[innercityteacher]

Thanks Daryl and innercityteacher I feel like a pupil who has difficulties to understand what the teachers are talking about. I'll read it several times and see if I get it... before Christmas.

HI Air!

When I first started with this TGM site, I was determined to follow the correct steps to improve my golf swing in a basic way.

So, I hit a lot of chips, THEN pitches, THEN full shots. What I came to realize is that TGM is more like a work of art than a science in that it uses very accurate observations to entertain golfers. Golfers are entertained by becoming MUCH BETTER Golfers!

All 3 of the shots mentioned above share a central reality in that they are caused by movement. Our bodies are built for movement; HK said:


"......."Basic Motion" (Preface) is simply "Up-and-Back-and-Down-and Out" per 7-23 from Drive to Putt. Your "Total Motion" is that Basic Motion plus its Component Variations (Chapter 10)-selected and/or othewise (Chapter 12).

Whatever you are "working on" must produce a change In Feel because its a selected addition to your previous Total Motion Feel-your "Acquired Feel",

the present stage of your Total Motion development." (my emphasis)

We feel all the time since our bodies are always moving in some form or fashion. (Blood, heart, breath...chips, pitches, full shots and putts...these are a few of my favorite things...) HK was a fully wired, fully aware, person, IMHO (IMHO is not a TGM component reference).

I believe HK felt the whole swing in everything he did! His mechanical snapshots were of a dynamic human action. He wanted us to understand each tree and the whole forest as the forest changed in every season.

I WILL NOW USE ANOTHER METAPHOR TO ILLUSTRATE MY FEELING ABOUT CHIPS, PITCHES, AND FULL SHOTS TO THE FULL MOTION CURRICULUM.
Hopefully, you are still reading, Air.

Michelangelo's "Pieta" actually seemed to breath when I stood in front of it, though it is made out of marble. Michelangelo trained his gift by making a basic motion long before he made sketches which acquired more human details and long before he was commissioned to perform a total "work of art."

Michelangelo's basic motion? Drawing water drops, streams, rain clouds, fog, lakes, seas and human tears were things he filled his sketch books with. He drew motion. HK describes motion using a golf club.

Wanna learn the basic stroke? Work in all 3 zones whenever you FEEL like it, but make sure you work a little in all 3 every day. Do a few chips, pitchs, and a few full swings and Pivot out of your shoes! Your FEELfor golf will grow much more effectively by experiencing all 3 zones as often as possible! When you get a certain feeling that works with a well hit ball of any length, try to identify the mechanics or vice-versa!

Did you see Lynn's new video post, yet? He did a good job. I felt somewhat frustrated for him because his task was to limit his thoughts and presentations on such an exciting subject.


Some guy said :

Basic (Stage 1), Acquired (Stage 2) and Total Motion (Stage 3) is a curriculum intended to instruct one in the "Three Zones". Hands, Arms, Pivot. A Wind Instrument musician practices Scales, Arpeggios and Whole Tones.

It may be best to keep them separate from on the course ball striking terminology.


I think you should combine all 3 Zones as often as possible in any order you wish. You might come up with Handel's "Messiah," "What a Wonderful World, or "The Girl from Ipanema!" Your hcp. will improve as will your feelings!


YBGF