You know you’ve gone full golf addict when your swing feel is trying to hit yourself in the nuts with a metal bar attached to a club…and yet I’m intrigued.
Well, my first range session with the GEM and it truly is “all that”. Swung it a few times in my living room and thought it didnt feel much different from my regular swing (unsure if that was a good or bad thing), then headed off to the range on a bit of a windy, rainy day. I did the 10 practice swings (used PW), then tossed off the rod and took a real swing and time after time, baby draws and probably a good 10-15 yards longer than my normal PW….the bigger news is that each swing felt effortless, meaning I didnt try to kill it, just did the “toe up on BS, toe up on FS” mantra. Then tried same with my 5 iron…10 practice swings, then normal swing and pured probably 3-4 out of 5 shots and again effortless. I then tried with driver, which I thought would not work as well as irons, because I dont see many of the reviews mentioning driver all that much and I was just hammering my drives. Wife then joins me on the range. She has a pretty decent swing, but absolutely hates her 7 iron (unsure why,just says she cant hit it) and I initially watch her attempting to hit it and she’s maybe 110-120 and mainly weak fades. I then have her do the routine with the GEM, and within 2-3 swings, she starts hitting baby draws and now her 7 iron is going 135-140. She’s also shocked. Some pros and cons: Pros: 1) you get INSTANT feedback from the GEM. Doesn’t take a millions swings to start to see results 2) Pure quality machining. It appears as if the GEM is hand tooled on a machine and made in Scotland, so not a Chinese knock off or cheaply made item 3) The release just feels unforced with the GEM. One of my biggest faults was always forcing the right hand to turn over which can weak havoc w my swing. Cons: 1) Having to screw the long GEM rod on and off each time is a bit of a pain in the arse and initially installing the GEM is also not 1-2-3, meaning takes a couple mins. Unsure why these guys didnt use one of those push button easy on/easy off things for putting the rod on and off 2) Because the machining of the GEM is hand tooled, there were some metal burrs left on top of screw holes that could easily cut or scratch you. They need to run a sander or file the burrs 3) They should make the carry pouch both bigger and more secure. Easy for pieces to fall out and while it fits all the parts when you take the whole thing apart each time, I like keeping the metal ball attached (no reason to unattach it), but then if you leave the ball on, the rod sticks out of the carry bag….just not the best and I may try to figure out a better pouch on my own. 4) Although I read the instructions on use of the shorter rods, I’m still not sure I get when to use the longer vs the shorter rods. I just stuck with the longer one for now. Number one thing, at least for me, is doing the “toe up on the BS and toe up on follow through” and just letting the club release more naturally. Just let the club release, meaning dont force anything. All that being said, this is EASILY my best purchase of a training aid for golf Ive ever seen after 30 years of playing this great game. Playing a round tomorrow so will see how it translates to the course, but that’s on me, not the GEM😊 I will post the same thing on the STeve Johnson’s YT channel as well. .
Great review. Brendan, if you have not already accessed this, please see Good Golf Coaching by Stuart Cartwright and his instruction on downward pressuring of the handle through delivery and impact. I think this training aid relates to Stuart's ideas and his yard brush drill. Very much like over the top from the inside as described by Mike Malaska but better articulated.
So I got the GEM delivered and worked with it on the range like 2 times. I can’t see no long time effects right now. But it seems to work. It gives me a good feel with the counter balance weight in back and downswing how to deliver the club on the right way into the Ball. Then it feels very light and the club and weight seems to be delivered in the right way. The awkward feel is right at impact with it when hands and club with the extra weight gets closed or flipped over at impact. This ghost like feel and motion at impact seems to get transferred into the swing and sticks for a while. Afterwards especially when I recently lost my feel for contact and lowpoint after the ball it seems to help to get a crisper contact through ball and then turf. Pretty awesome compressed iron shots like the should be. Okay. The thing is that it sticks and there are long term effects.
Brendon, this counter balance feeling is awesome. The heavier the counter balance feels the more lag angle you can produce. It's like the Alex Noran, Mike Malaska move. This has to be what they're talking about, but Malaska particularly does not get his message out in a way that resonates, it's misinterpreted as tumbling the clubhead outside the hands. If you just tumble the clubhead without the counter balance, it's OTT city. The counter balance is the missing link.
I’ve had the GEM since June…I really like it. The one point I think you’ve failed to mention or possible didn’t notice, was the fact that the weight of the GEM really helps organize your weight shift synchronizing with the swing better.
Good comment, I ordered one, I need more of that in my swing and less relying on my arms for speed and wrists and hands to square the face. He did say I believe the GEM helps to square the club face with your body not your hands.
Do you think a GEM would work for someone who doesn’t come over the top, but instead comes from the inside and stalls their body and tends to draw? Or is it more for slicers?
@@grgr5465 I would think so (JMHO), with the excess counter weight it should help with getting the body involved with any swing you have. I am not an over the top swinger, I am one who stalls with a flip to try and square the face thu impact. From the look of Bendon's swing it has helped him very much, I ordered it in hopes it will help me.
I was sceptical of this at first, but I got one and have been using it for several weeks now, and it is hands down the best golf aid I have used - before the GEM came to my rescue, I was getting really frustrated with my lack of consistency.....not any more though. As well as hitting the ball farther than before, I am also consistently hitting it with much more accuracy. Really glad I have this in my bag. If you think about what we pay for golf fees, lessons, clubs etc - in my opinion, it is definitely worth a go.
I have watched you for quite a few years and I have to say the swings you were making in the indoor facility with the 8 iron look fantastic. You were so open at impact yet the club was still coming from inside with no over the top move. It looked like a very low effort swing as well but obviously with the 170 yard plus carry the club head was moving. Great effort. Thanks for the video.
The last two minutes answered all my questions about the apparent contradiction between toe up vs matching spine angle. Thanks so much for throwing in the last section!
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Brendon, look at your swing (slow it down with keys) at 10min mark, great swing and you had the butt end disappearing around your body, you started to worry about path and took it more down the line (Moe like) and had to get wristy. JMHO that 10min mark swing was your best, more reliable less timing involved, and you felt you went easy at the ball, more compression. I am excited about this GEM thing, I too am wristy.
Interesting thing. I have been fiddling around with that same. It does feel quite weird to open the face (a bit) during take away. Pointing to the sky. It will help to draw the ball.Perhaps will try the thing as well. Btw: I think that yellow swingaid thing can pronounce it as well. Btw2: the price @120 is a bit ridiculous I must say. And is a showstopper. That piece of kit only costs max 10€ to make.
" ... the face is bent up all weird". Well stated. I find that if the club opens some in the back swing it leads to two good things (in my swing anyway): 1) a shallower thru swing plane and 2) it puts my trail hand/wrist in "better" position for the release (extension --> flexion of trail wrist).
Hi Brendan, I've been following your channel for a few years now and I have to say this “GEM” has got you swinging the best I've seen yet. Those looked more like Milo in the follow through and the results seem to bear this out. 190 yards with an 8 iron! Whoa. I ordered mine months ago ,got it , but never really gave it a fair shake..you definitely have piqued my interest and I will definitely be swinging the Gem tomorrow. Cheers and thanks for the excellent video on swinging “ the crooked stick”..LOL. MIKE in Nova Scotia.
Hi Brendan first thanks for promoting this trainer. To me the main advantage that I get from it is I now am totally in Balance throughout the swing and as a result I can increase my swing speed and still maintain my balance. Also it helped me with my grip. As it was necessary to modify it slightly for a proper swing. It also helped with tempo. I think this is linked with balance, although I wouldn't have thought that would be the case. In short, everything I do a session with the GEM I feel like I'm getting a lesson from a great pro.
This training aid has been out for awhile now and I truly believe this is THE BEST training aid there is to understand the "slotting" of the downswing and closing the face in the golf swing. I hope you keep up with this swing idea.
@@swisstrader yes, I do. I bought it as a training aid for my son who was having trouble understanding the idea of letting the handle of the club drop into the "slot" and squaring, and or, closing the face.
@@swisstrader we actually just went out again today and it was really clicking for him. He was saying that the idea of dropping the weighted ball (also handle of club) down and toward his.....uhhhhhhh...... below his zipper, is a nice way to put it (haha) really helped him. I do think you kinda have to understand what the GEM is trying to help you feel, in order to get the maximum benefit from it.
Hi Brendan. Those swings look good. As for the shut to open thing, that seems like what Malaska teaches which is obviously a way to do it. Open to closed is an older way to do it. I think that both can be done, the point is that what he is describing is someone who does that and doesn’t play good consistent golf. Either way open to closed or closed to open, we have to be able to organize our swing and unload forces at the right time in a repeatable manner. Some will be better suited to open to closed and vice versa. Either way, some of those swings were the best I’ve seen in a while. Seems to help you! Be well, Alan
One of the things with the Malaska move is that the handle pivots around the lead leg, rather than getting dragged around. When you didn’t overswing those were awesome.
Great video. Very well explained. I actually made one of these with a grounding clamp, a piece of threaded rod and a few washers screwed onto the end as the counterweight. Exact same effect. I think it cost me 6 or 7 bucks at Home Depot.
I have to say that when I saw the price (150 bucks) for this, it caused me to wonder what I could buy at HD to build my own. I'm really grateful you posted this as it points me in all the right directions.
@@jeffjob6995 I saw another idea posted elsewhere (reproducing ridiculously priced golf aids for 10 bucks or less is my sick hobby): A 7" pair of round-jaw vise grips attached to the bottom of the grip. Simpler and no "wobble" like the G-E-M and again, it does the EXACT same thing.
@@FlyNavy1 I went to home depot last night and bought the grounding clamp (has ridges on the inside and bites into the grip well), and a threaded rod. It's a 1/4 inch so weight is light. And now I have to figure out how many washers to use in order to get the effect of the gem. In the store, I thought just a few washers would do it but because of they are small, I might have to add more. OR... wrap some lead tape around them. The vise grip idea is even better. I think the concept of the gem is interesting and it sounds like it's productive for your swing. But $150?? He either is having them custom made in his town and he (and the machinist) are taking a staggering margin... or he went to china and they royally ripped him off on pricing to manufacture... AND he is taking a staggering margin... This isn't my first overpriced golf aid I've reproduced. I saw this swing trainer that was a golf grip with basically a cool colored rope and some kind of ball on the end. It's a tempo trainer that, if you swing too fast, the rope will not extend and it "collapses." It has a similar tempo feel to the orange whip. Go too fast and it tells you. I went to Home Depot and bought about 60" of rope for $6... went across the street to Petsmart and bought a flexible rubber ball they sell for dogs to play fetch for $5 and threaded the rope through and taped the ends together. Boom same things for 1/5th the price.
@@jeffjob6995 I guess I have about 8-10 washers on mine. I forgot to mention to get a little adapter that screws on to the end of the threaded rod right below where the washers will go. This forms a base for the washers to sit on. It looks like an elongated female nut which is also threaded. Then just find a 1/4 bolt that fits so you can change the number of washers. (All at Home Depot). The GEM guy makes them in Scotland and from what I have see (online) it's a pretty well-engineered product so I'm thinking pretty expensive to make in small quantities. I'm surprised he hasn't done a better job of marketing and his website is really bad, because the product works, hands-down. Get yourself the 7" vise grip (rounded jaw) and try it out, same position as the GEM. Would love to hear what you think.
This all sounds great. But there is no content as yours and your insights about the GEM. The website give me nothing. Can u please do more like a training protocol video? How to use? Maybe a call with the inventor or so. The results are great in your swing and i wish everyone can benefit the same way! How to hit a 8 like 180 and deloft it with a shallow AoA.
Phil, I was sceptical, met one of the inventor associates at a golf comp a few weeks ago. Got one anyway and have been doing the 10 swing protocols. As soon as you don’t feel the weight and wobbles diminish your doing it right. I think any more instructions by the maker would muddy the waters. The device is very intuitive, it’s automatic instruction! Get one and have a go, it’s less than the cost of a new wedge 🤷♂️ nothing to lose, it definitely won’t make a mess of your swing.
@@auddave100 same experience for me. No real need for a training vid. You literally just put the GEM on and start to swing and it starts to teach your hands what you should be doing to hit a fade
wow. even without the device that feel you describe really works. It gets me out of some misconception of having the face keep pointing at the ball going back I've always had
Looks great. The sound of those strikes sound really solid. Would look ever better with a slightly deeper hipturn? I got my 2 iron swingspeed up to 117 on trackman this week after watching BBG videos with DrKwon. I will Reach 120MPh next week. That is what my driver swing maxed out last month. Got my slow arm swing from Monty:)
Your you tube is probably the most interesting and informative of any I have seen …You do a great job..Now I will attempt my question again….As a player ,which one ,The Gem Or the Hack motion would you recommend to purchase first ..as far as getting “ better” quicker or understanding the swing “better”…I can not afford both at this time but I will eventually purchase both ..I’m not trying to put you in a compromised position but would appreciate
Lots of great tools! Now that many of us are into the off season, I’d love a video to recommend a series of off season training aids and protocols. Thanks!
This is exactly how Ben Hogan described his swing in his ‘5 Lessons’ book. He has a cupped left wrist on the way back (opened clubface), and then a bowed left wrist (closed clubface) on the way down.
Purchased the GEM and tried it today. The feeling I have is it opens the clubface more on the backswing and then resist closing on the downswing. Such that it strangely promotes closing the clubface when swinging a club right after removing the GEM. Watch the instructional video by the inventor. He really promotes an active wrist or hand action to close. This doesn't appear by my observation to be what Brandon feels or attempts or even demonstrates. Just my observation as I travel on my golf journey.
Hey! That pavilion is 5 blocks from my house and across the street from my "home" course...I found you through Malaska's stuff...getting better, but not consistent yet...it's a journey...
Ok tried to 'imagine' it (I have a good imagination - no time to wait for shipping); your thought of bringing the rod down between your legs (or something like that) is what made it work for me once I played with this idea. Basically it eliminates any _deliberate_ forward effort on my part, which I think is a big problem for me. If in transition I felt like I was going to drive my arms down into the Earth - using my entire body (key point for me) - I smoked it! Haven't tried driver yet. No 190 yard 8-irons; that's near PGA pro territory (I'm a humble, no-talent, elderly, 8-handicapper) - more like 150 with a 'normally' lofted, simple hunk-o-iron, club (no goo injections etc). Then it dawned on me; this may be what the "pull the chain" people are talking about? But I have to be _committed_ to the above sensation; can't just yank the arms alone down; it's like, for an instant, I'm intending to smack the shaft into the earth, between my knees, on my right side, behind the ball!. The brain then reacts - the swing becomes reactive - I see that 'squat-thing' happen (but I don't deliberately try to squat - it's a reaction). And since the goal of the swing is to contact the ball this reaction causes all the good stuff to happen. If I fail to commit 1000% to this transition intension then, well, it's as bad as a poorly timed, timing-based, swing. And there's the rub - "in the wild" it's a scary move that's gonna take a lot of time and commitment to gain confidence in it such that it becomes natural. Golf is tuff (for us mortals).
Hey Brendan, do you think this would be good for someone who has a tendency to over square the club (over rotate the face through impact with the hands/arms) as I note you suggest it somehow magically makes you swing with a body release?
My wife and I are very interested in the GEM, both are working on our game constantly. However a few years ago she had an accident and injured her wrist and now of course,. arthritis is an issue. She can still swing a club, which I'm glad. I was wondering what is the weight of the rod and ball? By the look of it she says she should be able to handle it. Thank you, love your channel.
Not sure whether I agree on your initial statement Brendon that most golfers have the clubface too shut during the takeaway, I think the opposite is true : most golfers (>90%) roll the face too open during the takeaway, which is a typical move for low handicap golfers..; in contrast your clubface is - even with the training aid- way closed during your backswing which is in line with a correct takeaway; other than that: the aid reminds me of a previous video where it was discussed that because how the clubface is built it is hard to square it or close it; your idea was to built a club which is kind of balanced,while I pointed out that there is a club which has this feature in everybody’s bag: the putter; if you do a full swing with the putter you will always automatically square up the face..; my best guess is that this aid is doing exactly the same thing as a putter would,but puts then“counter weight“ at a different position; am aware that most people,do not understand this since this is physics….and most people barely understand plus and minus😅. So you can save 120. $ for a completely useless device but use your putter instead it is already in your bag
I've bought this purely from seeing the how well you were swinging it with irons and especially driver. First range session since doing air swings at home for 2 days, (5 mins at a time)it's best I've hit driver in years, much longer and tighter dispersion.
Does this thing help with Driver swing. Been using with my irons and as i mentioned above it feels like it is flattening my swing, does the driver swing work the same and if so what are you feeling?
Hey Brendon, i just got the Gem in the mail and made a few swings with it in the garage on the way through i really feel a wobble. can you touch on what would cause the wobble. i'm sure the goal is to swing without feeling the wobble. i will continue to work with it. great video though thanks as always.
That was great info . Thanks . I would love to see a lesson with a person similar to my handicap 11 using this and seeing them improve . I’d find that. Very informative also .
Hi Brendon. The GEM came in the mail today and I just spent my first 20 mins with it. I'm a GEM Newb! But I can tell for me this is a game changer. What a feeling the feedback is in my hands and body as the club comes down before impact. This is incredible! Thanks so much for bringing this to the BE BETTER community. What a service the GEM is and what you are! Thanks Man
I believe it helps in promoting a bowed left wrist on the downswing. Your video helped reintroduce the product. Keep my fingers crossed the results look promising.
Just got the GEM delivered today. I’m really excited to try it on the range. Btw what’s a good smashfactor for Irons? I only know Driver 1,45 - 1,50 is pretty good.
I'm a bit flipper of the golf club, would this help someone like me? It seems the creators only seem to talk about how it encourages you to close the face over
Well you haven’t lied to me YET!! 😂 I went ahead and ordered the aide. I hope it works as well for me. Thanks for all your efforts to help us get better!
It’s like chopping a log but with a shallowing move. Michael Jacobs has a video “world’s strongest man” eg those things at fun fares you hit with a mallet and a bell rings 🙂 As you say, totally counter intuitive.
Stuck with a golf club like this? If it were balanced you'd have to manually square it and it would be a nightmare. Because it's top heavy that makes it turn over naturally when you swing it.
Been using this for a week or so. I feel like it's flattening my plane and forcing body movement thru swing. Is this what i'm supposed to be feeling? Also can you make a video using the Driver and the Gem? I'm wondering if the feeling should be the same, as the driver is slightly different in length, timing etc. Thanks for the video and information, it is very helpful. Keep them coming.
Is that "taking the bar and putting between my legs" move what Mike was trying to teach you 4 years ago 😉 - MALASKA MOVE IN DEPTH! Golf swing “Tipping” the shaft of shallow the shaft
brendon, i just got my gem yesterday and upon first using it i thought like you that it teaches a roll type release kinda like what tom watson teaches where the hands and forarms roll open and closed. i've been working on a pivot driven swing with a bit of a closed clubface like you showed for a while now and i have to use the gem to practice that. i'll report back after spending some time with it. i have also revisited recently the book by ted williams "the science of hitting" that i had in my collection and he talks a lot about the similarities of the golf and baseball swing and using the body to swing with, some good insight.
As soon as you said you had to see a pro to try and get it to work for you, followed by saying you had to have this weird feel of it coming down in between your legs, I thought, nah, I'm out, this is just going to be like all the other hyped up training aids that don't work for me. That's my honest reaction with no disrespect intended. I appreciate the honest review of the process and difficulties of getting it to work as this is more relatable than the idea that just swinging it will work wonders.
I just got mine in the mail but as others have stated, not much material on how to use it, drills, etc from the paperwork. They have some drills and how to use it on the site itself and so I’m going to start tomorrow with some practice swings and see how it goes.
Hogan said he rolled the club as open as he could going back so maybe modern instruction is not so smart since no modern player is as accurate as he was. This matching the spine thing seems like one of those things that sounds logical but maybe is just fashion like when everyone did the reverse c finish. Try rolling the toe way open going back and then just swing hard through the ball. It will square
This may help but when the club is toe up at P2, the face is open to the swing path, meaning the golfer has to shut the face during the downswing to avoid hitting a banana ball. That is how golfers used to be taught but timing is the big issue. I think any teaching pro will agree. Perhaps the counterweight helps in some other way. It certainly will change the physics of the swing. Different center of mass for one thing, What does Dan Martin think about it?
yeah that's interesting Brandon. I noticed once I hit scratch that my tendency was to kinda open the club on the backswing and I've always thought that was a bad thing. Guess I'll stop trying to fix that haha.
I would be interested to see how the swing motion encouraged by the GEM aid measured up against the hack motion wrist movement that was working so well. I.e, are the two producing much of the same movement?
I've been following your stuff w Monte and trying to change to a move with earlier wrist set, shorter swing, then cast/shallow. Do you think this swing aid would be conducive for feeling that sort of motion?
I wonder if the GEM guides you to the correct plane in the same way that the old Momentus club did and does: the weighted shaft makes it uncomfortable to swing the club in anything but the proper plane.
So, as a +cap player with a move in transition where my hands move slightly to the ball (slight OTT) this device will help me avoid getting too steep while not fundamentally changing my transition?
Have you tried turning it instead of saying it’s at 6 o’clock position to maybe 7 or 8 o’clock ? Do we all need to point the toe straight up ? Maybe a little less ?
Your swing has evolved Brendan, funny how this contraption makes your swing look like Milo Lines's, keep innovation alive my man . . and reach for the stars, or a perfect swing.
You said yourself you are known as a handle dragger and are finally shifting/transitioning weight properly its not surprising the "aid" has helped get the club in front and released that will equate to proper results. Its not magic, its you putting together all your lessons finally and getting beyond your own anxieties that have created body movement limitations. its cool to see a light blub moment and you finally get "it"
Brendon, do you think this is more for people who come over the top? Could it work for people who drop it inside too much and get stuck and stall the body? It seems like it promotes keeping the body turning thru, but it looks like it promotes closing the face, which I do amply when my body stalls.I can hit big pushes, but have a real hard time fading the ball. Wondering if this is better for people with the opposite problem.
For what it’s worth, elderly people and new beginners usually don’t turn through, while trying to throw the club head past the body, which it actually woun’t do. Only way to do it is crossing over turning the face down in follow throuh. The basic thing they don’t understand, that in the direction of motion arms and club stays behind and trail the turn thru the ball and only after impact passes the arms.
Watch a lot of your videos and usually believe there really isn’t any difference in your swing, maybe don’t see any difference with this either, but the sound is different, but that may just be the location of the video. Take the Gem with you and see what The Doctor and Lines say about it.
If you stand straight up and swing into backswing horizontally - the toe faces directly upwards and this is square to the arc👍 but we don’t play golf from there , so when you hold the club out in front of you and bend from the hips into golf posture - observe the clubface - it is still square to the arc now BUT the clubface faces slightly downwards! It teaches you in golf posture to have the toe facing straight up when the club shaft parallel to the ground !! Incorrect !
Steve Johnston demo'd the Gem and Ian Woosnam was on the video. He claimed that the toe should be straight up. I thought he was wrong. I agree with your post. Not only is the spine angle affecting the club face, your rotation in the down swing affects the club face.
I have the GEM. While doing air swings, feels ok on backswing but after impact on follow thru there is a terrible wobble. Obviously missing something. I guess I might be flipping. Did you experience this? Any suggestions to eliminate wobble?
I have this and it has changed my game. The key is to eliminate/minimise the wobble. For me that means holding the finish slightly open ie not flipping it closed. If you look at all the pros they rarely roll it unless they are trying to hook it.
@@BEBETTERGOLF Please address this wobble. I also got the GEM and every time I swing the club, as it's turning over you can feel the ball\weight wobble. It's really throwing me off. Thanks.
We can se that his hands are not mooving towards the ball as much. But hee need a better backswing. That 8 iron could go 195 with a deeper hipturn. And his hands will move even less towards the ball.
What are you even talking about. We are not speaking about his top position. Keep away from stuff you dont understand. btw my 2 iron swing has surpassed 122 mph on gc2. so sit down .
Need your recommendation, how close to bottom on the grip do you attach the GEM, it looks like you had yours attached to bottom of grip, other video i have seen other GEM videos and it is only up the grip is just above the bottom of the grip however, occurring to their directions that comes with product, they mentioned 5cm to 10cm, which is it?
Brendon, this aid is exactly what Malaska is teaching: over the top from the inside aka tipping the club. That’s what you are feeling in the down swing, but said you were having a hard time describing. It seems Malaska’s terms aren’t resonating with you, but you are feeling it here.
Swing looks good, I do not see a link for the GEM. I would like to check it out, I will do a search. Edit found link on you website, thanks for the discount code.
Brendon, To me it looks like your swing is a bit over the top from the inside after practicing with the GEM. That’s a move that many pros use. I would like to see you hook up with Christo Garcia in Pasadena who teaches that swing.
Looks like an interesting concept. Seen the Scott’s Steve Johnston practicing with this month’s ago. How heavy is this attached ball? Seems to be a massive one or maybe hollow 🧐 Keep up the great work! Cheers from Germany
I would like to try a slightly lighter ball like you said as well so that the FACE would HANG NEUTRAL (like on the horizon). I'll talk to Fraser about it. He is a REALLY good guy
THX for your reply! I was thinking the same way. Everyone is different, especially in feel 😊 Maybe Fraser adds a second lighter ball in a GEN 2.0 version. This one looks way to heavy for myself.
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You know you’ve gone full golf addict when your swing feel is trying to hit yourself in the nuts with a metal bar attached to a club…and yet I’m intrigued.
Well, my first range session with the GEM and it truly is “all that”.
Swung it a few times in my living room and thought it didnt feel much different from my regular swing (unsure if that was a good or bad thing), then headed off to the range on a bit of a windy, rainy day. I did the 10 practice swings (used PW), then tossed off the rod and took a real swing and time after time, baby draws and probably a good 10-15 yards longer than my normal PW….the bigger news is that each swing felt effortless, meaning I didnt try to kill it, just did the “toe up on BS, toe up on FS” mantra. Then tried same with my 5 iron…10 practice swings, then normal swing and pured probably 3-4 out of 5 shots and again effortless. I then tried with driver, which I thought would not work as well as irons, because I dont see many of the reviews mentioning driver all that much and I was just hammering my drives.
Wife then joins me on the range. She has a pretty decent swing, but absolutely hates her 7 iron (unsure why,just says she cant hit it) and I initially watch her attempting to hit it and she’s maybe 110-120 and mainly weak fades. I then have her do the routine with the GEM, and within 2-3 swings, she starts hitting baby draws and now her 7 iron is going 135-140. She’s also shocked.
Some pros and cons:
Pros:
1) you get INSTANT feedback from the GEM. Doesn’t take a millions swings to start to see results
2) Pure quality machining. It appears as if the GEM is hand tooled on a machine and made in Scotland, so not a Chinese knock off or cheaply made item
3) The release just feels unforced with the GEM. One of my biggest faults was always forcing the right hand to turn over which can weak havoc w my swing.
Cons:
1) Having to screw the long GEM rod on and off each time is a bit of a pain in the arse and initially installing the GEM is also not 1-2-3, meaning takes a couple mins. Unsure why these guys didnt use one of those push button easy on/easy off things for putting the rod on and off
2) Because the machining of the GEM is hand tooled, there were some metal burrs left on top of screw holes that could easily cut or scratch you. They need to run a sander or file the burrs
3) They should make the carry pouch both bigger and more secure. Easy for pieces to fall out and while it fits all the parts when you take the whole thing apart each time, I like keeping the metal ball attached (no reason to unattach it), but then if you leave the ball on, the rod sticks out of the carry bag….just not the best and I may try to figure out a better pouch on my own.
4) Although I read the instructions on use of the shorter rods, I’m still not sure I get when to use the longer vs the shorter rods. I just stuck with the longer one for now.
Number one thing, at least for me, is doing the “toe up on the BS and toe up on follow through” and just letting the club release more naturally. Just let the club release, meaning dont force anything.
All that being said, this is EASILY my best purchase of a training aid for golf Ive ever seen after 30 years of playing this great game. Playing a round tomorrow so will see how it translates to the course, but that’s on me, not the GEM😊
I will post the same thing on the STeve Johnson’s YT channel as well. .
Thanks for your feedback, Paulie! I'll pass your comment on to management.
@@GemGolf For con number 1, maybe have the gem on a 9i, practice swing, then hit your PW for the full shot so that you dont have to keep unscrewing?
Great review. Brendan, if you have not already accessed this, please see Good Golf Coaching by Stuart Cartwright and his instruction on downward pressuring of the handle through delivery and impact. I think this training aid relates to Stuart's ideas and his yard brush drill. Very much like over the top from the inside as described by Mike Malaska but better articulated.
So I got the GEM delivered and worked with it on the range like 2 times. I can’t see no long time effects right now. But it seems to work. It gives me a good feel with the counter balance weight in back and downswing how to deliver the club on the right way into the Ball. Then it feels very light and the club and weight seems to be delivered in the right way. The awkward feel is right at impact with it when hands and club with the extra weight gets closed or flipped over at impact. This ghost like feel and motion at impact seems to get transferred into the swing and sticks for a while. Afterwards especially when I recently lost my feel for contact and lowpoint after the ball it seems to help to get a crisper contact through ball and then turf. Pretty awesome compressed iron shots like the should be. Okay. The thing is that it sticks and there are long term effects.
Thanks for your support, Bernd!
Brendon, this counter balance feeling is awesome. The heavier the counter balance feels the more lag angle you can produce. It's like the Alex Noran, Mike Malaska move. This has to be what they're talking about, but Malaska particularly does not get his message out in a way that resonates, it's misinterpreted as tumbling the clubhead outside the hands. If you just tumble the clubhead without the counter balance, it's OTT city. The counter balance is the missing link.
I’ve had the GEM since June…I really like it. The one point I think you’ve failed to mention or possible didn’t notice, was the fact that the weight of the GEM really helps organize your weight shift synchronizing with the swing better.
Good comment, I ordered one, I need more of that in my swing and less relying on my arms for speed and wrists and hands to square the face. He did say I believe the GEM helps to square the club face with your body not your hands.
Do you think a GEM would work for someone who doesn’t come over the top, but instead comes from the inside and stalls their body and tends to draw? Or is it more for slicers?
@@grgr5465 I would think so (JMHO), with the excess counter weight it should help with getting the body involved with any swing you have. I am not an over the top swinger, I am one who stalls with a flip to try and square the face thu impact. From the look of Bendon's swing it has helped him very much, I ordered it in hopes it will help me.
@@jteddy11 I do believe it will. The GEM is all about how you release the club.
How an I buy
I was sceptical of this at first, but I got one and have been using it for several weeks now, and it is hands down the best golf aid I have used - before the GEM came to my rescue, I was getting really frustrated with my lack of consistency.....not any more though. As well as hitting the ball farther than before, I am also consistently hitting it with much more accuracy.
Really glad I have this in my bag.
If you think about what we pay for golf fees, lessons, clubs etc - in my opinion, it is definitely worth a go.
Thank you for the great feedback, David!
I have watched you for quite a few years and I have to say the swings you were making in the indoor facility with the 8 iron look fantastic. You were so open at impact yet the club was still coming from inside with no over the top move. It looked like a very low effort swing as well but obviously with the 170 yard plus carry the club head was moving. Great effort. Thanks for the video.
Thanks 👍
The last two minutes answered all my questions about the apparent contradiction between toe up vs matching spine angle. Thanks so much for throwing in the last section!
I wrote the code slightly long in this video the CODE is BBGOLF10 . (I accidentally wrote a space in the video)
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Brendon, look at your swing (slow it down with keys) at 10min mark, great swing and you had the butt end disappearing around your body, you started to worry about path and took it more down the line (Moe like) and had to get wristy. JMHO that 10min mark swing was your best, more reliable less timing involved, and you felt you went easy at the ball, more compression. I am excited about this GEM thing, I too am wristy.
Interesting thing. I have been fiddling around with that same. It does feel quite weird to open the face (a bit) during take away. Pointing to the sky. It will help to draw the ball.Perhaps will try the thing as well. Btw: I think that yellow swingaid thing can pronounce it as well. Btw2: the price @120 is a bit ridiculous I must say. And is a showstopper. That piece of kit only costs max 10€ to make.
" ... the face is bent up all weird". Well stated. I find that if the club opens some in the back swing it leads to two good things (in my swing anyway): 1) a shallower thru swing plane and 2) it puts my trail hand/wrist in "better" position for the release (extension --> flexion of trail wrist).
Hi Brendan, I've been following your channel for a few years now and I have to say this “GEM” has got you swinging the best I've seen yet. Those looked more like Milo in the follow through and the results seem to bear this out. 190 yards with an 8 iron! Whoa. I ordered mine months ago ,got it , but never really gave it a fair shake..you definitely have piqued my interest and I will definitely be swinging the Gem tomorrow. Cheers and thanks for the excellent video on swinging “ the crooked stick”..LOL. MIKE in Nova Scotia.
Give it a fair shot. Thanks MIke!
what's your results with it now cheers
The lay off move in transition is world class and almost the complete opposite of your old action. Love the video's.
I like your series where you meet with different instructors and learn their techniques--- you should check out Marcus Edblad
Hi Brendan first thanks for promoting this trainer. To me the main advantage that I get from it is I now am totally in Balance throughout the swing and as a result I can increase my swing speed and still maintain my balance.
Also it helped me with my grip. As it was necessary to modify it slightly for a proper swing.
It also helped with tempo. I think this is linked with balance, although I wouldn't have thought that would be the case.
In short, everything I do a session with the GEM I feel like I'm getting a lesson from a great pro.
Nail on head! Took my GEM out yesterday during a range session. I love the feedback I receive each time I swing the club. Game changer.
@@dr.dre-1024 Thanks for your support!
This training aid has been out for awhile now and I truly believe this is THE BEST training aid there is to understand the "slotting" of the downswing and closing the face in the golf swing. I hope you keep up with this swing idea.
Do you have one?
@@swisstrader yes, I do. I bought it as a training aid for my son who was having trouble understanding the idea of letting the handle of the club drop into the "slot" and squaring, and or, closing the face.
@@MrBlacksharpie thanks! How’s it going for your son?
@@swisstrader we actually just went out again today and it was really clicking for him. He was saying that the idea of dropping the weighted ball (also handle of club) down and toward his.....uhhhhhhh...... below his zipper, is a nice way to put it (haha) really helped him. I do think you kinda have to understand what the GEM is trying to help you feel, in order to get the maximum benefit from it.
@@MrBlacksharpie perfect explanation. Just ordered it! Thanks
Hi Brendan. Those swings look good.
As for the shut to open thing, that seems like what Malaska teaches which is obviously a way to do it. Open to closed is an older way to do it. I think that both can be done, the point is that what he is describing is someone who does that and doesn’t play good consistent golf. Either way open to closed or closed to open, we have to be able to organize our swing and unload forces at the right time in a repeatable manner. Some will be better suited to open to closed and vice versa.
Either way, some of those swings were the best I’ve seen in a while. Seems to help you!
Be well, Alan
One of the things with the Malaska move is that the handle pivots around the lead leg, rather than getting dragged around. When you didn’t overswing those were awesome.
Great video. Very well explained. I actually made one of these with a grounding clamp, a piece of threaded rod and a few washers screwed onto the end as the counterweight. Exact same effect. I think it cost me 6 or 7 bucks at Home Depot.
I have to say that when I saw the price (150 bucks) for this, it caused me to wonder what I could buy at HD to build my own. I'm really grateful you posted this as it points me in all the right directions.
@@jeffjob6995 I saw another idea posted elsewhere (reproducing ridiculously priced golf aids for 10 bucks or less is my sick hobby): A 7" pair of round-jaw vise grips attached to the bottom of the grip. Simpler and no "wobble" like the G-E-M and again, it does the EXACT same thing.
@@FlyNavy1 I went to home depot last night and bought the grounding clamp (has ridges on the inside and bites into the grip well), and a threaded rod. It's a 1/4 inch so weight is light. And now I have to figure out how many washers to use in order to get the effect of the gem. In the store, I thought just a few washers would do it but because of they are small, I might have to add more. OR... wrap some lead tape around them.
The vise grip idea is even better. I think the concept of the gem is interesting and it sounds like it's productive for your swing. But $150?? He either is having them custom made in his town and he (and the machinist) are taking a staggering margin... or he went to china and they royally ripped him off on pricing to manufacture... AND he is taking a staggering margin...
This isn't my first overpriced golf aid I've reproduced. I saw this swing trainer that was a golf grip with basically a cool colored rope and some kind of ball on the end. It's a tempo trainer that, if you swing too fast, the rope will not extend and it "collapses." It has a similar tempo feel to the orange whip. Go too fast and it tells you.
I went to Home Depot and bought about 60" of rope for $6... went across the street to Petsmart and bought a flexible rubber ball they sell for dogs to play fetch for $5 and threaded the rope through and taped the ends together. Boom same things for 1/5th the price.
@@jeffjob6995 I guess I have about 8-10 washers on mine. I forgot to mention to get a little adapter that screws on to the end of the threaded rod right below where the washers will go. This forms a base for the washers to sit on. It looks like an elongated female nut which is also threaded. Then just find a 1/4 bolt that fits so you can change the number of washers. (All at Home Depot). The GEM guy makes them in Scotland and from what I have see (online) it's a pretty well-engineered product so I'm thinking pretty expensive to make in small quantities. I'm surprised he hasn't done a better job of marketing and his website is really bad, because the product works, hands-down. Get yourself the 7" vise grip (rounded jaw) and try it out, same position as the GEM. Would love to hear what you think.
@@FlyNavy1 the more I think about it, the more I think the vise grip idea is far superior. Buy it... clamp it on...
This all sounds great. But there is no content as yours and your insights about the GEM. The website give me nothing. Can u please do more like a training protocol video? How to use? Maybe a call with the inventor or so. The results are great in your swing and i wish everyone can benefit the same way! How to hit a 8 like 180 and deloft it with a shallow AoA.
Phil, I was sceptical, met one of the inventor associates at a golf comp a few weeks ago.
Got one anyway and have been doing the 10 swing protocols.
As soon as you don’t feel the weight and wobbles diminish your doing it right. I think any more instructions by the maker would muddy the waters.
The device is very intuitive, it’s automatic instruction! Get one and have a go, it’s less than the cost of a new wedge 🤷♂️ nothing to lose, it definitely won’t make a mess of your swing.
@@auddave100 same experience for me. No real need for a training vid. You literally just put the GEM on and start to swing and it starts to teach your hands what you should be doing to hit a fade
wow. even without the device that feel you describe really works. It gets me out of some misconception of having the face keep pointing at the ball going back I've always had
Looks great. The sound of those strikes sound really solid. Would look ever better with a slightly deeper hipturn? I got my 2 iron swingspeed up to 117 on trackman this week after watching BBG videos with DrKwon. I will Reach 120MPh next week. That is what my driver swing maxed out last month. Got my slow arm swing from Monty:)
Go for it!
Your you tube is probably the most interesting and informative of any I have seen …You do a great job..Now I will attempt my question again….As a player ,which one ,The Gem Or the Hack motion would you recommend to purchase first ..as far as getting “ better” quicker or understanding the swing “better”…I can not afford both at this time but I will eventually purchase both ..I’m not trying to put you in a compromised position but would appreciate
You can actually make your own.
Lots of great tools! Now that many of us are into the off season, I’d love a video to recommend a series of off season training aids and protocols. Thanks!
This is exactly how Ben Hogan described his swing in his ‘5 Lessons’ book. He has a cupped left wrist on the way back (opened clubface), and then a bowed left wrist (closed clubface) on the way down.
Purchased the GEM and tried it today. The feeling I have is it opens the clubface more on the backswing and then resist closing on the downswing. Such that it strangely promotes closing the clubface when swinging a club right after removing the GEM. Watch the instructional video by the inventor. He really promotes an active wrist or hand action to close. This doesn't appear by my observation to be what Brandon feels or attempts or even demonstrates. Just my observation as I travel on my golf journey.
Thanks for your support, Greggy!
Hey! That pavilion is 5 blocks from my house and across the street from my "home" course...I found you through Malaska's stuff...getting better, but not consistent yet...it's a journey...
You’ll see me there I’m at Rex every day pretty much
Ok tried to 'imagine' it (I have a good imagination - no time to wait for shipping); your thought of bringing the rod down between your legs (or something like that) is what made it work for me once I played with this idea. Basically it eliminates any _deliberate_ forward effort on my part, which I think is a big problem for me.
If in transition I felt like I was going to drive my arms down into the Earth - using my entire body (key point for me) - I smoked it! Haven't tried driver yet. No 190 yard 8-irons; that's near PGA pro territory (I'm a humble, no-talent, elderly, 8-handicapper) - more like 150 with a 'normally' lofted, simple hunk-o-iron, club (no goo injections etc).
Then it dawned on me; this may be what the "pull the chain" people are talking about? But I have to be _committed_ to the above sensation; can't just yank the arms alone down; it's like, for an instant, I'm intending to smack the shaft into the earth, between my knees, on my right side, behind the ball!.
The brain then reacts - the swing becomes reactive - I see that 'squat-thing' happen (but I don't deliberately try to squat - it's a reaction). And since the goal of the swing is to contact the ball this reaction causes all the good stuff to happen. If I fail to commit 1000% to this transition intension then, well, it's as bad as a poorly timed, timing-based, swing. And there's the rub - "in the wild" it's a scary move that's gonna take a lot of time and commitment to gain confidence in it such that it becomes natural.
Golf is tuff (for us mortals).
Hey Brendan, do you think this would be good for someone who has a tendency to over square the club (over rotate the face through impact with the hands/arms) as I note you suggest it somehow magically makes you swing with a body release?
My wife and I are very interested in the GEM, both are working on our game constantly. However a few years ago she had an accident and injured her wrist and now of course,. arthritis is an issue. She can still swing a club, which I'm glad. I was wondering what is the weight of the rod and ball? By the look of it she says she should be able to handle it. Thank you, love your channel.
Not sure whether I agree on your initial statement Brendon that most golfers have the clubface too shut during the takeaway, I think the opposite is true : most golfers (>90%) roll the face too open during the takeaway, which is a typical move for low handicap golfers..; in contrast your clubface is - even with the training aid- way closed during your backswing which is in line with a correct takeaway; other than that: the aid reminds me of a previous video where it was discussed that because how the clubface is built it is hard to square it or close it; your idea was to built a club which is kind of balanced,while I pointed out that there is a club which has this feature in everybody’s bag: the putter; if you do a full swing with the putter you will always automatically square up the face..; my best guess is that this aid is doing exactly the same thing as a putter would,but puts then“counter weight“ at a different position; am aware that most people,do not understand this since this is physics….and most people barely understand plus and minus😅. So you can save 120. $ for a completely useless device but use your putter instead it is already in your bag
I've bought this purely from seeing the how well you were swinging it with irons and especially driver. First range session since doing air swings at home for 2 days, (5 mins at a time)it's best I've hit driver in years, much longer and tighter dispersion.
Thanks for your support,Anthony!
Does this thing help with Driver swing. Been using with my irons and as i mentioned above it feels like it is flattening my swing, does the driver swing work the same and if so what are you feeling?
Hey Brendon, i just got the Gem in the mail and made a few swings with it in the garage on the way through i really feel a wobble. can you touch on what would cause the wobble. i'm sure the goal is to swing without feeling the wobble. i will continue to work with it. great video though thanks as always.
Thanks for your support, Jim!
That was great info . Thanks . I would love to see a lesson with a person similar to my handicap 11 using this and seeing them improve . I’d find that. Very informative also .
Yeah it is meant for slicers to start but Basically everyone is gaining from it
@@BEBETTERGOLF id be willing to be your “scooper” example if you’d like.
Brandon, your demo of the swing aid kinda echoes Malaska’s swing move.
Hi Brendon. The GEM came in the mail today and I just spent my first 20 mins with it. I'm a GEM Newb! But I can tell for me this is a game changer. What a feeling the feedback is in my hands and body as the club comes down before impact. This is incredible! Thanks so much for bringing this to the BE BETTER community. What a service the GEM is and what you are! Thanks Man
Thanks Adam!
Thank you for your support, Adam!
You are closed upon your takeaway and you dip/lunge toward the ball
Your swing looks great. Has the layoff and bowed wrist in the down swing because of the GEM? do you have a before an after swing comparison?
I believe it helps in promoting a bowed left wrist on the downswing. Your video helped reintroduce the product. Keep my fingers crossed the results look promising.
Just got the GEM delivered today. I’m really excited to try it on the range. Btw what’s a good smashfactor for Irons? I only know Driver 1,45 - 1,50 is pretty good.
Thanks for your support, Bernd!
I'm a bit flipper of the golf club, would this help someone like me? It seems the creators only seem to talk about how it encourages you to close the face over
Well you haven’t lied to me YET!! 😂 I went ahead and ordered the aide. I hope it works as well for me. Thanks for all your efforts to help us get better!
Update?
Let us know how you get on!
Thanks for your support, J!
It’s like chopping a log but with a shallowing move. Michael Jacobs has a video “world’s strongest man” eg those things at fun fares you hit with a mallet and a bell rings 🙂 As you say, totally counter intuitive.
Stuck with a golf club like this? If it were balanced you'd have to manually square it and it would be a nightmare. Because it's top heavy that makes it turn over naturally when you swing it.
Been using this for a week or so. I feel like it's flattening my plane and forcing body movement thru swing. Is this what i'm supposed to be feeling? Also can you make a video using the Driver and the Gem? I'm wondering if the feeling should be the same, as the driver is slightly different in length, timing etc. Thanks for the video and information, it is very helpful. Keep them coming.
Is that "taking the bar and putting between my legs" move what Mike was trying to teach you 4 years ago 😉 - MALASKA MOVE IN DEPTH! Golf swing “Tipping” the shaft of shallow the shaft
brendon, i just got my gem yesterday and upon first using it i thought like you that it teaches a roll type release kinda like what tom watson teaches where the hands and forarms roll open and closed. i've been working on a pivot driven swing with a bit of a closed clubface like you showed for a while now and i have to use the gem to practice that. i'll report back after spending some time with it. i have also revisited recently the book by ted williams "the science of hitting" that i had in my collection and he talks a lot about the similarities of the golf and baseball swing and using the body to swing with, some good insight.
As soon as you said you had to see a pro to try and get it to work for you, followed by saying you had to have this weird feel of it coming down in between your legs, I thought, nah, I'm out, this is just going to be like all the other hyped up training aids that don't work for me.
That's my honest reaction with no disrespect intended.
I appreciate the honest review of the process and difficulties of getting it to work as this is more relatable than the idea that just swinging it will work wonders.
I just got mine in the mail but as others have stated, not much material on how to use it, drills, etc from the paperwork. They have some drills and how to use it on the site itself and so I’m going to start tomorrow with some practice swings and see how it goes.
Thanks for your feedback MM, i'll pass your comment on to management.
I took your advice and ordered one - will let you know how it works for me.
Thx Peter!
Thank you for your support, Peter!
I would appreciate an answer if it’s not asking too much..I like both Training aids just trying to figure out which one to purchase first
Hogan said he rolled the club as open as he could going back so maybe modern instruction is not so smart since no modern player is as accurate as he was. This matching the spine thing seems like one of those things that sounds logical but maybe is just fashion like when everyone did the reverse c finish. Try rolling the toe way open going back and then just swing hard through the ball. It will square
That ball striking was impressive. I may have to try out at some point.
You should!
Best swings I’ve seen you make.
This may help but when the club is toe up at P2, the face is open to the swing path, meaning the golfer has to shut the face during the downswing to avoid hitting a banana ball. That is how golfers used to be taught but timing is the big issue. I think any teaching pro will agree. Perhaps the counterweight helps in some other way. It certainly will change the physics of the swing. Different center of mass for one thing, What does Dan Martin think about it?
yeah that's interesting Brandon. I noticed once I hit scratch that my tendency was to kinda open the club on the backswing and I've always thought that was a bad thing. Guess I'll stop trying to fix that haha.
Great content! I ordered one directly
Hope you enjoy it!
Thank you for your support Lars!
I would be interested to see how the swing motion encouraged by the GEM aid measured up against the hack motion wrist movement that was working so well.
I.e, are the two producing much of the same movement?
Just ordered one and used your code. Looking forward to it.
Thanks for your support, Jeff!
I've been following your stuff w Monte and trying to change to a move with earlier wrist set, shorter swing, then cast/shallow. Do you think this swing aid would be conducive for feeling that sort of motion?
It would not be counterproductive but squaring the face really early up at the top has been problematic for me you have to do it the right way
Good stuff. Seems similar to the way Malaska teaches the club pivot. Would love to hear him speak on it
I’ll ask Mike To come back on
The counterweight is designed to give you a toe up to toe up motion of the clubhead. It looks like you fight this on the release.
I don’t have it 💯 yet u r right
Couldn't one make those air swings with the club head hanging down for a similar feel?
Supination of left arm will do the trick for free:) Johnny Revolta used to advise: "supinate both arms". Nice backdrop BTW. I miss LB
I wonder if the GEM guides you to the correct plane in the same way that the old Momentus club did and does: the weighted shaft makes it uncomfortable to swing the club in anything but the proper plane.
So, as a +cap player with a move in transition where my hands move slightly to the ball (slight OTT) this device will help me avoid getting too steep while not fundamentally changing my transition?
Have you tried turning it instead of saying it’s at 6 o’clock position to maybe 7 or 8 o’clock ? Do we all need to point the toe straight up ? Maybe a little less ?
Your swing has evolved Brendan, funny how this contraption makes your swing look like Milo Lines's, keep innovation alive my man . . and reach for the stars, or a perfect swing.
Thx TT
You said yourself you are known as a handle dragger and are finally shifting/transitioning weight properly its not surprising the "aid" has helped get the club in front and released that will equate to proper results. Its not magic, its you putting together all your lessons finally and getting beyond your own anxieties that have created body movement limitations. its cool to see a light blub moment and you finally get "it"
Brendon, do you think this is more for people who come over the top? Could it work for people who drop it inside too much and get stuck and stall the body? It seems like it promotes keeping the body turning thru, but it looks like it promotes closing the face, which I do amply when my body stalls.I can hit big pushes, but have a real hard time fading the ball. Wondering if this is better for people with the opposite problem.
Your best golf swing compared to past videos.
For what it’s worth, elderly people and new beginners usually don’t turn through, while trying to throw the club head past the body, which it actually woun’t do. Only way to do it is crossing over turning the face down in follow throuh.
The basic thing they don’t understand, that in the direction of motion arms and club stays behind and trail the turn thru the ball and only after impact passes the arms.
Watch a lot of your videos and usually believe there really isn’t any difference in your swing, maybe don’t see any difference with this either, but the sound is different, but that may just be the location of the video.
Take the Gem with you and see what The Doctor and Lines say about it.
Swing looks great
Thx ND
If you stand straight up and swing into backswing horizontally - the toe faces directly upwards and this is square to the arc👍 but we don’t play golf from there , so when you hold the club out in front of you and bend from the hips into golf posture - observe the clubface - it is still square to the arc now BUT the clubface faces slightly downwards! It teaches you in golf posture to have the toe facing straight up when the club shaft parallel to the ground !! Incorrect !
Steve Johnston demo'd the Gem and Ian Woosnam was on the video. He claimed that the toe should be straight up. I thought he was wrong. I agree with your post. Not only is the spine angle affecting the club face, your rotation in the down swing affects the club face.
I have been thinking about the GEM for a couple months now z you convinced me. Thanks for the discount!
Happy to help!
Thanks for your support, Mark!
Did you use the two short rods? Interested in your opinion, did they bring any further improvement to your impact or do they bring no extra value?
Short rod is a visual aid to square the face. it helps but the medium rod really is good for my swing.
Did you not address something similar with gripping down and counterbalance making a shot feel more intuitive? Maybe with Milo a good while ago?
I have the GEM. While doing air swings, feels ok on backswing but after impact on follow thru there is a terrible wobble. Obviously missing something. I guess I might be flipping.
Did you experience this? Any suggestions to eliminate wobble?
I’ll ask Fraser. I also wobble it sometimes and sometimes I don’t. Have to figure out what I am doing differently
I have this and it has changed my game. The key is to eliminate/minimise the wobble. For me that means holding the finish slightly open ie not flipping it closed. If you look at all the pros they rarely roll it unless they are trying to hook it.
Thank you Alan i will give this a try.
@@BEBETTERGOLF Please address this wobble. I also got the GEM and every time I swing the club, as it's turning over you can feel the ball\weight wobble. It's really throwing me off. Thanks.
Tks Brendon,great info
Thx Stoney
That device makes your swing “come over from the inside” like Malaska
On the way… I’ll let you know how it works out. The 10% off was icing on the cake!
As a closed face player who struggles with the hooks would this aid be good at feeling what a square or open face would feel like ?
Yes it would for sure
Wondering how the Hackmotion device would record the GEM device? Try it with someone not familiar with either device.
I will make this video because a lot of people are asking for this it definitely is changing something about the wrists
Definitely contact Mike malaska and see what he says about it, because before you mentioned Mike Malaska I thought that Mike would love this tool
We can se that his hands are not mooving towards the ball as much. But hee need a better backswing. That 8 iron could go 195 with a deeper hipturn. And his hands will move even less towards the ball.
@@matt8004 I don’t see issues with that backspin. That swing looks amazing, and it’s far. People shouldn’t always try to be perfect Adam Scott.
What are you even talking about. We are not speaking about his top position. Keep away from stuff you dont understand. btw my 2 iron swing has surpassed 122 mph on gc2. so sit down .
Need your recommendation, how close to bottom on the grip do you attach the GEM, it looks like you had yours attached to bottom of grip, other video i have seen other GEM videos and it is only up the grip is just above the bottom of the grip however, occurring to their directions that comes with product, they mentioned 5cm to 10cm, which is it?
Just bought the Precision Impact…can you review…I’ll keep the one you prefer…
Ordered mine today.
Your new swing looks like the John Ericsson ABS move.
Brendon, this aid is exactly what Malaska is teaching: over the top from the inside aka tipping the club. That’s what you are feeling in the down swing, but said you were having a hard time describing. It seems Malaska’s terms aren’t resonating with you, but you are feeling it here.
Would love to see Brendon go back to Malaska for validation on what Gem does,
in relation to what Mike was trying to tell him in previous meetings.
Swing looks good, I do not see a link for the GEM. I would like to check it out, I will do a search. Edit found link on you website, thanks for the discount code.
Thanks for your support jteddy11!
What was the result with the Driver? Curious as thats the only club ive been struggling with lately
I must be using wrong. I will a big wobble when I do the exercise. Feels like I"m fighting the club. Tips?
that's interesting. I once imagined a device like that to help feel square.
Right before you said it reminded you of Malaska, I thought it was like Malaska. Crazy.
tumble move that doesn't actually steepen. Weird
@@BEBETTERGOLF a la the "Malaska Tip". Well done breaking par, by the way. Where did you do that?
Did you see more consistency in face control by using the gem? Tighter face to path std deviation?
Yeah way more stable
Thank you Brandon, for what are the different sizes? What are your thoughts?
It come with a king medium and short. Medium on a 8 iron is perfect for me
180 yd 8 iron ..I can only wish..👍
Brendon, To me it looks like your swing is a bit over the top from the inside after practicing with the GEM. That’s a move that many pros use. I would like to see you hook up with Christo Garcia in Pasadena who teaches that swing.
Looks like an interesting concept. Seen the Scott’s Steve Johnston practicing with this month’s ago.
How heavy is this attached ball? Seems to be a massive one or maybe hollow 🧐
Keep up the great work!
Cheers from Germany
I would like to try a slightly lighter ball like you said as well so that the FACE would HANG NEUTRAL (like on the horizon). I'll talk to Fraser about it. He is a REALLY good guy
THX for your reply!
I was thinking the same way. Everyone is different, especially in feel 😊
Maybe Fraser adds a second lighter ball in a GEN 2.0 version. This one looks way to heavy for myself.