Civility? Geez, I'm holding back big time. The "Book" has nothing to do with TGM.
Have you bothered to read the On-Line book? It's a "hook". The guy sells Myrtle Beach Golf Vacations and uses the book to draw in customers.
Here's an excerpt:
Are you kidding me? It's this kind of trash that gives all TGM'ers a bad rap.
Wanting to start a fight is ridiculus. I accidently discovered the Golf Factory book per a search for the 1st edition of TGM. I did my due diligence, searched Lynn's sight for any reference to the Golf Factory text, found none. Only expected a debate in regards to the technical validity of the books content, not what followed. Sorry for not including some technical spin on the factory's presentation and analysis. However, I'm actually surprised at the 1st chapter with the presentation of the three essentials instead of a presentation of the three imperatives.
My responses have to be kept short, I'm studying for a professional exam. Maybe I will add more after the exam is complete (6/4).
Dodger, if someone expressed sarcasm about your golfing skills after I saw your skills in person, I'd disagree with them to their face. I spent four days seeing Mr. Blake's tremendous skill and passion teaching and doing brilliant golf insight. And the line admiring Mr. Blake and seeking his insight stretches outside the beautiful Cuscowilla resort to uhmm, around the world.
So, here comes DG expressing "surprise" that Lynn's sight is somehow lacking in friendliness to golfers or insight into the machine. Really?
And btw, Mr. Tomasello's tapes seem instructive to me and he seems like a very approachable and knowledgeable instructor based on his tapes. If I had known him personally, and if I heard a person insult his friendliness or skill or intellectual curiosity about golf, I would say something in his defense. Why should naysayers get a free pass?
My point remains the same. Technique questions or machine questions are fine imo. "Why does Nick Faldo advocate keeping a flat right foot in hitting a certain type of 9 iron shot," for example, is a legitimate question. "Why does Nick Faldo not understand the really useful golfing technique advocated by the genius Mr. Smith," is just trying to spit on a person while supposedly speaking to them. :naught
Dodger, btw, good luck on your club championship and other endeavors. You seem to have great skills!
ICT
Thanks Patrick. My point is in defense of Delaware Golf, not the golf factory. DG did not say one derogatory thing about Lynn Blake in this thread. He criticized some of us, which is not the same thing. This is Mr. Blake's site, thank goodness it is here. If someone comes on here attacking Mr. Blake or his teaching, Mr. Blake has every right to bar them. DG likes to share Tomasello teachings, I like reading the posts. I do not see how they do not belong on a site devoted to The Golfing Machine. I did read the golf factory stuff and agree with Daryl, there is better stuff out there. But, if someone reads it and thinks they need more and find this site or buy the book, what is the harm? As far as TGM, this site is the gold standard. DG did not attack Mr. Blake whatsoever, if he had, Lynn would have laid him out himself. DG was a poster here long before me and you, he may post some instruction we disagree with, but he did not deserve the disrespect shown. Lynn Blake may be the only one who posts on this site that knows all there is to know about the golf swing, I doubt anyone else can make that claim. Again, criticism of the golf factory book is fine, it is cursory, incomplete and sometimes inaccurate, like any book that attempts to provide Golfing Machine lite, including Clampett's book. Delaware Golf probably does not need my defense, but he should not be discouraged from sharing other instruction unless Lynn requests otherwise, it is his site.
Thanks Patrick. My point is in defense of Delaware Golf, not the golf factory. DG did not say one derogatory thing about Lynn Blake in this thread. He criticized some of us, which is not the same thing. This is Mr. Blake's site, thank goodness it is here. If someone comes on here attacking Mr. Blake or his teaching, Mr. Blake has every right to bar them. DG likes to share Tomasello teachings, I like reading the posts. I do not see how they do not belong on a site devoted to The Golfing Machine. I did read the golf factory stuff and agree with Daryl, there is better stuff out there. But, if someone reads it and thinks they need more and find this site or buy the book, what is the harm? As far as TGM, this site is the gold standard. DG did not attack Mr. Blake whatsoever, if he had, Lynn would have laid him out himself. DG was a poster here long before me and you, he may post some instruction we disagree with, but he did not deserve the disrespect shown. Lynn Blake may be the only one who posts on this site that knows all there is to know about the golf swing, I doubt anyone else can make that claim. Again, criticism of the golf factory book is fine, it is cursory, incomplete and sometimes inaccurate, like any book that attempts to provide Golfing Machine lite, including Clampett's book. Delaware Golf probably does not need my defense, but he should not be discouraged from sharing other instruction unless Lynn requests otherwise, it is his site.
I'm fine Dodger, no biggie. I can let it go. I made my point.
ICT
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HP, grant me the serenity to accept what I cannot change, the courage to change what I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Progress and not perfection is the goal every day!
DG was a poster here long before me and you, he may post some instruction we disagree with, but he did not deserve the disrespect shown.
DG and I have dueled here (and elsewhere) in many prior cyber-wars. He exhorts and defends the Tom Tomasello Faith. Also, his own understandings of same. These are free forums . . .
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