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D, you use Hands only for Basic? Hello Arnie?

I love the 12-5 The Basic Motion Curriculum. It is the best way I know to differentiate the separate identities of each Zone and the components unique to hitting and swinging and their variations. Right through the bag. A tremendous way to learn the game and polish your short shots at the same time. I like to add various Hinge Actions to the Curriculum for bonus points.

But Im not sure it is necessarily the way to play shorter shots on the course. It can be but not necessarily. In my 6th edition Homer zeroes out the Pivot in Stage One, Basic Motion which includes putting. But for example, I'd venture that most tour pro's use a shoulder powered putting golf stroke. A 10-3-H PAW Minor Basic Stroke as defined by Homer. Im not saying Homer didnt know his short shots Im just wondering if the Basic Motion Curriculum is first and foremost just that ......a curriculum, a "course of study" for Total Motion excellence.

I get Mikes question re Total motion for a chip shot. Most of us use the term "Basic Motion' to describe a chip or putt but Im thinking he must have read 3.0 where Homer says.......

"......."Basic Motion" (Preface) is simply "Up-and-Back-and-Down-and Out" per 7-23 from Drive to Putt. Your "Total Motion" is that Basic Motion plus its Component Variations (Chapter 10)-selected and/or othewise (Chapter 12). Whatever you are "working on" must produce a change In Feel because its a selected addition to your previous Total Motion Feel-your "Acquired Feel", the present stage of your Total Motion development."

Ah, is it just me ? Is your head hurting? Are there two different definitions for the term "Basic Motion" or have we misappropriated it to mean chipping and putting? Why not just say Stage One , Chipping and Putting? Stage Two , Pitch shots or whatever......each with a Basic Motion plus whatever Component Variation you are working on which forms a new Total Motion with its Acquired Feel. Or something. I dunno........

Me, having started with the Neeman video...... I go with Basic being "about" two feet back and two feet through. Acquired is "no more than" Right Forearm parallel to the ground to the club being 45 degrees to the ground ........etc

I put the brackets around "about" and "no more than" because early on I missed those subtleties and was using the exact same length of stroke in each Stage and varying the Lag Pressure for distance regulation.