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Moving Right Along

Time for some current news and an update on some of what is in store for Secret In The Dirt in the upcoming weeks and month.  First as you have probably noticed we are now hosting our videos at YouTube.  The idea here is simple.  First the videos are going to be more easily shared throughout the web and will load faster for our friends in more distant parts of the world.  Second and more importantly all of the video in The Vault are now shareable and embeddable.  This makes them more usable now to everyone in forum posts, blogs and profile favorites and it also means that The Vault vids can be used not just in Secret ...

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Sticking With It

For quite a while now I have been asked in personal messages and so forth to recommend drills for improving people's golf swings.  I've never been much of a "drill guy" except that in the 90's I became fascinated by Paul Bertholy and his static hold drills.  I thought Bertholy was a genius.  Still do. These were basically like dynamic holds of various positions in the golf swing and I actually pointed to some of those positions and demonstrated them in the original Sevam1 videos on YouTube. If I were to describe Bertholy's approach I would call it a static, macro or whole body approach to positions and drills.  These were...

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The Masters V Equipment

The 2012 Masters is almost upon us. The Augusta National Golf Club has furiously fought through many changes in recent years in an attempt to keep up with the modern game and the technology wars of the clubs the players wield and the golf ball and the obscene distances it is now traveling. We are now seeing a varied assortment of winners of golf's first major based on these alterations to how the game is now played.

When I grew up watching The Masters you could count on Watson, Nicklaus, Seve, Faldo and a number of other seasoned shot makers stepping into the spotlight and contending for the green jacket come Sunday afternoon. In recent ye...

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