Success After 2 Weeks

Awesome Craig .  Keep up the great work!  Welcome to the website.  

Thanks guys for the encouragement!

Well played Craig!

Explanar is another aid that teaches the tail to wag the dog. They're great guys and I'm friends with Tony, the CEO, but I can't recommend the aid. They've tried to get me to use it for years, I even went to Tony's house and tried it out. For a golfer with no idea what a swing plane is, it's good for eductating them, but you can swing the weighted club perfectly on plane and never once learn to move from the right muscles.

Hi Guys,

This discussion is exciting for me because what I do in my coaching is basically use Explanar to help people learn the movements that Chuck and Alison have identified as the biomechanical fundamentals of the golf swing.

I can't give you any science to back this up, but I firmly believe that people learn quicker by making the movements in Explanar to begin with, rather than hitting balls.

I think there are a number of reasons for this. Perhaps the biggest is that with no ball, people focus on making the movement rather than the result of the shot. The ball is a major distraction for most people when they are learning. Chuck himself said that when he was learning RST he made hundreds if not thousands of swings just with the club and no ball. I think there is discussion of this elsewhere on the forum

That's OK for someone with great focus and dedication who really understands what they are trying to to. But unfortunately, most of us aren't like that. If someone came to me for a lesson, and I had them standing there for 45 minutes swinging without hitting a ball, most of them wouldn't come back. Unfortunately it's just the way people have been conditioned to think about golf instruction.

Where Explanar is brilliant is that you use it to teach the movement, without the distraction of the ball, but in a way people find engaging, fun and interesting. In addition, the Roller is heavy so the student can feel which muscles are working. When you use the correct muscles in the correct way, the Roller feels light and the movement is effortless. If you do it wrong, the roller feels too heavy.

When the student can feel the movement, you can then get then hitting little shots with the golf club, re creating what they felt in the machine. They are still engaged and focused on the movement, rather than thinking 'Great, A Golf Ball! I'm gonna whack it!'

As Luther says, the Explanar is just another tool in the coaches armoury to get the golfer to feel what you want him or her to feel. I happen to think it's the best. I concur with Chuck in that if you don't know how the body works and therefore have no idea what the golf swing is supposed to feel like, Explanar is just another training aid and you can 'do it wrong'.

I firmly believe that what Chuck and Alison are doing is revolutionising the way the golf swing will be taught in the future. Luther's concept of the Biomechanical Swing Plane and the principles that are built into Explanar fit with the science. The Explanar should be seen as a learning tool, not as a methodology or a technique, and the true value of any tool lies with the understanding of the person using it.

I'm not saying you need an Explanar to learn the Rotary swing, and I'm not saying that simply buying an Explanar will give you a perfect Rotary swing. It won't. But as a a learning tool, in my experience, the Explanar will help you learn the fundamental movements that Chuck and Alison have identified in a fast, fun and thorough way.

Best regards,

Sam