I've been sick for the past like 5 days which is frustrating, because I cannot for the life of my get over this cold. I haven't been able to work out or really play much poker, so I've been playing a lot of Call of Duty 4 with my brother. My cold however has not stopped me from getting back into golf mode. I've had 2 lessons in the past week and we are really working on some good stuff.
The instructor I work with is a really awesome guy and has one of the best teaching facilities in the country. He has what is called the MATT system by TaylorMade at his club(1 of like 6 clubs I think in the country). MATT standing for Motion Analysis Technology by TaylorMade.
Basically what the MATT system is, is a room that is probably a 25ft X 25ft, lined with 10 or so cameras near the ceiling around the room. The golfer is then fitted with sensors. I'm not 100% sure how to explain them but you put the sensors on via things like elbow straps, knee straps, sensors that go over your shoes, a belt that goes around your waist, a piece of material that goes over your shoulders, some straps around your wrist, and then a hat with sensors in it. (It seems like a lot, but all of it is really light weight and doesn't disturb you at all when you are swinging the golf club)
You then stand in the middle of the room to get calibrated by the cameras, and then you are basically ready to go. It is the most awesome piece of golf equipment I've ever come across. As I make swings all of the cameras track every little movement by my body and produce a computer image of me, just like I'm in a video game(except in this "video game" you are the Silver Surfer because that is what you look like in the display". We are able to go back and look at swings from any angle imaginable, a 360* view of the golf swing which is incredibly more helpful than just about every other camera set up out there. We can even start from behind me, pass though my chest and look down to see what my hands are doing at impact, it's really cool.
So basically what we are working on is trying to give me a little bit more leverage going into impact. I have a tendency to hang back a little bit. At the top of my back swing I will lay the club off, my head and upper body will move away from the target ever so slightly and I will end up well behind the ball, wasting a lot of my potential energy. So what we are doing to correct this is to try and get me to feel like from the top of my back swing, my head and shoulders are moving towards the target(that's what it feels like to me, but obviously my head is actually staying very still rather than moving backwards) and I'm really getting a lot more leverage. I'm also not laying the club off nearly as much, which has been a real issue for me since I got tendinitis in my left wrist(I'm right handed) a few years ago. The result of this change is a much more powerful, consistent swing that will enable me to control my trajectory and ball flight much better and I'm pretty excited. Obviously we are not where we would like it to be, but I had a lesson this morning and we made a lot of progress.
In one of my future lesson I will try to get a DVD burned with my golf swing on it so I can try to upload it on here and you guys can see just how awesome this technology is.
And speaking of golf, my Bachelor party is not this weekend, but the following weekend and I just booked an incredibly sick villa in Myrtle Beach for me and my friends. There's going to be about 10-12 of us going to play golf and party. The villa is amazing, I'm gonna post the link but I'll list some of the more awesome points.
6 bedroom/5 bathroom
Each bedroom has a King sized bed
1 bedroom also has 2 queen sized sleepers as well as 2 additional queen sized pullout couches in the living room
Home theatre complete with a 60" HDTV with PS3 and Nintendo Wii
Game room complete with a 42" HDTV with XBOX 360, a pool table, and a foosball table.
Not to mention that we got the place for under $800 for 3 nights, which is incredible even if it is the off season in Myrtle Beach. So I'm really looking forward to that, hopefully the weather is mild. I'm gonna try and get 1-2 more golf lessons before I go down there so that I can hopefully play some really good golf. Anyway that's all I got for now, hope you guys are running better than me at poker and bonus points to anyone who actually made it to the end of this post. Here's a little reward for you/an actual poker HH.
No-Limit Hold'em, $6.00 BB (5 handed) - Hold'em ManagerConverter Tool fromFlopTurnRiver.com
MP ($1090.20)
Button ($699.30)
SB ($694.50)
Hero (BB) ($1334.05)
UTG ($880.20)
Preflop: Hero is BB with 6
, 7
1 fold, MP bets $18, 2 folds, Hero calls $12
Flop: ($39) 7
, 3, 5
(2 players)
Hero checks, MP bets $27, Hero raises $90, MP calls $63
Turn: ($219) K
(2 players)
Hero bets $140, MP raises $324, Hero calls $184
River: ($867) 8 (2 players)
Hero checks, MP bets $658.20 (All-In), Hero calls $658.20
Total pot: $2183.40
Results:
Hero had 6, 7 (one pair, sevens).
MP had 9, A (high card, Ace).
Outcome: Hero won $2180.40
MP ($1090.20)
Button ($699.30)
SB ($694.50)
Hero (BB) ($1334.05)
UTG ($880.20)
Preflop: Hero is BB with 6
, 71 fold, MP bets $18, 2 folds, Hero calls $12
Flop: ($39) 7
, 3, 5 (2 players)Hero checks, MP bets $27, Hero raises $90, MP calls $63
Turn: ($219) K
(2 players)Hero bets $140, MP raises $324, Hero calls $184
River: ($867) 8
(2 players)Hero checks, MP bets $658.20 (All-In), Hero calls $658.20
Total pot: $2183.40
Results:
Hero had 6
, 7 (one pair, sevens).MP had 9
, A (high card, Ace).Outcome: Hero won $2180.40
LOL Turn Raises. To talk a little bit about actual poker content, on the flop I decided that since we were deep to just go ahead and turn my hand into a bluff/semi-bluff of sorts. On the turn it gets interesting because I get RAISED! Raising, for those of you who don't know is one of the strongest moves you can make in unlimited texas poker hold'ems. (Going all-in being the strongest) So seriously, what on earth would possess someone to raise this particular turn card you ask? Probably someone who floated the flop and then decided that since the turn was a SCARE CARD that it would be a great spot to RAISE, even though raising this particular turn card makes just about 0 sense with anything for value. OK, well I was bluffing, but if you want to do the honors go ahead, I CALL! River is a brick, I check and he shoves. Now at this point the only thing I'm really worried about is whether or not he is spazzing with a better hand then mine, like 99 or something, who knows. So I use the time bank to tell myself how stupid I'm going to feel if he is bluffing with a better hand than me, but I cannot pass up the chance to snap off this incredibly hilarious bluff. I CALL.... BINGO!
* A little piece of information that helped me in this spot, is that I knew this player is probably a decent regular even though he is one of the biggest bumhunters a live. I also know for a fact that this player, for some reason loves to bluff raise turns that make absolutely no sense to raise with value hands. So these 2 factors led me to making this call, so don't just go around snapping every turn raise that doesn't make a whole lot of sense. :)
