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  What Ben Hogan and Moe Norman Had In Common, and How It Can Help Your Golf Swing If you ask 100 people who they believe were the best ballstrikers of all time were, 90 of them are either going to say Ben Hogan or Moe Norman.  Did you know that they have one key similarity?  They both were dominant in their lead arms - their left arms.   In Hogan’s book, Five Lessons, he says, “I was born left-handed - that was the normal way for me to do things… The boys in my hometown, Fort Worth, used to buy their...

In the above video, I analyze the swings of Ken Griffey Jr. vs. Ken Griffey Sr.  The reason why this is a good comparison to make is because both guys weighed about the same (190 lbs and 195 lbs) and of course have pretty much the same natural skills, since they are father and son.  It's not the same as comparing twins, but it's pretty close.   Both of them had very lead-arm dominant swings, but Jr.'s was better because he finished his swing, his shoulders rotating all the way around.  This gave him more power, and made him a much...

In the above video, I talk about the three general looks that I see from lead-arm dominant hitters. The important thing is not to try to copy any particular hitter, but to simply feel more of the lead side working in your swing and see what kind of style you want to take when doing so. However you want to do lead-arm dominance is the right way for you to do it. For so long in our swing instruction culture, it has been about copying swings of great hitters, or copying certain parts of swings.  This is really missing the...

  I was maybe a bit overzealous years ago when I discovered the effectiveness of the lead arm progression that I neglected to address the role of the back arm in the baseball swing.  While most hitters will get much better if they just focus on getting more of the lead side pathway working and less of the back side pathway working, many of you communicated to me that you need a more in-depth discussion of what the back arm should feel.   This is why I'm developing a new training aid called the "Back Arm Trainer."  Like all of my training...

In this video, I talk about the three drills I love - the Front Arm Progression, the Back Arm Doorway Drill, and the Pre-Extension Drill.  I also get into the common drills that are taught today that make a player train an "over-extension" move of the back arm through contact - something that you don't want to train.  This is really something you need to watch out for because the more you do these drills, the harder it will be to break the habit down the line.  It's unbelievable to me that pretty much all of swing instruction is on...