Posted by Charlie King on Wed, Oct 28, 2009 @ 07:08 PM
My review of Essential Skill #1, Pre-Swing was given in two parts and there have been over 600 views in two weeks. Good job reviewing your Essential Skills.
This week is my favorite Essential and I think most important. The video below is titled "Golf's Most Important Lesson" for a reason. Making solid contact is the hardest skill for most golfers and the most misunderstood. I've written a book on this topic titled "You're NOT Lifting Your Head" which is available as a free download or a paperback version at amazon.com. The video below has now been viewed over 18,000 times. This video has resonated with golfers because of the struggle with this skill and because the drills given are simple to do. For those of you who have seen it, repetition is the key to gaining Mastery of a skill.
You can be a solid ballstriker within weeks if you follow the advice and do the drills for as little as 10 minutes a day.
Hitting pure, solid shots is what makes us addicted to golf. I want you to feel this positive addiction!
Please DON'T send this video to any other golfers unless you want to see them improve.
Posted by Charlie King on Wed, Oct 21, 2009 @ 04:14 PM
I hope the grip and posture review last week was helpful for your golf swing. This week will be a golf lesson on aim and ball position.
The video below will explain how aim isn't as easy as it sounds and how to make your aim consistent. It will also talk about ball position and clear up the typical misconceptions.
Enjoy and keep up the good work.
Posted by Charlie King on Thu, Oct 15, 2009 @ 02:42 PM
About a year and a half ago I was thinking about what a golf swing would look like if golf's most common misconceptions were taken literally. I put it on videotape and here is what I came up with. P. S. You've been warned, it is not pretty.
Posted by Charlie King on Thu, Oct 08, 2009 @ 05:42 PM
"Golf's Red Zone Challenge" that I wrote with Rob Akins was made into a television show last year. We have it on YouTube in 6 ten minute segments and I am going to post each segment separately over the next two months.
This first segment was an introduction to the competition and Reynolds Plantation. The format was a team event with 4 members on each team. Each team had a golf instructor from GolfTEC Philadelphia as it's captain and coach. The teams were tested at a course in Philadelphia 12 weeks prior to coming to Reynolds Plantation for the competition and taping of the TV Show.
The team members saw a lot of improvement from their efforts over the 12 weeks leading up to coming to Reynolds. One gentleman improved by 150%. The Red Zone was created to motivate and inspire golfers to work on their short game and this is another example of how it can be effective. Take a look at the video below.
Posted by Charlie King on Tue, Oct 06, 2009 @ 09:26 AM
The New Rules Blog was recently chosen to be on Alltop.com. I cut and pasted information about alltop.com below. It is called an aggregator site and brings together "All the Top Stories" (thus the name) in one place to make finding information easy for you.
We are abviously on the golf page and are staying focussed on helping golfers improve. We are proud to have been chosen as part of the top information on the internet. Take a look at alltop.com. You might find it interesting.
Alltop.com
Purpose
The purpose of Alltop is to help you answer the question, "What's happening?" in "all the topics" that interest you. You may wonder how Alltop is different from a search engine. A search engine is good to answer a question like, "How many people live in China?" However, it has a much harder time answering the question, "What's happening in China?" That's the kind of question that we answer.
We do this by collecting the headlines of the latest stories from the best sites and blogs that cover a topic. We group these collections - "aggregations" - into individual web pages. Then we display the five most recent headlines of the information sources as well as their first paragraph. Our topics run from adoption to zoology with photography, food, science, religion, celebrities, fashion, gaming, sports, politics, automobiles, Macintosh, and hundreds of other subjects along the way.
You can think of Alltop as the "online magazine rack" of the web. We've subscribed to thousands of sources to provide "aggregation without aggravation." To be clear, Alltop pages are starting points-they are not destinations per se. Ultimately, our goal is to enhance your online reading by displaying stories from sources that you're already visiting plus helping you discover sources that you didn't know existed.
Here's how some other people have explained Alltop. First, Dan Roam, author of Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems with Pictures, used these two pictures to explain Alltop vis-à-vis Google. Second, read the review by Sarah Perez in ReadWriteWeb. In a nutshell, Alltop is an information filter to help you find your nuggets of gold.
Genesis
This is the true story of Alltop. If you hear anything else from us, it's because we retroactively changed the story for marketing purposes. We are the creators of Truemors, a site that is "NPR (or CBC) for your eyes" in the sense that it contains unusual breaking news, stories, and rumors like what you'd hear on NPR. A bit after the site's launch, our friend Thomas Marban included Truemors in his single-page aggregation of news and tech sites called popurls.
We noticed that popurls sends Truemors as much traffic as Google. Clearly, he was onto something: Aggregate and display a bunch of sites for people, and they will come. This got us thinking about other topics that (a) have a large readership and (b) hasn't been aggregated in an elegant and efficient manner, and we came up with idea of a doing a popurls of celebrity gossip sites. Then one thing led to another: Why not other topics like gaming, sports, politics, Macintosh, fashion, etc.?
If we had stopped at just celebrity gossip, we could have stuck with one clever domain, but we had to figure out a way to gather everything together when we kept going. "Sugar" was taken, so we came up with "Alltop" as in "all the top" stories-you get it. Alltop is the main website that hosts all the subtopics like celebrities, fashion, egos, sports, and gaming.
About Nononina
Nononina is the company that owns Alltop. It is "two guys and a gal" in a garage-or more accurately, one guy in home office (Will Mayall), one gal on a kitchen table (Kathryn Henkens), and one Guy in United 2B (Guy Kawasaki). They've been working together since the previous century and are still friends.
Posted by Charlie King on Mon, Oct 05, 2009 @ 11:13 AM
I am writing a note to you today to alert you to a great new book. My friend, Henry Brunton, just released his book for juniors and their parents titled "Journey to Excellence".
Henry is the Canadian National Golf Coach and is uniquely qualified to write this book. He has studied peak performance from every angle and has distilled it down to a manageable number of insights for the junior golfer and the parents.
If you have a child, grandchild, neice or nephew, you need this book to help guide them toward their potential. Most parents and grandparents need guidance from someone like Henry who does this for a living. This book will keep you from making the mistakes we are seeing so often by well-meaning but uninformed parents and grandparents. Below is the link with a more in-depth description of the book from Henry's website. Give it a look.
http://www.henrybrunton.com/Journey-Book-Now-Available-Anno1.html.