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i love the sensation of casting from the top and a feeling of folding to the right of the body near the right thigh.... there was a recent video on "be better golf "using hackmotion where brian manzella described a similar sensation that brian called "a throw and a flick", very similar to what dan alton is teaching ... th-cam.com/video/76dFehxRqtc/w-d-xo.html

Can you expand on what you mean by "release early" in this video Dan please? Keep up the good work.

Thanks!

I’ve been using your method for about a year now. Took three lessons last summer and really struggled to understand the difference between transverse and frontal planes. One of your other videos gave me an aha moment and my swing has improved significantly. Periodically I will strike the ball on the hosel and end up in a bad spot on the course. Can you address this issue and a cure in a future video.

Thanks!

Awesome thanks

Thanks for another video... keep them coming !.... I watch them several times and send them to my friends... I even made a couple of videos about you on my "Steven Vig" youtube channel... I have a question... i am a 71 year old golfer with poor shoulder turn and poor hip turn on the backswing.... i was hoping to get more shoulder turn by increasing my hip turn on the backswing... However, i was worried that a bigger hip and shoulder turn might get me out of the frontal plane and too much into the transverse plane.... Is it possible to increase my hip and shoulder turn and maybe take my arms up more vertical on the backswing to avoid going too deep with my arms and club on the backswing.... steven vig

love your videos.... this student learns very quickly. His new backswing looks great. please keep more videos coming...we missed you. For me, the feeling is that I am casting the clubhead to the sky as high as I can, while swinging the club forward and then swing thru to the finish....it gives me a huge arc and more time to increase forward speed of the clubhead . can you do a video of this release feel? In other words, I try to swing the biggest "circle" I can in my forward from the very top. Your channel will grow if you can keep posting more videos.

Great video Dan... I'd be interested to discuss the elbow concept 🤙

Thanks for the video Dan. We’re all hungry for more of your wisdom.

Would love to see more of your videos like this

Great video Dan! I am working a ton with you on hand path; his hands seem outside of desired hand plane, hurting outward angle? He has a great release of the front arm like I am working on, great visual for me. Thanks again for the new content. Dale T

Dan so good to see you and a new video! Still playing great since I saw you I. NC and got new clubs. Getting set up with a simulator in the house so I can take more lessons this winter!

Your videos are phenomenal. I use your technique for my irons and it works very well...but i cant transfer it to the driver..any tios on this? Thanks for great content

I have the same ball flight as this gentleman. Do the shoulders swing on a steeper plane on the downswing and do the arms come down first?

Dan, your message needs more frequent videos to get out there.

Have been playing my best golf ever after watching your videos. Everything makes more sense. Need some new ones to watch.

Another bad golf coach.

Looks great if u ask me JH by the way have u seen the early release by Dan Alton where he talks about an early folding point worth checking out there’s a similarity thanks for the video

IS THAT DAN MARTIN?

What you say not to do.. is the one thing that improved my game two fold. Where your method made me worse.

I feel like when i release it from the top my clubhead comes through nice and shallow. Im striking my woods and low irons so much better than holding the angles. When i focus on throwing the club through with my wrists my body just automatically responds.

Many ways to play this game. And a millions planes. Just pick one and enjoy your time on the course

This is working great for me. Simple Just need to work on the release more

what he doesn't say is you need a great lower body move to make this happen because amateurs would likely stall their body and this won't work...at all...at all

Excellent Instruction !!

Thanks!

Very refreshing to hear your view on casting/ non casting - cant wait to try 😊

Best on u tube

How many times have you said JUST LIKE THAT in your videos?

Wow, this clicked with me today. Been practicing in my living room for a couple days and took it to the range today. Effortless power and with the 'folding point' video it was also effortless dispersion. Would be great to see some videos of your chipping and putting concepts too 🤞🤞

I started playing in 1967 and what your lesson teaches goes against everything I was taught. Interesting which I'm going to try😊

Tired of hearing Jack being misquoted. He never even came close to saying " there is no point in the golf swing that is too early to release." That would be a ludicrous thing to say because early release is something that 99 percent of golfers can execute with ease.. What he said was that " it's impossible to release the club too early, as long as you move to your left side FIRST." Teachers who don't teach the "handle dragging" method like to misquote Jack in order to promote their method of actively releasing the club. Your method is a valid one, but so is the handle dragging method. People who don't know the proper way to execute it, end up slicing or shanking because they are holding on to the handle with a death grip. So that's where the method gets its negative publicity from. To be great handle dragger requires a soft, tension free grip and something called " float loading". Sergio Garcia is a great float loader. He has a video where he talks about pulling the handle. His father taught him to think of it as pulling down on a chain. The method has also been called "tolling the bell". It's the simplest method because it requires no timing of the release, as your method does. Your method has a different release point (folding point) for every club. The Golfing Machine calls it "Aimpoint". So it's nothing new. There is no release point when pulling. Physics takes care of the release via centrifugal/centripetal force.. You just have to allow it to happen via a tension free grip.

Strangely, in my practice yesterday, my body did naturally what you prescribed. I didn't know why it works but it did! Now, thanks to your video, I know why it works.😊

I really like the concept, but I will say in this video you’re very inconsistent with your set up position relative to the stakes

Dan this video as well as your other one on the release should be going viral they are just so good I’m so excited to go back out and try this again thank you

Brilliant move I tried this yesterday after seeing another your videos and it was amazing how good it felt hitting the ball thank you Dan

Wow something completely different from any teaching I’ve had in the past can’t wait to try this on the range thank you Dan A day later been to the range and this has changed the way I hit the ball high straight and long amazing thank you

It would be great to get a in person lesson with you Dan. Is that possible?

EVERYONE MUST FOLLOW THIS. IT IS CRITICAL TO UNDERSTANDING WHATS REALLY HAPPENING IN THE GOLF SWING.

Tells you to fold the club, does it in slow motion in practice drills Hits the golf ball and does absolutely none of what he just said to do 😂 TH-cam golf in a nutshell

I've played golf semi-competently for 60 years, and have gotten it around pretty good, club golf, for the most part - it helped that I was always a fair pitch/chip player and also a good putter, which masked the problems of the endless series of changes and experiments in the rest of my game. I long tried to emulate David Duval with iron shots, where his right hand was clearly "under" in the follow-through, a la Mike Austin, a real "throw" of the clubhead. so then I watch Mr Alton, and try to adopt this thesis of how to move the club, the sweetspot, into and through the ball. at the local range, certainly some mishits (thins, mainly, 1 semi-shank), it's hard to describe how my old body was getting the sweetspot onto the back of the ball, in general, doing this stuff - I mean, just hammering some iron shots - carrying a 7 iron 158, a bit of a fade, some of them straight as a string. A few pitching wedges apexing at 105 feet to 117 yard carry - last week I couldn't get 70 feet apex and 90 yards carry. I hit one 58-deg SW 95 yards, thumped, pure -- for me! and I felt like I was barely even "going at" the strike - just concentrating on the release/fold. I would love to get a couple or 3 1-hour lessons from Mr Alton. I'd jump on a plane without a second thought!

I've been doing this method all my life but idk why I'm hitting more or an old school ball flight starting lower then rising and I lose distance especially when I hit it harder and then accuracy goes but when I use an x stiff shaft it does this considerably less and I feel better does this mean I need x stiff shafts or a lower spinning ball or am I scouping it? Any tips.

Thanks for this great explanation. In the takeaway, I feel like I’m bringing the club back more “vertical”. Up rather than around my body. Is that a “correct” feel? Thanks again.

I tried this swing and the results were really good... with my irons. However the driver and 3W weren't clicking with this swing. So better consistency with irons but not with woods. Going back to the range today to try and figure that out.

5 shots and all 5 completely different directions. Clearly has absolutely no control over where the ball is going

Looks like early extension with very little rotation to me. Never seen a good player do that.

i tried this but better still i felt what it was like to finally hit the ball straight high and long & i feel like im swinging like My Fav Jake Knapp 😂you can feel everything Dan teachers, amazing Thank you Dan

Mike Malaska I believe teaches this too. Great teacher too. GG's sir.

I have been struggling for years trying to get some sort of swing back. I tried this and started squaring the club immediately. Thank you.