MALASKA: SIMPLE WAY TO GET ON PLANE AND FIXING A SHANK  

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I love how Mike always gets up in your face after you hit a good one

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Probably the best Malaska video out there. A clarification of the 'Malaska Move'. The body leads and causes the club and arms to shallow. The correct loop. Direct the momentum of the club head. Great stuff!

Mike Malaska makes it so easy I am convinced golf instruction over the years can be so confusing because of hitting all these spots in the swing your best videos by far are with Mike .

The handle down and in really clicked for me. Thanks!

The one and only legend in the making Mike Malaska . . you have a flair my man and a way with your words.

Hi guys , just wanted to say a big thank you for your content, Mike makes so much sense and is such an amazing instructor, thanks for relating it to other sports, much love from the uk 🇬🇧

I always felt that I was supposed to take the club back low to be in to out. My best rounds for a long time felt like I was taking the club outside of the the ball to hit it straight. My interpretation of in to out always led me to shanking the ball as a result of being to far inside on the back swing which led to over the top and shank city. It hasn't been until I've learned that the club needs to be outside of the ball visually in order to have it drop from the inside. This video is outstanding in defining that and giving me the freedom to go more outside to get inside as the club drops. It's so simple once you know that your interpretation of the swing is so wrong. Best vid ever Brandon as you have struggled with the same inside takeaway I have.

Another good one! I've been working on my swing plane lately...trying to shallow the club with the irons so I'll give this drill a try. Love Mike and his teaching style.

Fantastiskt video❤. Solved one of my biggest problems. THANK YOU so much!!!

For the record, this looping or "reverse the loop" instruction has changed my golf life so dramatically, I am eternally thankful. All the lights are on. I understand, finally, and am hitting the ball more consistently and farther than I ever have. My overall level of play has improved dramatically. Thank you.

Fantastic content. This is such a huge change for an amateur to adopt, probably the hardest in golf. I tried for months and couldn’t make it work for me on the course. Under pressure i feel the pieces. 😂

Y’all make great videos. Good instruction and good Q&A discussions!

Wow, this info is priceless!

Nicely done, very well explained.

Fabulous info. Thanks.

Thanks, Mike that lesson I needed.

Brilliant as always

This is good lesson on swing path. Thank you for sharing

I’m just back from the range where I was shanking too many shots. I’ll give this drill a go as it makes perfect sense to me. Thanks 👍🏼

Great video!!

I love the Malaska content.

Difficult question to answer... But with all the teachers and experts you've worked with over the last 5 years, how much better are you? I'm guessing the ceiling hasn't raised much, but the floor is significantly higher (in terms of score) And which lesson/teacher has helped most? Thanks B As always, love your videos!

Up-Under-to the Left. What a nugget! Also, I have noticed that when I keep the club in front of the hands to shaft parallel, I can make a more complete backswing and not collapse my trail arm at the top. Practice key...do it slow😊

All of this talk is based on the center mass of the club. Every time he mentions momentum of the club he’s referring to the center of mass of the golf club. Good golfers have trained the ability to react to this. great video..information and coaching.🙌💪🏼👍🏼👊

Your baseball swing is fantastic when applied to the golf swing. Crazy to see the difference

As a veteran swing coach, I have always found Mike Malaska's teaching method & methodology to be the most sound. Flat out. I always demonstrate how rotating the hips open ( to about 30 degrees ) gets your upper core in perfect position to then rotate through the initial arc. This is an easy move that happens with no effort. The unexpected, much welcomed surprise is that the head of the club is returning on the same plane as when first initiated, & who wouldn't rather a 2-plane swing? The arc is not as wide ( as the straight-down dropping of the handle positions the arc & right elbow closer to the body ) but the plane is the same.

The club head outside the hands and going up reminds me of the A swinging from LB

Brandon if you watch Sam Snead or most of the old time golfers the takeaway was inside then a over the top inside not with your right shoulder over the top but your hands from the inside over the top and that causes the club to stand up like your hitting a baseball as Mike describes every shot will be either straight or a baby draw and massive power because the weight of the club is not falling back which causes shanks , blocks and flips as Mike described. Great video and the putting video with Mike to me was your best video ever ..RU-vid Jackie Burke’s swing in to out ..and Jackie said the takeaway was in and up . Mike is right they all after impact went left and around and up then ..

Mike. The Gem swing trainer that Brendan uses. This promotes a toe up position at club parallel in the backswing. You have said that this hurt your game and that the club face should be matching the spine or matching the arc so what looks like a more closed face at club parallel in the backswing is actually square to the arc. Before I pull the trigger on the Gem what do you think. Pros and cons. Thanks Mike. Adam

Awesome content. Seems like a natural motion instead of trying to manufacture it.

The tone in Mikes voice when you did your baseball swing “why don’t you just do that?” 🤣 he is totally right though

The “up to under” happening as a result of the transition was a lightbulb moment for me. I was trying to force the “loop.”

I have to make myself learn how much more simple it can be. Mike takes away the clutter

Brendon, I'm going to qualify this 1st by saying this is what I've experienced by working on Martin's one direction, I don't in anyway want to come off like I'm a know it all. The thing that I believe you and Lee are over looking is the pre wound pressures forward at setup. These pressures allow what appear to be opposing actions occur naturally not a contrived motion of trying to turn hands/knuckles in any way. I feel the best way he described the feeling goes way back in Martin's videos. He describes it as trying to strike a tree in the same spot with a stick. If you hold a golf club in the trigger position your body is pre wound forward. Now from that pre wound forward position imagine a tree in front you, pick a spot out on the tree and hit it. The spot is high on the tree so it will be more like an ax swing overhead not a golf swing motion. If you'll play around with this you'll discover what I feel Martin is prescribing. The spot on the tree ultimately becomes the ball on the ground. Your setup through feel allows you to find that spot.

*How do you feel the momentum with the clubs? Oily grip and joints as Jim Flick used to say.

Is this not the opposite to the Malaska move ? Bit confused by this.

When handle goes down, is that casting or early release?

Malaska is good. Not many other people I listen to. Gotta have good correct concepts obviously, but then communicating these while understanding that the “feels” are slightly different to each individual requires the special magic that some teachers have.

Been struggling with this forever…

Awesome

UP!!!

i do exactly what mike says not to do in the takeaway i try to keep it low, then cand do that lyft he suggest,,,if you keep it low, it will roll inside as he says

Is this close to the driver just swinging more up

My only issue is that I seem to have a crazy right elbow when going “up and then under”.

Edited: Hi Brendon. Please pin my remarks to today’s video if you think it merits it. “Up to under to around to the left” is way too much to contemplate as one is swinging their golf club while at the same time they must also think of the timing, tempo and rythme it takes to pivoting their body from left to right back to left again. So there got to be an easier way to swing ones club. Right? So may I suggest to you and everyone who is reading this that they and you steer both your club and pivot your body simultaneously with your alternating hands working together back and forth? Why? Because our hands are the only direct connection we have to our golf club and our body and mind must act as the total vehicle that propels and drives our club head at tremendous speed and accuracy through our ball to the very finish of our swing How to swing with your cooperation alternating hands. So starting with a 50/50 weight distribution of your body on the ground; after you have aimed and gotten into your ideal golf posture; use your left hand to steer your club maximum counterclockwise to the top of your backswing as you are simultaneously feeling your body shifting 75 percent of your weight to your trail right side ; and, then to initiate your downswing use your right trail hand to steer your club sharply clockwise all the way to your finish of your swing as you are simultaneously feeling your body shifting 75 percent of your weight to your lead side. All the while you will absolutely stay in balance throughout your swing to the full completion of your swing. Swinging your club with the power of your alternating hands keeps your body in rotational balanced with no chasing after the ball replicates Percy Boomer’s timeless lesson of swinging inside a barrel. Our staying in balanced rotating body; shifting our body weight only 75 percent back and forth along with our cooperating alternating hands and oily reactive wrist controlling the direction of the club head moving on its path to our ball are altogether what creates the clockwise looping of the club head shallowing it down to its plane of action in its direction to and through our ball. After practicing this you may very well ask yourselves am I swinging the golf club or is the golf club swinging me. Final tip: At any point on your backswing your wish to change the direction of the club regardless of how hard or soft you wish your swing to be; simply apply a small amount of pressure with the small finger of your trail right hand. And wow! You will experience your trail elbow automatically falling into place along with an effective rotational golf swing for yourselves. And; no other lessons other then managing your play; will be required. Cheers 👍😃⛳️🥂

*Brandon this really exposes your tendency to rotate in on the up BIG TIME your wrist conditions fingerprint imo...Keep the club in front of your chest then think rotation on the downswing IS the flattening move.*

This swing method seems almost identical to David Ledbetter's A Swing.

Just think of matthew Wolff's swing. He stands the club up in order to shallow it using his trail elbow. He said he played a lot of baseball in his youth.

My problem is when I take the club back outside of my hands, my left wrist wants to severely cup.

This has helped on the driver swing. Thank you.

You can’t let it drop behind your hands if you doubt get it “in front” of your hands. UP!!!

Just like the Justin rose pre shot drill?

🤔 I think Mike has been watching Milo teach. Saying things like letting the club get behind the hands never used to come out of Mike’s mouth. I remember the days of handle down club head out “Malaska Move”

I hope when you re-watched this that you realized when comparing the baseball swing he was meaning to turn more behind the ball. This way you arent practicing the wrong thing .

This doesn’t look like the Malaska move I’ve seen in other videos.

He seems to have abandoned teaching the malaska move. It’s a shame. Too many people misunderstood it and never tried it and talked shit about it. Best instruction for amateurs that actually worked.

If everyone is swinging over the top, let's just make an over-the-top swing that works.

When Mike tells you to turn more to catch the ball earlier, he mean to turn more on the backswing and not through the impact.

This is the opposite of what Mike says in another video wheee he says that the club stays in front or the hands during the down swing. Which one???

The club head works around your hands…simple…but so many ways to mess that up

Anybody running into issues with long irons. My tempo must be off and not patient enough. Definitely no success with driver yet. Wedge and short iron is like butter and way less strain on my back

Mr Malaska has always taught a pivot stall and arm disconnection at impact . Take a look at his swing at impact, at his students swing and especially YOUR swing at impact and you will notice a hip stall and disconnected right arm at impact . To avoid an inside takeaway, just place an alignment rod almost touching your toes at setup and take your hands back over this alignment rod until your hands pass your right leg

Wow, he put me in so many positions that It completely ruined my game. I was trying to ride a bicycle backwards.

So you dumped dr. Kwon

The single plane swing is much easier. Bring back Moe Norman.

You forgot to ask the follow-up question: how do you get the club-head square after looping? That's why you were shanking initially! Also, pitching is one thing, but try doing the loop with the driver! It's raises a lot of questions! Finally, the MOST important question of all: how on earth do you loop on shorter swings? There is barely any time to loop!

The shadow is so annoying! Club

haha, this poor guy get lessons from the best in the world and still he sticks the club inside going back..

Dude pay attention to mike ffs! I don't know if you have adhd or what but dam...