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Wii my personal trainer with david leadbetter |  | Brand: David Leadbetter
Category: Sports
List Price: $99.99
Buy New: $94.99
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Seller: The Golf Stop
Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 8519
Media: Misc.
MPN: 40JM000
Model: RVL P SGTE
UPC: 890219002281
EAN: 0890219002281
ASIN: B003NU3ICQ
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Personal training from David Leadbetter | | • | Improve your game, skill and judgement | | • | Learn how to position, move, swing and change techniques | | • | Monitors your personal progress | | • | Specifin drills tailored to your swing needs. |
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Product Description
David Leadbetter- Wii Personal Golf Trainer... Instant Swing Feedback! In a world-first, and featuring advice and personalized feedback from the worlds #1 golf instructor, David Leadbetter, Wii Personal Golf Trainer uses the Wii Balance Board and the Wii MotionPlus Controller (not included) to analyze your full golf swing in 3D space. Following Leadbetters best-selling7 Steps to a Better Golf Swing principles,Wii Personal Golf Trainer offers instructional videos and suggests drills for each of the seven basic components of a golf swing: grip, posture, alignment, ball position, coil, swing shape, and tempo. Improve your swing step-by-step in easy stages, following on-screen instructions, and then graduate from training mode to the practice range, and finally onto a full 18-hole golf game where you can choose to receive feedback from Leadbetter, including suggested drills for improvement, after each shot played. David Leadbetter- Wii Personal Golf Trainer Features: In-home golf simulator allows you to view your swing with Instant Swing Feedback Not only measures the acceleration, but the club position and distance of movement Get 100% accurate details of your swing and compare it against an ideal swing Skill Tracker helps track aspects of your game over time Every swing is recorded -check your progress on a daily/weekly/monthly period Spot improvements and check average aspects including the club path, club face angle and ball trajectory Practice on a full 72 par, 18 hole golf course set in tree lined vistas helping to create an air of serenity My Personal Golf Trainer also features a driving range to practice new found skills Learn the fundamentals with over an hour of personal instruction and corrective drills Leadbetter goes through the training drills in precise detail for you to follow and re- enact in your own living room Training drills provide visual guidance to aid in body and hand position, weight shifting and also the next movement you need to make
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| Customer Reviews:
 Excellent instructional August 26, 2010
Gadget Man (Mesa, AZ)
This was a birthday gift from my family. At first I thought, huh, another Wii game. It's not a game at all. While it comes with 18 holes to play, this is really a great instructional application. Well done is what first comes to mind, David Leadbetter really helped put together a fun way to practice and improve at home. I would like to see a heavier putter option, but all in all it's been great and I do recommend.
 Good start and I look forward to version 2.0 June 7, 2010
J NYGLOBAL (NJ, USA)
17 out of 17 found this review helpful
I had this for a few months, it is not the same or even close to a leasson with your local pro, or even less with Mr. Leadbetter but it's a nice tool to train golf at home at the end of the day that can make a difference. It provides useful information to analyze your swing and it seems fairly accurate. It is a good start and I am looking forward to version 2.0.
PROS: Drills useful to cure big flaws such a slice. Tremendous feedback many aspects and elements of YOUR ACTUAL full swing, including visual feedback. You can use this feedback to train at home with the program and improve your golf game in the virtual driving range or using the drills presented by Mr. Leadbetter. For the cost of a few leassons you can have this at home.
CONS: Not their fault but you will miss the club weight and ball positioning. The Wii platform is slow and a program that uses so much resources becomes very slow as a result. It will be much better without the need to re-calibration of the board every other shot.
What can be improved?:
- Driving range feature shall allow you to use every club and shot (currently can only use Driver).
- It should be easier to repeat drills without having to go through menus and recalibration again. Drills should be at least 10 repetitions not just three.
- There is a very serious flaw with this program. The balance board needs recalibration way too often. Really frustrating. For instance every single shot in the golf course requires re-calibration of the balance board, a painful process that takes time and makes you lose focus and concentration.
- There is need of recalibration also if you want to restart a drill, and you probably would like to restart because each drill only offers three repetitions.
- The driving range is the only place where you can repeat shots without re-calibration of the board, but the only club you can use is the Driver.
- The golf course feature allows you to use every club but requires re-calibration of the board every shot. So you will be feed up very quickly with this arduous process. Graphics are not good and the use of putter is awkward. I would have removed the golf course and added more features to the range.
- The drills are presented in video by Mr. Leadbetter. He is in a golf course with a real club on his hands and never refers to the wii remote. The drill presentation appears always before a drill, even after you have watched it and done the drill many times.
- Mr. Leadbetter does not take into consideration that you have a wii remote on your hand and not a club. Especially frustrating when he stresses how important is to feel the weight of the club head. In other words the drill video presentations seem copied and pasted from a Leadbetter DVD #you can buy his DVD's online for $20#
- Expensive tool $99.99 for the program, $99 for the Wii fit and $199 for the WII (WII BOARD AND REMOTE NOT INCLUDED). I do not play videogames and had to buy the entire set.
- Only right hand players.
- It does not measure partial swings
- No drills for short game or sand game.
- In many drills balance is part of the drill but it will be great to include drills only to improve balance.
- Other reviews complaint that feedback appears after every shoot in the course or driving range. I like that feedback but an option to turn off automatic feedback on the range or course could have been easely added.
- You cannot use your Mii. The default player is bold, not that I care but is weird.
- Sometimes the wii remote does not respond properly and you end with a very odd position to complete the drill, or cannot just complete it.
EDIT:
three months later, I have used it around 25 times for 20-30 mins, my scores in the real course have gone down 2-4 strokes per round. Pretty much no slice anymore. It is however very hard to be motivated and keep up with the program. And sometimes the wii remote does not read properly on the WII. One star goes.
 Clumsy, overpriced game June 21, 2010
T. F. (Chicago, IL United States)
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
Echoing the first review, the program is very time consuming. Almost every other swing forces you to recalibrate the controller or balance board. Which means stopping, setting everything down and standing still for 30 seconds. It also takes 3-4 minutes to re-load each 60 second tutorial. Very tough to stay interested.
The game seems quickly put together, the stock videos don't translate well to the Wii. Leadbetter is on a course giving non-wii specific guidance. The game does it's best to pick up the motions he wants but has a lot of trouble. I'm young, flexible and a fairly good golfer. In many of the drills I had to swing/pose very awkwardly to get the Wii to pick up the movement it told me to take. It's not precise.
The driving range is nice and helpful in picking up what is happening in your swing. The tutorials are very, very lacking in helping you fix the flaws.
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