STRIKING A GOLF BALL AND TREE-FALLING SIMILARITIES

Striking down on the ball is easier said then done to the average golfer. The tendency is to chop at the ball. Gouge the ground. Feel like a fool. Not necessary. The MONGOOSE GOLF SWING video tutorial shows you how to execute a top-down swing with your hands separated exactly as the tree-fallers in the picture above.

Benefits. The average swing has lost most of its power by the time the club head gets to the ball. Why? The golfer tries to sweep the ball off the ground or tee. You turn a 6 iron into an 8 iron sweeping the ball. Sweeping a ball off the ground or tee makes it hard to control direction. Driver becomes 5 wood. 

The tree-faller levers his upper body toward the tree while at the same time bringing the axehead into the tree at full force. How? Hand-action. The top hand (both with the axeman and the swordsman) applies force AT IMPACT. They start the axe toward the tree relatively slowly - almost nonchalantly - but the axehead is picks up speed as it moves through space because they slide the top hand down to meet up with the lower hand at impact. THWACK! That sound is made by a deliberate upper hand hand action at impact. 

With the MONGOOSE GOLF SWING video tutorial - you learn to apply similar power with a golf club. Right handers power through with their right hand pushing as their left hand pulls back slightly. An instant lever is created with this simply concept. “Give me a lever big enough and I’ll move the earth” said Archimedes. 

If you’re interested in buying the tutorial - the instructions costs means etc are in the far right column. 

3 HOURS TO A MORE POWERFUL GOLF SWING

When I first began developing the MONGOOSE SWING I was trying to find a way to apply more power to the ball with less effort. Everyone who plays the game - including the majority of pros - over-swing.The whole history of man - including 3,000 years of philosophy - is all about gaining power. Conquests. Invasions. Inventing gods and goddesses. Canons and guns and dynamite and atom bombs - all about more power. “God is on the side of the army with the most cannons” said Napoleon. In other words - the most power. When Zhukov led the Russian army into Germany - at the Battle of Berlin he commanded 6,000 tanks and 7,500 aircraft and more than 40,000 pieces of artillery. You get the picture.

As I written again and again - I saw the power generated by the Mongoose when it attacks a cobra (or some prey) and takes it to the ground. Always seemingly knowing that when they both hit the ground - its teeth would embed in the prey and the battle was over. The average golfer hasn’t a clue about how to use the ground to facilitate a shot. To put more power into it.

I watched movies of samurai swordsmen - with their hands separated just so - wielding enormous power right at the point of contact with the other combatant. I learned the same thing while working in the woods and watching expert loggers get after a tree (some of them 6 feet across). The top hand slides down as the axe is moving toward the cut area - and right at impact there's a pushing and pulling action that slams the axe head into the tree. But how to get that all into the golf swing remained a mystery for many years. 

The secret is to separate your hands - as you see clearly with the samurai above. The grip is dramatically firmer. Only instead of going straight down (as seen above) - you rotate your hands about 45 degrees to the right (to the left for lefties) and rotate your body down and around. The MONGOOSE SWING is a top down swing - much like the logger’s action when swinging the axe hard - because you want to use your hands and arms and the entire upper right side of your body as a lever to the club into the golf ball. By striking the ball first while still descending downward - you end up using the ground to bite the ball with the club. The amount you separate your hands for each club I discuss my video. 

The result is being able to apply a lot of power to the ball with much less effort. With the MONGOOSE SWING - the legs pretty much go along for the ride - which makes it easier on the back - legs - knees etc. It’s taken a long time to get it right. But here I am 78 and I can still put a lot of force into the ball with my swing. If you’re interested in giving it a try - simply follow the instructions in the right column about how to get your hands on my video. Thanks.

COMMENTERS

The secret of learning the MONGOOSE GOLF SWING is to go slow. I explain in detail in an email PDF to all buyers exactly how to go about it. To try and rush into a full swing while employing some of this technique combined with all the old muscle memory is a recipe for disaster. YOU’LL NEVER LEARN THIS SWING IF YOU HURRY. 

If you’ve played golf with the conventional swing for several years - you have muscle memory of all those years. You can’t simply watch a video a few times and then go break 80. Start with the grip. Sit in a chair with a 7 iron with your hands separated and move the club around slowly. Then after you have the feel of that - learn to “wield” the club. That is be able to move it around and down and side to side at will (try not to break a lamp). You must be able to wield every club in your bag. This is how you learn to have confidence in your swing. You’ve heard it a thousand times - “The guy can’t hit his long irons” or words to that effect. What they should be saying is “he can’t wield the long irons in his bag.” 

I knew a guy - about 53 or so - who decided to buy a motorcycle. A Harley. He was obviously in what they call a “mid-life crisis.” Wanted to test his manhood or whatever. The salesman asked him if he’d rode a motorcycles before. “O yeah.” So taking his word - he let him ride it off the lot. He rode it out into traffic - was clipped by an oncoming car - thrown hard to the ground - multiple head injuries was the result. He needed to get some lessons. He needed to go very slow through the process of learning how to ride a motorcycle. Then he should have taken more lessons in how to ride a motorcycle in traffic. You get the point.

The MONGOOSE GOLF SWING IS NOT HARD TO LEARN - if - if you go slow and feel your way through the various stages of the swing. Begin by working low and slow. Work up to higher and faster.

THROWING A BASEBALL AND STRIKING A GOLF BALL

We throw a baseball with our arm and shoulder and back and legs and feet. We strike a golf ball with our arms and shoulder and back and legs and feet. But there’s a huge difference. The LEVERING ACTION when we throw is toward the target. The levering action when we strike a golf ball is sideways. This is why when we move weight to one side and then have to move back over the golf ball - we see people struggle. It’s not natural. Throwing is pretty natural. With the MONGOOSE GOLF SWING I’ve invented a way to make the levering action more natural. Instead of moving AWAY from the ball - you move slightly forward. Slightly forward means slightly forward. This move is not to be over-exaggerated. But as we move slightly forward (our weight is moved to the inside of our left-leg if right-handed) we can then easily lift the club into position - which sets us up to apply a lot of force to the golf ball by freeing up our right side (mainly the right hip) so we can more easily lever our whole body into the ball. We learn to strike the ball with our whole right side - like a door shutting. If we have moved our body to the right and don’t get back over the ball BEFORE applying power to the ball - it feels like throwing a baseball while sitting in a chair. 

To stop hitting at the ball and instead striking down on the back of it - pick up my 33 Min of ARRRR!! video Tutorial. To purchase - all you need do is click on the BUY NOW button in the right column. PayPal. You don’t need an account. Once you’re on their page - about half way down on the right you’ll see DON’T HAVE A PAYPAL ACCOUNT. Click on that. Do the credit card thing. And you get your hands on my DVD Tutorial. You’ll love it. Have a great fall season.

MAKING THE GOLF SWING SOLID AND DEPENDABLE

We see the pro golf swing break down. Fatigue has something to do with this - especially on hot days or when the pros play in heavy wind. Come Saturday and Sunday - as the players get closer to payday - the swings get looser and we even see the hands come loose of the club grip.

As I’ve said repeatedly on this blog - the conventional golf swing - the one everyone is taught - has too many parts. It has one unique part that is the reason the golf swing breaks down - the takeaway. When you shift your weight to the right (left-handers to the left) - you have to shift it back to the same spot where you addressed the ball before applying power to the ball - and this isn’t easy to do. So it’s hard to develop a dependable rhythm. 

The MONGOOSE GOLF SWING eliminates the takeaway. You simply lift the club into position. So you don’t have to have any rhythm to get back to the spot at which you addressed the ball to apply power to it. Why? You haven’t shifted your weight to the right (or left if left-handed). 

In fact - my swing teaches you to move your weight just slightly forward - which helps you lift the club into position. And this is exactly where you should be if you want to be able to apply all the power you need to execute a given shot. The ‘GOOSE’ is a far more dependable swing. Less parts allows you to apply more power with less effort. My video tutorial slows everything down to make it easier to learn. I don’t care how old you are - or if you’re 6 or 7 - you can learn to wield every club in your bag - even with small or weak hands - and you can build a far more dependable swing.

To ORDER the ‘GOOSE’ tutorial - simply click on the BUY NOW button in the right column. Get your own 33 minutes of ARRRR! Lots of slow motion - which makes it easier to grasp the basics. Lots of explanations. I repeat things because that’s how we learn best.  

When you click on the BUY NOW button you’ll be taken to PayPal. If you DON”T have an account with them - NO PROBLEM. You can use their online banking services anyway. On the PayPal page - simply click on the link “Don’t have a PayPal account” (about half way down the page on the right) and you’ll be taken to a page where you can fill out your credit card info - etc. - and you’re done. They send me notification. I ship your DVD. Golf season is far from over. Give it a try and within hours you can stop slicing and mishitting and learn to strike the ball like the best pro. No hype here. You’re going to love it.

MUSCLE POWER & THE MONGOOSE GOLF SWING

I claim you can apply less effort and generate more power with The MONGOOSE GOLF SWING. How? By aggregating muscle power through contracting the muscles in your upper back - arms - and buttocks simultaneously. I claim that you only need a 3/4 swing to apply more power than you can with a full swing. Again this is accomplished by aggregating muscles. 

IMAGERY and STRIKING the GOLF BALL WITH The MONGOOSE GOLF SWING

I’ve tried over the years to find better and better ways to describe how to learn and then execute certain features of the MONGOOSE GOLF SWING. This is my latest incarnation regarding the concept of striking the golf ball vs merely hitting it or hitting at it - which is what 90 percent of all the golfers in the world do. Hitting at it - sweeping it as it were - turns a 6 iron into a 9 iron. Not a good thing.

When you strike down on the back of the golf ball - you should have your hands well in front of the club head (not behind as in the above image). Why? You want to hit the ball first with the HEEL of your club. Not the face to the back of the ball - but the HEEL. Why? The idea is to use the ground to compress the golf ball. Right - the compression is ever so slight - but it makes a significant difference in ball flight and control: or accuracy.

I send a detailed PDF about how to learn this to buyers of my TUTORIAL. But the image is of knocking the ball into the ground - while rotating around with your body. This prevents you from gouging the ground as if you were going straight down at the ball with an axe. You’re not going straight down - but that’s the feeling - or should I say there are TWO FEELINGS - one of going straight down - but at the same time knowing that you’re rotating around and up into your finish. 

I strike at a point on the ball just above the equator. In my INTRO VIDEO I draw a mark around the ball - X marks the spot. As the heel of the club strikes the ball - the ball starts to move up the face because you’ve compressed it (slightly) against the ground. The mongoose does the same thing when it strikes its prey. It uses the ground to sink its teeth into whatever it is it’s just taken down (see mongoose attacking cobra in INTRO VIDEO).