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BETTER BALL STRIKING

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Thumbs Down
®
 The POWER MOVE of Golf was created by ME
 
Alan Martin, a single digit handicap golfer.

 


"You probably never thought of Thumbs Down® as being a positive thing,
but this negative expression can help improve your ball striking, in minutes. Believe ME, it's not
another gimmick! Turning
Thumbs Down® while striking the golf ball squares the club
and provides a
POWER BOOSTER to your existing swing, without trying to kill the ball."

My Problems
The power fade which served me well for 25 years had turned into an out-of-control slice during the early 1990's. I lost over 20 yards of distance with every club (putter excluded) and my iron play had hit rock bottom. I struggled and searched for a simple solution to cure the slice and regain my lost distance, but never found it.

The Simple Solution
During the winter of 1994 I viewed a TV infomercial of a pro with training gadgets that promoted the wrists as an important and overlooked source of power. Because I played baseball growing up and used my wrist and hand action to hit solid line drives, using the hands and wrists immediately made a lot of sense to me.

It Was Like Discovering Golf's Holy Grail
After a major change
from over rotating my body for power, to experimenting for a season with the new wrist / hand action, the magic moment I was waiting for happened in July of 1995. Although my lost distance was finally returning, I could feel that the club wasn't getting square at impact and balls were still fading slightly away from my targets.

One afternoon
I headed to the course with my wedge, a club that had totally lost it's feel and abandoned me the most. As I chipped into a practice bunker about 20 yards away I added my new wrist action to a very short back-swing. To my amazement, I hit the ball as clean and solid as was possible, then felt it jump off the club and saw it fly straight over the top of the bunker. After the second shot did the same I noticed my hands rotating down and through the ball, like the pictures I often saw of the best pros in magazines and on TV.
 

With such a short swing, an active rotating Thumbs Down® motion at the ball
 was the best way to describe what I saw and felt.



When I began learning, my power came from the legs, hips and bigger muscles, with as much turn as I could contort my body into. Using active hands to strike the golf ball back then was considered taboo. Ironically, the Thumbs Down® rotation turned out to become the missing ingredient that changed everything for ME. Almost overnight the slice disappeared and I controlled the ball better than ever. Not only was Thumbs Down® easy to repeat, it didn't require changing my swing, just some adjustments with my hand position at impact and changes to my thinking.

GREAT BALL STRIKERS
HAVE GREAT HAND ACTION
AND SO CAN YOU
INCREASE POWER, DISTANCE, ACCURACY AND BALL CONTROL




"The more you read about golf technique, the more you often become bogged down in meaningless jargon and excessive detail. Alan Martin's THUMBS DOWN® THE POWER MOVE OF GOLF was an absolute revolution.
It's clear, simple, mechanically sound and
IT WORKS!"
LJ -
Recreational Golfer

"It's just THUMBS UP and THUMBS DOWN®
 
WHAT COULD BE SIMPLER?"
KD - Recreational Golfer


¨ Are you're frustrated with your inability to control your shots?

¨ Do you have a passion for the game but, tired of not improving enough?

¨ Is hitting longer, more accurate and controlled shots with every club in your bag
(putter excluded) and really enjoying it, something you only dream about?

 

If you answered YES to all or any of the above questions then Thumbs Down, The POWER MOVE of Golf
was created for golfers just like you. The more I play with everyday amateur golfers the more I see that most of them need the same subtle adjustment I needed, to hit the ball longer with more accuracy and control.

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 The Role of the Hands in the Golf Swing


 

Contact ME
thumbsdowngolf@gmail.com

 

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