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| MEDICUS Dual-Hinged 5-Iron Training Clubs | 
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| Brand: MEDICUS
Category: Sports
Buy New: $119.95
Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 5597
Media: Misc.
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
ASIN: B0000AU436
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
Learn How A Top Pro Thinks, "Feels" And Executes The Winning Touch! MEDICUS Hinged Training Clubs feature: The best hinged training club is the original Patented hinged training club is designed to "break" when a flaw occurs in your swing Provides positive and constant feedback needed to perfect your golf swing Can be used virtually anywhere Improves timing, tempo and coordination Helps you to hit farther and straighter by developing the ideal swing path and tempo 11 page Training Manual included detailing the basics of the golf swing
Dual Hinge Model: Dual hinge model is less forgiving and more demanding in training the perfect swing path Dual hinges create two "break" points, thus requiring a more precise swing Recommended for better golfers or golfers who desire to develop the most ideal swing p
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 Fast, excellent help June 5, 2008
I have only used this twice on the range, but I am already fully sold. As another reviewer indicated, my biggest problem was lifting with my hands. That will consistently break the club. Using this club to hit a bucket of 75, I would say I had 60 reasonable or better shots and probably 40 of those were really good ones. I have maybe golfed 5 rounds in my life and just started learning last year, so for me, those are some very good numbers and much better than I can do with my regular clubs at this point. I really buy into the line from the video which was "practice doesn't make perfect, it makes permanent". If you practice a bad habit, you will establish that habit. This club really helps develop good habits rather than bad.
I'm not sure about all the break points, I only seem to break it on the takeaway. Not sure if that is good news for me or if the sensitivity level on the other points are not as high. I also suspect I start to break it in a couple of other places but it falls back into place so maybe my flaw isn't glaring enough to give me the immediate feedback. I'll know more as I use it more.
Plently of aspects of golf I need to work on, but if I can hit it reasonably straight and fairly consistently, I'll be pretty happy for a while. I'm convinced this club will really help me get there.
I recently ordered the driver and the junior iron for my son who is just starting out. He has a "unique" swing and I can't help him too much since I'm no expert, but I think this club will do wonders for him in building good habits.
For the price of a couple of rounds, I think it is an incredible value.
This is a good training tool. June 5, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I have yet to take my Medicus to the range and actually hit a ball with it, but just in practicing my swing with it, I can see its real value.
The golf swing is not very complicated, but it is not easy to take the intellectual knowledge of what should happen and make it acutally happen.
I know that the golf swing is supposed to start with the hips and not with the arms, but trying to get that to happen with my golf clubs was really a difficult thing to me.
I just started playing golf and isolating all these moves to make sure they were happening at the right time was not something that I came wired with at birth.
The Medicus is designed in such a way that if you start the take away with your hands or arms, it will break. If you start the take away with your hips, it will not. That lesson alone was worth the price of the club.
All my videos and my instructor had not instilled in me what the Medicus did in just a couple of days.
There are nine break points in the golf swing and a fault at any one of those points will be immediately identifiable.
Don't expect to take this club out of the box and start swinging and just figure it all out based on whether it breaks or not.
Watch the video that comes with it, or use any other swing instructions that you have, and do your best to execute a good golf swing.
This way, you'll save yourself a lot of frustration and you will avoid the couple of ways that exist to actually cheat the club.
The double-hinge design eliminated one of the cheat-factors, but at least one remains and the video tells you what it is.
This is not really a design flaw, because when used as it is supposed to be used, which is to say, as a diagnostic tool, it performs exactly as described.
I've seen a lot of gimmicks for sale since I started learning golf and I considered the Medicus for quite awhile before I actually tried it. It only took a couple of swings for me to understand the concept and how effective this tool really is.
This is not a magic wand and it doesn't promise you the moon.
Every expert I've ever read or heard says that tempo and swing plane are essential to good golf and that's what the Medicus is designed to instill and I think it does a very good job.
Conventional swing trainer for a "2 Plane" or "1 Plane" golfer September 10, 2006
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
A simple concept: A hinged 5 iron club that bends with errors in your swing. It does require that a person is comfortable enough to actually hit a 5 iron - which many high handicap golfers struggle to hit well. For those people who use Hybrid 5 irons or greater, or defer to the 7 and 9 Woods, this aid is NOT for you. If you have developed your fundamentals and have "Grooved your swing" through thousands of balls and numerous lessons, you will not benefit.
The value of the club is that it can be used to hit a ball - note that the Momentus cannot be used to hit a ball. Key difference here that gives this training aid greater versatility.
From the original takeaway, if you're not in the correct position, the club with break. In every aspect of your swing, if there is a flaw it will be found.
For the most part, I have found my faults to be at the initial takeaway when trying to rush the shot. I need it to remind me to get me back on tempo when on the range. It is an excellent tool for someone with a conventional golf swing with either the 'One plane' or 'Two plane' method (as outlined by Jim Hardy).
Regarding the Natural Golf method, I cannot verify its benefit.
This club will reveal your faults immediately. I wouldn't recommend it for a novice without any experience or formal instruction or even a beginner who hasn't the consistency to groove a swing. It is for a person who has more consistent swing - one who isn't struggling to get the ball in the air or getting 'wormburners'.
With just one week of working with this club, I have found some fundamental faults that have plagued me. After a few weeks, I have developed confidence with irons.
Obviously a golfer's swing is a composite of various facets of grip, alignment, stance, tempo, takeaway, backswing, transition, downswing, contact and follow-through. If you find one aspect of your swing at fault, there is likely a domino effect that will require some other changes in your technique.
This tool will not in any way obviate solid practice or a lesson from a golf professional - it will complement it depending upon your style.
The club head is small compared to oversized game improvement clubs with a thin topline and it is in the profile of a muscleback more than a cavity back iron. Thus its sweetspot is smaller than the modern iron for the 'Duffer' like me (I use the Ben Hogan Apex Edge irons with a wider sole and thicker topline). If you do hit it correctly, it will sail to its intended target. I don't typically hit a 5 iron very far but it goes about 150-160 yards for me.
I highly recommend this club. It is worthy of consideration and it's an excellent tool to maintain a proper swing plane and tempo. No other device can help tell you the multitude of flaws that your swing may possess. It's no wonder that training aids have come and gone but this one has still met the test of time.
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I have also reviewed the Medicus Driver.
 Bad for Beginners, good for intermediate players May 22, 2006
5 out of 10 found this review helpful
I had a different experience than the other reviewer. I would also consider myself a beginner golfer, but the Medicus has not worked for me. It might work if you have never picked up a golf club and you are learning for the first time, but if you are trying to improve your swing it doesn't help. You develop a way to swing the club without breaking the hinge, but it is still a bad swing.
I heard from a golf pro that it is good if you already have a solid swing and you are trying to improve it, but not good for beginners.
Medicus Dual Hinged 5 Iron Training Club February 23, 2004
25 out of 28 found this review helpful
I am a beginning golfer, and I love this club. It has helped me to develop and maintain a solid, consistent swing with my irons. I now keep the Medicus in my bag to take practice swings with during rounds. It is great for keeping the right swing motion grooved into my body and mind. I am looking foward to trying the Medicus driver.
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