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airair 02-23-2011 02:42 PM
From The Top -- Your Way
 
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoda
Quote:
Originally Posted by MizunoJoe
rwh,

I believe that Doyle and Hebron are talking about transporting the hands with the pivot. I'm talking about the the hands dropping to release point during the pivot, the shaft staying close to the Right Shoulder and the Right Elbow moving in front of the right hip.

[Bold by Yoda.]
MJ,

For a number of reasons, the ideal Swing Plane is the Turned Shoulder Plane (10-6-B). Further, this may be accomplished with Zero Shift (10-7-A) -- that is, the Hands adhere to this Plane Angle throughout the Stroke and execute a Straight Line Delivery Path (10-23-A) to the Ball.

However, the procedure you have described -- "the hands dropping to Release point during the pivot" -- is a viable alternative and is catalogued as the Angled Line Delivery Path (10-23-D). That is, as the Leading Body Transports the Lagging Power Package to Release, the Hands take a nearly Vertical path to the Elbow Plane Angle before they drive directly at and through the Aiming Point.

There is no inconsistency here. There is only Homer Kelley's genius:

Straight Line or Angled Line. Your choice.

And there is no right or wrong. Only personal preference.

This is truth.

This is The Golfing Machine.

airair 02-23-2011 03:03 PM
Do You Feel What I Feel?
 
http://www.lynnblakegolf.com/forum/s...ighlight=pivot


Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoda
Quote:
Originally Posted by jr833

Master Yoda,

http://www.lynnblakegolf.com/index.p....-Hitting.html
http://www.lynnblakegolf.com/index.p....-Hitting.html

Have just seen your latest clip -- a great swinging and hitting procedure. What is the main thing you feel to start the down swing when swinging. You mention you crank the gyroscope. Also, what do you feel when hitting? Thanks.

The Computer requires Five Programming Routines to do its best work (Chapter 14). The first of these is the Feel of your Total Motion -- your Basic Procedure. This 'one' Feel is actually a composite of the many Feels you have learned and mastered separately during your G.O.L.F. journey. Each of these Feels maintains their separate identity and yet always relate harmoniously to the whole.

So, in answer to your question, what I will describe are my Primary Feels -- themselves also a composite -- that govern my Stroke and that I can depend upon to reliably reproduce the Mechanics patiently and deliberately acquired through the Star System Process of 1-J and 3-B.

Swinging: My Lower Body leads and my Upper Body and Power Package lags. This Start Down Motion causes my Wrists to Cock a bit more and the Clubhead Lag to Load against my #3 Pressure Point (Right Forefinger). Since Start Up, I have been aware of a definite Extensor Action (against the #1 Pressure Point -- heel of the Right Hand against the Left Hand thumb). That Feel is accentuated by the Lead-and-Lag Start Down Motion. I sense a Gyroscopic Motion as I Pull the Club Down Plane until it is automatically Thrown-Out by Centrifugal Force in Release. I am very aware of the Left Wrist Throw through the #2 Pressure Point (the last three fingers of the Left Hand sensing the Centrifugal Left Wrist Uncock per 10-20-E). And -- from The Top (Station Two) to The Finish (Station Three) -- I Trace the Straight Plane Line with my Right Forearm and #3 Pressure Point.

Hitting: Except for the Lag Loading (Drive versus Drag) , the Feel is essentially the same as above until Release. Then, the Club is Driven-Out by Right Arm Muscle Power. I am very aware of the Right Elbow's Drive againt the #1 Pressure Point per 10-20-B and my Right Shoulder acting as a Launching Pad for that Drive. As with Swinging, I Trace the Straight Plane Line with my Right Forearm and #3 Pressure Point. However, because I am Actively Thrusting, I Feel the Pressure Point Combination (the Active Muscular Drive against #1 and #3) much more strongly than when Swinging (with its Passive Centrifugal Drive against #2 and #3).

airair 02-23-2011 03:38 PM
Precision Routines From Drive To Putt
 
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoda
Quote:
Originally Posted by FeverPowerful

This is a question about the extension of the shoulder.

I'm not sure how to explain it.
If I stand straight up, my shoulders feel very close and "attached" to my body. Seen from the side view, I guess I would say the shoulders are in line with my body.
If I extend my left arm straight out, then I can still have a similar feeling with my shoulder. But, I can reach further than that by stretching my shoulder forward in front of my body.

I'm just wondering which position is correct? at address, do I keep the left shoulder in line with my body? Do I keep this feeling throughout the whole swing? Does anybody understand what I'm talking about? I'm not making sense, right?

I notice that when I'm chipping, I always have the left shoulder non-extended. But, when I do the full swing, I sometimes extend my left shoulder away from me on the backswing (instead of just rotating my shoulders). And I'm thinking that if I do this, and I don't bring my shoulder back, then the radius that I established at address will be incorrect and I will, presumably, hit it fat.



FP,

Your concerns are well-founded. The Throw-Out Action of Centrifugal Force (2-K) works to pull all your Power Package Components into a straight line. These Components include your Arms, Hands, and Shoulders (which are a Pivot Component but also, being part of the Triangle Assembly of 6-A-1, are considered part ofthe Power Package as well).

This automatic 'stretching' by Centrifugal Force is the reason for the precision routine of 2-J-1 wherein the proper Left Shoulder to Ball Stroke Radius is established and 'pre-stretched.' This routine includes the Extensor Action (6-B-1-D) of the Right Triceps which stetches the Left Arm and also the Bent Right Arm (6-A-4) as the Checkrein Action (6-B-4-0) permits.The Extensor Action is in operation from Impact Fix (8-2) to the end of theFollow-Through (8-11) at which time the folding of the Left Arm by definitionterminates the Action.

Also, as you have discovered, the Shoulder Girdle (or Pectoral Girdle) attaching and supporting the Arms is very flexible and also must be controlled. This is the reason for the directive in 2-M-3 to keep the Shoulders and Arms forward with Pectoral Muscle Contraction if necessary. Therefore, this piece of the G.O.L.F. Engineering System must likewise be incorporated into your personal G.O.L.F. Feel System (1-J and 3-B).

And now to your question of Shoulder Position for Chipping versus Driving. The Geometry of all Golf Strokes -- for any given Ball Flight Characteristic and from Drive to Putt -- stems from the Impact Geometry required by the Shot at hand. These alignments should not be left to chance. Instead, they should be be systematically established in the precision Impact Alignments Routine of 2-J-1 and then reinforced via the Three Checkout Procedures Address Routine of 3-F-5.

With the proper Radius established and 'pre-stretched,' and with ExtensorAction maintaining that Radius, it is up to Educated Hands (5-0) and their able assistants, The Magical Right Forearm and Elbow (7-3), to trace the proper Geometry throughout the Stroke. The Pivot Components will yield to the dominion of the Hands, and no matter what degree of Pivot Motion you employ -- Zero, Partial or Full (7-12 and 10-12) -- there should be no difference in the way your Shoulders operate. And once you have incorporated The Golfing Machine Impact Fix (8-2) and Adjusted Address (8-3) routines into your Feel System...

There won't be.

airair 02-23-2011 06:11 PM
Horizontal Hinging -- The Ideal Application of Linear Force
 
http://www.lynnblakegolf.com/forum/s...+compressio n


Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoda
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jim Cook

Yoda said: "Then, repeat it from memory:
1-L #4 -- The Hinge Assembly controls the Clubface alignment. "

So in the office I yelled at the top of my lungs:
The Hinge Assembly controls the Clubface alignment.
The Hinge Assembly controls the Clubface alignment.
The Hinge Assembly controls the Clubface alignment.
The Hinge Assembly controls the Clubface alignment.
The Hinge Assembly controls the Clubface alignment.

It was funny watching all the heads pop up from the cubicles. Like groundhogs.... does that mean there will be 6 more weeks of winter?

But the Hinge Assembly does not control the Clubface alignment.
With the hinge pin verticle to the horizontal plane, the hinge blade horizontal plane the little club face stays verticle to the horizontal plane. The face of the little club is open to the intended target line, then square to the line and finally closed to the line. Is this "open, square then closed" what you mean by "The hinge assembly controls the clubface alignment?

Does the hinge pin represent my shoulder/arm joint? And the bolt at the hinge arm/plate represent my fixed Wrist?

I missed that first part, Jim. What did you say? Oh! I hear you now!

1-L #4 -- The Hinge Assembly controls the Clubface alignment!

You are right!

But then you say, it does not control the Clubface alignment, and Yoda is confused. The Clubface's circular, horizontal ('closing' only) motion is the direct and inevitable result of the identical motion of the horizontal blade rotating about its vertical pin. If this is not controlling the Clubface alignment throughout the motion, then what is?

And surely you did not mean that the Clubface should stay 'square' to the Line, did you? Because if so, that would be Steering, the No. 1 Snare in the Game -- attempting to hold the Clubface square to the Line of Flight. And we learned in Lesson One that you cannot make the blade of a hinge move in a straight line. It only moves in a circle!

Remember, in G.O.L.F. we are dealing with a Force moving in a circle --the Clubhead Orbit (2-N-0). And because you measure the circumference of a circle in terms of angles from its center, we call that force Angular Force. Force moving in a straight line -- like a pool stick through a cue ball-- is Linear Force. The problem we have in golf is to produce the same effect as a Linear Force -- a point of contact between Ball and Clubface that remains welded until separation -- while our Clubhead force is moving in a circle. And the way you do that is through this Horizontal Motion of the Clubface through Impact.

At Impact a Line of Compression (2-C-0) is constructed through the Ball-- like a bullet hole through a baseball. This is a Linear Force. Now, if we can keep that point of contact -- the Compression Point, from slipping on the Face, then we will have 'sustained' the Line of Compression.This maintains the Linear Force in relation to the Ball, even though the Ball has now joined the Orbiting Clubface in its circular, centrifugal journey.

This is the goal of every Golfing Machine: To sustain the Linear Line of Compression as the Orbiting Clubhead is Arcing through Impact. And it all begins here with an understanding of the horizontal motion the Clubface must make through Impact. Then we must train our Flat Left Wrist to reproduce its motion on demand.

So, the Horizontal Hinge Assembly is producing a pure 'opening and closing'-- ONLY! -- Motion of the Clubface. THERE IS NO LAYBACK! If Impact occurred with the Clubface in the 'slightly Open' alignment, and if separation(of Ball and Clubface) occurred with the Clubface Square to the target line,then the result would be a perfectly Straight Shot and Maximum Compression.

The 'Closing Only' Motion produces the Ideal Application of Linear Force(2-C-1) because the Angled Clubshaft and the Closing Clubface are rotating about the same center. Thus, there is no glancing force (except for backspin). This 'Closing Only' Motion of the hinge blade produces the exact same motion in the Clubface. And because the Clubface does not Lay Back, the true loft of the Club is maintained throughout the Impact Interval]. Further, since there is no 'tilting under' of the Clubface, the Ball and Face stay welded, and the Compression Point -- the 'point of contact' between Club and Ball -- is maintained until they separate.

Hinges whose blades duplicate the remaining two planes of motion -- vertical and angled -- do Lay Back, and this causes the Clubface to made an identical 'Layback' motion through Impact. With Vertical Hinging -- the 'Layback Only' Cut Shot (2-C-2) -- as in Horizontal Hinging with its 'Closing Only' Motion -- the Point (and Line) of Compression is sustained. However, the Layback of the Clubface effectively increases the Clubface Loft and therefore produces higher, softer Shots than the Ideal Application of the Horizontal Hinge. This characteristic Ball Flight may be exactly what the player intends to produce -- out of a greenside bunker, for example. On the other hand, it is doubtful the player would deliberately employ this technique off the tee of a long Par Four!

The Lob Shot (2-C-3) is the Low Point application of 'Layback Only.'This results in a 'tilting under' of the Clubface through the Ball and a total loss of the Compression Point. This loss of the original contact point is termed 'Compression Leakage,' and in this application produces the Lob Shot, the high no-spin floater. This is the Shot Mr. Mickelson often uses greenside, but again, has probably never used off the tee.

The Angled Hinge also results in Compression Leakage. Here, we have simultaneous 'Layback' and 'Close' and thus an 'uncentered' motion and Slicing tendency. There are compensations for this deficiency, but the Angled Hinge application of Linear Force remains inferior to the pure 2-C-1 Ideal Application of the Horizontal Hinge.

So, the Hinge Assembly does indeed control the Clubface alignment, and tomorrow we will re-orient the hinge pin to see exactly how that occurs.

I'll be back tomorrow to complete our 'mechanical' stuff. Then we'll get on to educating our Flat and Vertical Left Wrist to duplicate the Three Planes of Motion on the face of one Inclined Plane.

airair 02-24-2011 07:41 AM
Feels, Fashion and Progress
 
http://www.lynnblakegolf.com/forum/thread6123.html

Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoda

Mechanics constitute structurally "fixed" geometry and physics. Feel is the body's equivalent to structuring and its foundation is Educated Hands (Chapter14).

So, when you introduce any new Mechanic into your Basic Motion Pattern (12-1-0 / Hitting or 12-2-0 / Swinging), you better be able to Feel it! Otherwise, you cannot hope to even Reproduce it (1-J), much less increase its Precision over time (Preface).

Specifically, you've asked about the 10-4-D Four Barrel application for Swingers. Should you be able to Feel the Right Arm Thrust? You bet! Otherwise, at best you have the "lop-sided lottery" of an Engineering System without a Feel System (1-J), and at worst, you have nothing at all!

You've gleaned from my prior posts that Homer was no fan of the Four Barrel Stroke. That is true. He felt its disadvantages outweighed its advantages for all but the most elite of golfers (and even then it was suspect). And the reason for that is that Pushing (Hitting) and Pulling (Swinging) are basically incompatible procedures (Chapter 13) and with the Four Barrel Stroke you are, in essence, attempting to do both at the same time.

And yet he didn't make a big deal of it in The Book. That is also true. And the reason is that The Book is "the Duffer's Bible, the Golf Nut's Catalog, the Circuit Player's Handbook and the Instructor's Textbook." (Preface) Each of these end-users has a different purpose. Homer felt his job was first, to solve the Problem of G.O.L.F. for once and for all time, and second, to put it down in such a way that it could best serve each individual's specialized need.

However, at no time did he attempt to dictate personal preference or evidence strong feelings one way or another about the Variations to be employed. He might give little hints from time to time such as, "Well controlled Double or Triple Barrel Combinations have little to fear from the Four Barrel Combination that is less than fully mastered." (4-D-0) But other than that, his feeling was:

"I've given you the information. Put it together whatever way you want. Then, fly at it!"

That said...

In early 1983 Golf Magazine contacted Homer, told him they were going to run a multi-page sequence of Bobby Clampett's golf swing, and asked if he would provide the written analysis. He agreed and upon receipt of the sequence, he went to work. For each of the photos -- from Address to Finish -- he provided a detailed commentary. He packaged it up and mailed it back to New York. John Andrisanni, then their senior Instruction Editor, opened the package, took one look at the commentary and did something like this:

There was no way they could put that "talking in tongues" in their magazine. After all, The Tower of Babel was no place for their average 22-handicap reader! So, they gathered their staff writers, plugged in the lava lamps, lit the incense, had a rite of journalistic exorcism and basically bastardized the whole thing. When the magazine came out in April 1983, Homer was furious -- like that line from The Godfather when Don Corleone looks down at the bullet-ridden body of Sonny and says, "Look how they've massacred my boy!" -- but there was nothing he could do about it.

The good news is...

We still have the commentary!

And in the Start Down (8-7) analysis, Homer made this point:

"Power Package muscle power (right triceps thrust) can make a miniscule contribution and only with great effort during a swing procedure."

To my mind, you just can't get any clearer than that. Yes, the Four Barrel procedure can be done and if you want to do it then "Fly at it!" but realize that it is extremely difficult to accomplish, much less to master, and even if you do, it only adds a miniscule amount to the process, and then only with great effort. Whew!

Hey, given this, I'm going into the old Saturday Night Live Emily Latilla routine of the late Gilda Radner:

"Never mind!"

Now, as for not being able to maintain your Stroke Geometry, i.e., stay On Plane, per Chapter 4, "The key to control of the Golf Club is Educated Hands. Very few are the mistakes and troubles of a golfer that do not stem from faulty Hands."

So, your Hands may be being pulled out of their proper alignments by your Pivot or they may still be relatively ignorant or both. No matter! Until the Hands learn to monitor only themselves -- and not the Club and not the Body (Pivot) -- and to maintain the proper Three Dimensional Backstroke and Downstroke (2-F), then you still have UNeducated Hands.

And that is your problem. And you are not alone. On practice tees and golf courses around the world, you see an infinite variety of heaves and jerks that are supposed to be golf swings. And the problem is always the same: Habit reinforcing its Ignorance.

Homer's Star System of G.O.L.F. is not a "band-aid" system. As I've written repeatedly in other posts, you must go back to the six components in Zone #1 (9-1) and then work your way into Zones #2 and #3. And Zone #3 (9-3 / Hands) can only be as good as Zone #1 (Pivot) allows it to be. So, go back and look, look, LOOK (9-2) and re-build your Total Motion per 12-5-1/2/3. And all the while, really work on The Hands per Chapters 4 and 5.

It takes effort and discipline, that's for sure. But...

It is the only way to make real, lasting progress.

airair 02-24-2011 08:09 AM
What Am I Suppose To Feel.
 
http://www.lynnblakegolf.com/forum/thread6133.html

Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoda
Quote:
Originally Posted by tgmgolfer2k2



So then the "feel" for impact should NOT include a right arm thrust? - for a 3 barrel swinger?

I'll answer my own question and say yes, it should NOT include a #1 acc. thrust. What then does impact feel like? Are the hands simply moved and the body responds?


Is this like "Yes, we have no bananas?"

You are correct, R2DU! With your Active Right Shoulder driving the #4 Accumulator you will not sense Active Right Arm Thrust. You will, of course, have some Right Triceps activity to maintain your Extensor Action (6-B-1-D). However, that activity will be a minimal, below Plane stretching action, and not an Active On Plane Driving Action.

The characteristic Feel through Impact (8-10 per 7-8 and 2-J-1) will be a continuation of the Clubhead Lag Feel initiated and sustained from the Top. Namely, per 7-19, Hit or Swing, the Feel of a deadweight inertia -- exactly like dragging a wet mop through Impact -- constant direction, constant loading, a careful nursing of the Clubhead Feel.

The amount of that Constant Inert Pressure applied is the Player's option. And the Clubhead's inertia is capable of sustaining all the Lag Pressure we humans are physically able to exert. When Homer was discussing this Start Down maximum Lag Pressure Loading potential with our 1982 GSEM class, he made this statement:

"I have at times felt that if I had been just a little stronger, I would have been able to lift both feet off the ground."

Now, that's Sustaining Lag Pressure!

To assist you in your own pursuit of The Secret, Homer offered this advice (6-C-2-0). Establish your normal pressure, and then learn to vary it in five-yard increments. Work on this first with your scoring clubs, especially the Wedges. If it's possible at your facility, put markers out in those five yard increments. I've used everything from range buckets -- I've seen Tom Kite do that -- to towels to little piles of golf balls already on the range.

Challenge yourself to move back and forth between these "+ or -"five-yard targets. You can get really deadly with this, and your short game should improve dramatically. Once you've got the hang of it with your Wedges, do the same thing with your Short, Middle and Long Irons. Finally, move into the Metalwoods. It's fun to use your ability to vary Lag Pressure Loading and land that Driver five yards short of a target or five yards long of it.

Not only that, for the real ball beaters out there, you'll start playing a game I call "Poleys". This is where you keep score in every practice session with how many times you actually hit the flagpole. Believe me, you get zeroed in on this at the range -- "Taking Dead Aim," as Mr. Penick used to say -- and you will begin to surprise yourself. I am not bragging, and I am not kidding! It may be only one or two a session -- but you'll get'em -- and when you do, you'll sing out for all on the range to hear:"POLEY!"

Remember to keep the Ball back per 6-E-2 on the Short Shots and the Hands well-ahead through Impact (7-8 ). From the Top, direct your Thrust directly toward the Aiming Point (6-E-2) and take the heavy, Loaded Lag Pressure Feel Down the Delivery Line; Down through the Smash of Impact; Down through the Aiming Point (probably a bit in front of the Ball); Down through the Low Point; and then continue to Feel the Down Plane Motion into the Both Arms Straight Position of your Follow-Through (8-11).

Go back and count all those 'Downs.' After Impact, you've still got three more 'Downs' to go! So don't Quit (Second Snare 3-F-7-B)! Keep going! Where? Down!

I remember watching a video of Sam Snead at a clinic where some Golf Digest guys were also participating. First one guy would talk about the Forward Swing, and then another would talk about the Forward Swing. Forward Swing this and Forward Swing that. Melnyk and Kostis still do it today from the broadcasting booth. Not Snead though. All he could talk about was the "DownSwing." and over and over "Hitting the ball on the Downward Blow. He liked that term and used it a lot: the "Downward Blow."

Then he demonstrated a little high pitch, and turned to the gallery and said,"On that one you've got to go Down and Up at the same time!" And then, chuckling, "Guess that's pretty hard to do, isn't it? But that's what you've got to do." And, of course, the gallery laughed, having absolutely no earthly idea what he was talking about. After all, Down and Up at the same time? Guess that is kind of funny!

But what he was talking about was that the Clubhead continued Down on its way to Low Point as the Clubface began to Lay Back with his near-Vertical Hinge Action. Hence, Down and Up at the same time! That is the way you have to describe things like this when you don't have the precision terminology of The Golfing Machine!

But in our Star System, these are distinct Mechanics that we have names for and that produce Describable Sensations that can be Translated into Indentifiable Feels (1-J and 3-0/A/B) one-by-one. And once Translated and integrated into your Basic Stroke Pattern (12-1-0 or 12-2-0) they become your 'Open Sesame' to a lifetime of better Golf.

I'll soon have more to say on this subject. We need to explore the two very separate identities of Accumulating and Releasing Power versus sustaining the Clubhead Lag into the Finish. There remains much Fog on these subjects.

And like Indiana Jones hated snakes...

I hate Fog!

airair 02-24-2011 03:06 PM
Emergency Room 8-3 vs. 8-2
 
http://www.lynnblakegolf.com/forum/thread6140.html

Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoda
Quote:
Originally Posted by Hank

Yoda,

Aaaarrrrggggghhh. I hate days like this. Round 1 of a 2 day event and I was lost as an easter egg. Had a couple of good range sessions this week working on the swivel and staying behind the ball (I have a tendency to lean into it sometimes). Did some TGM studying during the week (book and the forum), but felt so frustrated on the course today. Hit a lot of not-so-solid iron shots, several drives that flared right, and a couple of marginal chips. The putter wasn't my friend either. Finally on 18 I made myself focus on #1 PP thru impact(this is after hitting another weak drive), and hit a nice high solid rescue club to the middle of green from 230 out. Shot 80 and pretty much took myself out of any chance of placing in the event, but need to use tomorrow's round as a chance to work on the swing "on the course". Not sure why I'm burdening you with all this bad news, but I guess I wanted to get a quick input from "the man" before tomorrows round. What might be the reason that a swinger would feel the need to focus on PP#1 in order to get the best results? Obviously my swinging procedure must not be very precise, but I don't quite know what piece of the puzzle could be causing the problem. I realize it's probably impossible to analyze via email, but any suggestions are appreciated. -- Hank

Hank,

As a Swinger, your Adjusted Address (8-3) probably finds your Hands in their mid-body location and your Left Wrist Bent. That is good.

Unfortunately, most of your Impacts today closely replicated those same alignments. That is not good.

Instead, they should have replicated your Impact Fix alignments (8-2;2-J-1). At Impact, per 7-8, your Hands will be visually covering your Left Toe and nowhere near the Ball. This one difference separates Pro and Hacker. Without exception. So, you have to figure out a way to get those Hands into a much more "forward" position at Impact.

I suspect that the #1 Pressure Point Thrust that you added on your last shot helped you to do that. However, it is not the ideal way because, as a Swinger your #1 Pressure Point should be passively funneling the Right Shoulder Turn Thrust (per 6-B-4-A) that is driving the #4 Power Accumulator (the Angle formed between the Left Arm and the Left Shoulder (6-B-4-0), not actively driving the #1 Power Accumulator (6-B-1-0) through its associated Pressure Point (6-C-1-#1)

However, I suspect that exactly that may have happened -- what you are interpreting as a strong Pressure Point #1 thrust was actually a strong #4 thrust in disguise, i.e., the power was merely funneled through #1, not produced by it. Hence, the good shot. Your Feel System must learn to non-automatically (6-P-0) produce both actions and thus learn to differentiate them. Per 6-R-0, only then can the selected Action "be pushed on to maximum Delay and become an Automatic Release."

Enough already. You've got a round to play tomorrow. Here's what to do:

Tonight.

Go into Impact Fix (8-2) and then back into Adjusted Address (8-3). Over and over. Note the terrific difference in Left Wrist Locations between the two. Also, be critically aware of the Forward Lean of the Clubshaft in Fix as opposed to the almost right-angled-to-the-Line alignment in Adjusted Address. Finally, Monitor carefully the difference in the Wrist Alignments, i.e., Flat at Fix, Bent at Adjusted Address.

You may be able to accomplish the correct alignments in Fix, but fail totally in real time. If so, the problem may well lie in your Right Shoulder location. In Fix, make sure you [b][keep that Right Shoulder down /B](On Plane per 7-13).You're probably coming into Impact too high, and as a result, you're "running out of right arm," an automatic throwaway. From the Top, turn your Right Shoulder directly toward the Ball and then through it, and continue to Trace the Straight Plane Line with it into the Follow-Through. Picture Trevino's Right Shoulder Down on plane through impact and let it happen.

Finally, per the last paragraph in 7-3, from Fix, use your Right Elbow Action(the Magic of the Right Forearm) to move the club up, in and back on plane. Learn to feel that originating motion.

Tomorrow.

In your pre-game warm-up, emphasize your Impact Fix position before each shot. Focus first on the very short ones -- Acquired Motion per 12-5-2, Right Forearm no higher than level with the ground. Take the motion to the end of the Follow-Through -- Both Arms Straight Position -- and make sure your left wrist is flat and your right wrist has remained bent. Hit a lot of these shots and monitor the follow-through -- which is also the finish in this case -- and ask:

First Imperative: "Is my Left Wrist Flat? Is my Right Wrist Bent?"

Second Imperative: "Did I feel and sustain the loading pressure against the passive first joint of my Right Forefinger throughout the Downstroke, Impact, the Follow-Through (Both Arms Straight) and even into my Finish?

Third Imperative: "Did I trace the Straight Plane Line? And did I direct the Clubhead Lag Down -- through the Ball, through the Aiming Point, through the Low Point, through to the end of the Follow-Through (Both Arms Straight Position)?"


Then, do what you can to achieve these alignments during your full Strokes. Do not think of how you're going to do it, just focus on your objective.

After the round.

Keep working on these same ideas. They are the ones that must be assimilated in order for you to come close to your potential as a player.

airair 02-24-2011 05:53 PM
The Golfing Machine -- A Blueprint For Your Best Golf
 
http://www.lynnblakegolf.com/forum/thread6158.html

Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoda
Quote:
Originally Posted by tgmgolfer2k2

You said pivot thrust can drive acc. 4 through impact. What would this motion "feel" like? I gather that it is more or less a turn of the body into and past impact.

If this is true, how is that not "pivot controlled hands" procedure?

For Swingers utilizing "Body Power" per 2-M-4, Pivot Thrust must drive Accumulator #4 through Impact. For Hitters, it is optional. They can (1) Use the Basic Hitting Pattern (per 12-1-0) with its Three Barrel Stroke (Right Arm Thrust driving the Lever Assemblies via the #1 Accumulator and Pressure Point); or (2) use the Four Barrel Stroke (10-4-D) with its Right Shoulder Thrust driving the Lever Assemblies via the #4 Accumulator and Pressure Point.

The Geometry of the Stroke is the same in both Actions. Only the Physics change, i.e., you can either Pull the Club through or you can Push the Club through. In both instances, however, it will still be a Left Hand Stroke (1-F) unless the Right Elbow replaces the Left Shoulder as the Center (10-3-K). The "describable feel" (1-J) you seek will be dependent on the Physics (1-F) of the procedure employed.

That said, the true Swinger "lets the Club do the work." Among other things, he uses the Standard Left Wrist Action (10-18-A) and actually Swivels his Hands and Forearms (a true rotation) from Release (8-9) into Impact. He then executes the "full roll" feel (2-G and 6-B-3-0) of Dual Horizontal Hinge Action (8-10 and 10-10-D) before Swiveling out of the Follow-Through (2-G and 8-11) and into the Finish (8-12). As a result, he will feel much more "Wristy" than had he used -- your words from the quote above-- "more or less a turn of the body into and past impact."

No doubt your descriptive phrase also meant that the rotating Body and the orbiting Arms (per 2-G) were responsible for the Rotation of the Hands, i.e., there was no actual, independent rotation of the Arms and Hands themselves. And that is correct. Through Practice, that correct Mechanic -- the substitution of a Hinge Action Feel (per the last paragraph of 2-G) from the Top through to the Finish for the "Two Swivels and a Hinge Action "previously described -- can be translated (per Chapter 3) into a"describable sensation" per 1-J, i.e., describable to and by the individual player.

Hitters, on the other hand, do not allow "the Club to do the work." In fact, the Hitters I know dearly love to control the situation!

"To heck with Centrifugal Force doing all this stuff for me; I want to do it myself!"

"You want to pull? By golly, I'll push!"

In fact, Hitting was Homer's preference:

"Both procedures are equally accurate," he told me, "but I just like to control all that flying around!" And if ever a "control"guy ever lived, it was Homer Kelley!

Now, if you choose to "control" -- and Swingers can do it, too, given the appropriate adjustments -- then you will be "Feeling" what you described as simply "turning the body into and past Impact." With that "Feel" (of the Pivot Motion turning back and through from Release through the Follow-Through, the Acquired Motion of 12-5-2), you will have substituted a Hinge Action of the Hands -- the Flat Left Wrist remaining Vertical to one of three desired Planes of Motion, i.e., Horizontal, Angled, or Vertical -- for their Swivel Motion.

As a result, it is not only possible that you will Feel "less Hands," it is probable. In fact, when I asked Larry Nelson how he got so good so quickly -- he broke 70 a year after he started playing at age 21-- he said, "I took my hands out of the swing." Now, this is Pure Golf Machine:

Per 2-M-3, "the Hands are strong, educated, adjustable Clamps attaching the Club to the Arms for control of the Clubface alignments. By themselves, they are actually able to drive the ball only a relatively short distance. Even the Wristcock is not properly an action of the Wrist muscles.So, the only absolutely essential muscular contribution of the Wrists is "holding on." [Italics mine.]

Okay, if the Hands aren't the Power (and they are not), then just what do they do? The answer is that they control the crucial geometric alignments of the Golf Stroke, that's what. And per Chapter 5, it is your job to educate them properly.

Each of the Three Zones (Body, Arms, and Hands per Chapter 9) has its respective assignment. Zone #1 provides Balance, On-Plane alignments, and the initial Thrust so necessary to the Power Components located in Zone #2. But it is Zone #3 -- the Hands -- that control the entire operation, not only the sequencing and alignment of the employed Pivot Components of Zone #1, but also the Accumulation, Loading, Storage, Delivery, and Release of Power in Zone #2.

And it is within their own Zone #3 that the Hands execute that ultimate simplification of The Golfing Machine, the Star System Triad:

The Three Imperatives controlling the Three Functions (Face, Head, and Shaft) through the Three Stations (Address, Top,and Finish).

Each of the Three Imperatives is monitored and controlled directly by The Hands:

1. The Clubface is controlled by the Flat Left Wrist executing its Hinge Motion (2-G, 7-10, and 10-10);

2. The Clubhead is controlled by the steady-as-she-goes drive of the #3 Clubhead Lag Pressure Point; and

3. The Clubshaft (or more accurately, the Sweetspot) is controlled by the Right Forearm tracing with the #3 Pressure Point the Straight Plane Line.

Thus, per Chapter 5-0, you must "Learn to Swing the Hands. Monitor the Hands...until the Hands no longer consciously Monitor the Clubhead or Body -- only themselves -- and automatically dictate total Component compliance with Delivery Path (6-E) and Delivery Line (2-J-3) requirements (7-23)."

Lets put it this way:

If you control your Hands, you control the Club.

If you control the Club, you control the Ball.

And if you control the Ball...

You control the Game.

airair 02-24-2011 07:03 PM
The Aiming Point
 
http://www.lynnblakegolf.com/forum/thread6046.html

Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoda
Quote:
Originally Posted by EdStraker

Yoda,

Should the golfer be looking at the aiming point, or the inside-aft quadrant of the ball when they swing?


Good question.

In The Golfing Machine, the Three Stations are the Address (8-01/2/3), the Top (8-6) and the Finish (8-12) The goal is to be as prepared as possible before Start-Up, as precise as possible through the Top and as smooth and complete as possible through Impact to the proper position at the Finish.

Note that Impact (8-10) does not enjoy the rank of a Station. It simply "gets in the way" of your Delivered Clubhead. And you use the Three Zones (Chapter 9) to train your Machine to operate without interference from either Club or Ball. In Zone #1 (Body / 9-1), for example, you learn your Pivot motion without the Arms and Club to avoid awkward "hitches." In Zones #2 (Arms / 9-2) and #3 (Hands / 9-3) you learn to make their Motions without a Ball to avoid Throwaway (4-D-1) and Steering(3-F-7-A). So, once you've established your Impact Fix alignments(2-J-1) -- this is where you nail that inside-aft quadrant! -- the Ball becomes irrelevant. It could be there. Or not be there. Practice Stroke (3-F-5-1) or for real (12-5-3).

Once you've determined your Fix alignments, the Aiming Point (6-E-2) replaces the Ball. You now direct the Lag Loading (7-19) of the #3 Pressure Point at the Aiming Point as if it were the Ball. This Aiming Point can only be determined by experience (Practice!) only. And you will need to learn how to direct your Thrust precisely at that point once you've learned where it is.

The way to do that is explained in 6-E-2-1. At the Top, you mentally construct a line from the first joint of your Right Forefinger (#3 Pressure Point /6-C-1-3) to the Aiming Point. This becomes your Delivery Path (10-23-A or10-23-C). Practicing in slow motion -- first without a Club; then with a Club but no Ball -- you let a careful Downstroke Pivot (On-Plane Right Shoulder /10-13-D) deliver the Lag Pressure Loading (7-19) strongly down the Straight Line Delivery Path (of the Hands). In real time, the Club is driven strongly downward, smashing through the Ball, through the Aiming Point to the Low Point to the Both Arms Straight Position (Follow-Through / 8-11) from which you Swivel into your Finish.

The big idea -- if you haven't noticed! -- is "Down." Straight Down through the Aiming Point. Straight Down to the Low Point of the Stroke. Only then, per 1-L 13/14/15, does the Club begin the Upward portion of its Orbit, and even then the Thrust continues Down Plane until the end of the Follow-Through (8-11).

Homer told me one time that very few golfers actually go all the way down. Almost all reach the Ball and begin their upward Motion before the Low Point is reached. "Even Tour players," he said.

"They almost all come up, and I'm really kind of surprised when I see them still take a divot."

I asked him for the name of a player who did go all the way down.

"Trevino", he said with a lowered voice and a growl.

"I like that guy. He hits a wedge, and you've got to help him get the club out of the ground!"

airair 02-24-2011 08:06 PM
Here we go again...
 
I've dug up a lot of old posts by Yoda. I think it is his great ability to convey TGM in an interesting and clarifying way that really stands out. But I can't help wondering - am I capable of using any of this on the course - can I even remember it? I guess it works best when you get guidance on spesific problematic areas where you are stuck or doing it wrong. But the cheer amount of detail and posts can appear overwhelming. It is easy to get lost... What else is new..:scratch: ?

Daryl 02-24-2011 10:42 PM
Air, you've found some of the greatest posts I've ever read. Thanks. :salut:

airair 02-24-2011 10:53 PM
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Originally Posted by Daryl (Post 82606)
Air, you've found some of the greatest posts I've ever read. Thanks. :salut:
You're welcome. I guess you are one who can make use of them - more than I can. It is inspirational to see what there is to be found of wisdom. I'll dig some more... :study:

airair 02-25-2011 07:02 AM
Three Musts
 
http://www.lynnblakegolf.com/forum/thread5966.html


Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoda
In my 1982 G.S.E.M. class with Homer, we did indeed discuss the Frozen Right Wrist. But since you weren't there, let's do a little work and go to the dictionary. First, per definition #7 in my Webster, the word frozen means "arbitrarily kept at a fixed position." And, since that Frozen Right Wrist is flying as the G.O.L.F.er executes his Motion (Basic, Aquired, or Total per 12-5), you are correct in that the word implies a 'holding' type motion.
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Originally Posted by Yoda
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Originally Posted by Phillygolf

The question that needs to be asked is, how does one 'hold' the bent right wrist and still have some type of hinge action other then vertical?

In other words, is he simply identifying an alignment versus what a player be trying to do? - this question is only regarding the right wrist.

I ask - when I use pure aiming point (assuming I am onplane) and I really drive the ball into the ground, I sustain lag. When I try to 'hold' the right wrist, bent, inert - hinge action is completely nil.

Thanks.

Patrick


Patrick,

The Right Forearm Flying Wedge demands a Bent, Level and Motionless Right Wrist. Its precision assembly and alignment with the Left Arm Flying Wedge is the basic structure of the Power Package and is mandatory during the entire Stroke (6-B-3-0-1).

The Hinge Action concept (2-G; 1-L #4) is one of the Flat Left Wrist controlling the Clubface alignment through Impact (8-10). Its identity and function are totally distint from that of the Right Forearm Flying Wedge andits Bent Right Wrist. The Flat Left Wrist replicates the controlling Hinge Action Motion by staying vertical to one of three Basic Planes, i.e., horizontal, angled, or vertical. In so doing, the #3 Power Accumulator (the angle formed between the Left Forearm and Club per 6-B-3-0) seeks to maintainits radial alignment with that Flat Left Wrist Hinge Action Motion. Thus, the Flat Left Wrist controls not only the alignment of the Clubface but also the Rhythm of the Stroke (6-B-3-0 and Glossary).

The Aiming Point concept is one of aiming Lag Pressure Thrust (6-E-2).It enables the player to deliver his Loaded Lag Pressure to a desired particular point on the Delivery Line, i.e., the Geometric Plane Line or its Visual Equivalents (2-J-3). Once again, its identity and function are distinct from both the Flat Left Wrist and the Bent Right Wrist.

So, every Stroke must include each of the elements of your question:

(1) A Basic Power Package Structure that includes the Bent Right Wrist and whose alignments are maintained throughout the Stroke;

(2) A Hinge Action Motion replicated by the Flat Left Wrist and its complementary #3 Accumulator alignment and Rhythm;

(3) An Aiming Point (which replaces the Ball) to control Thrust Direction.

Your challenge is to integrate each of these into your Basic Pattern (12-1-0 or12-1-1) through the Three Stage Basic Motion Curriculum (12-5-0/1/2/3) while at the same time preserving their separate identities.

In Geometric Golf, there is no substitute.
__________________
Yoda

airair 02-25-2011 07:44 AM
Underhand Pitch, Motion and Feel


http://www.lynnblakegolf.com/forum/thread5968.html
Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoda
Quote:
Originally Posted by DivotDelite

Hi:

I understand for swingers, the left wrist action controls the clubhead, and the left hands controls closing and opening of the clubface. With dual horizontal hinging 10-10-D and standard wrist action 10-18-A. the left wrist uncocks and rolls through impact, and the left hand hinges horizontally to close the clubface.

My question is what is the right forearm and wrist doing? I had always assumed that the right wrist was rolling to match what the left hand and forearm was doing. This is common instruction on websites and books.

A wrist throw trigger 10-20-E says "the Right Hand remains palm-up to the Plane during the Uncocking of the Left Wrist to produce a sequenced release per 2-G and 4-D-0." In order to keep the flying wedge assembly and to keep the left wrist flat and uncocking, and to keep the right wrist bent and the right palm face up to the plane, the wrist has to turn??

For the past year, my right wrist had been rolling through impact. Could never understand the underhand pitching motion that was described doing it that way. But if I turn my right wrist on the downstroke and through impact, then it feels like an underhand pitching motion. AM i completely off base? I couldn't find a section in the Yellow Book which describes what the right wrist is doing through release and impact except for one sentence in 10-20-E, but it was a bit vague.
dee

Thanks.

Your first three analytical paragraphs are absolutely correct. You have done your homework and are to be congratulated for being 'on the money.'

You have accurately described the pure Swinging Motion. It features a Turned Left Wrist on the Backstroke; a 'Karate Chop' Uncocking Left Wrist fom the Top; a Swiveling Left Wrist from Release into Impact; the Full Roll Feel of Left Hand Horizontal Hinge Action to the Follow-Through (Both Arms Straight); and finally, the Left Wrist Swivel into the Finish. The Left Wrist is The Lord of the Grip, and therefore, as you have correctly observed, the Righ tWrist is a complement to these Left Wrist Actions. See the Useful Combinations 5-A/B/C/D.

So, you don't feel "Underhand Pitch Motion and Feel' doing all that Turning, Cocking, On Plane Karate Chopping, Uncocking, Swiveling, Rolling and Swiveling again?? I bring glad tidings...

Who would?

Nobody!

The 'Underhand Pitch' part of the Pure Swing -- which concentrates on the Left Wrist Action described above -- just ain't there!

Unless, of course, you can somehow sense the Feel of the Full Roll of Horizontal Hinge Action -- which is a 'No Roll' Feel on its own Horizontal Plane -- as an Underhand Pitch. But I seriously doubt you or anyone else can, because the fact is that it Feels like a Full Roll on the Angled Plane of Motion.

So, where's the disconnect between what you are able to Feel and what Homer is describing in 2-N-0? Here's the key:

You must focus on your Right Forearm Flying Wedge (6-B-3-0-1). When you do, you will see that its On Plane Right Forearm and its Bent Right Wrist and its No. 3 Pressure Point and its Rigid Clubshaft Extension moves through Impact as a Paddlewheel (6-B-1-0). The straightening of the Right Elbow -- under the command of the Left Arm Checkrein Action -- powers, guides and regulates the No. 3 Accumulator (Left Forearm and Clubshaft Angle) and with it the Clubhead Closing through Impact.

Even though the Left Wrist precisely aligns the Swinger's Clubface for Horizontal Hinging, the Paddlewheel Action of the Right Forearm is there. Per 4-D-0, the Swinger concentrates on Wrist Action and the Hitter concentrates on Hand Action. If you want to sense Underhand Pitch, Motion and Feel, you must focus on Right Arm and Frozen Bent Right Wrist Paddlewheel Action, not the Swinger's Uncocking, Swiveling and Rolling Left Wrist Action.

Here's how to do that:

Get your Sand Wedge (or, better yet, a wooden dowel you can buy in any hardware store [48" X 1/4" diameter]). Grip it with your Right Hand only (in its normal position on the Shaft). Go to Fix. Body shifted Left and Pivot Zeroed out. Right Wrist Bent with Shaft leaning forward ('against the Ball'). Now, keeping your Right Wrist Bent, take the Club up with a Bending Right Elbow and Magical Right Forearm Takeaway (7-3). Go no further Back than Right Forearm Level to the ground (Acquired Motion 12-5-2). Better yet, stop at Basic Motion, two feet back per 12-5-1. Then, go through no further than knee high (12-5-1 or waist high (12-5-2).

Check your Right Wrist. It has Flattened, right? Well, it should not have! It should still be Bent! Do this one-arm drill over and over again until you can go from your initial Fix position Bent Right Wrist to the Top to the end of the Follow-Through with your Right Wrist still Bent. Hit the first fifty Balls in your next five practice sessions with just your Right Arm Flying Wedge. No more than about 20-25 yards. That's all! No Gold Stars for distance! Gold Stars for finishing with a Bent Right Wrist at the end of your Follow-Through (Both Arms Straight Position). In other words, per 4-D-1, you must learn to Straighten your Right Arm without Flattening your Right Wrist. Practice also with your dowel on the Horizontal Plane per my post last night ('Keeping You Busy') in the Five Steps To A Magical Right Forearm Flying Wedge thread. As you learn to do this, you will suddenly find that you Feel...

Right Arm Underhand Pitch, Motion and Feel.

Congratulations!

You are becoming a G.O.L.F.er!

airair 02-25-2011 08:19 AM
The Golfing Machine Waggles
 
http://www.lynnblakegolf.com/forum/thread5972.html

Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoda
Quote:
Originally Posted by rchang72

Been reading 3-F-5 and find myself in need of a lighthouse icon_redface.gif
From what I gather, the "practice stroke" is primarily to practice the pivot motion of the body, while not overly focusing on the arms or hands. Basically establish the plane line and your position relative to it.

"Forward press" sounds like fixating the clubhead/shaft relations at impact, i.e. flying wedges. Mostly hand and wrist positions

What I don't understand is what is the "start down" waggle and the "address" waggle. Is it like what Mike Weir does (start down) and what Ben Hogan explained (address)?

Most serious golfers are reasonably aware of the pre-Shot fundamentals of Grip,Stance and Posture. And even though these could almost always be improved, they are at least familiar. Similarly, golfers are keenly aware of the Address(Station 1), the Start Up and the Backstroke. That is because they spend a great deal of time on their 'move' to the Top (Station 2). Most practice the wrong things, of course -- "Start back with the Shoulder Turn and keep the Club low to the ground" comes immediately to mind -- but at least they are aware of what is going on. But, once they get to the Top, this studied awareness fades to black: The mind flashes Code Red, all Hell breaks loose --AAOOOGA! AAOOOGA! DIVE! DIVE! -- and they find themselves suddenly at the Finish (Station 3), usually asking the proverbial question: "What have I done?"

The problem here is that almost all golfers have at least some idea of what is going on in their Stroke from Address to the Top, but only a very few have any idea what is going on from the Top to the Finish. In The Golfing Machine, this is called Downstroke Blackout, and its cure is the Downstroke Waggle (3-F-5). Use it to practice your 'move' from the Top: Downplane through the Start-Down and Downstroke. Downplane through the Release and Impact. Downplane to the End of the Follow-Through (Both Arms Straight position) and even into the Finish. Move continuously -- up and back and down and out and up and back and down and out -- through these various sections of the Stroke, integrating and overlapping them as you do.

Through diligent practice, you will in time substitute precision motions and alignments for what is presently only a very fuzzy idea of what happens between Stations 2 and 3. Your Downstroke -- and remember, that includes the Follow-Through (only the Finish should be considered the Upstroke) -- will have been correctly programmed.

Regarding the Address Waggle, the Golfing Machine Waggle is not the 'Handsy' action you see when people attempt the 'Hogan' Waggle. This type of Waggle -- usually a fiery, Wristy move of the Clubhead away from and back to the Ball -- is almost always accomplished by Bending and Flattening the Right Wrist, Cocking and Uncocking the Left Wrist, and holding the Arms relatively motionless. In contrast, the Golfing Machine Waggle is an Arms Waggle-- the Right Arm Bending and Straightening and the Left Arm Swinging from a Motionless Left Shoulder -- with the Right Wrist Frozen in its Bent, Level and Vertical Impact Alignment and the Left Wrist Locked in its Flat, Level and Vertical Impact Alignment. And always over the top of the Ball.

Use the Golfing Machine Waggle to rehearse the Bending of your Right Arm in the On Plane Right Forearm Flying Wedge Start Up. Feel the Extensor Action of your Right Triceps and the accompanying Checkrein Action of your Left Arm as you move up, back and in On Plane and down, out and forward On Plane. Feel the Lag Load against the #3 Pressure Point at the Top of the Waggle. Feel its Drive through the Impact Interval. Feel the Straightening of your Right Arm and watch its actuation of the #3 Accumulator Roll. Watch the Clubhead Blur over the Inside-Aft Quadrant of the Ball as you execute the proper Left Hand Hinge Action and Rhythm. Make sure you take your Waggle to the end of the Follow-Through, the Both Arms Straight position, even for a two-inch Putt. Through it all, maintain the Impact Alignments of your Left and Right Wrists and Trace the Straight Plane Line with your Right Forearm and #3 Pressure Point.

If it sounds like there’s a whole lot going on in this Waggling business,you’re right. Quoting Homer:

“You’re a very busy guy!”

But don't worry, once you've consciously Translated the correct Mechanics into reliable subconscious Feels (1-J and 3-B), simply go through your Routine before each Shot. It takes just seconds, and the only time you will be interrupted is when it doesn't 'Feel' right. Something is mechanically not as it should be. Your Early Warning Waggle System has done its job, and you have been alerted in time to save the Shot.

Program your Impact Alignments at Impact Fix (8-2). Practice your Waggles at Address (8-3). Use your entire Pre-shot Routine (3-F-5) to help you be as prepared as possible before Start Up, as precise as possible to the Top, and as smooth and complete as possible through Impact to the proper position at the Finish. With a disciplined Pre-Shot Routine, you'll seldom need a 'do-over:'

You nailed it the first time.

airair 02-25-2011 10:12 AM
Raving Fans
 
http://www.lynnblakegolf.com/forum/thread5986.html



Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoda

At the end of the day, the question that really needs to be asked is:

Given the Patterns that Homer has provided us, the product of more that forty years of scientific research and experimentation, why would we just not take the Patterns as provided and then customize only as necessary? And for the most part, those customizations will only be to meet the specialized need of the Shot at hand, e.g., a Putt versus a Drive.
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Originally Posted by Yoda
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Originally Posted by tgmgolfer2k2

People aren't big fans of this. You aren't supposed to fit in the molds of the two basic patterns given in 12-1-0 and 12-2-0. As Chuck would say, you're supposedly to build your own, not follow someone else's. The patterns given in 12-1-0 and 12-2-0 may or may not be ideal.

A quick question about the Swinger's "pulling" you mentioned - can the Swinger, from the top, just drive their right shoulder into PP4...hang on...and turn through it? Is that a viable feel option? [All Yoda's Bold.]


1. People should be 'big fans of this.' If they think they can do better, particularly at less than the truly expert stage, I categorically state that they are wrong.

2. The Stroke Patterns of 12-1-0 and 12-2-0 are ideal. Any deviation from them will result in a loss of power or accuracy or both. With the possible exception of making the Power Package Release Automatic -- which is what the Tour Players spend most of their waking lives trying to get right -- and also, adding the No. 4 Power Accumulator to the Hitter's Component No. 4 (Stroke --Variation) to produce a Four Barrel Stroke (10-4-D), the player should accept them for genius they represent. The wheel has been invented already. Use it!

3. The Right Shoulder Turn Thrust (6-B-4-A and 10-13-D) in the Start Down (8-7) is a key move for both Swingers and Hitters. And it should be mastered -- programmed -- consciously. At the programming stage, I wouldn't think so much of driving the Right Shoulder "into the No. 4 Pressure Point," as I would driving the Right Shoulder straight against the Ball. When you do this you will Feel your Left Arm Load -- weld! -- against the No. 4 Pressure Point (6-C-1-#4) and the Lag Pressure Load -- weld! -- against your sensitive Right Forefinger No. 3 Pressure Point (6-C-1-#3). Having first Loaded the Power Package, your Right Shoulder now has the second of its "dual" functions to perform, namely, Transporting the Loaded Power Package Down Plane for Release -- Sequenced (Swingers) or Simultaneus (Hitters) per 4-D-0.

So, from the Top, Swingers should Load, then let'er rip! "Blast" the Left Arm toward Impact (2-M-4). Hitters, once that Right Arm has been accelerated, should start Driving it -- with its priceless Bent Right Wrist -- through Impact. And don't Quit, because Mother Nature -- Centrifugal Force -- ain't around to help you out. You must keep driving...or else be prepared to watch your Shot fall a Club of two short of your target.

As soon as the Mechanic of the Right Shoulder Thrust has been identified and reduced to its Feel Equivalent (1-J) and fully integrated into your Total Motion (3-B), be sure to turn the whole operation over to your Hands. It is they that must trace the correct Stroke Geometry through the Three Stations -- Address, Top and Finish.

Continuing to focus on the Right Shoulder once its correct Action has been properly programmed leads to Pivot Controlled Hands, the antithesis of The Golfing Machine's Hand Controlled Pivot.

airair 02-25-2011 03:26 PM
Open Door Policy
 
http://www.lynnblakegolf.com/forum/thread5916.html

Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoda
Quote:
Originally Posted by rchang72

Please tell me if I'm stuck on a reef in the fog. From what I understand, at impact, the sweetspot of the clubface must be slightly inside of the target line and pointing right of the target line in order that the clubface be square to target at separation and for the sweetspot be along the target line at separation (2-C-1 #3). For the hitter, the angle of approach is used; for the swinger the arc of approach. Both the swinger and the hitter impact the ball at the same location, but from different paths. So at impact fix, the clubface is slightly open and the ball is towards the toe.

How does one find that location on the ball? and also how open should the clubface be?


Your on the right track, rchang72. You're learning your lessons well!

Looking down at the Ball, visualize cross-hairs through it directly down and across the Target Line. Assuming the Target is North, the Inside-Aft Quadrant is the Southwest Quadrant.

Regarding the Open Clubface alignment at Fix, try this experiment to help you understand why Horizontal Hinging demands it and approximately how much is required:

Grip the Club with your Left Wrist Flat and Vertical. Then raise your arm directly in front of your Left Shoulder and parallel to the ground. Verify that the toe of the Club is pointing directly at the sky. If it is not, adjust it until it does. Now swing your arm in front of you (like a hinged gate) until it is directly over the back of the Ball (positioned for Straight away Flight).Finally, without changing your Flat and Vertical Left Wrist in the slightest, lower your arm until the Clubface is soled behind the Ball. You will find that it is slightly open.

The idea is that with Horizontal Hinging, the Clubface is always Closing through Impact, and that Motion must be accommodated in the Impact Fix Alignment. For the 'light' Shots -- Putts and short Chips -- the Impact Interval is so short that very little Clubface adjustment is required. In other words, the Ball does not stay on the Clubface long enough for the Closing Motion to affect it. So, on Short Shots -- for all Hinge Actions -- a Square Clubface at Fix is all that is required. [This information is not 'in the book' but was taken directly from Homer's recorded discussion of this point.]

However, the opposite is true for the extended Impact Interval of longer shots. For Horizontal Hinging, the Clubface has longer to Close, and it must therefore be aligned more and more Open as the shots get longer. For Angled Hinging, the Clubface should be aligned more and more Closed to compensate for the inherent Slice tendency.

The degree of Clubface 'Open' or 'Close' will vary for each Club and length of Shot. And this can only be determined through experimentation. As a guide to this trial and error process, Homer offered this advice:

1. Horizontal Hinging -- "Toward the Open side"

2. Angled Hinging -- "Toward the Closed side"

3. Vertical Hinging -- "Always Square."

airair 02-25-2011 03:47 PM
Picture Perfect
 
http://www.lynnblakegolf.com/forum/thread5918.html

Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoda
Quote:
Originally Posted by Martee

Here are my pics:


Horizontal Hinge Action
Horizontal Plane of Motion
Hinge Pin Vertical (Perpendicular) to the Horizontal Plane


Vertical Hinge Action
Vertical Plane of Motion
Hinge Pin Vertical (Perpendicular) to the Vertical Plane



Angled Hinge Action
Angled Plane of Motion
Hinge Pin Vertical (Perpendicular) to an Angled Plane

Okay, Martee. Terrific pictures! I've edited the captions in your Quote above and they are now "picture perfect!" They will help everybody a lot.

Now, in your PM, your thought was that the vertical hinge action (#2 photo) requires a Horizontal pin. And I can clearly see where you are coming from: The pin is aligned horizontally if you view it only in relation to itself. Clearly, the pin is horizontal.

But...here's the key:

We're not looking at it that way! We're looking at the pin in relation to its associated Plane of Motion. In this case, that is the vertical plane of motion. And relative to that plane, the pin is vertical, or to use your very good word, perpendicular, to the vertical plane of motion. [As a matter of fact, 'perpendicular is so good that I'm going to edit my post to use it instead of the 'at right angles' to. Same thing, of course, but better said.]

So, no matter which of the Three Basic Planes of Motion is illustrated, the hinge pin is always vertical to its associated plane:

-- Vertical to the horizontal plane;

-- Vertical to the vertical plane;

-- Vertical to the angled plane.


The pin is never horizontal to any one of the three planes. It is always vertical! All you do to achieve any one of the three basic planes of motion is to mount the hinge pin vertical to the plane of motion desired.

Do you see it now? This is a really important point because pretty soon we'll be learning to use our Flat Left Wrist to duplicate the motion of a hinge by keeping it vertical to one of these three basic planes.

Thanks again for the pictures. They're great.

We're on the right track now!

airair 02-25-2011 11:06 PM
The Missing Link
 
http://www.lynnblakegolf.com/forum/thread5934.html

Okay,so I finally get in tonight, and I've got to tell you, the above posts just'kill me!' So close and yet so far!

The simple truth is that we swing according to our concepts, and unfortunately, most of our concepts -- courtesy of the Golf World -- are wrong! Why do you think there are so many poor players? More to the point, why are there so many truly dedicated players who have 'hit the wall?' No matter what they 'do' or what they 'know,' they just can't make any real progress!

The core concepts of The Golfing Machine are simple once understood. You know their names: Stroke Geometry. Centrifugal Force. Lag Pressure Point. Hinge Action. Plane Line Tracing. Flying Wedges. Hitting -- Axe Handle! Swinging -- Rope Handle! Maybe you even know what they mean! But knowing what to do, and then actually doing it, are two totally different things!

Said Pogo:

"We have seen the enemy. And it is us!"

The Golf Stroke is all about inscribing near-perfect Circles with the orbiting Clubhead on the face of an Inclined Plane-- while simultaneously Sustaining Lag Pressure on the Clubshaft and controlling the Clubface through Impact.

You may read that last sentence again. You might even want to write it down and memorize it.

There are easier things in life! Still, there is little I couldn't show a reasonably coordinated ten-year old in a very short period of time. Especially if I didn't have to get him out of a ton of very expensively educated Bad Habits. And by the way, that is all most Golf 'Swings' really are anyway: An amalgamation of Bad Habits that daily execute their own ignorance.

It takes me an hour to write a simple prescription that I could show you in two minutes. And even then, there is so much more I want to say. I want to scream:

"Can you guys just all come over to my house for a couple of hours? I'll show you The Big Deals -- what really needs to be done -- and we'll talk about it. Soon, it will all come together and makesense. Or at least enough to keep you busy for awhile."

But obviously, that's not in the cards.

So, what to do?

For me, this weekend will involve some reasonably seriousphoto shoots. You just have to have it. It is too hard without it -- for both of us -- and too simple with it. And maybe some video. That's what we really need. I don't know the capabilities of the website technology or your ownhardware/software configuration. But the Big Deal is that you need to watch me do these things. Once you see them demonstrated, you are that much closer to being able to Translate these precision G.O.L.F. Mechanics into your own G.O.L.F. Feel System. Simple as that.

Or maybe the answer is just a 'homespun' no-frills video and you guys cover my costs. I don't care.

All I know is that it is driving me nuts that I know what you need to know and need to do and you don't. And something -- namely, my time and the current medium -- is big-time in the way.

There is an answer. I'm looking...and I would appreciateit if you would post your suggestions. Thanks.
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I guess the link is found - and not missing any more - since this was written.

airair 02-26-2011 06:55 AM
Hinge action -- A Primer
 
http://www.lynnblakegolf.com/forum/thread5888.html

My first contact with Homer Kelley was by telephone in the summer of 1981. And the reason for that contact was simple: I had begun studying The Book, and there was no way I could figure out what that woman in 10-10 was doing with all that armor on her arm and shoulder! Well, by the grace of God and with Homer's help, I finally got it.

Unfortunately, present day Seekers do not have the advantage I did. And that is why I am now posting on this site. I suspect that many of you "out there" are in the same predicament now as I was"way back then." If that is the case, then this is your chance!

Don't hold back because you are new to The Golfing Machine, or because you are not yet comfortable with "the lingo, "or because you spend your site time merely lurking about, trying to make sense of it all. Get involved! As Homer would say, "Fly at it!" You can't believe how ignorant I was at one time with this stuff! Homer had me -- by telephone mind you -- Pivoting my body first to the right and then to the left; moving my Arm first North, then South; all the while keeping my Flat Left Wrist vertical first to "this" Plane and then to that one. After 45 minutes or so, we mutually decided that maybe we should just give it a rest and try again later!

The Hinge Action is one the Three Imperatives and is responsible for the Clubface Alignment through Impact. Pretty important, wouldn't you say? You need to understand this upside down, backwards and forwards, and inside out. When that's done, we can move on to something else. [For example, the Clubhead Lag, which I've found almost nobody truly understands. They think they do, but they don't. But that will be a separate thread.]

So, once and for all, let's clear The Fog on this subject. I'll soon write a reasonably definitive post, and to help me do this, I want you to tell me, by posting on this thread what questions you have about Hinge Action that you want answered. All I ask is that you write cleanly and neatly and be definitive in your questions. I don't want to have to decipher your posts.

After I get a handle on the "Fog Level," I'll write my piece and we'll go from there.

All ahead 1/3, this starship is leaving the station!

airair 02-26-2011 08:53 AM
Hinge Pin Locations And Functions
 
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FeverPowerful wrote:

Yoda,

I think you have said that when actually making a golf swing, the hinge is actually in the left hand, not in the left shoulder.

Where is the second pin located, that changes things from Horizontal Hinging or Vertical Hinging, to Dual Horizontal or Vertical Hinging, respectively?

Is the second pin just the left shoulder at our bent-over address position?

......

There is no hinge pin in the Left Wrist for Clubface control per 2-G. There is a hinge pin in the Left Wrist for Clubhead velocity control per 2-K.


What I said about the Left Wrist and Hinge Action is that, while the Hinge and its Pin are located in the Left Shoulder, the player's control is in the Motion that his Flat Left Wrist makes through Impact and the Follow-Through. Here the educated Flat Left Wrist reproduces the desired Clubface Motion --Close Only, Lay Back Only or Simultaneously Close and Lay Back -- by remaining Vertical to the Associated Plane of Motion.

The second pin you mention -- the one that attaches the 'Shaft' of the model Club to the Hinge in the Hinge Apparatus you built -- is there solely for the purpose of lowering the Clubshaft onto the Inclined Plane and then maintaining it there throughout the Impact Interval. Hence, it should be considered a secondary hinge controlling the Clubshaft and not the Primary Hinge controlling the Clubface.

This Pin can also be visualized at the Shoulder as illustrated in the two pictures (10-10-D and 10-10-E) on page 167 (6th edition). Note the double-headed arrow located on the Left Forearm in each illustration. The arrowheads indicate the Vertical motion of the Arm that allows it to lower from the Shoulder and thus postion the Clubshaft On Plane.

Also note that it is the large middle "dot" in the middle of the blade of the Primary Hinge that attaches the Angled Hinge and permits its Vertical motion toward the Plane. That "dot" is a vertical (to a wall) pin that permits the Angled Hinge (the Left Arm and Clubshaft) to belowered vertically to the Angled Plane.

The other two dots on the blades of both the 10-10-D and 10-10-E hinges are somewhat misleading as they are not 'fixed' and hence they do not restrict the Vertical motion of the Angled Hinge. This is in contrast to the three small dots on the blade of the two Hinges of 10-10-A/B that are 'fixed'and that therefore do not permit the Vertical motion of the secondary Angled Hinge that is necessary to produce the On Plane Clubshaft of the Dual Horizontal and Dual Vertical Hinges. Note that the pins are similarly fixed' in the Angled Hinge of 10-10-C. However, the Clubshaft is positioned On Plane none the less because the Angled Hinge Pin itself is positioned Vertically to the Angled Plane.

I know this must sound very confusing, but it just can't be written any clearer than I have done it. We'll be covering these ideas in the thread, and as your understanding evolves, come back to this post and try again.

I plan on getting Lesson Four posted tomorrow, and we should move along pretty quickly from there.

airair 02-26-2011 09:50 AM
I'm Vertical To What
 
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Phillygolf wrote:

. I looked through 2 dictionaries and an online dictionary to confirm my original understanding. Their definition isnt what Homers was, or the one you posted.

However, that being the case, in my little yellow book, there is a definition that is readily availably for us to use, as you stated. And I suggest we use that (as you also stated). In fact, I now suggest that EVERYONE use glossary definitions before consulting with the dictionary - why? Because dictionary definitions are revised over time, and apparantly, the definition Homer used has fallen off the dictionary I have (and no less then 2 others, since they pm'd me saying my definition was exactly what they had).

-Patrick

....

Thanks for the post, Patrick. All this adds to our understanding, and that is The Big Deal.

All I can say is that I had great geometry classes in high school and am a Ramblin' Wreck from you know where, so this whole concept of being 'vertical to any plane' is as natural as breathing to me. [It does get more complicated when you are learning to execute each of the Three Planes of Motion on one Inclined Plane, but that is for this next week or two!]

Still, if you shoot an arrow directly into a book, and then turn the book horizontal to the ground, the arrow is vertical to the book. It you tilt the book at an angle, the arrow is still vertical to the book. If you position the book vertical, the arrow is still vertical to the book. Once you understand that we are talking about vertical to the book, then the meaning is clear. We are not talking about vertical in relation to anything else, just the book!

In fact, until I saw Martee's pictures with the now infamous "horizontal" hinge pin perpendicular to the vertical plane, I could not fathom where the conflict in perception was. But when I did, it helped me immensely to understand why ALMOST NOBODY I HAVE MET IN THE PAST 20 YEARS, INSIDE OR OUTSIDE OF THE GOLFING MACHINE REALLY UNDERSTANDS THE HINGE ACTION CONCEPT. And yet, it is one of most important concepts in the Game. Again, with it, you learn the Scientific, Mechanical, and Feel basis to control the Clubface for the rest or your life. How important is that?

As far as dictionary defintions go, remember folks, Homer never just stopped at the first one. His position was that as long as ONE definition fit the criteria he needed to define his concept, that was good enough. I remember him saying:

"If there were seven definitions, and if number seven worked, that was good enough for me!'

So, in your research -- and, make no mistake, it is research -- look at all the definitions and then choose the one you feel fits best.

In this case, at least in my Webster (New World, 2nd College Edition), it is the 2 (b) definition. Now Yoda is no spring whatever -he - is, and this one is copyrighted 1970, so maybe things have changed. But I don't think so! Certainly, either the first or second definitions in www.Dictionary.com work. But for us, even if the definition has changed, it makes no difference. Because Vertical to the Three Planes of Motion is what it is all about in The Golfing Machine and The First Imperative. If you can't get this, you can never get The Golfing Machine. Never in a million years. It's as simple as that.

Now, this really isn't difficult. If I install a hinge (with its pin vertical)into a book and then turn the book every which a way, I haven't changed either the pin or the action of the hinge. All I have changed is the plane of motion. And applied to G.O.L.F., this concept will allow you to reproduce each of the Three Basic Planes of motion with your Clubface, while remaining on the same Inclined Plane of Motion. And that...Junior Jedi..is exactly what we're going to educate your Flat Left Wrist to do in the coming days.

Meanwhile, please don't tell all those people living on the Equator of this great round globe we call Earth -- who think they are vertical to a Horizontal Plane -- that they are really vertical to a vertical plane! Let's hear it for gravity!

Now, that's a small wrench of the concepts, isn't it!

airair 02-26-2011 10:27 AM
Lesson One
 
http://www.lynnblakegolf.com/forum/thread5903.html

Okay,everybody, here we go!

I'm going to put these first lessons out in a 'bite-sized' format so you can get started immediately. While you're fiddling around with Hinges 'n Things, I can be writing the next lesson in the series.

First, get your T-Hinge (only). Leave everything else wherever it is. [Doug, you can take your stuff off the kitchen table if you need to ease the pressure!]

Notice that the hinge has three parts. From left to right we have:

(1) The hinge mount;

(2) The hinge pin; and

(3) The hinge blade.

Now, holding the hinge at about chest level, grasp the mount of the hinge with the thumb and four fingers of your left hand and the blade in your thumb and forefinger of your right. Got it? See, I told you this wouldn't be hard!

Now lets learn how the hinge works. Hold the hinge with its pin mounted vertically (at a right angle) to a horizontal plane --let's use the floor or a table top as a guide! -- and using your right hand, rotate the blade about its hinge. Back and forth and back and forth. Take the blade to its limit in both directions. Physically position the pin vertically to a horizontal surface, e.g., a table top or desk, if that helps. The blade is making the same horizontal motion as that made by a swinging door,right?

Notice three things:

(1) The blade always moves in a perfect circle around its pin;

(2) The blade always rotates at right angles (perpendicular) to its pin; and therefore...

(3) The blade is always vertical to its Plane of Rotation.

Holding the mount stationary, move the blade in a straight line. Trick instruction! Can't happen, right? Bummer!

Now try to move the blade in any way other than at right angles to its pin. Can't do that either, can you?

Now try to position the blade any way other than vertical to its plane of rotation. Sorry!

So, we now know how a hinge works when its pin is mounted vertical (perpendicular) to a horizontal plane (in our example reference, the floor or a table top).

Now let's see how a hinge works when we mount its pinvertical (perpendicular) to a vertical plane (for example, a wall). Still holding the mount and the blade as described, position the pin vertical to avertical plane. Physically put the pin vertical to the vertical physical surface of a wall if that helps.

Anyway, you now holding the hinge in such a way that it spin is no longer vertical to the horizontal plane (the floor) but is now vertical (perpendicular) to a vertical plane (a wall).

Now rotate the blade about the pin. Back and forth and back and forth. It is the same vertical motion a child makes on a swingset, right?

Notice three things:

(1) The blade always moves in a perfect circle around its pin;

(2) The blade always rotates at right angles (perpendicular) to its pin; and therefore...

(3) The blade is always vertical to its plane of rotation.

Holding the mount stationary, move the blade in astraight line. Trick instruction! Can't happen, right? Bummer!

Now try to move the blade in any way other than at right angles to its pin. Can't do that either, can you?

Now try to position the blade any way other than vertical to its plane of rotation. Sorry!

Does any of this sound familiar!

So, we now know how a hinge works when its pin is mounted vertically to a vertical plane (in our example reference, a wall).

Now let's see how a hinge works when we mount its pin vertical (perpendicular) to an angled plane (for example, a pitched roof or aloading ramp, but it could be any plane between horizontal (the floor) and vertical (a wall). You see, there is only one horizontal plane, and there is only one vertical plane. But...there are an infinite number of angled planes! For purposes of our experiment, choose the angle you like the best!

Still holding the mount and the blade as described, position the pin vertically to the angled plane of your choice. [Let the jury note that Yoda is not a The Way angled hinge rotator.] Physically put the pin vertical to some physical angled plane if that helps. For example, I just propped my thin yellow book The Golfing Machine up against my thick red dictionary. Looks like a yellow loading ramp and makes a very nice angled plane indeed. And I just positioned the pin of my hinge vertical to the little yellow book and can see clearly that the pin is vertical to an angled plane.

So, you now holding the hinge in such a way that its pin is no longer vertical to the horizontal plane (the floor) nor is it vertical to a vertical plane (a wall). Instead, the pin is vertical to an angled plane .

Now let's see how a hinge works when we mount its pin vertical (perpendicular) to an angled plane (for example, a pitched roof or a yellow book propped on a dictionary). Still holding the mount and the blade as described, position the pin vertical to the angled plane. Physically put the pin vertical to an angled plane surface if that helps. You are now holding the hinge in such a way that its pin is no longer vertical to the horizontal plane(the floor) and no longer vertical to a vertical plane (a wall). The pin is now vertical to an angled plane.

Now rotate the blade about the pin. Back and forth andback and forth. It is the same angled motion a paddle wheel would make if it were tilted from its normal vertical position, right?

Notice three things:

(1) The blade always moves in a perfect circle around its pin;

(2) The blade always rotates at right angles (perpendicular) to its pin; and therefore...

(3) The blade is always vertical to its Plane of Rotation.

Holding the mount stationary, move the blade in a straight line. Trick instruction! Can't happen, right? Bummer!

Now try to move the blade in any way other than at right angles to its pin. Can't do that either, can you?

Now try to position the blade any way other than vertical to its Plane of Rotation. Sorry!

Does any of this sound familiar!

So, now we know how a hinge works when:

(1) Its pin is mounted vertical (perpendicular) to a horizontal plane (the floor or table top);

(2) Its pin is mounted vertical (perpendicular) to a vertical plane (a wall); and

(3) Its pin is mounted vertical (perpendicular) to an angled plane (a pitched roof or ramp).

In other words, we have learned that "the blade of a hinge is always vertical to its Plane of Rotation" (Glossary /Hinge), no matter which of the Three Planes of Motion that happens to be.

Whew, this has been hard work!

airair 02-26-2011 10:55 AM
Lesson One Homework
 
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Lesson One Homework Assignment:

(1) For the term Hinge Action, get a pen and paper and write thefollowing example and mechanical definition FIVE times.

Hinge Action

The blade of a hinge is always vertical to its Plane of Rotation.

Example: All types of swinging doors.



(2) Verbalize the term, its example and definition from memory.

(3) If you can do this, you're done. If not...

(4) Keep trying until you can.



Reference: The Golfing Machine (6th edition), the Glossary, page 235.

airair 02-26-2011 11:05 AM
Lesson Two Horizontal Hinge Action
 
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Allright, guys. Mrs. Yoda has just informed me that we have dinner reservations with friends in thirty minutes. After a moment or two of questioning her priorities -- and her mine -- I have decided to pen this short note to get you started. I'll get back ASAP.

Hats off to Martee for providing the photographs in this post. He's done another excellent job and is contributing mightily to this study. Thank you, Martee!

Okay, get all your 'other' hinge stuff -- Doug, do you remember where you put yours? -- and let's get started. Here's what we'redoing.

First, we will assemble your 'model' Club. That is what the mending plates are for. Now, as you'll see in the picture below, Martee has some world-class plates. My own are a fraction of that size -- not quite an inch in width. So, if your's don't look like his, you are not alone!

Actually, other than being a bit less portable -- I like to keep mine in my Golf Bag for the 911 calls I get on the range -- they're great for our purposes. A nice big fat model Club. No missing this one and thePlane of Motion it will describe!

So, put your two mending plates together using your thumbscrews or wing nuts. Use the washers, too, because in Lesson Three, we're going to be adjusting the assembly some what, and we need to be able to stabilize the assembly in any configuration. Once you've got the two pieces bolted together, hold the 'Clubface' level to the ground and angle the "Shaft" somewhat to fit the Inclined Plane of your choice.

Once you built your model 'Club,' attach it to the Horizontal Hinge as shown in the photo. Use your thumb screw or wing nut for anice firm attachment. Once in this configuration, there should be no 'wobble' in the assembly.

Okay...get to work, and make yours look like this:


Now, keeping the integrity of the Horizontal Hinge and its Horizontal Plane of Motion -- in other words, keeping the Horizontal Hinge Pin VERTICAL to the ground...

Just mess with it.

Swing the little 'Club' back and forth from its Horizontal Hinge. Watch it move in a circle. Most of all...

WATCH THE CLUBFACE OPEN AND CLOSE.

No actual "Turning or Rolling" of anything, just the pure rotation of a Blade about its Hinge. And because the Clubface is now attached to the Hinge, it describes the same motion. The Clubface merely Opens and Closes. It does not lay back! Not in the slightest. And it won't. Why?

Because it is attached to the blade of a Horizontal Hinge. And a Horizontal Hinge blade stays vertical (perpendicular) to its own Plane of Rotation.

"I'm coming! Be right there! I know we're late! I've got responsibilities, for cryin' out loud!"

Gotta run. I'll post homework when I get back. See you soon.

airair 02-26-2011 11:09 AM
Lesson two Homework
 
http://www.lynnblakegolf.com/forum/thread5906.html

rangerover wrote:

Yoda,
You are "the Man"!!!!! I don't think i've never seen or met someone
that can explain the planes of motion like you can and i had geometry
classes myself. Keep up the good work.

rangerover

...

Thanks, Rangerover,

You asked for it! Tonight we're going to learn about Vertical Hinging and Clubface Layback.

For now, though, here is a mini-homework assignment for Lesson Two:

1. Write the following sentence five times. Then, repeat it from memory:

1-L #4 -- The Hinge Assembly controls the Clubface alignment.

2. Repeat Lesson One's term, example and definition from memory:

Hinge Action

The blade of a hinge is always vertical to its Plane of Rotation.

Example: All kinds of swinging doors.

That's it. Do it now!

airair 02-26-2011 01:37 PM
Lesson Three Beyond The Horizontal
 
http://www.lynnblakegolf.com/forum/thread5904.html


First, another Golfing Machine 'Hats off!' to Martee for his fine photos. Working only with Yoda's fax doodlings and telephone descriptions, he is making it possible for us to all be on the same page. Thank you, Martee!

Now down to business:

The Clubface can make only three motions through Impact -- Hood, Close and Layback (2-G). Hooding the Clubface means to reduce its normal loft angle, and since that effect can be achieved merely by selecting a lower Club number -- a six iron, for example, instead of a seven --it normally has limited usefulness. Except, of course for 'bragging rights' in the Men's Grill about that (Hooded) eight iron you muscled 170 yards into the 18th, instead of smoothing a six (with its true loft). Or, for true usefulness, to produce an above center Impact with the Putter and thus produce an Overspin (2-C-4 #2) as opposed to a No Spin (2-C-4 #1) or a Backspin(2-C-4 #3).

That leaves us with the two basic Clubface motions of Close Only and Layback Only. We have already discussed the Close Only motion that is produced by the Horizontal Hinge with its hinge pin and blade positioned vertical to the horizontal plane. Now we will discuss the Layback Only Motion of the Vertical Hinge.


The Vertical Hinge

Clubface Layback is produced when you position the hinge pin vertical to any plane other than the Horizontal. However, there is only one Plane of Motion in which there is only Layback, i.e., zero Closing. And that Plane of Motion is the Vertical Plane. To produce that purely Vertical Motion, you need only to install the pin vertical to the Vertical Plane. Then, the Hinge Blade and its Motion will remain Vertical to the Vertical Plane.

Just as there is only one Horizontal Hinge -- hey, we're getting pretty comfortable with the terminology here, aren't we! -- there is only one Vertical Hinge. As illustrated below, this Hinge produces an unmistakable 'Layback Only' Motion of the Clubface. Just as the Horizontal Hinge had zero Layback, the Vertical Hinge has zero Closing. Position the pin of your hinge apparatus vertical to a Vertical Plane and watch the Clubface only Lay Back as you rotate your model Club through 'Impact.'


Vertical Hinge Assembly
Hinge Pin Vertical to a Vertical Plane


Vertical Hinge
Top


Vertical Hinge
Impact Motion: Square to Square


Vertical Hinge
Follow-Through

The Angled Hinge

The Angled Hinge has its pin positioned vertical to any Plane lying between the two absolutes of the Horizontal and the Vertical. Therefore, it can be considered a hybrid whose Motion reflects the characteristics of both the Horizontal and the Vertical Hinge Motions, i.e., a composite Motion of simultaneous Close and Layback. Position the pin of your hinge apparatus vertical to an Angled Plane, and watch the Clubface simultaneously 'Close and Lay Back' as you rotate your model club through 'Impact.'


Angled Hinge Assembly
Hinge Pin Vertical to an Angled Plane


Angled Hinge
Top


Angled Hinge
Impact Motion: Simultaneous 'Close and Layback'


Angled Hinge
Follow-Through

One Motion on Three Planes

Now that we've got a handle on the Three Types of Hinge Action and the Motion each produces, let us reflect a bit.

No matter which Plane defines the Motion, the Action of the Hinge -- the Hinge Action -- remains identical. Recall from Lesson One:

1. The Hinge Pin is Vertical to the PlaneSurface.
2. The Blade moves in a circle around its Pin.
3. The Blade remains Vertical to its Plane of Motion.


So, the only thing that differentiates one Hinge Action from another is the Plane of Motion.

Read that sentence again.

Thank you.

And, we now know that we control that Plane of Motion by positioning the Hinge Pin vertical to one of Three Basic Planes. In so doing, we automatically produce a corresponding Clubface Motion:

1. Horizontal Hinge and Plane of Motion(Closing Clubface Only).
2. Vertical Hinge and Plane of Motion (Laying Back Clubface Only).
3. Angled Hinge and Plane of Motion (Simultaneous Closing and Laying Back Clubface).


You now know the scientific and mechanical basis of precision Clubface Impact Alignments. The concepts you have learned do not exist outside the privileged world that is The Golfing Machine. And because you now know the precise mechanics, it will be possible to Translate them into describable sensations (1-J) -- Feels that are describable to and by the individual player. And that player, my friend … is You!

Our next step is to learn how to use your Flat and Vertical Left Wrist to replicate the Mechanical Motion of each of the Three Hinge Actions.

The goal is to convert our carefully developed G.O.L.F. Engineering System into your eagerly awaiting G.O.L.F. Feel System. When that happens, you will have gained total control of the Clubface for the rest of your life.

See you next time.


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I see the pictures don't show up. Maybe they can be put in there by adm.?

airair 02-26-2011 01:43 PM
Lesson Three Homework
 
http://www.lynnblakegolf.com/forum/thread5905.html

Lesson Three Homework:

1. Write the following sentence five times. Then, repeat it from memory:

1-L #8 -- No portion of the Lever Assembly can swing forward independently.



2. Repeat the Lesson Two Assignment five times from memory:

1-L #4 -- The Hinge Assembly controls the Clubface alignment.



2. Repeat Lesson One's term, definition and example five times from memory:

Hinge Action

The blade of a hinge is always vertical to its Plane of Rotation.

Example: All kinds of swinging doors.

airair 02-26-2011 03:25 PM
Dowel Primer
 
http://www.lynnblakegolf.com/forum/thread4586.html

Originally Posted by EdStraker

Yoda,

I was showing a friend some of the dowel drills you have mentioned in past posts. The drills have helped immensely in checking alignments and the setup of the flying wedges.

When my friend tried using the dowels it was readily apparent that his accumulators are releasing too soon. Due to the length of the dowels and his premature release, he was striking the ground with the dowels.

This additional benefit of using dowels didn't occur to me until I saw the problem my friend had. He was releasing accumulator #4 from the top of his downswing. After showing him what he needs to do, he went to the range and called me excitedly mentioning he wasn't hitting fat shots and getting increased distance.

....

First time I've heard that one, Ed. You never can tell where the next 'dowel idea' will come from. I find new drills and miscellaneous teaching applications for them all the time!

That said, readers often ask for 'the basics' of the training. Or, in the words of my good friend drewitgolf, how to "do well with the do-wels." Here is a primer that will help.

Start with two dowels (5/8" X 48"), and take one in each Hand. Grip down 8-10 inches on each, with the Left Arm Dowel under the Left Hand heel and the Right Forearm Dowel in the Right Hand cup (lifeline). Holding the dowel in the cup of the Right Hand will feel a bit awkward at first, but you'll soon get used to it.

1. Align the Left Arm Dowel so that it passes directly under the Flat Left Wrist and Forearm. Thus, both the Left Arm and the dowel will lie in the same Vertical Plane -- the Plane of the Left Wristcock Motion. Maintain this alignment throughout the exercises. [Remember, Cocking and Uncocking the Left Wrist are Vertical Motions, even when executed on an Inclined Plane.] Note that the Left Arm clearly is not on the same Inclined Plane with the dowel at Address. Instead, because the dowel is gripped under the heel of the Hand, the Left Arm points well below the plane of the dowel.

2. Align the Right Forearm Dowel so that it is On Plane with the Right Forearm. Bend the Right Wrist -- but do not cock it! -- so that the top of the dowel points well to the left of the Right Forearm. [Remember, Bending and Flattening are Horizontal Motions whereas Cocking and Uncocking are Vertical Motions.] Maintain this alignment throughout the exercises. Note that the Upper Right Arm clearly is not on the same Inclined Plane as the dowel. Because the Right Arm is Bent at the Elbow, the Upper Right Arm points well below the plane of the dowel.

3. When the Left Arm Dowel and the Right Forearm Dowel are brought together, the Left Wrist remains Flat (and the dowel continues to be In-Line with the Left Forearm) and the Right Wrist remains Bent (and the dowel continues to be On Plane with the Right Forearm). Accordingly, at Address, your Right Elbow will be Bent and your Right Forearm will be below your Left.

Static Exercises. Grip both dowels in the manner described for 3-5 minutes each day for the next three weeks. Look at each independent of the other. Study them -- in front of you waist high in the Horizontal Plane and also on the Angled Plane of the Stroke. Position them one-against-the-other in an Impact Fix. Position them one-against-the-other at the Top. Position them one-against-the-other at the Finish. Look, Look LOOK and make sure you are maintaining their respective alignments.

Dynamic Exercise. Hold your Left Arm dowel in its Impact Location and take your Right Forearm dowel (and its Frozen, Bent Right Wrist) in a 'direct path' -- on the Plane established by the Right Forearm -- to the Top (of the Straight Line Delivery Path [10-23-A]). Make sure that your Right Forearm Turns and Fans and that the Right Wrist maintains only its Right Wrist Bend (and does not Cock). Then return it on the same 'direct path' to its Impact Location touching the Left Arm dowel. Keep your Head still. Watch yourself make this move in a mirror (front and down-the-line view). Repeat this move -- your new Basic Motion -- over and over until it becomes second nature.

Your game will change.

Promise.



Below The Belt

Regarding the Lower Body's participation in this fundamental Motion...

First, remember that the correct Pivot demands a Fixed Point on Both ends. So, the Head will remain Stationary and, to a large degree, so will the Feet. Both Feet will remain Flat on the Ground, and even Rolling should be only enough to maintain your Balance.

On the Backstroke, your Weight will Shift, the Right Hip will Clear (straight back), and your Left Knee will accomodate that Motion by rotating slightly inward and forward. On the Downstroke, the Weight will once again Shift as the Hips Slide and Turn slightly. These motions should not be exaggerated, and thus the Body will remain 'comparatively Squared Away.

Both Knees will remain Bent throughout (Right Anchor per 10-16-C) and will rotate slightly as you enter the 'Sit Down' position. The angle of the Right Leg (to the ground) will remain constant on the Backstroke and shift slightly forward on the Downstroke to accomodate the Hip Slide.

In short, your Feet and Knees -- collectively the Legs -- support the Motion. The Right Hip Clears a path for the Hands to be taken Up Plane by the Bending Right Elbow and Foream.

airair 02-26-2011 07:53 PM
Hogan's Journey...And Ours
 
http://www.lynnblakegolf.com/forum/thread4510.html

Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoda
Quote:
Originally Posted by Bagger Lance

Yoda,

How about a loaded question to kick off this board!!!

Can you describe Hogans swing? His swing is probably the most studied golfswing in the world. I would appreciate your take on it.

Bagger


A description of Ben Hogan's Swing?

In one word: Powerful.

In another word: Accurate.

In an all-inclusive third: Efficient.

But it wasn't always that way. At first long and loose, his Total Motion became a Darwinian case study in the Evolution of a Golf Stroke. By the end of his career, all unnecessary frills had been stripped away. Unless something had to move, it didn't. Ben Hogan sought Golfing Perfection, and in that pursuit there was only utility. Form followed Function. Or was jettisoned.

His Hands, which early on traveled to an End Top behind his Head, ultimately found their Top at Right Shoulder High and On Plane. His Lower Body, formerly dominated by extremely active Feet and Knees, became a stable Platform from which to mount the powerful assault of his Arms and Upper Body upon the Ball. His Grip evolved from a Turned Left Wrist and its Double Wristcock Action (Cock and Bend) to a Vertical Left Wrist and a Single Action (Wristcock Only).

In short, without the benefit of today's Swing coaches, psychologists and trainers, Ben Hogan realized his dream: Driven by a burning desire and working only with his own God-given gifts and The Dirt, he became a Golfing Machine. And in so doing, he lit the lamps along Golf's Pathway for future generations to follow.

That torch has now been passed, and the mission of Lynn Blake Golf is to continue the pursuit of Golfing Perfection. Most of all, we are dedicated to helping you find its application to your Game. Armed with our own burning desire and the practical, working knowledge of Homer Kelley's magnificent work The Golfing Machine, we boldly set forth on this uncharted journey.

Bon Voyage!

airair 02-26-2011 08:17 PM
The Nowotny Drill
 
http://www.lynnblakegolf.com/forum/thread4560.html

Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoda
Quote:
Originally Posted by bts

Just wondering if there are any "anti-chicken wing" drills?


bts,

The dreaded 'chicken wing' simply disappears once the student learns the correct Release Motion Through the Ball per 7-24. In other words, he must learn to correctly allow the Clubhead to Overtake the Hands. In turn, this means learning to Roll the #3 Accumulator (the In-Line Left Arm and Club) through Impact and Follow-Through and into the Finish Swivel. At our Secrets of The Golfing Machine Workshop last August, a student and I met the monster and tamed it with a drill that now bears his name. From a post I wrote last August, here is...

The Nowotny Drill

Always remember that the express purpose of this drill -- done without a Club -- is to isolate and coordinate the respective functions of the two Hands: Right Hand...Clubhead. Left Hand...Clubface.

The Left Wrist is positioned in its Flat, Level and Vertical Impact Alignment. It remains at all times within a few inches of this location. Its only function is to Turn a bit to the right on the Backstroke and Roll a bit to the left on the Downstroke. Meanwhile, the Right Forearm is 'brushing' by the Left Hand with the Right Forefinger Tracing the Plane Line. Do not slap the Left Hand with the Right or in any way interfere with the Right Hand's passage by the Left. The Feel of the Right Hand Overtaking the Left (and of the Clubhead Overtaking the Hands) -- all without breaking down the Flat Left Wrist -- is the whole point of this drill.

As the Right Forearm and Right Forefinger #3 Pressure Point brush above the Left Hand through 'Impact,' the Left Hand simply 'Closes the door' with a Roll. This 'Closing' Motion of the Flat Left Wrist is felt in the Left Forearm. It can be practiced as both a Hinge Action -- the Left Arm moves forward a few inches as the Right Forearm brushes by -- and as a Swivel Action -- the Left Arm doesn't move. Until the 'chicken-winging' student gets the Feel of the Overtaking, I recommend the focus remain on the Swivel Action.

The drill should be executed in continuous motion, i.e., the Right Forearm swings back and through and back and through continuously. Again, for the Swivel Action version, the Left Arm simply remains in its Impact Location as the Left Wrist Turns and Rolls (from the 'swivel' in the Left Forearm) in sync with the passing Right Forearm.

The benefit of this drill is that it trains independently but coordinately:

(1) The Right Hand and Forearm to sense Clubhead Lag Pressure and Trace the Plane Line, thus controlling the Clubhead and its Line of Flight through the Ball;

(2) The Left Hand to Hinge and Swivel, thus controlling the Clubface and the Rhythm of the Stroke, i.e., the Clubhead Overtaking of the Hands during the Impact Interval (from Release to Finish Swivel).

Do not allow the simplicity of this drill to cause you to underestimate its importance. It has the potential to do nothing less than revolutionize your Golf Stroke and with it, your entire Game.

Think Dorothy and her full-color entrance into the Land of Oz!



The Nowotny And The Endless Belt

Relating the Nowotny Drill to the Endless Belt Effect:

Remember, the Belt Speed, i.e, the Hand Speed, does not change. The Surface Speed of the Clubhead increases dramatically, but only because of the Pulley Wheel Encounter, i.e., the Release Point (Study 2-K #6 and 10-24-A/B/C/D/E).

For the 'Pulley Wheel Effect' to occur, the Right Hand must Overtake the Left and the Clubhead must Overtake the Hands. So...

Keep 'brushing the Plane Line with the Right Forearm and #3 Pressure Point and 'Closing the Door' with the Left Hand as the Right Forearm brushes by. Feel the Swivel (Sketch 2-K #4/#5) in the Left Forearm.



Things To Do -- Left And Right

A third and final post relates to any drill emphasizing the Overtaking of the Hands by the Club. For example: Swinging with the Left Arm only; or with the Right Arm only; or with a Club in both hands (and keeping them parallel throughout the Stroke).

Training For Results

When the training emphasizes the correct alignments, drills can yield valuable results.

Each Hand has its respective function and should be trained independently to perform it. Left Wrist Action controls the Clubhead position (See the subheading of 10-18 ) on the face of the Inclined Plane. The Left Hand Hinge Action controls the Clubface alignment in relation to its selected Plane of Motion -- Horizontal, Angled or Vertical -- through Impact. The Right Hand (through Pressure Points #1 and #3) provides the Active Drive of the Clubhead -- actually the entire Primary Lever Assembly -- for Hitters and the Acceleration Control of the Clubhead for both Hitters and Swingers. When combined with the Right Forearm Tracing of the Plane Line, it also controls the essential geometry of the Clubhead's Line of Flight through Impact (2-N-0).

In doing drills that emphasize the Clubhead Overtaking understand these three things:

1. The Shaft Rotates around the Sweet Spot (and not the other way around);

2. The Hands Rotate about each other; and

3. There is a definite Clubhead (Sweet Spot) Overtaking of the Hands during the Impact Interval.

An intellectual understanding of these points is one thing. Knowing them is another.

Their Clarion Call is Rhythm (See The Glossary and 6-B-3-0).

Yoda 02-26-2011 11:06 PM
Hogan's Journey . . . And Ours
 
I like this one!

:golfcart2:

Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoda
Quote:
Originally Posted by Bagger Lance

Yoda,

How about a loaded question to kick off this board!!!

Can you describe Hogans swing? His swing is probably the most studied golfswing in the world. I would appreciate your take on it.

Bagger


A description of Ben Hogan's Swing?

In one word: Powerful.

In another word: Accurate.

In an all-inclusive third: Efficient.

But it wasn't always that way. At first long and loose, his Total Motion became a Darwinian case study in the Evolution of a Golf Stroke. By the end of his career, all unnecessary frills had been stripped away. Unless something had to move, it didn't. Ben Hogan sought Golfing Perfection, and in that pursuit there was only utility. Form followed Function. Or was jettisoned.

His Hands, which early on traveled to an End Top behind his Head, ultimately found their Top at Right Shoulder High and On Plane. His Lower Body, formerly dominated by extremely active Feet and Knees, became a stable Platform from which to mount the powerful assault of his Arms and Upper Body upon the Ball. His Grip evolved from a Turned Left Wrist and its Double Wristcock Action (Cock and Bend) to a Vertical Left Wrist and a Single Action (Wristcock Only).

In short, without the benefit of today's Swing coaches, psychologists and trainers, Ben Hogan realized his dream: Driven by a burning desire and working only with his own God-given gifts and the dirt, he became a Golfing Machine. And in so doing, he lit the lamps along Golf's Pathway for future generations to follow.

That torch now has been passed, and the mission of Lynn Blake Golf is to continue the pursuit of Golfing Perfection. Most of all, we are dedicated to helping you find its application to your Game. Armed with our own burning desire and the practical, working knowledge of Homer Kelley's magnificent work, The Golfing Machine, we boldly set forth on this uncharted journey.

Bon Voyage!

airair 02-27-2011 06:54 AM
Directing Thrust At An On Plane Aiming Point
 
http://www.lynnblakegolf.com/forum/thread4558.html

Originally Posted by rchang72
Just wanted to get input on this. I drew a couple sketches of my impressions of the inclined plane.


My understanding is that we continue the downstroke through impact towards the low point with the down, out and forward. Only then does one come upward into the finish.

So should the actual aiming point along the plane line that is underground (i.e. a little forward of the impact point, and more outside the target line)? Any thoughts?

[Bold by Yoda.]

...


Very nice, rchang! Because your simple question demands a not so simple answer, I have actually given two answers: the Basic Answer (Item #3) and the Advanced Version (Item #6). Accordingly, I've moved your post to the Advanced Section where any discussion of points #4-#6 should take place. Hang on...this is going to get a little sticky, especially for the newer students.

1. The Target Line could also be labeled the Impact Point Plane Line, and the line passing through the Low Point could be labeled Low Point Plane Line. There should be nothing mysterious about these lablels: They merely identify parallel lines that co-exist on the face of the same Inclined Plane and that pass through two defined points.

2. The Impact Point Plane Line does indeed rest atop the ground, whereas the Low Point Plane Line is in the ground, but again, on the same Inclined Plane.

3. Here then, is the Basic Answer to your question: Because the two Lines are parallel, when you point at one -- with the Tracing Right Forearm and #3 Lag Pressure Point -- you simultaneously point at the other. Therefore, it is sufficient to direct your Thrust at -- but through! -- an Aiming Point on the Impact Point Plane Line.

But, as promised, there is more!

4. The Three-Dimensional Direction of Thrust -- Downward, Outward and Forward -- will be that defined by the Delivery Path of the Hands (7-23). This concept is most clearly illustrated by Photo 10-23-A #1.

5. This Delivery Path Line of Thrust is established at Impact Fix and is parallel to the Right Forearm Angle of Approach: Note (1) the Right Forearm in Photo 10-19-A #2 is pointing directly at the Impact Point Plane Line but well in front of the Ball; and (2) that the Right Forearm is parallel to the Delivery Path. Thus, the Right Forearm Angle of Approach precisely defines:

* a. The parallel Delivery Path of the Hands;

b. The Right Forearm's own Cross Line (but On Plane) Thrust through Impact; and also

c. The Angle of Approach of the Clubhead (through the Inside Aft qadrant of the Ball where the eye directs the Delivery Path Thrust via Pressure Point #3 (7-3 and 7-11).

[Note: Photo 10-19-A #2 is meant to depict Drive Loading, not the Right Forearm Angle of Approach. This is the first time -- and possibly the last -- that I will use a photo for a purpose beyond its captioned intent. The reason I've done so is that there is no better photo in the book with which to illustrate this esoteric concept.]

6. So, here then, is the Advanced Answer to your question: The Aiming Point -- established at Impact Fix -- is located at the intersection of the Impact Point Plane Line and the Three-Dimensional Line of Thrust defined by Delivery Path of the Hands and its parallel Right Forearm Angle of Approach. It is precisely down that Line that you direct your #3 Pressure Point Thrust -- Down Plane through the Impact Point and Low Point until Both Arms are Straight (1-L-15).

airair 02-27-2011 06:57 AM
The Angle Of The Turned Shoulder Plane Angle
 
Originally Posted by EdZ

Great post lynn.

From a hypothetical view point -

If the impact point plane line and the 'underground' plane line were the same (the ball on a tee, exact, perfect low point separation). What angle with the ground would an 'ideal' line of thrust be for the right forearm?
(Assume a perpendicular to the ground primary lever, and turned shoulder plane).

....

From a down-the-Line view, the Right Forearm during Impact will be on the angle of the Turned Shoulder Plane. This Ideal Plane Angle should not be thought of in terms of an absolute degree of Tilt. Instead, it will vary:

1. From Club to Club (Steeper for the shorter Clubs and Flatter for the longer Clubs per 7-5/6/7);

2. Between Hitters and Swingers (the Shorter Shoulder Turn of the Hitter requires a Steeper Plane per 2-H); and

3. From Player to Player (the less flexible players may have a shorter Shoulder Turn and therefore use a Steeper Plane).

airair 02-27-2011 06:59 AM
Establishing The Clubshaft's Forward Lean
 
Originally Posted by EdZ

Thanks, I'll have to incubate a bit on the shoulder turn vs. plane, which while it makes sense, I wonder if it is more a matter of anatomy than geometry.

What would your perspective be from a face on view?

..

The Clubshaft's Forward Lean (2-J-2) through Impact and the Right Forearm's Angle of Approach are dictated by:

1. Club design (2-G);

2. Plane Angle and the consequent Clubhead Line Of Flight (2-N-O);

2. Ball Location (3-F-7-E); and

3. The degree of Right Wrist Bend established at Impact Fix (6-C-2-A).

airair 02-27-2011 07:08 AM
Plane Line Patter For TGM Junkies
 
Originally Posted by Yoda

2. The Impact Point Plane Line does indeed rest atop the ground, whereas the Low Point Plane Line is in the ground, but again, on the same Inclined Plane.

....

Originally Posted by Martee

I wrote a previous post that has since gone with little response, so I will take this opportunity to try and get some clarification.

The Impact Point Plane Line must always be above or atop the ground unless a special shot (bunker explosion shot).

The Low Point Plane Line can below ground (any golf stroke that takes a divot at or after the golf ball), it can be atop the ground (the pick clean shot or the Teed Driver or any other shot that doesn't take a divot).

I beleive that depending upon the ball location, the hinging action and golf stroke (hitter/swinger) the location of the low point can be other than outside of the target line.

This raises the question "Is the target line is really the Impact Point Plane Line?" The Target Line can cross the Plane Line. The Impact and Low Point Planes must use the Sweet Spot Plane.

Since we cannot see beneath the surface, all line we visualize or make marks would be on the surface. Visualizing the Low Point Plane Line doesn't seem to have much merit IMO unless someone can point out some reason to do so.

[Bold by Yoda.]

...

My good friend Martee -- a Hall of Fame poster if there ever was one -- has asked for clarification regarding Plane Lines. Well, buckle up, folks, because here we go!

1. My quoted answer to rchang72 was in specific reference to his two graphics wherein the ball rested on the ground and the Low Point was in the ground. However, as Martee correctly points out, in the case of a Teed Ball there may be only 'air' divots -- this great phrase courtesy of our own PGA Professional Drewitgolf! -- or with a Ball placed precisely at Low Point only a brushing of the ground.

2. And it is possible, as Martee points out, that that the Low Point could be "other than outside the Target Line." Certainly that would be the case if the Ball is positoned at Low Point (in which case it would be on the Target Line).

3. Of course, the Target Line and the Plane Line are two different 'animals' and must maintain their respective identities. This is the case even when the Plane Line (either Impact Point or Low Point) lies atop the Target Line. Hence, the nine different Plane Line-Stance Line-Target Line Combinations of 10-5. And remember, you aways swing along (Trace) the Plane Line, but only in the Square-Square Combination of 10-5-A do you swing along the Target Line.

4. Finally, as I pointed out in my post to rchang72, in those instances where the Low Point Plane is indeed below ground, it is enough to monitor only the Impact Point Plane Line that is above ground. Then, make sure you Trace it with your Right Forearm in its Three-Dimensional, Downplane Attack Angle (of Approach) per 2-N-0 and 7-3. This will insure that the Clubhead makes its proper Down, Out and Forward orbit (Arc of Approach per 2-J-3) through the Impact Point Plane Line toward Low Point.

There now, Martee. Glad we got that all cleared up!

airair 02-27-2011 07:36 AM
Rhythm Master
 
http://www.lynnblakegolf.com/forum/s...-+Snap+Release

Originally Posted by EdZ

Extensor action simplifies Rhythm IMO.

..

As Homer would say, Ed..."Kee-rect!"

Rhythm in The Golfing Machine is defined as maintaining the In-Line condition of the Left Arm and Club (Primary Lever Assembly) during the Impact Interval (6-B-3-0). The Flat Left Wrist directly controls this Rhythm by executing one of the three Hinge Actions (2-G). This, in turn, determines the unique degree of Clubhead Travel and Clubface Closing from Impact to the end of the Follow-Through (Both Arms Straight).

However, despite this veneer control of the Flat Left Wrist and its Hinge Action (2-G), it is the straightening Right Elbow -- driven Centrifugally (Swinging) or Muscularly (Hitting) -- that actuates the Roll of the Primary Lever Assembly (Left Arm and Club) through Impact. That being the case, the Right Elbow's Location during Impact will directly and dramatically affect:

1. The amount of Clubhead Travel;

2. The degree of Clubface Closing; and thereby

3. The Rhythm of the Stroke.

There are many things that can disrupt the Right Elbow Location pre-selected at Impact Fix. Among the most important of these is the lack of Extensor Action. Unless the Right Arm is kept constantly stretched, it can stretch at any time, and this 'wobble' factor can be highly disruptive.

But with Extensor Action applied, the Right Arm can straighten only as the Left Arm moves away from the Right Shoulder (6-B-1-0). This produces a smooth, unbroken Acceleration of the Lever Assemblies (6-A-2/3); a consistent Right Elbow Location; and, hence, the correct amount of Clubhead Travel and degree of Clubface Closing throughout the Impact Interval (6-B-1-D #3).

All this is Rhythm...the Third Essential of The Golfing Machine (2-0).

airair 02-27-2011 02:45 PM
Thinking Big
 
http://www.lynnblakegolf.com/forum/thread4608.html

Originally Posted by 12 piece bucket
Quote:
Yoda,

How about getting a short club or dowel. Then set your impact bag on a low bench, table, stool, dog, cat whatever. Pound the bag as usual placed at impact and follow through per your expert advice. My thoughts were that you could really focus on the critical Hand alignments and how they translate to the Clubhead and Clubface with a short club. The Impact Interval could really be right below your nose.

Does this sound like a winner or a loser for a close up and intense alignment drill?
..

Quote:
Sure, Rich, anything to help focus attention on the Hands and their Impact alignments is worth doing. Don't make the dowel too short though. Make sure it's long enough to grip down the length of your left forearm. That In-Line condition of dowel and forearm is a priceless relationship and Feel you absolutely must ingrain and make subconscious.

Another tip that will help in this pursuit of 'up close and personal' alignments is visualization. Homer noted that most people think in terms of a small ball and the fleeting moment of Impact and therefore tend to minimize the need for extreme precision. The cure is 'armchair visualization and an exaggeration of each of the elements of Impact.

For example...

'See' the Ball as being as big as a beach ball. See that Ball mashed against a huge Clubface. Visualize the dramatic 'forward lean' of the long Clubshaft and the gigantic Hands well ahead of the Ball. The Left Wrist is Flat and the Right Wrist is Bent. A huge Right Forearm and the #3 Pressure Point Loaded with Lag and Tracing the Straight Plane Line. Visualize these elements individually and also as an integral part of the whole. 'Watch' as the Ball is gradually compressed and driven Down, Out and Forward in an Impact Interval lasting, say, a full minute. Or ten minutes. 'See' the resilient Ball slowly rebound from the Clubface before the Clubhead tears into the turf. Watch the Right Elbow continue to straighten as inches DownPlane, through the Low Point and into the Follow-Through (the Both Arms Straight position).

When you can 'see' Impact like that, Downstroke Blackout will have become a thing of the past. Your Impact Interval -- from Release to Follow-Through -- will have been brought under a conscious control. You will have gained a new authority and mastery of Golf's Moment of Truth.

airair 02-27-2011 02:54 PM
The Bent Plane Line -- Explanation, Cause And Cure
 
http://www.lynnblakegolf.com/forum/thread4590.html

Originally Posted by rangerover

Quote:
Yoda,
How would I figure out which one that I doing. I understand (A) & (C) but
(B) is the one I'm not clear on. Looks like I need to make an appointment
to visit the swamp.
..

Quote:
Rangerover,

The Bent Plane Line means that instead of Tracing the original Plane Line through Impact, you Trace Outside-In (from above the Plane) or Inside-Out (from below the Plane). In other words, you are now Tracing an entirely new Plane Line and, in effect, have 'Bent' the original (either to the left or to the right).

Most high handicappers Bend the Plane Line to the left. In other words, they swing Outside-In and come in with the Right Forearm too 'high' (and pointing beyond the Plane Line instead of driving toward it). This usually results from the Flat Downstroke Right Shoulder Turn (see Photo 10-13-B-#3) that inevitably lifts the Hands Off Plane as well.

In turn, this Right Shoulder 'Spin-Out' is the product of faulty Hip Control, namely failure to lead the Downstroke with a slight Hip Slide parallel to the Plane Line. It is this move that both Loads the Lag and allows the Right Shoulder -- and with it the Hands and the Loaded Lag Pressure Point -- to be pulled Down Plane toward the Ball. Only when this is done can the Right Forearm return to its mandatory Impact Fix alignment through Impact.

The cure?

The Downstoke Waggle (3-F-5).

We do a lot of that down here in The Swamp. Y'all come!

airair 02-27-2011 03:59 PM
In The Swamp With Swingeasttowest
 
http://www.lynnblakegolf.com/forum/thread4571.html

Originally Posted by swingeasttowest
Quote:
Once Yoda explained the swivel to me, bye bye golf ball

It was a great day in the Swamp. I only wish their was more time. It is so hard to fit everything in.
...
Quote:
Rich and I planned this session literally months in advance, and I know both of us really pointed toward this great day. He had a 3:15 a.m. wake-up call to catch his red-eye from New York, and he showed up in Atlanta ready-to-rumble in his "Yoda-Green" Masters hat. After exchanging the Hitter's Handshake -- Right Forearms stump-to-stump and pistoning -- we started with Yoda's traditional Cracker Barrel breakfast: Eggs, bacon and hash browns, pancakes and the Geometry of the Circle!

We began our on-site instruction with a technical demo of the infamous Hinge Action Concept. Quoting Rocky Balboa (to Clubber Lang): "Not so bad!" And then...The Power Package! Flying Wedge alignments, Extensor Action (stretch against #1!) and The Golfer's Flail. Still not a ball struck. To horse!

Rich had worked hard on his Pivot Motion. Too hard! His quickly spinning Backstroke Right Hip and Shoulder Turn pulled his Hands abruptly to the inside (and Under Plane). From there, his only recourse was an Over-The-Top Right Shoulder Spin-Out, a 'high' Right Forearm into Impact and the dreaded Chicken-Wing Follow-Through. The predictable results? Fore Left...or Right!

The Good News was that Rich had learned his Forum Lessons well. His Balance was excellent and he had great control of his Left Wrist. He drove his Right Arm hard and was able to really stress the Clubshaft. Our challenge was to direct that Motion correctly Down Plane -- with the Right Forearm driving Downward, Outward and Forward toward the Plane Line -- instead of the Flat Downstroke Right Shoulder Turn (10-13-B) coming 'Out and Over' and the Forearm covering the Line in the Downstroke.

Our Cure was to quieten his Lower Body's overzealous activity in the Backstroke and to train his Hip Slide to pull the Right Shoulder (and the Power Package) down On Plane in the Downstroke. Rich got this job done by learning the Start Down Waggle (3-F-5) and making it an integral part of his Pre-Shot Routine. As he ingrained this Motion, his Flat Downstroke Shoulder Turn began to disappear.

Still, something was missing, and that 'something' was the Finish Swivel (2-G, 12-3-12-#41 and 12-5-3-#3). This proved to be the missing link that allowed his Stroke to flow uninterrupted from his Top (Station Two) to his Finish (Station Three). When Rich integrated this move, it was 'Good-bye' Chicken Wing and 'Hello' Compression!

Sadly, all good things come to an end, and this day was no exception. With darkness falling and his 8:11 p.m. flight beckoning, we bid one another a fond farewell. This really is the toughest part for me...watching my students fly into the night...knowing that many weeks will likely pass before we meet again.

That's why I love this place...

See you in The Clubhouse Lounge, Rich!


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