The MLB Winter Meetings brings together baseball executives, coaches, media, exhibitors and job seekers from around the world to network, fill job openings, attend educational workshops and discuss innovating trends in the industry. It’s one of the highlights of our…
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…
By Team Game Like Training When practicing golf, you must ask yourself if you are training to learn, or, if you are training to perform. A player who is in the early stages of making a change to his or…
“Effectiveness,” simply stated, is the degree to which something or someone achieves a targeted end result. As coaches, the most common measurements of our effectiveness are student learning and performance. Thus, change, over time, either in movement quality, outcome consistency…
We sat down with Brian Vermilyea, COO of K-MOTION, to talk about how he’s leading the company’s move into baseball. We asked him a few questions about K-BASEBALL that we thought you’d find interesting. What does K-BASEBALL do for…
By Steph Acosta in collaboration with Brendan Ryan Five years ago, I opened the door to my sister’s house. Before I could say hello, my nephew Alex, who was 7 at the time, grabbed my hand. “Let’s go,” he said,…
Surrounded by the fields and forests that create rolling horse country outside Philadelphia, John Dunigan lives in some of the most beautiful landscape in America. It’s no surprise that the early settlers chose this setting for their new home. And,…
Learn from one of the leaders in the field of golf fitness, Lance Gill, as we discuss his thoughts about the Measure, Assess, Coach, and Train process. He shares his methods for assessing players, including the area in which he…
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 Mike Errera Connecting “Feel” to Data In the initial chapter of my K-VEST journey, I recounted the dramatic results I experienced over the first few days and weeks of using the system. Now I’d like to pull back a…
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 Chris Poulin Why Golf is More Difficult for Right-handers One of the most epidemic movement dysfunctions in golf is the inability of right-handed players to rotate around their lead hip. The lack of proper left hip position can lead to…
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…
My wife and I are the parents of “Player Number One.” Our daughter is the first junior golfer to have complete access at home to the new K-VEST biofeedback training that is in K-VEST 7.0 and K-PLAYER. This has enabled…
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…
A Case Study by John Dunigan The Problem Everything started well enough. I was working with a high school athlete who was beginning to make great strides in his on-course performance. Unfortunately, he would hit heel strikes and gear effect…
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…
