By Joe DiChiara and Jason Meisch You take a swing and don’t like where the golf ball goes. You want to know what happened, so you turn to your launch monitor. You look at the club face numbers. They tell…
About Dave Phillips Dave is located in Oceanside, California and is a co-founder of TPI. He is also a member of the PGA of America and has devoted the past 25 years to becoming a world-class instructor. He is rated…
By Cordie Walker and Jason Floyd “In simple terms, very quickly we got him to get a better setup position, which was quite dramatic, if you think about it, for a player of that level…” K-VEST Advisory Board member Jason…
By Mike Errera Seeing Results from the Very First Session Yes, let me make a confession: I’m not exactly a K-VEST veteran with a wealth of successful case studies. Not at all. Not yet at any rate. But actually, that’s…
By Liam Mucklow Reversing the Traditional Concept of Club Fitting Most of us think of K-VEST as being a movement analysis tool whose primary uses are for golf and functional movement. I’d like to address another use, albeit an uncommon one,…
by Dan Houle What Kind of Knowledge Are You Providing? Effective golf coaches do two things very well: they provide solid instruction and they offer valuable feedback. The golf swing is a ballistic movement that must be completed before inherent…
By Jason Meisch For an overview of the importance of deceleration training, see the author’s previous article, which makes the relevant issues clear for readers and their clients through colorful analogies and commonsense examples. -KMI Editorial Why Screening is Key…
By Jason Meisch What Athletes Want Over the years, I’ve trained every level of athlete across many, many sports. I’ve also been able to train and study under some incredibly knowledgeable people in both the golf and fitness industries. In…
By Cordie Walker Our Dependency on Time K-VEST When we talk with the best instructors and coaches in the world, it quickly becomes apparent that the biggest problem they have in their businesses is time. 90% of their revenue is directly…
An Introduction to K-PLAYER by Steve Pelletier “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” – Ben Franklin I recently came across this Ben Franklin quote and it made me smile. One of the great things about my job as…
By Don Parsons, PGA Case Study From time to time, other professionals will ask me to take a look at a player’s data and give my opinion on what I see and how I would proceed. This is such a…
by Deanna Zenger Many Paths, One Destination As coaches, we often ask students for results. “Take the club back to parallel” or “Get the butt of the club pointing at the target line.” In doing so, we forget that there…
by Tim Suzor The Importance of Consistency As a PGA Teaching Professional for 20+ years, I hear this most often at the beginning of every lesson: “Tim… if I could just be more consistent, I’d play great.” Let’s take a look…
by Tim Ressa “What is a master but a master student? And if that’s true, then there’s a responsibility on you to keep getting better and to explore avenues of your profession.” – Neil Peart The above quote sums up…
by Liam Mucklow I feel as though recently there have been more pundits criticizing technology for the woes of golfers not performing their best. And I’m not just referring to top touring professionals, but also average club golfers. I don’t…
by Joseph DiChiara One of the strongest emerging niches in the golf industry today is junior golf instruction. Juniors are the future of our sport, and it is critically important that we take responsibility for mastering and sharing the knowledge…
