A toast to the Good Life!
 

Now that is a good one. I am not standing in front of him when he lines up a putt.

substantive criticism
 

Hey Comrade . . . here's some "substantive criticism" of the book . . .

It's absolutely impossible to understand . . . heck even read . . . without a guiding hand.

You find me ONE person who has ever been able to get the book without the help of an AI or Homer Kelley directly.

That book should sold as a PDF file that is capable of being searched. And should come with multimedia to demonstrate the concepts. Mr. Kelley did the best with the technology he had . . . a freakin' typewriter (not even a word processor).

But we have the techology now to basically make the book accessable to the "masses." Will it ever happen???

this ain't no taco bell revolution !!!!!
 

mrodock,
it's nice to have the little golfing machine revolutionaries behind you ??!!!

:rambo: :rambo: :rambo: :rambo: :rambo: :rambo: :rambo:

for the golfers of the future !!!
 

12 piece,
the world is a complex place and the game of golf is even more complicated. do not blame homer kelley for that ! he did not make it that way .
but his 42 year effort was made so you could fully understand the game. let me regurgitate a little of the book for you ," 1-b."

there may be someone out there who has grasped the book in its entirety without the help of an ai or homer kelley, but i doubt it. it is too abstract , dense , and there are too many propositions to keep track of. 42 years worth !! more regurgitation , ' the "whole picture" is your total visualization of all the individual visualizations of specific areas. both the total and individual pictures must , in their beginnings , be vague and disjointed . but...'

which is why i think your idea of the book as a pdf and having multimedia demonstrations is great . a few years after i started reading the book i thought of the multimedia demonstrations . it would have made it much easier for me and it would make it much easier for the masses .

will it happen ? perhaps someday , but all great revolutions take a collective effort and the work that all of you are doing on lynnblakegolf is great ! but if this is not enough , we may someday need , in order to drag the golfing masses into their necessary future , reeducation camps !!:rambo:

So let me ask you this . . . . first of all keeping in mind that I would say that Homer Kelley was definitely the greatest "golf mind" of all time and one of the the better minds of our time . . .

Do you think the Golfing Machine is a great BOOK or a great CATALOG or just great INFORMATION?

Homer Kelley took upon himself a very ambitious task in writing the book and trying avoid any reduncancy . . . . do you think he succeeded in his task? Would the book have been better as a true CATALOG with supporting volumes to gird his foundation? I'm mean the dude has 80 plus hours of recorded classes of him talking nonstop. Not many people can talk 80 hours about anything . . . and that was just the RECORDED classes.

I think the Machine moving forward would be MUCH BETTER SERVED by truly bringing organization to his works. Rather than trying to add to them. We could organize his words rather than PUTTING WORDS IN HIS MOUTH.

Suggestion
 

If anyone reading this is considering revising the book, I would give thought to separating the hitting and swinging stroke completely. As far as Homer being able to speak that long, it probably seemed to him that he was just scratching the surface.

UPP in freezing Ohio

Inane Chatterings
 

Bucket,

I tend to agree with you (further evidence of my descent into the abyss!) But you know as well as I do...heck you know even better than me that the process of "decoding, deciphering, hand wringing, hair pulling, wailing and gnashing (pronounced with an unsilent g) of ivories is one of Homer Kelley's enduring contributions. You are top 1% in terms of knowledge... few have turned over more yella rocks than you have. HK has reordered a neural pathway...or two...don't ya think? In addition to more information than any one person can use in a golfing lifetime, there are some very pertinent philosophical applications to be enjoyed from the book. Mr. Kelley may not have been an engineer in the educational sense...a classic case of not being educated into embicility. I love to be around thinkers...even if it is interacting with the written words they left us. It is a thinking person's book, and may never enjoy the public acclaim it richly deserves, although I think certain stroke patterns will see the light of day. The hardest work is REAL thought. You gotta wrastle with it. Personally, Bucket, I am glad you started wrastling with it before I did. Of course, we are all thankful for Yoda taxing his neural pathways. :salut: I hope not too many cells fell by the wayside:laughing9

Props for Hjacknicklaus...a true gentleman!

I'm guessing dollar "bill"
And as usual - I'm right again!

1. Better organization thru multimedia technology could make this book COME ALIVE . . . for everybody . .. it TRULY be a book for the "duffer" . . . if properly organized and the concepts were demonstrated in bite sized portions. When you can see it . . . it really ain't that big of a deal.

2. Your slumming around this website is counter to this statement . . .did you mean "stinkers?"

3. The greatest priniciple of economics is . . . . the COLLECTIVE KNOWLEDGE of the market is GREATER than any one man's knowledge could ever be . .. same with the Yellow book . . . we all stand atop the shoulders of those that have gone before us . . . just pray that Mike O isn't the one climbing up your back . . . bring your cork.

4. Hjacknickluas is on drugs.

What are you talking about retard?