Gina Umeck Golf

If the golfer set up chips to blunt power, they’d have a more “soft touch.”

Many think they have no finesse, but their setup just builds in too much power.

Discussing the rise of the butt of the club here.

The truth isn’t always what we want it to be. In your profession and in mine, there are perceptions about what you do that come from laypeople. These perceptions exist simply because it is convenient for a layperson to believe them.

“Buy low sell high,” “never up never in,” “sugar is bad,” “shift your weight for power,” etc etc.

For the last year and a half, our work has been speeding up the arms and slowing down the hips. This is the opposite advice of what you consume on social media, yet Dina now hits the ball as far as I do.

The 3rd part of the kinematic sequence is never discussed, only the 1st. It goes 1) hips, 2) chest, 3) arms. Why don’t you hear about arms? Why are arms a bad word? How do you know which one of these 3 parts is over or under-performing?

Isn’t it alarming to choose what makes sense to a layperson over industry experts, only because it makes sense to an amateur? Shouldn’t the fact that it makes sense to a non-expert discourage you from believing it? 💡

Join us July 26 at Encino Golf Course for a clinic that includes short game as well as range work. Limited availability to level up your game this summer! Contact [email protected] for further details and to enroll.

Congrats Dina on shooting 35 at Wilshire!
So happy to hear about this milestone.

The reward is the work, the scores are the byproduct. Dina Lew

Little M💪

I made changes based on ball behavior.

The ball was rarely airborne before, either on range or chipping.

The changes were done to get the ball airborne, with a downward AoA, and mitigating the thin push by abduction and adduction of arms.

Juniors with a casual interest in golf should practice 2 hours a week👌🏼. Serious juniors are doing 10-15 hours, at times more.🙌🏻

Fewer words are always the wish of the student. Using the P system is easy to learn and you get to use fewer words.

Another fun clinic in the books at Encino with Ayumi Hori, PGA. This snippet from a previous one.

I probably wouldn’t believe it unless I had the videos.

Stack & Tilt Golf teaches you how to add distance.

Most people will look at these 2 pictures--one in 2020, and one last week--and say "well, swing your swing, it doesn't really matter, she won with both of those."

The only problem with that is if a tour player wants to know why they're hitting it bad, they're gonna look back and you, and you have to have something to say. You cannot say swing your swing, you've won Olympic gold, won 19 times.

No amount of reading their resume to them will untangle them from hitting it bad.

The highest caliber players are just like everyone else. They have specific misses and they want to know why. They will look at both of these pictures and wonder which might is best and they're gonna ask you about it.

They don't WANT "whatever works" or to "swing their swing," nor will that help them. Their swing isn't working at that moment.

There is specific logic behind both these pictures. Most of that logic is built on the p1 left hand attachment. Point being, you have to have an opinion, and to have an opinion, you need a detailed model. 💡