I really enjoyed the Curious Quest as it gives a lot of insight into why the book was written the way it is. I also really like some of the things written in the foreward by Steve Elkington, a real testament to the validity of the book.
It helped me a lot to spend time in Lynn's section here, the chapter by chapter breakdown of discussions. It really personalized Homer's work for me. Take it slow Frank, there is a LOT to learn, it's a journey, not a crash course...
I have started to love the Right Forearm Takeaway and I have been watching Lynn and Ted Hit like crazy on film. If I understand them correctly, the RFT will achieve the entire backswing time and time again given a correct grip.
In order to Hit well, a golfer must use their front heel to shift the hips shallowing the club and bringing the right arm close to the body and allowing the golfer not to run out of right arm and maintaining the Flat Left Wrist through Impact and the Forward Swivel. As Kevin has observed, without that shift of the hips, the club comes in too steeply IMHO.
My pattern is "elbow bend/RFT, left heel, elbow bend" after the slight Impact Fix I learned from Lynn last Spring. Make sense?
ICT
BTW, the School District has been exposed as the train wreck it is, and my school has about 20 fights a week. Currently, half my school has been suspended. I am teaching my brains out as a form of self-defense and can't wait for golf-season!
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HP, grant me the serenity to accept what I cannot change, the courage to change what I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Progress and not perfection is the goal every day!
Last edited by innercityteacher : 03-01-2012 at 01:42 AM.
I have started to love the Right Forearm Takeaway and I have been watching Lynn and Ted Hit like crazy on film. If I understand them correctly, the RFT will achieve the entire backswing time and time again given a correct grip.
In order to Hit well, a golfer must use their front heel to shift the hips shallowing the club and bringing the right arm close to the body and allowing the golfer not to run out of right arm and maintaining the Flat Left Wrist through Impact and the Forward Swivel. As Kevin has observed, without that shift of the hips, the club comes in too steeply IMHO.
My pattern is "elbow bend/RFT, left heel, elbow bend" after the slight Impact Fix I learned from Lynn last Spring. Make sense?
ICT
BTW, the School District has been exposed as the train wreck it is, and my school has about 20 fights a week. Currently, half my school has been suspended. I am teaching my brains out as a form of self-defense and can't wait for golf-season!
Yup. Makes sense. I'll give it a spin in the dungeon.
Just yesterday I was directed to a web site that turned out to be the Phil.newspaper. After a quick peruse I clicked on "education." Oh, my. Looks like very poor leadership at the very least. Blessings to you.
Thanks Gerry! I've come to the realization that kids who did not have our advantages growing-up cannot handle our academic expectations. My average student reads at a fourth grade level in high school and is so damned reactionary due to a constant anger about a destroyed home life. In many ways, my classroom is the calmest, friendliest, most rational place they have each day apart from grandparents perhaps. You remember I'm sure that "No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care."
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HP, grant me the serenity to accept what I cannot change, the courage to change what I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Progress and not perfection is the goal every day!
Last edited by innercityteacher : 03-02-2012 at 12:23 AM.
Thanks Gerry! I've come to the realization that kids who did not have our advantages growing-up cannot handle our academic expectations. My average student reads at a fourth grade level in high school and is so damned reactionary due to a constant anger about a destroyed home life. In many ways, my classroom is the calmest, friendliest, most rational place they have each day apart from grandparents perhaps. You remember I'm sure that "No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care."
That is precisely it, Patrick. Even in the school where I worked, at the end of the day we often wished we could just keep them at school.
They are lucky to have you in their corner.
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