it's been a minute since my exercise. Right now you may want to reinforce the exercise so you can put a club on the golf course.

You don't hit a ball. You could sit for a month in a court of law about that, yes, and feel what it feels like just reacting. and throw, yeah, now you just go up and throw the club head or direct the momentum of the club head towards the ball in the same way, repeat the other shot pretty well, yeah, okay, so we gave you a drill and you We put you under a time constraint and you still did well now, if you fail, you have another minute to figure out how to make an adjustment, see part of learning to play golf, and there are so many people talking about how to do it.

Swinging a golf club is fine, but once you have some kind of swing that is duplicated to a certain extent, yeah, how do you play golf? Thanks for watching everyone, there's a lot more content I recorded with my pen in Alaska in the wilderness in this latest one. trip to Arizona that you'll see on Be Better Golf so hit that subscribe button and also hit that post notifications button which is that little bell because I'm going to start doing more live videos with some of these guys and the one and only manner. You'll be able to be a part of those live videos if you see them happening, which is the post notifications button, and you'll be able to see a lot more content that I recorded on this trip and the trip that I went on.

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