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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