I can appreciate that this move is not for everyone, but Mike's philosophy has proven to be the missing puzzle piece for me, erasing 18 months of absolutely ridiculous swing thoughts. Having pretty solid hand/eye and getting into the self taught TH-cam golf instructor world of hitting certain magical spots to achieve a sought after golf swing has been maddening. The Malaska Cam video of the hand/wrist path as well as a few other of his fundamental videos have proven to be the holy grail for me. Stack and Tilt made sense for me and felt repeatable and like I was using my body's full power potential. Not the case! So much tension, the difference is night and day. Unreal the rabbit holes we go down. Thank you Mike! Looking forward to getting down to Arizona for a lesson sometime in the near future.
Loved your questions of Mike because those are the swing thoughts and downswing moves you talk about are the ones we think we must do. I wish you could have had Mike demonstrate how Dr. Kwon’s swinging with speed would work with his “standing the club up.”
I watched Bobby Clampett play in college and he had it all . I watched him as a pro and he got so shallow he couldn't break 75 . Never could believe someone so good could destroy his game so thoroughly . He is a great guy but boy could he play at 20 years old but lost it all getting flatter and flatter . I played at Wake Forest in 80s and later was a PGA club pro . The flatter and more shallow you get the less time and distance the clubhead gets on the target line . Love your videos .
So are you saying it's ok to be steep with the driver? That's always been a problem for me being too steep and then over the top and then hitting it 2 way miss
not at all but try finding some videos of Bobby Clampett almost leading the US Open as an amateur and compare to the last couple years he was on tour He was so flat it was ridiculous and truthfully I have never seen anyone so flat .
My college roommate at San Diego State played w' Clampett in high school and we also witnessed an incredible college player get 'lost in swing mechanics'. I remember seeing him at Torrey Pines (BYU) then Torrey again a few years later and Ben Doyle said Bobby was trying to draw it and fade it at the Same time! Bobby said he was just trying to mimic Mark O'Meara' flat action saying Mark was the best ball striker in the world however even Mark would later go more upright which was his natural move.
I've watched golf lesson clips till my eyes almost bleed. After 25 years this is the best video I've EVER watched. I feel like I've FINALLY know how to swing a golf club. I'm a believer this makes so much sense. I only wish I'd of known this move years ago. Thanks Mike!!!!
I first saw it this morning before I went to the driving range at first I was hesitant in trying it, but after a bucket trying the one I wanted to do I got frustrated and decided to try what Mike M. Is saying and on my first swing I didn’t feel any stress and it was smooth. Bought 2 more large bucket and kept on using the same swing. Hopefully I won’t forget this. Thanks Mike
This video should watched by every struggling golfer. I'm a 16 handicap aiming to get to single figures and have not just plateaued but got worse this year. After just one range session i shot 49/39 & 46/37...I rarely shoot under 40 for 9 holes, now I've done it twice in a week. Delivering the club this way has fixed my slice and early extension caused from the shallowing drills taught on other channels. NEVER going back.
Just wow! I finally experienced the Malaska move at the range. I am completely in shock of what happened. I'm pretty sure I increased my clubhead speed by at least 10mph. It feels so natural like I'm throwing a ball from the normal upright position. Other teachers teach "a throw" but its more of an underhand throw. To me, this actuallly feels like you are throwing a pitch from your natural position to the side of your body (over the top from the inside). Mike is so dead on also, when he says that once your drop your hands down you can fire as hard as you want. This man has change my golf game forever. I always wondered why I couldn't hit my drives as far as I knew I could and it was because every teacher/golf pro told me that I needed to come from the inside. That same old in to out , in to out, in to out, blah blah blah.... This whole time I have been fighting the natural physics/momentum of the club head!!! My 8 iron replaced my 6 iron in distance with one damn move! Thanks a million Mike Malaska! Absolute genius!
I struggle with unthinking the wrists early, flipping a little too early, losing lag and distance. You can get away with it on driver cause the ball is teed up and maybe you leave yourself a shot out of another fairway even if you off plane. But with irons this makes it so much easier to understand
@@ryankinman199 remember… he’s “showing” the feel. Hands at waist level, shaft pointed at the ball, ‘bump’ the left hand (right hand is the fulcrum) so the club head moves to the outside of the hands. This ‘bump’ helps keep the club head, throughout the swing, on line, shallow, and doesn’t change the momentum. It is actual effortless power, no back/hip strain. This move is better than Harvey Penick’s
Complete game changer, tipping the club and rotating feels exactly like taking a hammer to a nail now. Shot first round under par two rounds after implementing this. Thank you Mike!
The malaska move is perfect. People who criticize it don’t understand it. I hit the best shots of my life with it. Long penetrating draws. Consistent too.
Mike, You are the only instructor I have ever watched that doesn’t try to confuse the swing and tells us golfers how with feel instead of how with positions like most instructors. You make it simple and easy to understand! Thank You!!
I am so glad that I accidentally clicked on one Mike Malaska video that led me to all of these and really help my golf 2000% . Thanks guys for these videos on what is a easy consistent golf swing that almost seems to effortless to be a real swing but boy does it work .
Hey Mike! I'm almost 63 and have been playing and teaching for almost 40 years. I turned pro in 1982 and carded first mini tour win in 1984. I've studied with some great teachers and players and have never stopped learning and want you to know that this is genius. The feeling of tipping the club in the downswing is something I've been accidentally experimenting with for sometime. Your explanation has clarified many things especially what I've been feeling while practicing the decent of my hands and arms with my back to the target. Staying turned away and allowing the hands and arms to come down is so important. You have refined my concept and made me a better teacher and player. Thanks so much, Rex.
Mike is absolutely the best. I never heard of him before coming across one of his videos by chance 3 weeks ago. His lessons have instantly improved my game. I’m sure there may be some other instructors that are just as good, but Mike’s info is a gold mine!
He keeps it simple. Everyone else dissects every position and this makes you think too much. With Mike, the parts of the swing fall in place naturally. Without overthinking.
I just had the "I can't believe it's this simple" moment after drilling this move with progressively faster swings. Getting the hands out front with this move is so much more natural feeling than other hands forward swing tips that I've tried. Hands out in front, turn as hard as you want, don't try to manipulate with your hands through impact. Amazing!!! Thank you!!!
Mike I'm 62 years young, been playing golf since college this method of directing the momentum down and out is unbelievable been struggling to shallow the club finally realized shallow the hands and the momentum of the club will take care of itself .JUST ROTATE. Last two rounds 68 and 70. Thanks Mike I think I can enjoy golf again.
Mike knows more about the swing then any other person I ever heard talking about it. Its a counterintuitive move, by doing it I actually shallowed out my path. Couldn't believe it myself.
Thank you for having in 4K resolution. I am big believer in Malaska! Some of my best days of driving the golf ball have been exactly what Malaska preaches here. Keep up the great content!
This video and others on the “ Malaska Move” are a game changing revelation! Everyone who struggles with golf needs to watch this and Mike's other videos on the L to L drills and once you get it...WoW! The ball shoots off the face, with compression in an almost effortless manner. The hardest part I found was getting out of trying to muscle the club or over swinging. Just let the club run into the back of the ball and if you need more distance just club up. Your consistency will improve dramatically. I know mine did...dropped my handicap to a 9. Thanks Mike and Brendan.
I love Mike’s teaching. I am an old baseball player and have always believed the 2 swings to be identical...... the baseball swing is on horizontal plane and golf is a semi vertical plane. Mike has now validated what I “ felt.”
This explanation of the downswing feeling whilst keeping hands level is the best explanation of the downswing I have heard. The power and speed that you feel that you can generate is immense. This for me explains the Hogans three right hands comment which I have always struggled to understand. The key is the feeling of swing level.
Perhaps the best golf lesson I've ever seen. This is why so many of us struggle with golf, we're told to shallow, create lag and then can't catch the face up or if we do, we cannot catch it up square. Thanks Mike - brilliant!
I was one of those golfer who was drinking the koolaid. Lay the club down at the top of back swing to and turn hard to square the club. Yes it worked .......sometimes but not constantly. With Mike's move the feeling I have is the left shoulder drops and the right shoulder tips to tip the club on plane. I had joined Malaska one line web site a while back. As all golfer's you see something and say this can make me better......only to find you are inconsistent and go back to Mike, but I find this as a learning process I would hot understand it with out doing it wrong, I not afraid of making mistakes because you only get better with failer. Mike you are by far the best Instructor!
Mike, you explain this better than anyone else Ive heard. ...keeping the swing as efficient as possible using the natural forces in play. Your square wrist thru-the-impact-zone explanation and the forces in the legs (how and when to use them) has transformed my game.
This works so well for me. I was stuck a lot due to my misconception about swinging inside out. And, I suspect like Mike, I was a good athlete, with a baseball and basketball background. So, with good hand eye, I could time my flip reasonably well somedays such that I could shoot mid 70' s. But when I was off, I struggled. With this feeling, tipping the head out, I am much more consistent and started breaking par for the first time in my 60s. How I wish I had found this sooner.
What Mike is describing at 4:00 has really helped me with 30-50 yard pitches. Keeping the shoulders quiet at the beginning of the downswing while dropping the hands straight down is a key swing thought for me.
Two months ago I found and studied Malaska move, and practiced it in range and course. In 1 month time, against the same people in my flight,... I loss 9 UNDER im the first game and then won 7 UP in the second, in which I started to use the Malaska’s move...... Amazing... Great teacher and Great concept... Thank you Mr Malaska.
Mike I hope you see this comment. This is fantastic. I have struggled with my transition for 2-3 years now but this video is bang on the money. Thanks very much indeed.
I use "swinging above the ball" as a pre shot routine and a tempo drill. The result is my hands work correctly during the actual swing. If I don't add anything, like adding lag, I get good results. Thanks Brenden for the video. Mike teaches skills we can attain instead of concepts that are difficult to understand and then achieve.
Huge thank you goes out to both of you for making this video! Mike made me a believer, last year I end up with two rib injuries, one on my right side and one one my left. All from trying to swing “ correctly “, I was losing distance and losing my shot on both side, topping it and hit it heavy. This video cured everything for me, I watched it and go straight to my hitting net. Thank you 🙏
Great video Brandon. I could listen to him teach all day. Lots of wisdom there. The folks that don't understand the "tipping the shaft" concept and think what he's teaching is heresy, don't understand the circle concept AT ALL!! There are no straight lines in golf. The club has to come around to the golf ball. What he said in this video just reinforced for me that I'm definitely on the right track in what I teach. Thanks for posting.
Mike has really changed my game in so many ways. He put all the misc lessons I've had over the years and tied them all together in a way nobody else has been able to. I've dropped to single a digit handicap this year for the first time ever and am hitting the ball so much straighter and easier.
Mike is so on point with this move. It keeps your hands from raising the handle at impact and it keeps your hips back. You have all the space in the world to swing that club through. It's so easy on your back and you feel like you're whipping that club face threw impact at a 1,000 mph even when you're swinging the club slowly. You can also start to push away from the ball on your downsing and really get that trebuchet feeling. This really is combination of Monte's two drills "no turn cast" and "zipper away"
Great video. After many years of flipping and early extension, this technique seems to solve the root cause of my problem. I am an 8 handicap , 67 years who has been searching for a method to be more efficient and more powerful in gaining distance and more accuracy. The Malaska move does the trick. Finally I feel like I am not fighting the weight and gravity of the club and swinging more freely. It reminds me of playing racquet sports, where your arms and hands are soft and you are letting the racquet do the work. The big ah ha moment for me was getting rid of the notion of shallowing the club. Instead I feel like the club is standing up vertical in the backswing, thus allowing the club to fall forward rather than behind me, which before caused me to get stuck and flip. If your a senior golfer, I highly recommend you try this technique to save your lower back and enjoy many more years of golf. .
The best shot is the one you can make consistently and the whole idea of swallowing the club has been the single most disastrous effort I've worked on, and not much. If you let the hips move forward and dont yank with the right shoulder more than the left it works for me.
Brendan thank you for this vid and Mike as well. Very insightful. When you play a certain amount of golf you can see things happening and it's awesome when someone else has been down the same road and can put some explanation to it. The "corner" and being level after getting to the corner was gold.
Thank you! This is so enlightening and Mike is a really great golf instructor. Clearly what he says makes so much more sense than any other instruction I have ever had. It also explains some of the issues I’ve been trying to fight natural positions over some positions that some instruction I’ve had, i.e., shallowing the club, where as Mike explains you are shallowing the arms and then getting the club head moving in the correct position to make better contact with the ball. Shallowing the club has been such a physically and mentally difficult task for me because it just doesn’t work for me. It puts my hands way out in front, I get the flipping hands and end up with duck hooks. All the bad things Mike explained would happen have happened with my attempts at shallowing the club per my other instructors. Thanks Be Better Golf for doing this interview and keep up the fantastic work!!
Having looked at many ways to swing this is the easiest once you understand what Mike is saying and you can retain your angle longer before releasing it into the ball . Grade A video
Best advice I ever got so far. I have that over-shallowing problem which causes push, shank, early extension, fat/thin shot, you name it. I tried "over the top" swing on purpose to fix that particular movement but could never fit it. Now I know the right drill to fix it for good.
Great questions with a great teacher! I like the whole exchange after 22:00. You really drilled down on the level baseball swing and tried to see why it isn’t a one plane swing.
I loved this when I worked on it. His L to L practice drill was great and the feeling of levelling the club through impact made the club feel like it was floating. Brendan stick with him and don’t jump from one to another.
love the loggic Mike, if i had only had your advice when i was 20 i would have been in have been a cat 1 player rather than 12/14 even though i was a bandit with a short game i was never any good with a 3 or a driver of any price , i will never give up, till the box is closed chris 76 year old crazy man
Thanks for reviewing this move with Mike. I didn't understand how to implement the transition move with dropping the arms, but this explanation really helps.
Makes so much sense!! Look for the feeling that Mike describes not the move itself and everything falls into place automatically. This "shallowing of the club" is so complex and unreliable. Mike's approach becomes so easy after a short period of time.
This is my favorite instructional video. Not everyone knows angles and planes etc. But everyone at least understands momentum, gravity and feeling. This is my type of learning! Malaska is a gem.
This is fantastic. I've been struggling to avoid going over the top and it's been nearly impossible to lower the top of the backswing. This sounds simple, and I like simple. Especially the part about not rotating the wrist and trying to increase lag. Can't wait to get to the range to try this.
YES YES! FINALLY, NOW I get it. now i know what the missing peace is! I know Mike & Brendan for a while now but this is the best explanation for mike's philosophy and ''Move"'. At 23 mins Bredan has a hard time understanding what Mike means. But the missing phrase is; The SIMPLE circle of the CLUBHEAD. Bredan, me and many others always think in terms of the complete club as a hole. But its only the CLUBHEAD that has to make a simple/perfect circle. This is the only thig that has to hit the ball. And then the hands and shaft can do what they want basically. Its So simple when you get it......
Exactly! The problem is Bredan is thinking of a simple circle for his hands, but the angle the club comes out of your hands means your hands aren't always in line with the circle. But if you keep the clubhead (specifically the heel) in a simple circle, that means your hands have to drop inside close to impact in order for the circle of the heel to complete. This was a big breakthrough for me as well.
WOW! AT LAST. This is EXACTLY what I have been fighting against. The shaft being stuck behind me on the down swing. By pure chance my coach and I came up with this precise move as a drill to help get the club out in front of me. We also found that by having a completely weak grip with both hands as a drill made it easier to get the club into this "Corner" position. I can't praise this enough. Thank you,Thank you,Thank you.
I know it’s a year later but I’ve watched two of your videos on dropping the hands or tipping the club. I’ve been told to drive my right elbow to shallow the club but the timing has been very difficult When it works it’s great bit it doesn’t work consistently. Your move has changed my thinking totally. It “feels” wrong but it is such an easier swing and the club shallows itself as I turn. Outstanding lesson. Thank you, I wish I saw this years ago.
I finally got fed up at the range and tried this, it worked. Very counter intuitive, the feel of throwing the club head so “early” in the swing, ie by the time the hands reach the right thigh on the downswing. One would think that would make for a fat shot or for a duck hook, but actually the rotation of the body puts you in a great impact position. In fact, it let’s me rotate more through the ball without pulling it dead left.
Awesome stuff Mike and clarifies what I think is confusing to a lot of people when you say get the club out front. Just drop the club to the corner and let it rip!
THIS! I have heard Mike Malaska countless times before, but finally it resonnated! "Ring the bell" comes from weight shift of the lower body, not the arms going down by them selves. "Keep the back to the target longer" is another feel I just started thinking.
I tried this "feel" he is demonstrating and I could not believe the difference! I was opening up too soon before, trying to create lag, but this little method kept me from going offsides and kept my plane solid and I hit the piss out of the ball with little effort!
Great! like you say Mike! The knowledge has been out there for a long time! This its so close to Mike Austin! He doing this even more deep! But you make it more simple and understandable! I just so easy to agree 100% behind this thought! I been teaching this for 20 year! And its works for nearly everyone! They just have to trust the force of the clubhead as you also say! Great coach and exellent instructions! Im impressed! If you have keep your beginner swing Mike! Maybe you have been a Major Champion! Who knows!? Take care and keep up the good work!
Shades of Monte on the level swing and the movement of the wrists. Thanks Mike for expalining how to start practicing with the hockey swing. No wonder hockey players are so good in golf.
Best explanation yet, Mike. Good job you two, its finally makes sense to me. Mike, I've been working on the movement for quite some time now (about a year in an out of real scrutiny) finally starting to come together after pairing with another Be Better video with A.J. Bonar. "some thoughts about golf vs baseball" In baseball, the swing begins before the ball is at the impact position. In golf, the ball is just sitting there. My hypothesis is that in the golf swing, the trigger in the brain to instinctively hit the ball with athleticism ( therefore achieving the most powerful impact position instinctively) is lost because of the static position. In baseball, the brain triggers a more instinctive part of the brain, due to a high speed pitch being fired in your direction, and the necessity to anticipate the balls arrival. The way the body must move to hit the ball in baseball happens more instinctively because there is no time to react to a baseball pitch, its arrival must be anticipated. Interesting too that, in my observations, competent baseball players do not necessary translate to golf while hockey players have a much greater level of success. Maybe its due to the combination of adrenaline fueled athletic movements coupled with a similarly shaped stick.
I wish I knew this when I started playing. I only found this out for myself after 30+ years of hitting left and losing balls. Now I hit straight and further!😊
I can not believe how much this resonates to the last 15 years of my golf game! l played college baseball, used to be a pretty good golfer and fell into the EXACT teachings that have resulted in having to "catch up" and flip in an attempt to square the club face. I will definitely be going back to my original baseball "swing"!!
Thank you, Mike and Brandon, for such an excellent clarification and demonstration. This video helped clarify some of my previous misunderstandings on hand path and tipping the shaft. Can't wait to go out to the range and simplify my swing and swing concepts. Been struggling way too long with incorrect swing mechanics and swing thoughts. Thanks again for your efforts in making golf "fun" again! Sincerely yours, Alan
This is hands down the best golf instructional video I have ever seen. Not for beginners but once u have a solid base. LEVEL. Only thru impact. But this is extraordinary
I swing and theorize a lot, and have my own philosophies and session details, but I do like Mike and Brandon, because they keep the discussion going and I am intrigued or entertained at least throughout. I would challenge Mike's thinking on a few thing's, but I would to everyone, probably. Of course that's the beauty and fun of working on one's own swing as a building project.
If you properly take the club back and then return it the same exact way. This is what happens. The club head passes back in front of your hands. Mike you got this... And because of you... I got this. Changed my entire game some 4/5 years ago
This is so exciting!!! I love this "tipping" theory. I can sort of feel it when swinging in my living room and it seems like a great way to get the clubhead back out in front of you during the downswing. I'm off to the backyard net to work on it. Thanks Mike.
Hey, this is awesome... I have been working on what to do with my swing. I tried a few different things that were making me hit left and right but rarely straight. I dont know if this is what I am doing now, I guess I will have to video myself and see but this is what I have been trying to do. I have been trying to get my hands back to my right thigh and the club has pretty much taken over from there, its like I dont even feel it go through impact while it turns me around with it. I sure wish I had money to take lessons but I dont so I will just continue to work on this.
I can appreciate that this move is not for everyone, but Mike's philosophy has proven to be the missing puzzle piece for me, erasing 18 months of absolutely ridiculous swing thoughts. Having pretty solid hand/eye and getting into the self taught TH-cam golf instructor world of hitting certain magical spots to achieve a sought after golf swing has been maddening. The Malaska Cam video of the hand/wrist path as well as a few other of his fundamental videos have proven to be the holy grail for me. Stack and Tilt made sense for me and felt repeatable and like I was using my body's full power potential. Not the case! So much tension, the difference is night and day. Unreal the rabbit holes we go down. Thank you Mike! Looking forward to getting down to Arizona for a lesson sometime in the near future.
Club shallowing has been way way oversold on social media!! Thanks for keeping it real Mike Malaska.👍🏼
Club shallowing is the biggest load of bollocks going
Loved your questions of Mike because those are the swing thoughts and downswing moves you talk about are the ones we think we must do. I wish you could have had Mike demonstrate how Dr. Kwon’s swinging with speed would work with his “standing the club up.”
I watched Bobby Clampett play in college and he had it all . I watched him as a pro and he got so shallow he couldn't break 75 . Never could believe someone so good could destroy his game so thoroughly . He is a great guy but boy could he play at 20 years old but lost it all getting flatter and flatter . I played at Wake Forest in 80s and later was a PGA club pro . The flatter and more shallow you get the less time and distance the clubhead gets on the target line . Love your videos .
So are you saying it's ok to be steep with the driver? That's always been a problem for me being too steep and then over the top and then hitting it 2 way miss
not at all but try finding some videos of Bobby Clampett almost leading the US Open as an amateur and compare to the last couple years he was on tour He was so flat it was ridiculous and truthfully I have never seen anyone so flat .
My college roommate at San Diego State played w' Clampett in high school and we also witnessed an incredible college player get 'lost in swing mechanics'. I remember seeing him at Torrey Pines (BYU) then Torrey again a few years later and Ben Doyle said Bobby was trying to draw it and fade it at the Same time! Bobby said he was just trying to mimic Mark O'Meara' flat action saying Mark was the best ball striker in the world however even Mark would later go more upright which was his natural move.
Mike Malaska, is correct!!!!
I've watched golf lesson clips till my eyes almost bleed. After 25 years this is the best video I've EVER watched. I feel like I've FINALLY know how to swing a golf club. I'm a believer this makes so much sense. I only wish I'd of known this move years ago. Thanks Mike!!!!
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If you try it you’ll see. It’s only about 80 percent easier/straighter. Thanks Mike!
Agreed, I actually know what I am trying to do
Agree with this motion 100%. This is an awesome move. It beautifully routes the club.
I first saw it this morning before I went to the driving range at first I was hesitant in trying it, but after a bucket trying the one I wanted to do I got frustrated and decided to try what Mike M. Is saying and on my first swing I didn’t feel any stress and it was smooth. Bought 2 more large bucket and kept on using the same swing. Hopefully I won’t forget this. Thanks Mike
This video should watched by every struggling golfer. I'm a 16 handicap aiming to get to single figures and have not just plateaued but got worse this year. After just one range session i shot 49/39 & 46/37...I rarely shoot under 40 for 9 holes, now I've done it twice in a week. Delivering the club this way has fixed my slice and early extension caused from the shallowing drills taught on other channels. NEVER going back.
Just wow! I finally experienced the Malaska move at the range. I am completely in shock of what happened. I'm pretty sure I increased my clubhead speed by at least 10mph. It feels so natural like I'm throwing a ball from the normal upright position. Other teachers teach "a throw" but its more of an underhand throw. To me, this actuallly feels like you are throwing a pitch from your natural position to the side of your body (over the top from the inside). Mike is so dead on also, when he says that once your drop your hands down you can fire as hard as you want. This man has change my golf game forever. I always wondered why I couldn't hit my drives as far as I knew I could and it was because every teacher/golf pro told me that I needed to come from the inside. That same old in to out , in to out, in to out, blah blah blah.... This whole time I have been fighting the natural physics/momentum of the club head!!! My 8 iron replaced my 6 iron in distance with one damn move! Thanks a million Mike Malaska! Absolute genius!
I struggle with unthinking the wrists early, flipping a little too early, losing lag and distance. You can get away with it on driver cause the ball is teed up and maybe you leave yourself a shot out of another fairway even if you off plane. But with irons this makes it so much easier to understand
I have been trying so hard to figure this out, I just can't find the feel yet.
@@ryankinman199 remember… he’s “showing” the feel. Hands at waist level, shaft pointed at the ball, ‘bump’ the left hand (right hand is the fulcrum) so the club head moves to the outside of the hands. This ‘bump’ helps keep the club head, throughout the swing, on line, shallow, and doesn’t change the momentum. It is actual effortless power, no back/hip strain. This move is better than Harvey Penick’s
Mike is the best golf teacher on the internet……by far!
Complete game changer, tipping the club and rotating feels exactly like taking a hammer to a nail now. Shot first round under par two rounds after implementing this. Thank you Mike!
2 under par after 2 rounds, what scores were you shooting before?
@@v205 my second round of trying this I went under par for the first time! I’ve always been between 74 and 78. But 70 was much better :)
Finally, an instructor that doesn't want me to drop the club in behind me. That whole "shallowing the shaft" thing has brought me nothing but trouble.
The malaska move is perfect. People who criticize it don’t understand it. I hit the best shots of my life with it. Long penetrating draws. Consistent too.
Mike,
You are the only instructor I have ever watched that doesn’t try to confuse the swing and tells us golfers how with feel instead of how with positions like most instructors. You make it simple and easy to understand! Thank You!!
I am so glad that I accidentally clicked on one Mike Malaska video that led me to all of these and really help my golf 2000% . Thanks guys for these videos on what is a easy consistent golf swing that almost seems to effortless to be a real swing but boy does it work .
Let Mike do the talking. He's why we are here.
Amen
Well,he is asking Mike the questions we would be asking him.
Hey Mike! I'm almost 63 and have been playing and teaching for almost 40 years. I turned pro in 1982 and carded first mini tour win in 1984. I've studied with some great teachers and players and have never stopped learning and want you to know that this is genius. The feeling of tipping the club in the downswing is something I've been accidentally experimenting with for sometime. Your explanation has clarified many things especially what I've been feeling while practicing the decent of my hands and arms with my back to the target. Staying turned away and allowing the hands and arms to come down is so important. You have refined my concept and made me a better teacher and player. Thanks so much, Rex.
All these years tried to "shallow" the club, this video is unbelievable...Thank you Mike
Mike is absolutely the best. I never heard of him before coming across one of his videos by chance 3 weeks ago. His lessons have instantly improved my game. I’m sure there may be some other instructors that are just as good, but Mike’s info is a gold mine!
He keeps it simple. Everyone else dissects every position and this makes you think too much. With Mike, the parts of the swing fall in place naturally. Without overthinking.
This is the only video that I’ve sent to myself on email…..it is the only antidote to my roll and release hook!
I just had the "I can't believe it's this simple" moment after drilling this move with progressively faster swings. Getting the hands out front with this move is so much more natural feeling than other hands forward swing tips that I've tried. Hands out in front, turn as hard as you want, don't try to manipulate with your hands through impact. Amazing!!! Thank you!!!
Mike I'm 62 years young, been playing golf since college this method of directing the momentum down and out is unbelievable been struggling to shallow the club finally realized shallow the hands and the momentum of the club will take care of itself .JUST ROTATE. Last two rounds 68 and 70. Thanks Mike I think I can enjoy golf again.
Mike knows more about the swing then any other person I ever heard talking about it. Its a counterintuitive move, by doing it I actually shallowed out my path. Couldn't believe it myself.
Thank you for having in 4K resolution. I am big believer in Malaska! Some of my best days of driving the golf ball have been exactly what Malaska preaches here. Keep up the great content!
This video and others on the “ Malaska Move” are a game changing revelation! Everyone who struggles with golf needs to watch this and Mike's other videos on the L to L drills and once you get it...WoW! The ball shoots off the face, with compression in an almost effortless manner. The hardest part I found was getting out of trying to muscle the club or over swinging. Just let the club run into the back of the ball and if you need more distance just club up. Your consistency will improve dramatically. I know mine did...dropped my handicap to a 9. Thanks Mike and Brendan.
I love Mike’s teaching. I am an old baseball player and have always believed the 2 swings to be identical...... the baseball swing is on horizontal plane and golf is a semi vertical plane. Mike has now validated what I “ felt.”
I’ve watched hundreds of golf videos on TH-cam this is the best lesson I’ve seen! Pure gold!
This explanation of the downswing feeling whilst keeping hands level is the best explanation of the downswing I have heard. The power and speed that you feel that you can generate is immense. This for me explains the Hogans three right hands comment which I have always struggled to understand. The key is the feeling of swing level.
Perhaps the best golf lesson I've ever seen. This is why so many of us struggle with golf, we're told to shallow, create lag and then can't catch the face up or if we do, we cannot catch it up square. Thanks Mike - brilliant!
I was one of those golfer who was drinking the koolaid. Lay the club down at the top of back swing to and turn hard to square the club. Yes it worked .......sometimes but not constantly. With Mike's move the feeling I have is the left shoulder drops and the right shoulder tips to tip the club on plane. I had joined Malaska one line web site a while back. As all golfer's you see something and say this can make me better......only to find you are inconsistent and go back to Mike, but I find this as a learning process I would hot understand it with out doing it wrong, I not afraid of making mistakes because you only get better with failer. Mike you are by far the best Instructor!
This is the first guy on youtube that makes sense, and Ive been watching golf youtube videos for over a decade...
Mike, you explain this better than anyone else Ive heard. ...keeping the swing as efficient as possible using the natural forces in play. Your square wrist thru-the-impact-zone explanation and the forces in the legs (how and when to use them) has transformed my game.
This works so well for me. I was stuck a lot due to my misconception about swinging inside out. And, I suspect like Mike, I was a good athlete, with a baseball and basketball background. So, with good hand eye, I could time my flip reasonably well somedays such that I could shoot mid 70' s. But when I was off, I struggled. With this feeling, tipping the head out, I am much more consistent and started breaking par for the first time in my 60s. How I wish I had found this sooner.
What Mike is describing at 4:00 has really helped me with 30-50 yard pitches. Keeping the shoulders quiet at the beginning of the downswing while dropping the hands straight down is a key swing thought for me.
Two months ago I found and studied Malaska move, and practiced it in range and course. In 1 month time, against the same people in my flight,... I loss 9 UNDER im the first game and then won 7 UP in the second, in which I started to use the Malaska’s move...... Amazing... Great teacher and Great concept... Thank you Mr Malaska.
Hahah! I have to comment here, Mr Malaska is a really good teacher and i just love his crazy moves at the 27 min mark😂😂
Mike I hope you see this comment. This is fantastic. I have struggled with my transition for 2-3 years now but this video is bang on the money. Thanks very much indeed.
I use "swinging above the ball" as a pre shot routine and a tempo drill. The result is my hands work correctly during the actual swing. If I don't add anything, like adding lag, I get good results. Thanks Brenden for the video. Mike teaches skills we can attain instead of concepts that are difficult to understand and then achieve.
Can you clarify about swinging above the ball? Like that routine sounds good
Huge thank you goes out to both of you for making this video! Mike made me a believer, last year I end up with two rib injuries, one on my right side and one one my left. All from trying to swing “ correctly “, I was losing distance and losing my shot on both side, topping it and hit it heavy. This video cured everything for me, I watched it and go straight to my hitting net. Thank you 🙏
Great video Brandon. I could listen to him teach all day. Lots of wisdom there. The folks that don't understand the "tipping the shaft" concept and think what he's teaching is heresy, don't understand the circle concept AT ALL!! There are no straight lines in golf. The club has to come around to the golf ball. What he said in this video just reinforced for me that I'm definitely on the right track in what I teach. Thanks for posting.
Bill Knodle Golf I also like your work to . I like the feeling of what he says about leveling out to .
This was an excellent explanation of what the golf swing should be. Thanks to Mike Malaska for the easy to understand explanation and demonstration.
Mike has really changed my game in so many ways. He put all the misc lessons I've had over the years and tied them all together in a way nobody else has been able to. I've dropped to single a digit handicap this year for the first time ever and am hitting the ball so much straighter and easier.
Mike is so on point with this move. It keeps your hands from raising the handle at impact and it keeps your hips back. You have all the space in the world to swing that club through. It's so easy on your back and you feel like you're whipping that club face threw impact at a 1,000 mph even when you're swinging the club slowly. You can also start to push away from the ball on your downsing and really get that trebuchet feeling. This really is combination of Monte's two drills "no turn cast" and "zipper away"
Ashley Pease you also need to create that space with hips in backswing to get that feeling.👍
Great video. After many years of flipping and early extension, this technique seems to solve the root cause of my problem. I am an 8 handicap , 67 years who has been searching for a method to be more efficient and more powerful in gaining distance and more accuracy. The Malaska move does the trick. Finally I feel like I am not fighting the weight and gravity of the club and swinging more freely. It reminds me of playing racquet sports, where your arms and hands are soft and you are letting the racquet do the work. The big ah ha moment for me was getting rid of the notion of shallowing the club. Instead I feel like the club is standing up vertical in the backswing, thus allowing the club to fall forward rather than behind me, which before caused me to get stuck and flip. If your a senior golfer, I highly recommend you try this technique to save your lower back and enjoy many more years of golf. .
The best shot is the one you can make consistently and the whole idea of swallowing the club has been the single most disastrous effort I've worked on, and not much. If you let the hips move forward and dont yank with the right shoulder more than the left it works for me.
Mike is correct,Jim Hardy also says this:right arm inward throw, not left arm outward pull,look how close his right arm is when he’s coming down.
Brendan thank you for this vid and Mike as well. Very insightful. When you play a certain amount of golf you can see things happening and it's awesome when someone else has been down the same road and can put some explanation to it. The "corner" and being level after getting to the corner was gold.
Thank you! This is so enlightening and Mike is a really great golf instructor. Clearly what he says makes so much more sense than any other instruction I have ever had. It also explains some of the issues I’ve been trying to fight natural positions over some positions that some instruction I’ve had, i.e., shallowing the club, where as Mike explains you are shallowing the arms and then getting the club head moving in the correct position to make better contact with the ball. Shallowing the club has been such a physically and mentally difficult task for me because it just doesn’t work for me. It puts my hands way out in front, I get the flipping hands and end up with duck hooks. All the bad things Mike explained would happen have happened with my attempts at shallowing the club per my other instructors. Thanks Be Better Golf for doing this interview and keep up the fantastic work!!
This make loads of sense...speed is the glue. Worth the 34 minutes. I'd like to see more teachers talk about why we have the swing faults we have.
Having looked at many ways to swing this is the easiest once you understand what Mike is saying and you can retain your angle longer before releasing it into the ball . Grade A video
The idea of pointing the butt of the club at the tee and turning level really clicked for me
Thank you for the video
so many great golfers that became teachers bc teachers made them go down the “perfect swing” rabbit hole… this game could really make you go crazy
Malaska golf instruction are the best for me, thanks Mike for keeping it simple.
That tip at the hip feels amazing! No longer dragging the club round your body.
Best "Malaska move" video. I watched the others, but this one was easier to conceptualize. Starting my new years resolution early!
Best advice I ever got so far. I have that over-shallowing problem which causes push, shank, early extension, fat/thin shot, you name it. I tried "over the top" swing on purpose to fix that particular movement but could never fit it. Now I know the right drill to fix it for good.
This is the swing I am now trying to master. Thank you so much, guys.
Great questions with a great teacher! I like the whole exchange after 22:00. You really drilled down on the level baseball swing and tried to see why it isn’t a one plane swing.
I loved this when I worked on it. His L to L practice drill was great and the feeling of levelling the club through impact made the club feel like it was floating. Brendan stick with him and don’t jump from one to another.
love the loggic Mike, if i had only had your advice when i was 20 i would have been in have been a cat 1 player rather than 12/14 even though i was a bandit with a short game i was never any good with a 3 or a driver of any price , i will never give up, till the box is closed chris 76 year old crazy man
Thanks for reviewing this move with Mike. I didn't understand how to implement the transition move with dropping the arms, but this explanation really helps.
Makes so much sense!! Look for the feeling that Mike describes not the move itself and everything falls into place automatically. This "shallowing of the club" is so complex and unreliable. Mike's approach becomes so easy after a short period of time.
Mike is a genius. Most don’t understand exactly what he teaches. This is Justin Rose’s practice move.
Very good explanation of the swing. Everyone should see this video.
This is my favorite instructional video. Not everyone knows angles and planes etc. But everyone at least understands momentum, gravity and feeling.
This is my type of learning! Malaska is a gem.
Best teacher on TH-cam without exception. Talks so much sense if you think about it my fellow golfers
This is fantastic. I've been struggling to avoid going over the top and it's been nearly impossible to lower the top of the backswing. This sounds simple, and I like simple. Especially the part about not rotating the wrist and trying to increase lag. Can't wait to get to the range to try this.
YES YES! FINALLY, NOW I get it. now i know what the missing peace is! I know Mike & Brendan for a while now but this is the best explanation for mike's philosophy and ''Move"'.
At 23 mins Bredan has a hard time understanding what Mike means. But the missing phrase is; The SIMPLE circle of the CLUBHEAD. Bredan, me and many others always think in terms of the complete club as a hole. But its only the CLUBHEAD that has to make a simple/perfect circle. This is the only thig that has to hit the ball. And then the hands and shaft can do what they want basically.
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Exactly! The problem is Bredan is thinking of a simple circle for his hands, but the angle the club comes out of your hands means your hands aren't always in line with the circle. But if you keep the clubhead (specifically the heel) in a simple circle, that means your hands have to drop inside close to impact in order for the circle of the heel to complete. This was a big breakthrough for me as well.
WOW! AT LAST. This is EXACTLY what I have been fighting against. The shaft being stuck behind me on the down swing. By pure chance my coach and I came up with this precise move as a drill to help get the club out in front of me. We also found that by having a completely weak grip with both hands as a drill made it easier to get the club into this "Corner" position. I can't praise this enough. Thank you,Thank you,Thank you.
Brendan, With a round on the Old Course St Andrews on Monday, I'm going to be drilling this all day Saturday. 😊
I know it’s a year later but I’ve watched two of your videos on dropping the hands or tipping the club. I’ve been told to drive my right elbow to shallow the club but the timing has been very difficult When it works it’s great bit it doesn’t work consistently. Your move has changed my thinking totally. It “feels” wrong but it is such an easier swing and the club shallows itself as I turn. Outstanding lesson. Thank you, I wish I saw this years ago.
I finally got fed up at the range and tried this, it worked. Very counter intuitive, the feel of throwing the club head so “early” in the swing, ie by the time the hands reach the right thigh on the downswing. One would think that would make for a fat shot or for a duck hook, but actually the rotation of the body puts you in a great impact position. In fact, it let’s me rotate more through the ball without pulling it dead left.
Awesome stuff Mike and clarifies what I think is confusing to a lot of people when you say get the club out front. Just drop the club to the corner and let it rip!
Best golf lesson ever on TH-cam! You are inspirational ! Thank you for sharing it with us
THIS! I have heard Mike Malaska countless times before, but finally it resonnated! "Ring the bell" comes from weight shift of the lower body, not the arms going down by them selves. "Keep the back to the target longer" is another feel I just started thinking.
This changed my game. Best range session I have had in a year trying this
Thanks Mike, that does make more sense. I have been struggling with this issue... getting stuck behind me, flipping the club to catch up.
I tried this "feel" he is demonstrating and I could not believe the difference! I was opening up too soon before, trying to create lag, but this little method kept me from going offsides and kept my plane solid and I hit the piss out of the ball with little effort!
Great! like you say Mike! The knowledge has been out there for a long time! This its so close to Mike Austin! He doing this even more deep! But you make it more simple and understandable! I just so easy to agree 100% behind this thought! I been teaching this for 20 year! And its works for nearly everyone! They just have to trust the force of the clubhead as you also say! Great coach and exellent instructions! Im impressed! If you have keep your beginner swing Mike! Maybe you have been a Major Champion! Who knows!? Take care and keep up the good work!
the horizontal circle is the best and simplest mechanical sense i have ever heard! :)
Every time my swing is off, I come back to this video and technique and within a few swings I’m back on track.
Shades of Monte on the level swing and the movement of the wrists. Thanks Mike for expalining how to start practicing with the hockey swing. No wonder hockey players are so good in golf.
Best explanation yet, Mike. Good job you two, its finally makes sense to me. Mike, I've been working on the movement for quite some time now (about a year in an out of real scrutiny) finally starting to come together after pairing with another Be Better video with A.J. Bonar.
"some thoughts about golf vs baseball"
In baseball, the swing begins before the ball is at the impact position. In golf, the ball is just sitting there. My hypothesis is that in the golf swing, the trigger in the brain to instinctively hit the ball with athleticism ( therefore achieving the most powerful impact position instinctively) is lost because of the static position.
In baseball, the brain triggers a more instinctive part of the brain, due to a high speed pitch being fired in your direction, and the necessity to anticipate the balls arrival. The way the body must move to hit the ball in baseball happens more instinctively because there is no time to react to a baseball pitch, its arrival must be anticipated.
Interesting too that, in my observations, competent baseball players do not necessary translate to golf while hockey players have a much greater level of success. Maybe its due to the combination of adrenaline fueled athletic movements coupled with a similarly shaped stick.
Key - "turning with the momentum of the club". Your a great teacher Mike. 13:20
I wish I knew this when I started playing. I only found this out for myself after 30+ years of hitting left and losing balls. Now I hit straight and further!😊
I can not believe how much this resonates to the last 15 years of my golf game! l played college baseball, used to be a pretty good golfer and fell into the EXACT teachings that have resulted in having to "catch up" and flip in an attempt to square the club face. I will definitely be going back to my original baseball "swing"!!
Put some pine tar on your grips
Lightbulb!! I've been trying the malaska move for a couple months and could never get it. The leveling drill finally made it click.
Same here. Today it clicked and I started SMASHING
What leveling drill? At 19:00?
This MM REVOLUTIONED my iron play! Doesn’t translate to woods/Drive but striking my blades like butter!
22:56 “...so run it into the fricken ball..!” I love it! 😂👍🏻
Thank you, Mike and Brandon, for such an excellent clarification and demonstration. This video helped clarify some of my previous misunderstandings on hand path and tipping the shaft. Can't wait to go out to the range and simplify my swing and swing concepts. Been struggling way too long with incorrect swing mechanics and swing thoughts. Thanks again for your efforts in making golf "fun" again! Sincerely yours, Alan
This is hands down the best golf instructional video I have ever seen. Not for beginners but once u have a solid base. LEVEL. Only thru impact. But this is extraordinary
I swing and theorize a lot, and have my own philosophies and session details, but I do like Mike and Brandon, because they keep the discussion going and I am intrigued or entertained at least throughout. I would challenge Mike's thinking on a few thing's, but I would to everyone, probably. Of course that's the beauty and fun of working on one's own swing as a building project.
If you properly take the club back and then return it the same exact way. This is what happens. The club head passes back in front of your hands. Mike you got this... And because of you... I got this. Changed my entire game some 4/5 years ago
Mike keeps it real! He speaks the truth in this video. 👍🏼💪🏼
The down in a golf swing happens behind the golfer. That’s where the club lowering takes place.
Always a pleasure every time to watch this video multiple times !
Mike, thanks for this awesome video, I can’t wait to try the swing level feel!
5:55 Yep - that "pro move" pinches the lower back and right arm if you over do it. Works good to straighten over the top pulls and slices, though.
Mike is the guru of golf. Brenton discovered him for me. I will always be grateful to Brenton and Be Better Golf. Thanks!
Hands down, single best instruction video on TH-cam. Malaska 👑
Amazing content. Totally works even though it doesn’t feel like it should.
This is so exciting!!! I love this "tipping" theory. I can sort of feel it when swinging in my living room and it seems like a great way to get the clubhead back out in front of you during the downswing. I'm off to the backyard net to work on it. Thanks Mike.
B that one swing you hit ball was on point.
after many years watching mike this video really help me
Mike. Great video. I think you are spot on with the Nicklaus release. Exactly what he had told me in the past.
Hey, this is awesome... I have been working on what to do with my swing. I tried a few different things that were making me hit left and right but rarely straight. I dont know if this is what I am doing now, I guess I will have to video myself and see but this is what I have been trying to do. I have been trying to get my hands back to my right thigh and the club has pretty much taken over from there, its like I dont even feel it go through impact while it turns me around with it.
I sure wish I had money to take lessons but I dont so I will just continue to work on this.