The waggle

[Thom]

First - congratulations - your new site looks great, my browser startup page from now on

Yoda - I think I remember that your waggle procedure is a little different than most. My waggle is just bending back the right wrist to feel the #3 pp and also to get a look at the onplane path of the clubhead.

Can you please go into details on your preferred waggle procedure (feels and visuals)

[Thom]

anyone

Do your waggles differ for feeeling different hinge actions?

[Thom]

Should this topic have been posted in advanced??

[Bagger Lance]

This topic is perfect here and can be expanded in the Advanced thread.
Like just about everything in TGM, the waggle has a distinct purpose. It is the exact reheasal of your motion into and through impact. There are actually two types of waggles; Address waggle and Start Down waggle.

To answer your question, you most definately practice and preview your selected hinge action during the "waggling". The best way to do this is OVER the ball so you can see the line of the clubhead and the hinging action of the clubface.

Not only are you visually previewing impact, you are also "pre-recording" the feel of the impact alignments.

Hope that gives you a "waggle" of what's ahead of you as you dig in and start understanding The Golfing Machine!

Bagger

[Yoda]

First - congratulations - your new site looks great, my browser startup page from now on

Yoda - I think I remember that your waggle procedure is a little different than most. My waggle is just bending back the right wrist to feel the #3 pp and also to get a look at the onplane path of the clubhead.

Can you please go into details on your preferred waggle procedure (feels and visuals)

Welcome from Copenhagen, Thom! I was only eleven years old when I last visited your country -- and my take-a-way memory was Tivoli and two attractive young women smoking cigars near the entrance. It's been a long time, but I'm coming back soon!

To your question:

The true Golfing Machine Waggle is far different from that generally perceived to be correct. It is an Arms Waggle, not a Wrist Waggle. I questioned Homer Kelley extensively on this subject. I even pointed to the traditional view (the Hogan Waggle per Five Lessons) and demonstrated.

Homer: "That Waggle is a very destructive thing."

Young Yoda: "What's destructive about it, Homer?"

Homer: "Look at what you're doing!"

Young Yoda : "What?"

Homer: "You're Flattening your Right Wrist!"

And sure enough, that is exactly what I was doing. I had plenty of company: It's what all players do -- and have done throughout the centuries -- when they Waggle traditionally: They Bend and Flatten the Right Wrist. Bend and Flatten. Bend and Flatten. Not exactly the move you want to make through Impact! In fact, it is nothing more than the deliberate and ignorant Full Dress Rehearsal of False Feel Wrist Action (6-D-3)!

The Horizontal Bending Motion is entirely proper. The Horizontal Flattening Motion is not. The sad truth is that this procedure reproduced is guaranteed Geometrical Disruption and Golf Stroke Disaster.

The sophisticated TGM player Waggles with his Arms, not his Wrists. He rehearses his Flying Wedge Alignments (including the Flat Left Wrist and Bent Right Wrist and the On Plane Right Forearm); his Extensor Action; his On Plane Pressure Points; and the Clubhead Lag.

The Address Waggle...

Phase Two of the Three-Step Address Routine (3-F-5)...

An indispensable element of the Computer's Fourth Pre-Shot Programming Routine (Chapter 14).

The Waggle...

"It has a purpose!" -- Homer Kelley

[EdStraker]

The benefits I have found changing to an 'arm' waggle are checking that the shaft is on plane, and tracing the delivery line with my right forearm.

[Yoda]

The benefits I have found changing to an 'arm' waggle are checking that the shaft is on plane, and tracing the delivery line with my right forearm.

Great stuff, Ed. Your Waggle now gives you ClubSHAFT control.

Now add:

Pressure Point Pressures: ClubHEAD control.

And...

Hinge Action: ClubFACE Control.

Soon, Clubshaft, Clubhead and Clubface will be under your total Subconscious Control....

And the Club will not have even left the back of the Ball!

The Golfing Machine.

Gotta love it!

[Thom]

Welcome from Copenhagen, Thom! I was only eleven years old when I last visited your country -- and my take-a-way memory was Tivoli and two attractive young women smoking cigars near the entrance. It's been a long time, but I'm coming back soon!

If you can't come to the swamp the swamp will come to you
If you ever go back to Copenhagen don't hesitate to contact me, I would be happy to help you in anyway I can. And if you could see me for a session of TGM it would be unbelievable fantastic.
...But don't expect the attractive young women to smoke cigars this time


Thanks for the reply on the waggle. Since I started getting into TGM I was always wondering about the flattening part of the right wrist in the conventional waggle. It gives you the feeling of throw away.

I have a few additional questions regarding the arms waggle:
How much movement back and forth are we talking about and is it done over the the ball as Bagger suggested?

Thanks, Thom

[Yoda]

I have a few additional questions regarding the arms waggle:
How much movement back and forth are we talking about and is it done over the the ball as Bagger suggested?

The Waggle can range from a minimal Motion (over the Top of the Ball) to a full scale rehearsal of the entire Release Interval. In other words:

(1) A virtually static rehearsal of Impact only.

(2) A rehearsal of the entire Release Interval, ie., from Release Point to over the Top of the Ball to the end of the full Follow-Through (the Both Arms Straight position).