There is so much gold in those old posts that THANK GOD and HOMER you guys were smart enough to realize how important they were and archived them for idiots like me... and your hits just keep on a coming. OB just sent me an oldie but goodie of yours that is priceless. I'm running out of room on my hard drive!
Thanks,
Kevin
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I could be wrong. I have been before, and will be again.
Since I couldn't play golf today, I went for a one hour walk. The 21 years I have played 18 holes golf I have always walked - never used a cart. I don't know how I will feel about this in 10-15 years, but up to now I'd rather walk than just sit in a cart (with the exception of Cuscowilla I guess). But at home it doesn't make sense to play golf without getting the exercise I feel I need and want and that I probably won't get any other way in the similar amount. So I want to use my legs and do the "hard" work it takes and do the walking (and standing) that takes place during 4 or 5 hour's play.
I nearly always walk, Air. Last year I had a hip injury and still walked. This year I had bad knees and couldn't walk for over a month. I think playing without walking is losing a lot of the game. There is something to walking and feeling the ground under your feet, noticing the breeze in the trees and against or with your face, noticing all the nature around you. I talk to the geese and the ducks. I don't get to do any of that in a buggy.
I nearly always walk, Air. Last year I had a hip injury and still walked. This year I had bad knees and couldn't walk for over a month. I think playing without walking is losing a lot of the game. There is something to walking and feeling the ground under your feet, noticing the breeze in the trees and against or with your face, noticing all the nature around you. I talk to the geese and the ducks. I don't get to do any of that in a buggy.
It's about time to actually start reading TGM. I have exactly 4 months before I show up at Cuscowilla again - hopefully a litte wiser this time.
Here is some different advice on how to read this "monster of a book" :
Just get started!!! (Where ?!?)
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Originally Posted by Daryl View Post
There is a "Way". The Golfing Machine Way. Using Alignments rather than Positions. Using Hinge Action rather than a Swivel. Power Accumulators and Pressure to meter out distance, etc., etc.
You're in a learning phase. Flying Wedges. Power Accumulation, Loading, Storage, Delivery and Release. Hinge Action: So hard to understand, so easy/simple to use. That was a life altering experience for me. It took more than 25 years. I know. I'm not the smartest pencil in the box. But WoW. Now 10-2-B makes total sense. The Bent Right Wrist makes total sense.
I study the Book with a Golf Club in hand. Standing with a Dowel, 2 Dowels, Rackets, Ping Pong paddles, Look, Look, Look. "I don't care what you're doing as long as you know why". Plane Boards, Mirrors.
Turn to 7-19. Try everything your reading. Drive it, drag it, Float Load it.
Magic of the Right Forearm....Why does the Left Wrist Cock without cocking your right wrist when your right arm is raised? Try to figure it out.
I think that 50% of your Practice is like this. The other 50% is done at the practice facility.
With this Website and the Book, you should learn everything you want to know in a few months. (ok, maybe 4). You should be scoring in the mid xxx by next Spring.
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HOW TO STUDY TGM
First of all, TGM is NOT a method. It is merely a catalog of the things that happen in a golf swing and the things that should be in a effective golf swing.
The foundations of the book are the primary concepts per 1-L: "the Hinge Action (2-G) of an Angular Motion (2-K) operating on an Inclined Plane (2-F)"
The golf swing has 24 components (from putt to drive) and they each have a varying number of variations. Chapter 7 and 10
The golf swing passes through 12 sections. Chapter 8
The motion that makes up the golf stroke can be divided into 3 zones. Chapter 9
There are 20 points through which every swing must comply with in order to produce a geometrically correct swing. All these 20 points can be represented by a geometric figure. 1-L-1 to 21
The science of the book is laid out in Chapter 2.
Chapter 3 shows you the correct way to build your golf stroke.
Chapter 4 talks about Wrist Positions
Chapter 5 talks about Monitoring
Chapter 6 talks about the Power Package
Chapter 11 is a summary of the variations and outlines what are and are not compatible.
Chapter 12 contains zero compensation beginner stroke patterns for both hitting and swinging. It also contains a curriculum with which to begin learning G.O.L.F.
Chapter 13 speaks about non-interchangeable components
Chapter 14 talks about the role of the human mind in golf.
Should you study TGM with professional help? In the timeless words of Mr. Kelly: "Preferable with. Advisedly with! Imploredly with!!!"
You need to memorize the book if you really want to understand it.
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This is only my opinion and it changes when my knowledge changes. However, here’s where I am today after too many years to admit. I wish I "could" have comprehended this on day one. It was all there in front of me, everybody told me, Yoda drilled it into everybody at the seminars, but I just couldn't grasp the significance of the "Science".
I think that you should try to understand something before anything else. Although TGM is vastly different from any other system of Golf, there is one single underlying premise, that seems to guide the entire system, and there is no other system, theory, or method ever transcribed, to my knowledge that ever considers it.
A golfer can swing a Club with an Angular Force, so that the Ball responds as if a Linear Force has been applied. The secret to achieving this is “Hinging”. The result is a perfectly straight Ball Flight Path from a square stance, with a square plane line, and a parallel target line.
"the Hinge Action (2-G) of an Angular Motion (2-K) operating on an Inclined Plane (2-F)"
Any Method can teach you how to hit a golf ball but "Alignment Golf" is about hitting it effectively.
This is only my opinion and it changes when my knowledge changes. However, here’s where I am today after too many years to admit. I wish I "could" have comprehended this on day one. It was all there in front of me, everybody told me, Yoda drilled it into everybody at the seminars, but I just couldn't grasp the significance of the "Science".
I think that you should try to understand something before anything else. Although TGM is vastly different from any other system of Golf, there is one single underlying premise, that seems to guide the entire system, and there is no other system, theory, or method ever transcribed, to my knowledge that ever considers it.
A golfer can swing a Club with an Angular Force, so that the Ball responds as if a Linear Force has been applied. The secret to achieving this is “Hinging”. The result is a perfectly straight Ball Flight Path from a square stance, with a square plane line, and a parallel target line.
"the Hinge Action (2-G) of an Angular Motion (2-K) operating on an Inclined Plane (2-F)"
Any Method can teach you how to hit a golf ball but "Alignment Golf" is about hitting it effectively.
The problem with all learning is that it usually isn't easy before you have learned it - then it becomes easy.
Your understanding of TGM is on the "I understand" level. All beginners start on the "I don't understand" level.
All though I know a little - absolutely nothing comes from reading the book. Everything is from watching the DVD and videos and reading on the site + Kevin's notes.
So what you have stated for me - thanks BTW - does not really make sense for me other than I have heard/read about it before - and it's helps to recognize the wording, but to tell the thruth: it doesn't give me a clear understanding of anything - it's only difficult words appearing to say hallo and goodbye at the same time.
But I'm starting today reading 3 pages each day to get thru the whole book for the first time. Then maybe it will make more sense...
I have now bought the tickets (over 100 dollars cheaper than last time) to fly to Cuscowilla Monday Mars 14th 2011 and return on Sunday March 20th. Normally I would have returned on Friday, but by staying there until Sunday the tickets were almost halv the price, so I'm not complaining! I feel fortunate, as a (former?) hacker and slicer and a person without much knowledge in TGM to have the Top Man to guide me thru what it takes. Now I know what I'm going to and I'm looking forward to it like the child I was over 50 years ago. No more "depression".
This is quite simple. Like I have stated in earlier posts, Homer Kelley viewed the golf swing as a 'machine.' This particular machine had 24 basic parts (or 'components') and each part has 3-15 variations to it. At the bottom of page 93, Homer just lists the 24 basic components of the golf swing.
All Section 7-0 is for to give the reader a basic introduction to what all of the 24 basic components are.
Chapter 9 and Section 7-0 is more meant for the instructor instead of the golfer looking to improve their game. The zones are helpful for the instructor because they breakdown the motions and what to look for when it comes to issues with the student's golf swing. Section 7-0 can be used by the instructor in order to make a list of all of the components of the student's swing and then try to make sure that a 'swinger' is using 'swinger components' and a 'hitter' is using 'hitter components.'
It's very much like a checklist or a 'catalog' of the components of a golfer's swing. Here's what my swing component list would look like:
Section 10-0 gives a brief introduction to Chapter 10. In Chapter 10 it goes into the 24 components of the swing (aka, the golfing machine) and each variation of each component. Homer explains his system of number designation.
The first number is the chapter. The second number is the basic component. The 3rd digit, a letter, is the variation of the component.
So, when somebody refers to 10-1-E in 'The Golfing Machine', which is the cross hand grip, it basically reads as 10 is the chapter, 1 is the basic component which in this case is the basic grip, and E is the variation of the grip which in this case is the interlocking grip.
If I were to look for the baseball grip in TGM, it's designation is 10-1-B. Same chapter, same component, just different variation. If I wanted to look up 'single plane shift', that designation is 10-7-B. So, that designation has the same chapter (10), but a a different basic component (7) and then the variation of that component is the letter B.
At the bottom of page 134, Homer just gives the reader a listing, in alphabetical order, where the reader can find each basic component. For instance, 'Address' has a number '9' next to it. That just means that to find information in regards to the Address position, you have to go to the 10-9 section of chapter 10.
Chapter 9
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In Chapter 9, Homer Kelley breaks down the motions of the entire human body into 3'zones.' He claims that these 3 zones move simultaneously and in a synchronous motion in each part of the swing as described in the 'twelve sections' of the swing in Chapter 8
Homer then describes the principles of cause and effect in the golf swing.
Laws (geometry, trigonometry, physics, etc) = cause
Ball Behavior = effect
The type of swing, procedures, etc = means.
Thus, a player's choice of Means (their individual swing) for applying law (their swing geometry, etc) will produce an effect (ball behavior)
He then lists the 3 zones:
Zone #1 = Body Zone (includes the pivot, the body, balance and overall body control)
Zone #2 = Arms Zone (includes Power, Force, and club control)
Zone #3 = Hands Zone (includes direction of ball, purpose of the shot, and ball control)
ZONE #1 (Body Zone)
This zone includes the following basic components:
- Pivot
- Shoulder Turn
- Hip Turn
- Hip Action
- Knee Action
- Foot Action
Homer states that the motions in these components above are not compromised by the motions of the Arms and the Club. The Pivot is a large part of Zone #1 and the hands are not 'educated' unless they control the pivot. That doesn't mean the pivot can be neglected
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In addition I'll try to think of one important concept each day.
Let me start with the importance of the straight left arm in the downswing, impact and followthru working together with the FLW and the club as one unit, where the club catches up with the hand at impact forming a straight line that doesn't break down, but comes thru as a whole. The speed of the clubhead is much faster than the hands because it travels a greater distance than the hands in the same time, but they move together in tandem - like a mary-go-round with the same RPM (or what's it called?) That's what defines rhythm, if I have understood this right? http://www.playbettergolfblog.com/20...or-more-power/
A machine is more than the sum of it's parts. It's a means of using "Mechanical Advantage". Mechanical Advantage is the factor by which a mechanism multiplies the force applied to it.
The 24 components are just the "Parts". What they do...some create force, others apply mechanical Advantage. The Arms and Hands don't substitute for the force generated by the Pivot, they multiply it.
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No amount of effort will produce more than a player’s maximum turning speed. Regardless of effort you simply cannot push anything faster than you can run. Mechanical Advantage (1-H) must be utilized making Clubhead acceleration on “Overtaking” process (2-P, 6-M-1).
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