Welcome to the swing confessional.

Shaun Webb and Mike Granato from Athletic Motion Golf open up about every dumb thing they bought, built, or did in the name of getting better at golf before they had GEARS, force plates, or any way to actually measure what works. Their stories are funny, painful, and brutally honest. The kind of stuff most golf coaches would never admit to a camera.

The PVC pipe SAM 2000 ring that gave Shaun two months of shanks before his first season in Maine. The Mark Brooks strap-and-cuffs system that gave him the laterals. Mike convincing his dad to buy a brand-new Brute garbage can so he could cut the rim off and duct-tape it to the wall to swing inside. Shaun's wholesale Bob Mann's Automatic Golf rebuild two weeks before his state championship (he somehow hit 17 greens — still praising Bob Mann). The Killer B driver with the 46-inch shaft. The Viper Bite sandpaper-faced wedge. The original Medicus breakaway and the friend who bought one in a pro shop and shanked the first four approach shots of a money game with money on every hole.

Plus the methodology spectrum that traps so many golfers (one extreme to the other), the discovery that tour pros congregate in a tight "AMG window" of about 8-10 parameters, and why Shaun's nephew growing up now has access to information that Shaun and Mike spent decades wishing they had.

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CHAPTERS
00:00 Opening The Swing Confessional
00:29 Shaun's First Set Of Clubs. Bernhard Langer Junior Wilsons
01:36 The Magazine Sales Pitches To Dad
02:00 The PVC Pipe SAM 2000 Ring Story
02:35 Two Months Of Practice. Two Months Of Shanks
03:18 Why Shaun Was All In On Everything
03:49 Mike's Confession. The Strap And Cuffs From Mark Brooks
04:34 The Maine Winter Off-Season Practice
05:14 The Laterals Return
05:40 Mike's Football And Basketball Background
06:23 Why Big Guys Need Different Methodologies
06:50 The Methodology That's Still Ruining Golf Swings
07:08 The Garbage Can Story Begins
07:48 Building A Brute Trash Can Barrel
08:23 Why Mike Cut Up A Garbage Can
08:41 Shaun's Wholesale Methodology Change
09:00 Bob Mann's Automatic Golf
09:35 Two Weeks Before The State Championship
10:13 Hit 17 Greens At State
10:30 Praising Bob Mann
11:03 Why Every Teacher Had Their Secret
11:27 The Ben Hogan Book And Hogan Secrets
12:08 The Methodology Spectrum
12:25 The Middle Third Sweet Spot
12:53 The AMG Windows. Tour Pros Congregate In A Tight Range
13:33 Why GEARS Changed Everything
13:53 What Kids Today Have Access To
14:19 The Methodologies Still Being Taught At Scale
14:41 The Viper Bite Sandpaper Wedge Confession
15:18 The Killer B Driver With The 46 Inch Shaft
15:38 The Lost Training Aid Memory
16:01 Shaun's Dad's Homemade Laser Club
16:45 The Original Medicus Breakaway Story
17:14 The Medicus Pro Shop Money Game Disaster
18:23 The Kalassi Swing Magic Hook Story
19:05 The Hogan Book On Fundamentals
19:35 Doing The John Daly Swing The Next Day
20:10 The First Video Lesson On A TV With Dry Erase
20:32 Why GEARS Came Along So Recently
21:09 The Coolest Thing About Being A Coach
21:48 Why Coaches Need To Still Be Players
22:27 Gary Gilchrist Grinding In The AMG Lab
23:05 Misery Loves Company. Why We Share This
23:24 Wrap Up. Tell Us What You Want To Hear

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"For anyone taking on the task of improving their golf swing... you have to F your feels."

Your feels are a memory. They're not a movement. They degrade over time, they're the worst possible anchor for changing a real motor pattern, and they're the number one reason why "I tried it and it didn't work" means literally nothing in a golf lesson.

Shaun and Mike from Athletic Motion Golf break down the lesson moment every golfer has been through...making a swing, being asked "did you do it?" and answering "I felt like I did" — only to pull up GEARS and see zero change. The fix is the same every time: slow down to about 45-50 mph (which feels like 3 mph), let your brain catch up with the club, actually feel the new move in real time. Then build the reps back up by 5 mph at a time.

Plus the Tiger Woods quote about feel matching real, the Hank Haney concept that you can't teach a slicer to hit it straight (you have to teach him slice to hook to good golf), the Disney Grand Prix guardrail analogy that finally explains why "outside by five" is what neutral feels like when you're stuck inside by five, and the brutal "I have five swings" lesson moment that exposes why most golfers think they have control they don't actually have.

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CHAPTERS:
00:00 F Your Feels.
00:25 Why Feels Aren't Real
00:48 Feel Is A Memory. Not A Movement
01:24 The Lesson Question. "Did You Do It?"
01:43 The Most Common Answers
02:01 The Zero Change Replay
02:29 The 45 To 50 MPH Threshold
02:50 Why You Need To Feel In Real Time
03:28 The Speed Build Up. 60, 65, 80
03:43 Why The YouTube Comments Tell The Same Story
04:26 The "I Tried It" Trap
04:45 Try Is The Barrier For Entry. Not The Standard
05:03 Why Nobody Has Felt Impact Until 30 Feet Later
05:42 The Tiger Woods Quote. Feel Matches Real
06:08 Why "Pride In Feel" Is The Wrong Move
06:28 The Free Throw Analogy
07:09 Anchor Your Feel With Feedback
07:24 Why The Phone Camera Is Your Best Coach
07:55 Going Slow Enough To Actually See The Move
08:21 Attack The Tumor. The Butch Harmon Concept
09:20 Why You Have To Betray Your Feels
09:53 Make The Right Movement First. Then Feel It
10:14 Why Your Feel Has To Update Every Day
10:33 The Swing Coach App Lesson Example
11:01 Why You Have To Feel "Outside Five" To Get To Zero
11:41 The Daily Drift. Why You Don't Notice Yourself Changing
12:21 The Hank Haney Quote. Slice To Hook To Good Golf
12:57 The Disney Grand Prix Guardrail Analogy
13:53 The "I Tried It" Excuse And The 5 Swings Lesson
14:43 The Names Of The 5 Swings
15:23 Why All 5 Swings Look Identical
16:11 Why Impersonators Aren't Great Players
16:31 The Range Scan. How Many People Have Feedback?
17:10 Do The Opposite Of Everyone Else
17:26 The Swing Coach App. Two Weeks Free

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Most golf training aids will make you worse...and the average golfer doesn't know.

Shaun Webb and Mike Granato from Athletic Motion Golf pull back the curtain on training aids: the ones they actually recommend, the ones that quietly train the OPPOSITE movement of what you're trying to fix, and the simple criteria every training aid has to pass to be worth your money.

The big rule: a training aid should give you feedback, not do the work for you. If it restricts you into the right position (rails, arm tubes, swimming pool noodles, butt-band restrictors), your muscles are training to push AGAINST the restriction — which means as soon as you take it off, you've ingrained the exact pattern you were trying to change. Shaun's confession about the swing jacket is the perfect cautionary tale. Thousands of balls trained the wrong move.

Plus the Greg Rose TPI concept of "use the opposite" (pull the golfer toward the bad move so they have to engage the right muscles to counter it), why the Hits Driver is one of the only training aids on AMG's recommendation list, and why the camera + foam ball + Swing Coach app combo is the most underrated training aid setup you already own.

And the bonus: camera perspective and lens distortion in golf swing video — why the iPhone "3D" apps that point at a laptop screen produce horrific data, and why your swing looks completely different from four cameras three feet apart.

Want training aid reviews from AMG? Let us know in the comments. We're starting Training Aid Tuesdays soon, plus live Q&A broadcasts from the AMG studio.

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CHAPTERS:
00:00 Why People Ask AMG About Training Aids
00:34 The Criteria For A Good Training Aid
00:57 Why Most Training Aids Make You Worse
01:32 The Honest Coach Disclaimer
01:51 The Swing Guide. A Training Aid That Actually Works
02:47 Why The Swing Guide Has Stood The Test Of Time
03:09 Why The Player Has To Do The Work
03:58 The Putting Arc Done Right (And Done Wrong)
05:06 The Swing Jacket Story. Shaun's Training Disaster
05:44 Why Restrictor Aids Train The Wrong Muscles
06:21 The Bent Arm Doorstop Mistake
07:15 The Swimming Pool Noodle Trampoline Problem
08:00 The Shallowing Aid Trap
08:41 Why The Training Aid Has To Apply To Your Swing
09:00 The Arm Tube That's Wrecking Lead Arms
09:43 The Greg Rose TPI Concept. Use The Opposite
10:23 Why The Right Training Aid Pulls You The Wrong Way
10:46 What Training Aids Should Really Be. Feedback
11:09 The Hits Driver. AMG's Top Recommendation
11:26 The Other Sports Analogy. Why Air Reps Don't Build Speed
12:21 The Movement Is The Exercise (Gray Institute)
13:02 Why The Camera Is The Best Training Aid You Own
13:55 The Foam Ball As A Training Aid
14:19 The Foam Ball + Camera + Swing Coach Combo
14:40 Why Camera Placement And Lenses Matter
15:00 The GoPro Fisheye Lens Problem
15:32 Perception vs. Perspective. The Camera Lens Truth
16:20 The Same Swing From 4 Cameras Looks Different
17:02 Comparing Yourself To Tour Players With Different Cameras
17:32 The iPhone 3D App Problem (Producing Horrific Data)
18:08 Training Aid Tuesdays. AMG Coming Soon

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Why do so many golf lessons fail? It's not always the coach. It's not always the player. It's usually the conversation that never happened between them.

In today's Athletic Motion Golf Podcast, Shaun Webb and Mike Granato break down both sides of the golf lesson equation. The player side (what to expect, what to ask, what to demand) and the coach side (the resort lesson vs. the player development lesson, why setting expectations matters, why measurement beats opinion). Plus the three reasons most lessons fail and the simple formula that fixes it.

The framework. Good information + correct application + repetition = improvement. If you're not getting better, one of those three is off. That's it. There's no magic secret formula. There's no special drill that unlocks the swing. The work happens between lessons, and the feedback loop is what separates real improvement from "I think I'm doing it right."

Shaun shares his own story — two years to build a swing flaw he was taught (too much shaft lean), over ten years to unlearn it. A 5 to 1 ratio. Plus the Grant Hill path-fix example that shows why a coach has to walk you through what's coming next, the social media posed-before-and-after problem, and why having a swing coach app on every swing has been a complete game changer.

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CHAPTERS
00:00 Why Most Golfers Have Had Bad Lessons
00:43 The Flat Tire Vs Motor Pattern Problem
02:21 What Is A Resort Lesson?
04:41 The Questions A Good Coach Should Ask You
06:38 The Grant Hill Story. Why Path Fixes Backfire Without Release
08:16 What You Should Know When You Leave A Lesson
08:40 The Real Magic Happens Between The Lessons
09:47 Why The Swing Coach App Changed Everything
10:32 Trackman 3D In Every AMG Bay
12:38 The Social Media Posed Before And After Problem
13:52 Why Measurement Beats Opinion In Teaching
14:59 The Bandage Vs Real Change Decision
15:37 What Tour Teachers Do Differently
17:05 Shaun's 5 To 1 Unlearning Ratio Story
18:10 The Tour Player Game Plan Example
19:45 The Coach With A New Tool Problem
21:46 The Formula. Information + Application + Repetition
22:20 The 3 Reasons Lessons Fail
23:01 Why Practice Without Feedback Makes You Worse
24:17 The US Open Qualifier And The Tournament Audiobook
25:36 Swing Coach On The Golf Course. The Real Reveal
27:00 The Three-Part Lesson Formula Recap

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The most misunderstood thing in the entire golf swing. Impact doesn't happen on the front side of your body. It happens on the trail side.

Shaun Webb and Mike Granato break down the concept that almost no golf instruction teaches — and the reason every cartoonish impact pose, rib-cracker drill, and "swing your arms across" cue has been training you toward the opposite of what every tour player actually does. The pie chart breakdown explains it cleanly: at impact, your body has rotated open, and the ball, hands, lead elbow, and club are all in the trail-side 60-degree pie of your pelvis. Not the front side. Not where you've been practicing for years.

When you understand where impact really lives, you stop forcing the contorted poses, you stop shoving the hands forward, and you let body rotation deliver shaft lean and shallowing for free. Tour average shaft lean is only 7.98 degrees. The obsession with massive lean is misplaced. Position the body correctly and everything else follows.

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CHAPTERS
00:00 What's The Most Misunderstood Thing About The Golf Swing?
00:22 The Maine Clinic Story. Golfers Putting The Ball In The Wrong Spot
01:00 Why Most Bad Concepts Center Around Impact
01:39 The Shaft Lean Buzzword Problem
01:47 The Lesson Truth. Nobody Ever Teaches Trail-Side Impact
02:01 Defining Trail-Side Impact
02:46 Splitting The Body Down The Middle
03:30 Hands, Arms, And Club All On The Trail Side
04:02 Why The Rib Cracker Drill Trains The Opposite
04:13 The Three 60-Degree Pies Of Your Pelvis
05:19 How The Body Rotation Moves The Pies
05:34 The "Square Back Up" Lesson Mistake
05:45 Why Trying To Bring Hands Back In Front Turns The Body Off
06:35 The Apple Glasses Future Of Impact Visualization
07:00 The Test. Where Would You Put The Ball If The Body Was Open?
07:39 Why No One Would Put The Shaft On The Front Side
07:57 The Cartoonish Impact Pose Problem
08:33 Why Teachers Posing Crazy Impact Have The Least Shaft Lean
09:17 The "Go To Impact" Test 100% Of Golfers Get Wrong
09:44 How The Face-On Camera Ruined Impact Perception
09:54 Why It's Harder To Re-Learn If You're Out Of Your Teens
10:25 Swing Coach App For Face-On Impact Data
10:49 The Concept Is What Has To Be Taught
11:00 The Effort Difference. Where Pros Take The Hands
11:19 Why Trail-Side Impact Shallows The Club For Free
11:30 Why Instruction Is Way Behind On This
12:03 The Drill. Open Your Pelvis And Drop The Club Behind The Ball
12:25 Tour Average Shaft Lean Is Only 7.98 Degrees
12:36 Why More Shaft Lean Doesn't Mean Better Golf
12:46 Let The Data Be Your Authority
13:22 What Shaun Wishes He'd Known The First Time He Picked Up A Club

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You can take a lesson from the best coach in the world and still waste your money. Not because the instruction is bad. Because of how you take the lesson!

Shaun Webb and Mike Granato from Athletic Motion golf break down the player's side of the equation... the part almost nobody talks about. How to show up, what information to give your coach, why racing through a bucket of balls ruins everything, why you have to ignore your feels and the strike when you're making a mechanical change, and why every real swing change takes months, not one range session.

This is the mindset and the method that separates golfers who get max value out of a lesson from golfers who walk away frustrated and no better.

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CHAPTERS:
00:00 The Two Halves Of A Golf Lesson
00:47 How To Show Up. Warm Up First, Then Talk
01:16 Give Your Coach The Full Picture
01:54 The Biggest Mistake. Racing Through A Bucket Of Balls
02:23 Why Visual Feedback Changes Everything
03:16 Stop Judging The Strike When You're Changing Mechanics
04:31 Ignore Your Feels And The Outcome Of The Shot
04:35 Why The Foam Ball Forces A Real Change
05:13 What Great Lesson Takers Do Differently
05:44 Make The Downswing From The New Position
06:42 Connecting The Dots In The Change
07:39 Don't Expect The Lesson To Fix Tomorrow's Round
08:04 The Band Aid Vs The Real Change
08:28 The Mark Of A Good Lesson
09:05 Leave With Crystal Clear Clarity
09:46 Why Every Real Swing Change Takes Months
10:25 Not All Reps Are Created Equal
10:54 Why You Have To Slow Down To Change
11:00 The 40 To 50 MPH Sweet Spot For Change
12:38 The Ben Hogan Slow Motion Test
13:32 Keep Your Body Sequence Even When You Slow Down
14:03 The "Get It Over With" Mindset That Ruins Practice
14:50 Why Good Practice Makes You Mentally Tired
15:14 Take Your Own Notes After Every Lesson
15:36 Use Voiceovers And Filmed Drills
16:20 Recap The Last Five Minutes Of Every Lesson
16:55 The Real Magic Happens Between Lessons
17:39 Why You Can't Change A Motor Pattern In An Hour
18:24 No Excuse For Being A Bad Lesson Taker

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The follow-up to the Bad Swing Advice Hall of Fame is finally here. After the first podcast, Mike Granato & Shaun Webb were flooded the comments with one reques... do the BEST swing advice version. So Shaun and Mike sat down and inducted the cues they use to fix more amateur swings than anything else.

The first inductee alone fixes 999 out of 1000 golfers. The trail arm has to lift and stay wide in the backswing. Almost every amateur lowers it. Almost every tour player lifts it. It's the single most common move that separates the buckets.

They also induct Scott Hamilton's "on plane early" cue, the recentering concept that AMG named years ago, the Lazy Susan downswing, the "no hip turn in the backswing" foundation (with a nod to Dr. Kwon's "turn shoulders, tilt hips"), and the driver tip that finally lines up the clubface without forcing shaft lean.

These are the cues AMG uses to coach players off the hamster wheel and into real ball striking improvement.

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CHAPTERS
00:00 Welcome to the Best Swing Advice Hall of Fame
00:50 Inductee #1. Trail Arm Width and Lift
01:22 Why 999 Out of 1000 Golfers Lower The Trail Arm
02:08 The Amateur vs Tour Player Bucket
02:30 Even Tour Players Get Caught Lowering The Arm
02:56 Inductee #2. On Plane Early (Scott Hamilton)
03:16 Why Being On Plane Helps Every Other Shot
03:40 Why You Can't Hit Three Quarter Shots Off Plane
04:26 Most Golf Is Off Speed Golf
05:05 Why "Match Up" Coaching Is Killing Golfers
05:43 Why We Don't Teach What Hackers Are Already Doing
06:54 Inductee #3. The Recentering Move
07:14 Why Recentering Sets Up A Good Downswing
07:44 No Such Thing As A Still Swing (Even Hogan)
08:23 The Fix For Over-Moving Is Not No Movement
09:24 The Keep Your Head Still Trap
09:53 Where The Recentering Concept Came From
10:29 Inductee #4. The Lazy Susan
10:45 The Lightbulb Moment About Front Side Loading
11:19 Inductee #5. No Hip Turn In The Backswing
11:39 Dr. Kwon's "Turn Shoulders, Tilt Hips" Foundation
11:55 The Downswing Hip Turn Concept
12:17 Why Big Backswing Hip Turns Wreck Sequencing
12:54 Why You Need Stretch, Not Slack
13:12 The Final Hall of Fame Cue
13:26 Why Driver Doesn't Need Shaft Lean
13:41 Scott Hamilton's One Or Two Degree Window
14:28 Why Driver Mechanics Are Different
14:45 Wrap. Adopt These Cues, Build A Better Swing

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You can get 500 golf lessons a day on Instagram. That's the problem.

Shaun Webb and Mike Granato break down what they call the "golf swing hamster wheel" — the trap most amateur golfers are stuck in. Try a tip. Bail after one bad shot. Try the next tip. Spend years working hard and going nowhere.

This episode of the Athletic Motion Golf Podcast is the framework AMG uses to coach players off the hamster wheel for good. The five-step system covers what to look for in an online coach, why most ground force teaching is guessing, the Tony Rogerio 3x5 card rule for real improvement, Jack Nicklaus on why a swing change has to feel weird, and how to use Swing System 2.0 and the Swing Coach app to build a blueprint you don't have to rebuild every six months.

What you'll learn:
The first question to ask any online coach. "Do you measure?"
Why ground force teaching without force plates is mostly guessing
The parking lot analogy that explains why most amateurs never improve
The Tony Rogerio 3x5 note card rule. Three things for a full year
The Jack Nicklaus answer for "why does this feel weird?"
Why feel is the least reliable source of feedback in the golf swing
How to calibrate today's feel against tomorrow's drift

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Video Chapters:
000:00 The Golf Swing Hamster Wheel
00:23 500 Lessons A Day. Why More Isn't Better
00:49 Learning Golf Is Like Learning To Drive
01:14 The Two Sides Of The Information Sword
01:32 The Tip-Of-The-Day Trap
02:10 The First Question. Does Your Coach Measure?
02:36 Why Unmeasured Ground Force Teaching Is A Problem
03:39 The Pressure Myth. You Can't Push Into 100%
04:15 Why Online Lessons Without Force Plates Are Guessing
04:36 Information Is Not A Lesson
05:15 Why Coaches Should Teach Reality, Not Feels
05:35 Why YouTube Coaches Can't Tell You What To Feel
06:01 The Goal. Find The Commonalities In Tour Swings
06:42 Concept First, Tactics Second
07:30 Find One Source You Trust And Stick With It
07:47 The Swing Coach App As A Baseline Tool
08:24 The Parking Lot Analogy. Pick A Direction
08:55 Why Measuring Coaches Agree With Each Other
09:34 The Scott Hamilton Junior Club Drill
10:10 The Tony Rogerio 3x5 Note Card Rule
10:44 Why You Need A Blueprint, Not Tips
11:08 Swing System 2.0. The Plain Vanilla Foundation
11:57 The Monte Scheinblum Rule. Move The Needle
12:42 Why Drills Beat Feels Every Time
13:02 Feel Is The Least Reliable Source In Golf
13:49 Jack Nicklaus On Why Change Has To Feel Weird
14:57 You Can't Feel Your Way To A Dunk
15:17 Calibrating Feel With Real Data
16:18 Recalibration. Why Today's 8 Is Tomorrow's 4
16:55 Be A Dog With A Bone
17:39 Stop Bailing On Your Plan After One Bad Round
18:17 Get Off The Hamster Wheel For Good

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