[YodasLuke]

Yodas Luke

You wrote-: "I'm 39 until the 26th of this month. I'm aware that some use age as an excuse, but I won't put up with that garbage. Tell them to get in the gym, take a lesson, or stop complaining."

Phew!

I have seen that attitude among many golf instructors. It is a great pity! The problem is not age per se, it's age-related physical inflexibility problems. Many elder people don't suffer from age-related flexibility problems - like Gary Player. However, others do - like Arnold Palmer. He has such poor torso flexibility at present that he virtually has to stand erect to execute a torso rotation. The age-related torso inflexibility problem is not remedial with gym workouts if the problem is genetic - an increased age-related genetic predisposition to calcification of spinal ligaments and/or increased fibrosis of the intervertebral discs and paraspinal ligaments that causes a major loss of disc/ligament elasticity.

Wow, when I glanced at the photos before reading the text, I was going to give you a big atta-boy on the pictures. I thought you were showing me your Impact pictures. They are great pictures, no matter who it is.

Some of my students have had or have polio, MS, stroke victims, birth defects, etc. Not one complains about what they can't do. They are proactive in learning what they can do. That's the attitude that I want in a student, and that's the attitude that I have as a teacher. It's always about the positives. If you don't think you can succeed, stay home. If you live by the motto "I can't", then you won't.

When my guy with a polio ravaged right arm takes your money on the course , you'll stop feeling sorry for him.