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First post too... I saw Vandals. I was drawn to TGM a few months ago, and I have read the book inside and out. I have devoured everything on this site and everything on Brian's site. In 3 months, from this information (and the help of a TGM bachelor/PGA who unfortunately won't be as analytical as I would like)I have started to kill the ball. Sweet. I'm also no schulb when it comes to understanding complicated mechanics. I previously coached highly skilled juniors in another sport (I focused on mechanics), play two of my own at 0 handicap level (not golf), and do something extremely complicated for a living. I don't mean to brag, I'm just a little nervous around you guys. You can be very serious sometimes!

I have also waited to post, so that I could understand the etiquette of this site. I appreciate that this is your community, and I have already learned a ton from all of you having not made any contribution of my own.

I find these threads where everyone jumps on Brian to be very distressing. Everyone in here must have had an open mind at some point to have arrived at TGM. Many do not appear to be thinking and challenging their understanding, which is what Brian is asking you to do. Today I hear the phrase "Wealth is the product of man's ability to think" and it made sense to me. You cannot grow grain without knowing how to turn the earth or that seeds will germanate. I have the feeling that Brian's understanding of TGM exceeds that of all but a few in this community. He might be thinking while many of the rest of us are trying to understand.

I agree with Vandal. If you resist with the muscles in the left of your neck, your head will stay centered. My head happens to (I'll see more on video tomorrow - yikes). If you relax those muscles from the same pivot position, the neck is the center. Same pivot, different look. I agree that the head has weight, and I'm not sure how to resolve that just yet. However, I do know that in my other sports I have my own idiosyncratic movements, but they are irrelevant because I have total command of the essential sources of power. I can fill in the extra time with whatever whackiness I please that day. Time is slow.

I am sensative to Brian's point, because I used to have a very nasty reverse pivot which was the result of an attempt to prevent a sway. You all know what I was told that started that ugly action. It took a year to fix it.