Does anybody miss the old Be Better Golf Youtube Show?

[Hilts1969]

Has anyone seen the most recent series Brandon did with AJ Bonnar? It's quite possibly the worst golf instruction I've ever seen. The most recent video he had Brandon pulling the handle forward and hitting shanks. The whole comments section is full of people fired up to try it. What a disaster.

 

I disagree there is more than one way to hit a golf club, and Bonar is helping people play better golf, it's just not for you.

 

Let me get this straight, you are suggesting hossel rockets are a way for some to be better golfers?

 

This is what works for me, I don't think it will work for everyone

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K8OdJet2rM

 

looks like a similar move that malaska teaches

 

 

Same move as this which I used at the range last year to try and cure my driver woes. It wasn’t so much a light bulb moment as being struck by lightning. After a bit of practice every shot straight and out of the middle of the club. I knew before I hit the ball it was going to be good, never had that feeling before or since. Couldn’t get distance with it though. Proper gutted as my driver is still all over the place and never feels right.

[BottleCap]

 

This is what works for me, I don't think it will work for everyone

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K8OdJet2rM

 

looks like a similar move that malaska teaches

 

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Same move as this which I used at the range last year to try and cure my driver woes. It wasn't so much a light bulb moment as being struck by lightning. After a bit of practice every shot straight and out of the middle of the club. I knew before I hit the ball it was going to be good, never had that feeling before or since. Couldn't get distance with it though. Proper gutted as my driver is still all over the place and never feels right.

 

Hilts,

 

This helped me, but don't know if it will help you. I had issues with that move for a long time so i went back and forth, one day shots were mostly good, but had some bad ones, next day it would be mostly bad with a few great ones.

 

I learned the move from going to a Jim Hardy clinic a couple of years back and I remembered something that i though was small at the time, but was the missing piece for me, which was my left arm needed to get out of the way and stay short like alligator arms. When ever there was any tension in my left arm, it would stay straight and i'd get lots of pulls. Collapsing the left arm has me hitting it real well.

 

I'm not a great driver of the ball, how i came to the conclusion that this move was right for me was the long irons, i've never been able to hit my long irons into greens before this move. I could get pin high, but now I expect to hold a green with my 3 iron from 200 out 4 out of 5 times.

 

So the results are there, but after 2 years it still doesn't feel right, i feel like i'm going to get stuck on my back foot since the action happens so early in the downswing or pull it, but it works for me.

[Hilts1969]

 

This is what works for me, I don't think it will work for everyone

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K8OdJet2rM

 

looks like a similar move that malaska teaches

 

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Same move as this which I used at the range last year to try and cure my driver woes. It wasn't so much a light bulb moment as being struck by lightning. After a bit of practice every shot straight and out of the middle of the club. I knew before I hit the ball it was going to be good, never had that feeling before or since. Couldn't get distance with it though. Proper gutted as my driver is still all over the place and never feels right.

 

Hilts,

 

This helped me, but don't know if it will help you. I had issues with that move for a long time so i went back and forth, one day shots were mostly good, but had some bad ones, next day it would be mostly bad with a few great ones.

 

I learned the move from going to a Jim Hardy clinic a couple of years back and I remembered something that i though was small at the time, but was the missing piece for me, which was my left arm needed to get out of the way and stay short like alligator arms. When ever there was any tension in my left arm, it would stay straight and i'd get lots of pulls. Collapsing the left arm has me hitting it real well.

 

I'm not a great driver of the ball, how i came to the conclusion that this move was right for me was the long irons, i've never been able to hit my long irons into greens before this move. I could get pin high, but now I expect to hold a green with my 3 iron from 200 out 4 out of 5 times.

 

So the results are there, but after 2 years it still doesn't feel right, i feel like i'm going to get stuck on my back foot since the action happens so early in the downswing or pull it, but it works for me.

 

The move itself once I got it down was great, I think on the video I posted he mentions the plane and he is bang on as even before I got to the ball I could feel it was right. It was like swinging on a fixed path that couldn’t go wrong. Every shot had this inevitable perfection to it. The only problem was i couldn’t add any speed. I literally had to get to the top and do nothing with any part of my body or arms. Just do that release with the wrists.

 

At one point I hit 20 balls and they all landed on one of those small greens you get on a driving range. I don’t think I have ever hit more than 6 faiways in a round in my life(shot a 79 that day). Once I tried to up the speed the clubface wouldn’t square up in time.

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Same move as this which I used at the range last year to try and cure my driver woes. It wasn't so much a light bulb moment as being struck by lightning. After a bit of practice every shot straight and out of the middle of the club. I knew before I hit the ball it was going to be good, never had that feeling before or since. Couldn't get distance with it though. Proper gutted as my driver is still all over the place and never feels right.

 

My goodness, thanks for the video. It brings me back a lot of memories. I once used a similar technique based on what I gleaned from Dalton McCrary's straight shooting stuff years ago. He advocated a very similar early release thought that promotes more "square" face throughout the swing to an extreme as I think he underflips in his own swing. I don't think AJ Bonar advocates the same feeling even though he does emphasize an active hands to aggressively square the face.

 

However like Hilts1969, I discovered while the precision was amazing once the timing was on, the distance just wasn't there and I was a short hitter to begin with, and everything was going so high that I was losing extra distance on top because I was underflipping it so much. Also I really had trouble getting the proper low point in my swing and had to play it way back in my stance, which caused additional problems. Even the instructor in your seems to be playing the ball more further back than usual but that could just be the camera angle. On the flip side it did make me able to make exceptionally high lob shots with full swing.

 

One thing I think the instructor in your video and Dalton McCray do is a tiny little bit of float loading in transition coupled with hip slide that give them a bit more room and speed compared to hackers like me who would be casting all the way from top trying to release early. And I think too many clueless students such as I fall into the trap when learning from the videos that teach active hand release such as AJ Bonar's.

 

Still I like watching Be Better Golf with instructors since it gives an interesting perspective of going through different instructions. As bad as it sounds, I find it rather addictive reading others describe how golf swing feels and works for them.

[BottleCap]

The latest video with his little contraption has him hitting it better than ever, but as soon as he moves the ball away you see the problem it's his back swing that messes everything up.

[Lincoln_Arcadia]

The latest video with his little contraption has him hitting it better than ever, but as soon as he moves the ball away you see the problem it's his back swing that messes everything up.

What part of the backswing do you think is the culprit?

 

Guessing you meant this video?

[BottleCap]

The latest video with his little contraption has him hitting it better than ever, but as soon as he moves the ball away you see the problem it's his back swing that messes everything up.

What part of the backswing do you think is the culprit?

 

Guessing you meant this video?

 

No, that video you linked is from October, here's the one I'm referring to

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiTFaZhAGcc

[sonnygolf]

I stopped watching his channel, once he started gaining some popularity it's clear he became more concerned about building his brand than about actually being better at golf.

 

I'd also say he's under the impression that taking so many lessons with so many instructors qualifies him as a psuedo-instructor himself,but I'm not sure if that is really the case.

 

Whats wrong with that? That is what Vloggers do. This is now his full time job and not just some stuff he does on the side.

[oikos1]

Why hammer a nail? Hammer the frickin' ball. I am at a loss as to why that is such a hard concept for some golfers to grasp. Smoke and mirrors...

[GolfTurkey]

It's amazing how different the teachings of various instructors are. Hammering a nail has to be the polar opposite of making a swing and letting the ball get in the way and yet we have instructors teaching both.

[Hilts1969]

It's amazing how different the teachings of various instructors are. Hammering a nail has to be the polar opposite of making a swing and letting the ball get in the way and yet we have instructors teaching both.

 

I don’t believe the intention of hammering a nail into the ball will be helpful for the vast majority of golfers. Isn’t that how most of us started the game? Whack that little ball with the clubhead?

[BottleCap]

So he started hi Match Play series with Monte and Blaire. Cute presser idea.

 

I think he should have Christo next

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga8BD98Zi3I

[oikos1]

Pay per view, huh? I hope youtube has a user friendly focus button.

 

Love Monte but this 3 hole pay per view deal is going to need a moneyline and prop bets to juice it up.

[PutterKilledTheDream]

So he started hi Match Play series with Monte and Blaire. Cute presser idea.

 

I think he should have Christo next

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga8BD98Zi3I

 

When was said match at Ram’s?

[farva]

When was said match at Ram’s?

 

I think this past Friday, the 23rd

[OrangeGravy]

I've never had issue with what he tries to do with his content or his ideas. I actually like most of his ideas, but it's him I that ruins it for me. Look I don't know the guy and I'm not trying to comment on him personally, but there's something about him that turns me off. This video above would be perfectly fine if he was just shooting it and wasn't in it. If he had picked someone else to be the on camera person from the beginning and was just putting it all together, I would probably love all of it. It feels like he's the " trying way to hard guy". Comes off as the super micro-manager personality that has to control everything to the level that he is constantly interrupting the flow or never letting the video get into a flow.

[Z1ggy16]

When was said match at Ram’s?

 

I think this past Friday, the 23rd

I don't think I've seen Blaire shoot over par, or maybe at most 1 or 2 over on all the videos I've watched of his. Would be interested to see results...

[garyt]

Maybe its just me but I haven't watched a video in about a year.

 

I miss the old videos of Monte, GG and Dana.

 

If you look at those videos just see how many views they have and how simple and clear the information is.

 

What I've seen lately is just quick tips and the "Secret" to endless swing thoughts which I just cant watch anymore.

 

Again, maybe its just me but Brendan still has the same swing faults since he's started his channel but their just less

pronounced.

 

Maybe he's just looking for other ways to improve the same swing faults and also attract a bigger audience and I can certainly understand that.

 

I just miss the old days.

 

This is not a hate post at all just a viewer who misses the old days.

 

Because Monte's videos with Brendan are the absolute best I would like to get Monte's opinion on this topic as well

 

I hated that guys videos. He interrupted whoever he had on way too much. If I want to see Monte I'll watch Monte's videos and not have to put up with some guy acting like he knows what he's talking about. The best tip for any interviewer is "Stay out of the way"

[TheWoat]

Is the Monte v Blair match really PPV?

[diablocrusher]

Is the Monte v Blair match really PPV?

 

I think the match is getting filmed then sold on the BBG web site as a “premium” product

[BottleCap]

Is the Monte v Blair match really PPV?

 

I think the match is getting filmed then sold on the BBG web site as a “premium” product

 

it’s like 10 bucks, so i’m curious

[Z1ggy16]

Hole #1... $10 PPV on BBG website.

 

For those of you who pay the $10, can you at least report the final score? I have 0% interest in paying $10 to watch this but I'm somewhat interested in knowing the outcome.

[pappaf2]

Based on the teaser of the first hole Brendan posted it looks pretty good. He's got the players mic'd up and has multiple camera angles going on.

[hlca]

Hole #1... $10 PPV on BBG website.

 

For those of you who pay the $10, can you at least report the final score? I have 0% interest in paying $10 to watch this but I'm somewhat interested in knowing the outcome.

 

Me too. In an era where everything is going towards ad-supported content, BBG wants to go back to the pay-per-view heyday of the 1980s.

[Shipwreck]

I only watched a couple of his videos and honestly never got into them for pretty much the reasons already stated. And I know it might seem tacky or uncouth but I honestly thought he had an ugly swing.

[Z1ggy16]

Hole #1... $10 PPV on BBG website.

 

For those of you who pay the $10, can you at least report the final score? I have 0% interest in paying $10 to watch this but I'm somewhat interested in knowing the outcome.

 

Me too. In an era where everything is going towards ad-supported content, BBG wants to go back to the pay-per-view heyday of the 1980s.

Especially when I can watch Blaire play with web.com'ers and other good golfers for free on his channel, and I think a year or two ago, Monte's entire Q school qualifier rounds were posted for free on youtube.

[jimwgt26]

He should be funding the match with revenue from his products. This project is an advertisement for his brand, his schools and merchandise.

 

The title of this thread asks if we miss the old Be Better Golf? My answer is yes.

[Golfonthemind]

Paid the 10 bucks. Its an entertaining match, Brendon did a good job filming and putting together.

[Z1ggy16]

Paid the 10 bucks. Its an entertaining match, Brendon did a good job filming and putting together.

Who won?

[Krt22]

Hole #1... $10 PPV on BBG website.

 

For those of you who pay the $10, can you at least report the final score? I have 0% interest in paying $10 to watch this but I'm somewhat interested in knowing the outcome.

 

Me too. In an era where everything is going towards ad-supported content, BBG wants to go back to the pay-per-view heyday of the 1980s.

And you can watch the masters 24/7 on just about any device...all for free.