It is so ugly it might just work Thanks for the pic...Home Depot is calling!
While we are talking about "props" would anybody like to list what they have purchased, created etc. ranking them in their order of usefullness.
1. Dowels
2. Powerclick
3. Impact bag
4. Old Wedge with a butt extension (jerry-rigged)
5. Powertrack
6. Weighted club (Momentus)
7. Club that shows the sweetspot plane (jerry-rigged)
8. Made one of them wiffle ball clubs (jerry-rigged)
9. Pelz's pro prongs
10. Spray Paint (I spray a straight plane line)
I would add:
2 by 4 and 1x10 boards
Two flashlights lashed together with duct tape
Door mirror
Therabands
Styrofoam plane board
I haven't used other lasers pen before, but I know these can be seen in outside even with the sun right on top of me.
I thought that was pretty nice.
Just thought some guys might like it.
Last october, I spoke to the inventor on the phone for over two hours. He was just filming the info commerical at the tim,e. He can really talk. I saw the stick in a bag of an instructor at Blue Heron GC near AC. He knew nothing about TGM except he hear of it.We talked about Martin and some of the things he taught. The inventor took lessons from Martin and one day developed this stick to help him square the clubface and trace the plane line- he uses a high powerd green light I believe so it can be use in daylight. Martin was wowed by it and help finance the project. The hand guide as he explained it to me is not how a TGM would use it- he sqaures with the right hand. BUt it look interesting. I tried to get some to see if some of our AIs could use them. Henning is big on tracing drills with those thin plastic dowels. But he couldn't make anymore until they were going to be releases. Everyone was calling him from around the country. At almost 200 bucks a pop I was trying to get a sweetheart deal. He lived nearby. I haven't spoke to him since. Nice guy bur as I said he can talk for ever. Looks like a helpful product in the hands of a good instructor.
I tried to build my own but dowels work just fine.
ps- Yeah Mouse in the house is typical Martin- he is loaded with gadgets like Ben Doyle and phrases to help students visualize- Homer would get a kick out of him.
Martin is definately a TGM guy, but he doesn't soley teach "the machine". The 5 or 6 lessons I saw him give, at least 2 of the 3 were covered: 1.) flat left wrist at impact; 2.) tracing a straight plane line (using the "generic smart stick"); 3.) hinge action.
If you never read TGM, you wouldn't know he teaches it. In my opinion, he does a great job explaining things without getting too techincal.
He is one of the few "top teachers" that I will stop and listen to. Has given Homer Kelley and TGM credit in some of his videos. Check out the hinges in this video (flying wedges...hello!)
Even more impressive is the fact that he called me and apologized for being hard to get a hold of!!! Pretty humble guy to say the least.
I think there are a lot of guys out there that teach TGM without even knowing it. I love this site, as well as David Orrs. But, so many people still think TGM and think technical. This is true, but it doesn't have to be that techincal. If more instructors had just a background in TGM, teaching would be significantly different...and better.
I think any "top teacher" that preaches a few principles found in the book, are giving it a lot of justice. Sorry to get on a soapbox!
-Carl Spackler
__________________ "The Machine is the essence of golf, nothing less"
-Steve Elkington
Martin is definately a TGM guy, but he doesn't soley teach "the machine". The 5 or 6 lessons I saw him give, at least 2 of the 3 were covered: 1.) flat left wrist at impact; 2.) tracing a straight plane line (using the "generic smart stick"); 3.) hinge action.
If you never read TGM, you wouldn't know he teaches it. In my opinion, he does a great job explaining things without getting too techincal.
He is one of the few "top teachers" that I will stop and listen to. Has given Homer Kelley and TGM credit in some of his videos. Check out the hinges in this video (flying wedges...hello!)
Even more impressive is the fact that he called me and apologized for being hard to get a hold of!!! Pretty humble guy to say the least.
I think there are a lot of guys out there that teach TGM without even knowing it. I love this site, as well as David Orrs. But, so many people still think TGM and think technical. This is true, but it doesn't have to be that techincal. If more instructors had just a background in TGM, teaching would be significantly different...and better.
I think any "top teacher" that preaches a few principles found in the book, are giving it a lot of justice. Sorry to get on a soapbox!
-Carl Spackler
Acutally- TGM might be the ONLY "feel" system in Golfdom
Martin is definately a TGM guy, but he doesn't soley teach "the machine". The 5 or 6 lessons I saw him give, at least 2 of the 3 were covered: 1.) flat left wrist at impact; 2.) tracing a straight plane line (using the "generic smart stick"); 3.) hinge action.
If you never read TGM, you wouldn't know he teaches it. In my opinion, he does a great job explaining things without getting too techincal.
He is one of the few "top teachers" that I will stop and listen to. Has given Homer Kelley and TGM credit in some of his videos. Check out the hinges in this video (flying wedges...hello!)
Even more impressive is the fact that he called me and apologized for being hard to get a hold of!!! Pretty humble guy to say the least.
I think there are a lot of guys out there that teach TGM without even knowing it. I love this site, as well as David Orrs. But, so many people still think TGM and think technical. This is true, but it doesn't have to be that techincal. If more instructors had just a background in TGM, teaching would be significantly different...and better.
I think any "top teacher" that preaches a few principles found in the book, are giving it a lot of justice. Sorry to get on a soapbox!
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