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Before we begin this golf review let me say that I got the DVD of this product and not the video. Now on the DVD there are three parts. The instructions that came with the package said to watch each of the three parts in order so I did exactly that.
Now after watching part one I must say I was sick with boredom. AJ spoke for about 40 minutes and basically said nothing.
I couldn’t believe it.
If I was not doing this golf review I would not have watched the other two parts, but because I’m doing this golf review service for you I felt obligated to watch the other two parts and give you my honest opinion. So that’s what I did because things have to get better…right?
Wrong!
To say that I’m amazed that they can sell this crap is an understatement. It makes me sick to my stomach to think how many golfers have been sucked into getting this golf product. And their guarantee is that you will hit your drive 30 yards longer and you’ll reduce your handicap by 30% in 90 days.
That is just plain BS and can never happen as a result of this product (and if it does it’s a coincidence) because on this golf DVD you are given hardly any instructions. I know that sounds completely bazaar for an instructional golf product to have hardly any instructions but it’s the truth (no pun intended).
But hold on, there was something said to the effect that you should hit down on the golf ball to make it go up!
Wow, what a revelation…NOT!
Now if I buy an instructional golf video or set of instructions I expect to be given “instructions”. But am I asking too much expecting this? And am I crazy to expect this?
I don’t think so because otherwise I’d just get some movies that are actually interesting and enjoyable to watch and watch them.
In fact, that’s exactly what I should’ve done because this piece of crap cost me over Two Hundred New Zealand dollars to get and I’m very annoyed. You can be damn sure I’m going to get my money back because they don’t deserve to keep my money after wasting 2 hours of my time on some useless, worthless, golf product that will never live up to its promises in a million years.
And I’m sorry to rant but I just can’t believe they’d try and sell this “instructional” Video/DVD on TV and the thing doesn’t have any instructions in it!
Come to think about it, that’s quite funny. And if I wasn’t so annoyed at wasting 2 hours of my time to watch a bunch of dribble I’m sure I’d find this golf review funny.
Maybe one day I’ll look back on this and laugh!
In summary this is up at the top of my list as one of the worst golf “instructional” products I have ever, ever seen. It reveals nothing that is going to improve your golf game and the truth is that you are wasting your money and your time if you get this product.
Overall Opinion: Not Recommended
| This was a golf review of the ‘AJ Reveals The Truth About Golf’ Video’s/DVD’s available at http://www.ajgolf.com. |
October 1st, 2008 at 8:52 am
I too looked at this and share the views of the reviewer. It is none sense like this that makes people despair. Hit down and the “the club face is the palm of your hand” utter dribble.Even worse, stand on one leg, I mean when was the last time you saw a pga winner with one leg, with all the opportunities for the disabled you would think one of them would have done so? Would suggest AJ tries Americas got talent or the Xfactor so he can join the other hall of fame useless singers that we see.
October 1st, 2008 at 9:39 am
A fellow instructor loaned this DVD to me years ago and I had a hard time watching. I’m glad I didn’t waste my money on this. I didn’t bother to watch the subsequent DVDs figuring they were just as bad. I feel sorry for those who did. I also feel sorry for those who where “stuck” there to participate. I wonder if they were compensated for wasting their time.
I agree with Nick and Brian. AJ spoke way too much and said nothing in the way of solid instruction. I think the only useful piece of information centered around balance when he hit balls standing on one leg. That was about it.
Recommend sending out a warning (if it’s not slander) to tell friends to avoid this DVD at all costs.
October 1st, 2008 at 10:22 am
completely agree…it’s a ripoff. the video is nothing more than an expansion of the infomercial from the golf channel.
October 1st, 2008 at 10:50 am
OK AJ is a pompous bore and the entire instruction could have been adequately covered in 1 x 1 hour DVD.
However there’s nothing wrong with his views on the importance of hand eye coordination and the baseball style of turning the toe of the club over through impact – to those golfers using such effective methods. These aspects including hitting down on the ball have of course been covered in depth by many other golf instructors.
I have the complete AJ set and book for sale! Very cheap.
October 1st, 2008 at 11:00 am
I am no instructor but playing golf for over 20 years I could give and have done better instructions than this shit
Regards
Brian
October 1st, 2008 at 11:01 am
I was lucky to only toss away 55 us dollars on ebay, (A fool and his
money) as they say. All you need is a gimmick and you can sell anything on the internet, But if you have a hard time falling asleep,
just toss this into the DVD player,, and it will do the trick.
October 1st, 2008 at 11:22 am
Nick, I bought the DVDs a couple of years ago and I agree. This was the worst golf instruction I have ever seen. Your Swing Plane video, which was half the price, was far better and has helped my game more than AJ’s crap.
October 1st, 2008 at 11:24 am
I had forgotten I purchased this drivel from AJ. Gave it away to some seniors who were just starting out in golf. Gave them some basics to work on. Other then that a complete waste of time. AJ is just too, too full o himself. LOL.
October 1st, 2008 at 11:33 am
What a discovery! If you hit the ball square, it will go straight and far! Any playor of anything from marbles to snooker knows that. What a shame that there was no mention of how to hit the ball square involved in this instructional (?) presentation. I would have been better off taking the money spent and buying some good golf balls and hitting them into my favorite water hazard.
– Rich
October 1st, 2008 at 11:47 am
I’ve had mine for 3-4 years, don’t really remember, never got thru all the dvd’s and it’s a great dust collector.
October 1st, 2008 at 11:55 am
I bought it and injured myself rushing to get it in the mail back to AJ. It was the biggest bunch of crap i ever watched
October 1st, 2008 at 12:16 pm
A big AMEN to your review, Nick. I too purchased “AJ Reveals The Truth About Golf” back when it first came out and was being heavily advertised on The Golf Channel.
After watching the videos, I was scratching my head and saying “Huh.” Had I missed all of the “instruction,” or was it actually as devoid of useful information as it seemed?
I managed to return it in time to get a refund, but a friend who received a copy as a Christmas gift from his wife did not. What a waste of his wife’s money. Its a good thing that when it comes to gift giving, its “the thought that counts.”
October 1st, 2008 at 12:29 pm
It’s interesting how different people percieve things. The title of the programme is ‘AJ’s Truth About Golf’…not ‘AJ’s Golf Instruction’. It isn’t his intention to instruct us how to hold a club, or where to shift our weight to, it is just to say this…You don’t need a ‘Ping Pong Pro’ to tell you how to play Table Tennis, you don’t need a ‘Nail It Pro’ to tell you how to hammer a nail, and you don’t really need a ‘Golf Pro’ to tell you how to hit a golf ball roughly down the fairway. I know at this point you’re probably shouting ‘Yes I *@!!! do!!’ But bear with me.
You will almost certainly need the help of a pro if you want to get down to scratch, but if you just want to play reasonably competent golf, if you think about what you are trying to do correctly, you don’t need anyone else’s help. Just like learning to walk when you were a kid, it’s tricky and you’ll fall on your a** a couple of times before you get it right. But once you know the basic truths, you won’t fall over too much again.
I have dropped my handicap from 18 to 13 this year, and ‘AJ’s Truth About Golf’ was the start of that journey. I’ve had a handicap of 18 for about 15 years, and I’ve tried a lot of different things, but this is the first time I’ve consistently managed to reduce my scores.
It isn’t the only thing I’ve used by the way. I don’t think AJ’s information is the ‘Holy Grail’. But it helped me think about what I am trying to do differently. As a result, the first time out after watching the DVD, I hit the ball much more consistently, and generally straighter (not straight, but straighter).
If you are looking for a DVD/Tape to teach you mechanics, forget this information. But if you are looking to try and understand why what you are doing currently doesn’t work (despite the fact that you have had lessons from pro’s and bought a gazillion books and tapes on the mechanics)this is worth a go. You just have to watch it with an open mind, and you never know, you just might start out in a new direction.
The reason I think that some people don’t get AJ is that they are expecting the same old ‘Hold the club this way, Aim the club this way, stand to the ball this way’ type of format we are all used to. So when he starts babbling on about Gallileo and Copernicus the tendancy is to think ‘Hey Fella, I paid you to tell me how to get my golf game straight, not for a freaking history lesson!!’ But if you’ll just pay attention, you will learn something. Like for instance, when your club face actually makes contact with the ball you do NOT want it square to the target line!! That was a real revalation, and there are several more.
I also like XFactor, so maybe it’s just me.
October 1st, 2008 at 12:29 pm
I think the information is usefull to understand why the ball does what it does when you hit it. Also, it explains what a lot of people don’t know, how realeasing the club toe and crossing the arms can give you effortless distance. It’s a little bit boring but I think it’s good information to understand how the club works. You can understand why the ball flies right or left. A lot of people just hack at the ball without understanding why the ball flies this or that way, why you don’t get distance and don’t improve. A lot of people try to hit harder and the ball goes shorter. You have to understand the Truth about Golf. Not exciting but usefull.
October 1st, 2008 at 12:42 pm
Im so glad to hear all these comments. I thought it was just me. I looked at these videos three times and still couldnt get one thing out of it. I thought to myself that I must be the dumbest golfer in the world and maybe I should just give up the game. I couldnt make heads or tails about it. I kept waiting on the truth……………….it never came.
October 1st, 2008 at 12:45 pm
I must agree with Brian. THis is an outstanding series. I am a teaching pro and I found it to be exactly what 90% of my students need. THey have a basic misunderstanding of how the ball and clubface wot together. I own the DABAt and it has made better golfers out of every one of my students from hi handicappers to scratch. “More distance less effort”
No if you want a swing technical DVD try out the Stack and Tilt program. THis will overload all but the very studious with information that very very few students will understand or be able to perform.
Every one of my students will be a better golfer after our lesson – immediatly !!! not in 6 weeks of practice – right now!!. If my student cannot hit 2 bals to the left, two balls to the right and two balls down the center on command by the end of our session – they don’t pay. AJ has kept me eating well, thank you AJ.
October 1st, 2008 at 12:46 pm
I have received a torrent of rubbish on golf instruction but this attempt to “show you how” is by far the worst. The constant drivelling by AJ is annoying, to say the least. There should be some sort of professional screening of this sort of golf teaching to protect the unsuspecting golf public from expensive and worthless information.
October 1st, 2008 at 1:03 pm
I have seen a looong reply from Ian.
All I can say is : How close is the family connection with AJ?
Henning
October 1st, 2008 at 1:06 pm
Correction to me early posting, I must agree with Ian.
October 1st, 2008 at 1:14 pm
one of the first dvd’s I bought when trying to learn how to golf a few years ago. I learned absolutely nothing and was amazed how similar it was to the infomercial….leading you on but showing you nothing. BUT, last week while going through some old golf magazines, I found an article on the “magic move” that will add 30 yards to your drives (SURPRISE, the article is an interview with A J Bonar). You can find the article if you google: A J Bonar. This article is 3 pages and tells you that you have to turn your wrists “like turning a screwdriver” as you near the impact zone. I went to the driving range and tried it, to my amazement I was hitting my irons much crisper. I did not try my driver as I seem to hit it fairly consistent. If this information would have been on the DVD, I think a lot of people would have been much happier (myself included).
October 1st, 2008 at 2:03 pm
Hi Henning,
Sadly I’m no relation to AJ. He has the money, the weather (I live in the UK) and the golfing ability.
Nonetheless, I did find his DVD entertaining and informative.
The other things I have found usefull in my quest to get better at this ridiculous game are the ‘Leadbetter Swingsetter’ and the ‘Speedstick.’
What have you found usefull?
October 1st, 2008 at 2:12 pm
I watched the AJ videos and was somewhat disappointed. It is not the typical golf instruction and luckily I was watching someone elses so I wasn’t out any cash. Would not reccommend it to anyone but if you can stand to watch it you can see that the basic ideas are there. You just have to cut through the crap and it just doesn’t work for the high handicapper who is looking for some help.
October 1st, 2008 at 2:22 pm
golf magazines give you instruction on one page and on the next page another article contradicts the first. aj’s video, in my opinion, does one thing. it clears your mind of useless dribble (paralysis of analysis).
October 1st, 2008 at 2:24 pm
After reading these comments, I said to myself, “self you are not crazy”. I thought thaat it was me, but no, I was not. However, after reading the positive comments I will go back to AJ and will try to be objectie in viewing. I don’t recall anything that I remember from the DVD’s but this time I will try to look for something of value.
Thanks for the review and the comments.
October 1st, 2008 at 2:26 pm
As a Golf Professional myself, I read virtually everything concerning the golf swing and view everything I think might be of some interest. While not really “wowed” by the ad for this product, in a moment of weakness, I ordered and viewed this product. While I can’t ever remember taking advantage of a “money back guarantee” under the reasoning I gained at least some “new” knowledge or at least some new terminology that might assist me in my profession, I quickly returned this product the day after viewing it from start to finish. I found it to have nothing of value.
October 1st, 2008 at 2:36 pm
This was a complete waste of time. We are all aware that you accelerate through impact. If it was that simple we’d all be pros.
October 1st, 2008 at 2:59 pm
I have purchased some of these video programs and basically they are all the same, useless! I have found you get the best bang for your buck with a lesson from a PGA instructor that firs your needs, not all instructors fit with a certain type student.
I have used some training aids that have helped my game.
October 1st, 2008 at 3:32 pm
I was suckered like the majority of you by the golf channel.I paid $80.00 for the verbal diarrhea from A.J.His constant drivel and deliberate withholding of instructional information was evident when I learned that he runs a camp in California where he charges several thousands for actual golf instruction as we know it.The Golf channel must be reprimanded for false advertising and misleading the viewers.There are many more products sold on the internet,Tapes and DVDs that are absolutely B.S.
Hence I have become cynical and lost faith in anyone who promises great things.”If it sounds too good to be true ,it probably is”.Golf is a strange game and addicting to the point that golfers will do anything to buy a better game.Hence there are many who will stop at nothing to sell you a better game even if it is a load of crap.A.J is one of them and there are many more.I am embarrassed to give it away as a gift for obvious reasons.
October 1st, 2008 at 3:43 pm
Nick, After 2 weeks of testing I have installed a new style (conforming) grip to my woods and irons. I would be interested in your opinion of this product. It is not that I slice the ball but competitions have a tendency to make me take a peek on narrow holes. These grips have virtually eliminated that and long irons are friendly again. Take a look….
http://www.feelgolfgrips.com.
I have no commercial interest in this company and stumbled across the website looking for wedges which they also make.
Cheers
Jack (hcp 4, age 70, ex national level player)
October 1st, 2008 at 3:44 pm
I purchased this video 4 years ago and did not find it helpful in improving my game. His theory about how the club head does not need to be square at impact was interesting but I have not seen any other pro instructor speak to it with any data.
It has been awhile since I watched it and my game and understanding of the golf swing and associated body movements is better. Perhaps there might be something I might learn now that I missed when I first watched it.
For me, the most helpful learning comes when a knowledgeable person watches me and helps me understand what I am doing that I cannot feel or see for myself. I’m thinking that an inexpensive video system would be the next best thing. But then again, I have already spent too much money on this crazy game!
October 1st, 2008 at 3:54 pm
The only real, measurable and understandable method of golf instruction has come to me via ‘Consistentgolf.com’. Unbelievable value and NO, I have no association with Nick Bayley other than instructional communication which he gives free. He is in NZ I am in UK.
October 1st, 2008 at 4:24 pm
Let me start by giving a “thumb’s down” to AJ’s DVD’s. Most of the material is fluff and DBAT thing is an insult to students of the game. If you don’t instinctively understand that a clubface pointing right or left of your intended target line will send the ball, at least initially, in that direction – well, perhaps you’ve taken up the wrong game. I will give AJ some props for his short game instruction – I have seen worse in other instructional offerings. Also, the use of impact tape on the clubface has it’s merits – I guess – although any golfer of some caliber can tell you immediately where they’ve struck the ball on the clubface by the feel at contact and the subsequent flight of the ball. If you’ll bear with me, I may have some good to offer my fellow students of the game. Despite the fact that my golf library includes over 200 books (all of which I’ve read and absorbed – some, many times over) it still comes down to, as Mr. Hogan said “digging it out of the ground – on your own”… no piece of instruction, or instructor, can ever know exactly how you, as an individual, are wired – how you think, how you react – what feels right and what is required for you, as a one-of-a-kind golfer, to send the ball on it’s correct path – without tension and with a free-flowing unimpeded acceleration of the club – be it a driver, a chipping club or even the putter. Hell, I’ve even read Homer Kelley’s “The Golfing Machine” – several times over – and that will give you a headache, despite being a wonderful textbook on the Human Golfing Machine. I’ve been a student of the game for almost 40 years and currently playing various senior mini-tours with an eye towards joining some of my friends on the Champion’s Tour. If you want to improve your golf game, and you feel as though you can get some of the help you need via books or tapes or DVD’s, consider the following. Teachings that I continually return to…. John Jacob’s “Play Better Golf” – 1972, no longer in print… I paid $1.45 for this book and would not take 10 copies of AJ’s DVD’s in trade for it. A couple of years ago, I picked up (at a yard sale of all places), Lee Trevino’s set of three “Priceless Tips” VHS tapes – for $3.00 – one of my best investments ever. My bible has always been Ben Hogan’s “Five Lessons, The Modern Fundamentals of Golf” – it is an absolute must read for any serious golfer (some successful touring pros attribute their winning ways almost exclusively to this book – Larry Nelson, for one). Harvey Penicks “Little Red Book” is worth 100 times the price – IF you really read it and grasp what the late, great Mr. Pennick is saying. I don’t care if you are B.J. Holmes or a 10 year old female beginner – “Golf Annika’s Way” is superb – just like when she is playing right in front of you, the game and the swing seem so natural (almost, dare I say it, EASY). Let me interject here that in 40+ years of study, there has really been nothing new (at least not outstandingly noteworthy) – I guess Mr. Jim Hardy has come the closest with his “Plane Truth For Golfers” – the jury is still out on this one but there is no denying his details regarding the swing plane and how best to achieve success with your individual swing idiosyncracies. And with all due respect to Andy Plummer and Mike Bennett, the stack and tilt seems to, at least on the surface, teach what many consider a recipe for disaster – the reverse pivot – I’ll withold any further comment as I have not researched this to any serious degree – and I have no intention of doing so… at my age, you must eventually draw a line in the sand. You may not have ever heard of Ben Witter – but I can promise that you probably will eventually. Mr. Witter has a series of DVD’s called “How To Rip It 300 yards” (Golf Channel infomercial). Ben is in his late 40’s and besides being one of the game’s premier trick shot artists, he is also one of the longest hitters of a golf ball – ANYWHERE. His DVD’s are not just about hitting it a long way – there is a lot more to the set. If you are truly serious and you get to the point, as I have, that most of your practice needs to be in the “mental” part of the game, you can not beat Joseph Parent’s “Zen Golf”, Dr, Gio Valiante’s “Fearless Golf” or Mr. Rotella’s offerings, “Golf is Not a Game of Perfect” and “The Golf of Your Dreams”… finally, you might want to do as I love doing – reading things that are not necessarily instruction-related… just a brief example… “Massacre At Winged Foot”, Arnold Palmer’s “My Game and Yours”, Jack Nicklaus “The Greatest Game of All”, Johnny Miller’s “I Call The Shots”, Pete Dye’s “Bury Me In A Pot Bunker”, Stephen Goodwin’s “The Greatest Masters” and Curt Sampson’s “Hogan”… I could go on and on but hopefully, you get the picture. This game we love is all encompassing and is truly a microcosm of life – and therefore – requires total immersion into all that it entails – not just how to grip the club or align your shoulders but what it means to be a golfer – a “real” golfer. In parting, do as I try to do – get a kid (or kids) started in golf – our youngster deserve all that we can give them and why not start with the greates game of all. Thanks and please forgive me for my wordiness… Nick P.
October 1st, 2008 at 4:27 pm
I forgot to mention – you have at your fingertips one of the best vehicles I know of for improving your game – and it doesn’t cost you a cent. Nick’s website is great and he should be commended for all he is doing to help his fellow golfers… thanks a million Nick and please keep up the great work…
Nick P.
October 1st, 2008 at 4:41 pm
I’m sorry, but I have to disagree with nickbailey’s opinion about AJ’s DVD “The Truth About Golf”.
First, it is not an instructional DVD, but it contains information that could make difference in how you hit the golf ball.
In my case, it works. I started playing better, not because I had any instructional information, but I understood how my hands should work during the impact.
It’s true that if you grab a ping-pong paddle for the first time in your life you start playing in a few minutes, and the ball is moving at high speed and someone is striking the ball against you.
Why, in golf, this is not true? If you grab a golf club for the first time, you need years to start having fun.
Why??
Because the golf pros never tell their student how the hands work thru impact!! They teach so many mechanical moves that really confuse us. While our brain tells us how to hit the ball. Our brain has a wrong concept of the correct use of a golf club. Because our brain interprets a golf club like a ping-pong paddle. The truth is: a golf club has two levers (the shaft and the clubface) while the paddle has only one lever (the face).
That’s why we (recreational golfers) scoop the ball. Because our brain is telling us to lift it in the air.
At the first time I saw the DVD and understand how the golf club is intended to be used I went to the driving range and start to practice the correct way.
You know what? I started hitting quality golf shots. Long, straight, and began to draw the ball.
Now you tell this is crap??
Crap is the bs most golf pros tell us to do: take the club away this way; make a full shoulder turn; have a good at the top position, make a smooth transition, bla, bla, bla…,.
All these are crap. There is no one-size-fits-all swing!! In fact, I believe AJ, there is no golf swing. Tell me one, only one!!
Furyk, Raymond Floyd, Nancy Lopez, Lee Trevino they all won majors with a crap swing.
I’d like to win a major with a “bad looking” swing.
And I believe that if it had work for me it should work for many recreational golfers too.
Why not give it a try? What you’ve got to loose? Maybe some strokes.
October 1st, 2008 at 4:42 pm
Hi Ian,
Your question ” what do I use” is a good reason for me to tell
that the instructions I like is from PurePoint Golf.
Kyle Hallberg and Bobby Eldrigde. That my men.
Henning
October 1st, 2008 at 5:21 pm
After many years of crap. I have finally found that the best way for a golfer to hit the ball is to eliminate all unnecessary movement. I am 75 years old and it came to me as I watched a mechanical robot hitting golf balls as a demonstration. Rolling your hands wrists or anything else sets you up to play out of the rough. I think AJ and most other good golfers have the ability to know just where their hands are at any instant. They should not try to push this easy stuff down our throats when they most certainly know we are not hand eye coordinated. Watch Tiger bounce a ball off his club face for more than two minutes without dropping it. If you can do this then by all means open and close that club face and get maybe 20% of your shots dead center. I have the videos and am too embarrassed to send them back to let them know I am an idiot.
Bobby
October 1st, 2008 at 6:39 pm
I have to admit, I was one of the apparently very many golfers who excitedly phoned in my order, only to be disappointed and puzzled by what I’d bought. At the end of each section, my reaction was, “That’s it? That’s all he’s going to say about it?” I tried to imitate what I saw, and do what I thought he was saying, and got no real results. I chalked it up $80 for a lesson learned, even if it wasn’t the lesson I paid for.
Then, years later – this past year, in fact, I saw a video that Nick had e-mailed out. It was Tracy Reed’s “Golf Swing Control System”. Long story short: The video clip hooked me, I bought the DVDs, LOVED the principles and Tracy’s approach and humility, and his thorough explanation of each principle and it’s results, and within a couple of months, I’d shot my lowest round ever, by about 8 strokes over what it had been when I’d got the DVDs. I recommend it without hesitation to any golfer at any level.
And here’s the kicker: On the CD that comes with the program, Tracy gives the best explanation and instruction on making the proper transition, which also naturally takes you through the entire swing. And when he comes to impact, and the lag that separates the truly long hitters from the rest of us, he talks at length about A.J. Bonar and his “secret”. He actually explains it in a few sentences, and without any ridicule or malice, not only points why so golfers could not get “it” or might even have messed up their swings trying, but also the elements that are valid, and can be used to improve your ball striking – provided you understand its place in a properly set-up swing. Not a perfect swing. Not a Jim McLean or David Ledbetter swing. YOUR swing. According your body-type, your flexibility, your strength. And best of all, if those factors change, his principles continue to work with your changing swing. A.J Bonar should pay Tracy to explain his “secret” – which, by the way, was actually part of Ben Hogan’s. His customers would be far better off.
Nick, thank you for posting that clip, and for all of the material on your website. It is by far the best of its kind, and you are head and shoulders above your peers in your commitment to your work (and family!) and to your members. I consider you largely responsible for my improvement, and my continued enjoyment of golf.
Russ Omori
Los Angeles
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:05 am
I bought these from the official site.
I found them cheaper on E-bay but decided I didn’t want to be part of a possible rip off site that illegally copies them and then sells the unauthorized copies. I was the one that got ripped off.
maybe my expectations were illogical. From the golf channel infomercial I was expecting some clue to better my golf game. After all he taught college golf teams. Why did he not teach me something? I hope that his coaching college golf teams included some instruction that helped his team members play better golf. Why couldn’t he have included some of his insights and instruction from that experience?
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:35 am
I too bought the a.j. dvd’s. I learned that to play good golf just replace all the heads on your golf clubs with hammer heads, or was that baseball bats? Anyway I’m still working on dragging my left leg, hitting, then if that doesn’t work drag the other leg.But in all honesty, I’ve spent about 2000.00 dollars on golf vidios and altho I shoot in the middle 80’s I still can’t hit my drives over about 140 yds.
Jim
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:36 am
the postings are bang on. Most of these videos are a bunch of BS and serve one purpose, profit for the AJ’s of the world and slop for us poor jerks trying to improve our games without enough work, an you say practice, on our own. Nick’s site gives some specific advice and points for practice to build a repeating swing but I also think he may be a little too willing to promote some of the sites.
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:59 am
I have just started golfing over the past couple of years. I actually just joined a women’s 9 hole leauge for the first time. I subscribe to Women’s Golf, and listen to my husband who is a pro and a varsity golf coach…..My goal this summer was to break 100. I watched AJ’s DVDs at my husband’s urging–he gave me a lesson using dbat that he recently purchased. Perhaps it was the background of having my husband’s lessons with dbat, my reading of various books and articles prior to watching the DVDs, however, I did find AJ’s DVDs helpful–the use of the clubhead as a baseball bat and the idea of turning over my wrists rather than flipping my wrists was huge…..I accomplished my goal of breaking 100. Perhaps I would not have “gotten it” (the points in his DVDs) if my husband had not helped me, and I agree that he talks alot and there are some borning parts, if you can stay with the program you will get good points. AJ is another person trying to help people’s games saying things in a different way which for some it will click and for other’s it won’t. My husband told me repeatedly, “hit down on the ball” (which made no logical sense to me that hitting down on a ball will make it go up) then he said “hit through the ball” which made sense to me. Although AJ’s advice may not get through to some of you, to other’s it will.
October 2nd, 2008 at 1:23 am
I bought the AJ video and it is a big reap off. It was so confusing I had no idea what he was trying to say. The biggest problem is I lived in Toledo and know this coach from BG. I was very disappointed in this product.
October 2nd, 2008 at 6:14 am
i also bought this dvd and i am not going to waste much time talking about it, it was useless is there any way you can get your money back.
Thanks
Ian
October 3rd, 2008 at 1:34 am
I too fell for this crap but quickly got my money back. It is nothing more than delaying the release. This guy is as phoney as they come in my humble opinion.
November 3rd, 2008 at 1:58 pm
This one of the worst so called instruction dvds that I have ever watchede. There is absolutely no useful matierial in it let alone instructions for the game of golf. I sure am glad that I didn’t have to buy this one.