McLean's challenge
 

Here's a place I'd like Yoda to dump his accumulators!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w68LP...el_video_title

It make me mad to see people making inaccurate statement about TGM. On page X
I, "This textbook can support individual "My Way" procedure but no "The Way Theory"!

Especially is a disgrace for those ex-GSDM making attack to TGM specifically after learning from TGM. Professionally will you openly attack anyone in your field?

Nice quote Daryti.

Mr McLean doesnt know the basic, basic of TGM ....that there is no one way! . The fact he calls it a "religion of the perfect way", or a "method" suggests to me that he hasnt cracked the book. A method with three trillion possible patterns would be correct. People on this site can attest to the fact that the book proposes no "method" or "one way".....that'd be way easier to understand and horribly narrow minded.

Like Bruce Lee, as Kock used to say, TGM is all ways. And there in lies its complexity.

"Religion of the perfect way" ......what a misguided statement. I just lost some respect for a guy I kind of liked.

Anybody know what might have motivated his lambasting of Homer? It cant be founded in intellectual discord when he is so ill informed. This isnt about Homer Im thinking, somebody did something on his rug I bet. Whatever.

Then again Ive heard this knock before ......and ironically often from guys who propose their way as THE WAY.

The Straw Man
 

First, understand this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man

Then, this . . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIhIUWI96SU



:golfcart2:

Disappointing
 

Mr. MacLean is just grasping at straws I'm afraid. Drumming up business?

IC T

Wow.......... good questions to think about and study, but pretty poor representation of TGM.

Both surprised and disappointed...

Uh Tom Lehman's swing is in the book. So is mine. He's got 1-L (a model that reveals the basic geometry of golf given the golf club) mixed up with building a robot golfer or something. "No weight shift"? Where's it say that in the book?

Uploaded to Youtube on May 16th, 2011.


He had to bring up "Religion". :laughing9 Wow, something must have yanked his chain enough to drive him over the edge like that.

:laughing9

Nice Daryl,
OB's still learning:)

Very unfortunate. On his video I have heard Jim respectfuly praising TGM and have seen handwritten letters by him to Ben Doyle which were highly complimentary.

Must be a financial marketing move.

To say TGm is one way is really absurd.

There seems to be an edge of desparation here. When have you heard about him teaching a tour pro lately? Business must be hurting and he likely is getting a lot of stack and tilt questions. Perfect swing? The Golfing Machine is intended to eliminate such nonsense. If my left wrist is flat at impact and ahead of the ball, I have a perfect swing. What could be more simple than the golfing machine? Keep your head still,and the right wrist bent thru impact. See ball go far, straight and high.

There's the beauty of TGM, because i prefer to see my ball go far, with a soft cut, and a lower trajectory :happy3:

That is because you are following a method. I follow essentials and imperatives, and therefore hit the ball far, high and right to left. (joking)

Of course, because since I am a student of TGM, I am apart of a religion to have the perfect swing, and therefore i'll never be a great player :crybaby: :laughing9 I'm greater today than I was yesterday because of The Yellow Book, and I'll be an even better player tomorrow :salut:

From Homer's notes
 

Feel no concern for the PERFECT STROKE. There are trillions of
precision patterns with totally correct alignments and relationships, perfect for some application or preference.

http://www.lynnblakegolf.com/forum/thread7767-129.html #1288

Great post.

Very nice, Air
 

Very good find! :)

IC T

Air,
be sure to post this as a comment to the youtube video

Nice

I already have.

...maybe we shouldn't feel the need to be defenders of TGM. We all love it, of course, but there is so much more. The genius of Lynn Blake Golf as an example. We would all be a little lost, IMHO, if YODA had not unlocked the secrets of the pivot with the MacDonald Drills and the thoughts of other great teachers like Boomer. TGM and all of Homer's work is WONDERFUL, but there is so much room for more interpretation, and we find it right here.

I vehemently disagree with disrespecting TGM, it is the foundation of all great golf swings, but there is more...

Kevin

IMHO, that my friend, is why you are having such great success in teaching your daughter. Flat left wrist, lag pressure, plane. Man, when a student understands they need to work on those principles before all else, they learn to help themselves...

Add to that the simplicity of the LBG pivot using the MacDonald drills, watch out!!!

Kevin

Could you explain in more detail what the simplicity of the LBG pivot is all about...:eusa pray:

The MacDonald drills. The pictures are silly, the text is basic, the results are MAGICAL!!!

Kevin

I have to review these some more. Right-left, right-left. Right?

You got it.

In addition, Rick Murphy, YODAs protege, does a wonderful job discussing their simplicity in his Golf Channel video!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aR1MakzR69U

Kevin

Thanks
 

I have of course seen this before, but it got more of my attention this time..:salut:

I send a bit of time in Miami at the Doral. Having spent a lot of time on the range I have overheard Jim and his assistants in their teaching.

Interestingly they pretty much teach one pattern. Its by no means a bad one, its pretty good stuff. Not the variety one would expect from someone who has this particular criticism.

Jim McLean on Brian Gay.
 

He wrote this on YouTube.
JimMcLeanUniversity

Any suggestions on what to answer?

Air, I wouldn't waste any time or energy. Looks like taking a page out of another teachers playbook on how to develop interest in his brand by trashing the leaders...

Kevin

ok: :salut:

Great video Kevin!
 

Yoda spent 2 hours going through this on our first day, together. I still do this drill. When i come over the top on the course, I correct before the next shot by doing this drill slowly.

IC T

Yesterday I did Right-Left-Right-Left-Right-Left before every tee shot. I can't believe how much better I am getting to my left foot at impact. AMAZING!

Kevin

Responding to these types of challanges is a waste of time. Mclean is the least method teacher of all the top teachers, and he has studied TGM, he told me so. No one ever wins in these types of back and forths!