YOUR BODY DICTATES YOUR SWING.
Twenty-five years of teaching led Mike Dickson to one conclusion: there's no single correct swing — only the swing your body is already trying to make. In-2-It Golf, Artist/Bomber/Compressor, and every training aid in the shop all trace back to that idea.
Built on other people's shoulders.
Mike didn't invent ground-up, body-type golf instruction — he studied it, tested it on real students for 25 years, and stitched it into one framework. Every piece of the In-2-It system has a name attached to it.
Kelley's 1969 book broke the golf swing into 24 mechanical components and roughly 144 valid combinations — the proof, to Mike, that there's no single "correct" swing, only correct combinations for a given body.
Lynn taught Mike how to build a grip from the ground up — and Homer Kelley's Rule 11(L)(2): the clubface must trace a straight baseline. Mike calls it the single idea that changed his own teaching the most.
The rear post / center post / front post framework — the direct ancestor of Artist, Bomber, and Compressor — plus the grip type concept that ties to so many other components in a player's swing.
Wright Balance grew out of research in partnership with Don Ingber's lab at Harvard Medical School, measuring balance, posture, and range of motion to find a golfer's Dominant Core Region. This provides the golfer one of three distinct swing patterns a player's body is actually built to repeat.
Fitting the right putter with David Edel and a proven read with Mark Sweeney freed Mike to focus on what actually wins putts: start line, speed, and green reading.
Runyan's influence shaped Mike's Clear and Simple Short Game System — a straightforward way to pick the highest-percentage shot for any situation around the green.
Six components. One system.
None of these pieces work in isolation. Change one, and the others have to change with it — which is exactly why a tip that works for your playing partner can wreck your swing.
Left-hand placement decides how the clubface and shaft behave for everything that follows. It's the one non-negotiable in the whole system.
The "flying wedges" set the address position the swing has to return to at impact. Get this wrong, and the body starts compensating before the club even moves.
The clubface has to trace a straight baseline from ball to target. Grip and arm alignment either support that baseline or fight it.
Rear post, center post, or front post — the way your hips and shoulders are built to load in the backswing. This is where Artist, Bomber, and Compressor come from.
Wingspan relative to height decides where your arms want to go at the top. A pivot type without a matching arm track fights itself all the way down.
The "voice box behind the belt buckle" relationship at the top. Lose it, and the brain can't sequence the downswing correctly — no matter how good the first five pieces are.
Get all six talking to each other, and the swing runs on autopilot instead of on willpower — which is the whole idea behind the diagnostic and every training aid built around it.