How far past ball separation does your right wrist stay TOTALLY bent?
The Flat Left Wrist and Bent Right Wrist Alignments are established in Impact Fix (7-8 ). The amount of 'Flat' in the Left Wrist is an absolute .
All this is the Geometry of Wrist Alignments during the Stroke, including Impact, Hinging and Swiveling.
I feel like I walked in during the second act. What is all that technical stuff? The Head Pro at my club is an Ernest Jones, Manual De La Torre method teacher. He would be falling on the ground howling with laughter after reading these posts. I know Gary Sowinski (national champion teaching professional) thinks the golf swing is simple. Just swing the clubhead down the target line and the ball will fly there. Duhhhh. He believes that when we try to do that, the clubhead will do that, and the ball will do that. Technical detail stuff just paralyzes us. It sure looks like Bobby Jones kept it simple also.
Anyhow, as a very analytical engineer, I reject detail in the golf swing. I just want to keep it simple, relax and swing. (and then mostly work on my short game)
[Bold by Yoda.]
History confirms that there was no shortage of skeptics at Kitty Hawk. And whynot? After all, 'ol Orville and Wilbur down at the bike shop were trying to make one of their three-wheelers fly! When word of that nonsense got out, I'm sure the sound of laughter-howling skeptics hitting the ground was deafening.
The fact is that Laughing Skeptics and Innovation have always gonehand in hand. So it comes as no surprise that the innovation of TheGolfing Machine is greeted with more of the same. But also with furrowed brow. Because that innovation does not promise Fool's Gold: a simplesolution to a complex problem. Instead, it recognizes reality: Demandingthat the Golf Stroke be made simple does not make it simple. Nor doesdemanding a teaching philosophy that "rejects detail" make thatmethodology simple. It merely makes it incomplete.
Does anyone honestly believe that the best players -- Tiger Woods, for example-- pursue the Holy Grail of 'Simplicity at all Costs?' Of course not. Theyare looking for 1/4 of a Shot per Round and any edge they can get. And thatedge is found in increasing the precision of the Samenesses (the Basics/ 1-J) and ultimately in the fine-tuning of the Differences (theVariations / 1-K).
The undeniable truth is that the Golf Stroke is a fantastically complexMotion performed by an even more fantastically complex mechanism; namely,the human being. We humans have countless moving parts that serve us well inour day-to-day activities. But they also can move in ways that are notappreciated by The Ball.
Hence, many of these parts demand a control, a consciously programmed Mechanicthat can be reduced to an Identifiable subconscious Feel. Butwithout the underlying Engineering System, the player's Feel Systemis saddled with an impossible task: Reproducing -- on demand, underpressure and with extreme precision -- an integrated Pattern of unknown Mechanics.
Is it any wonder there are so many poor players? Those defeated souls who notonly do not know what (Basics) they are doing -- much less how (Variations)they are doing it -- but who also embrace the Band-Aid of Simplicity asthe solution to their ignorance?
The Golfing Machine offers the rational alternative. Itprovides a Basic Motion Curriculum (12-5-1/2/3) and two Basic StrokePatterns (12-1-0 and 12-2-0) that enable the player to systematicallygain mastery over the 24 Components of the Golf Stroke. Pursued in thismanner, the player can enjoy continuous improvement and progress toward anattainable goal -- whether that goal is to break 90 or to break 70.Or...he can continue to forever chase the will o' the wisp of 'Swing theClubhead.'
You mention, for example, Manuel De La Torre. Over my 41 years in Golf, I'veheard nothing but good things about the man. And his famous one sentence 'method'is simplicity defined:
"The Golf Stroke is a 'to and fro'motion."
Okey dokey. Simple enough. "To and fro." No 'detail'cluttering up that baby!
But let's dig a little deeper. 'To and fro' with what? Why, Silly Goose, theClubhead, of course! Crediting that Patron Saint of Simplicity,Ernest Jones, we "Swing the Clubhead!" And we all know thatthe Clubhead must have a control. And Mr. De La Torre's concept of 'Toand fro' -- pardon the detail, but we're talkin' Centrifugal Force here-- does just that.
But the Clubhead (and its Centrifugal Power) is only one Functionof The Club! There are two more-- the Clubshaft and the Clubface-- and each of these demands a control as well. For example, suppose Isuspended a Golf Club (using my thumb and forefinger to hold the very butt end)with its Shaft directly over the Target Line and with its Toepointing directly at the Target. Then, further suppose that I started theClub Swinging 'To and fro' up and down that Line, just like the pendulum of agrandfather clock. Have I satisfied the simplistic definition of 'To and fro?'You bet! But are there any problems here? Absolutely!
First of all, the Clubhead -- and with it the Clubshaft -- is 'To-ingand fro-ing' in a Vertical Plane of Motion. Last time I looked,we golfers stand on one side of the Ball or the other with a Clubshaft thatis Angled from the Clubhead, and that makes for an Inclined Planeof Motion. Secondly, the Clubface is hopelessly misaligned, andits Leading Edge needs to be Square to the Target Line at Separation. So,unless you've got a way to produce powerful and accurate Golf Shots by Swingingthe Clubhead ('To and fro') in a Vertical Plane and striking theBall with the Toe of the Club, your 'Simple' System just hit theReality Wall.
And it was so unnecessary.
Because we who understand The Golfing Machine know that it culminates inthe Ultimate Simplicity the Golf World has so long sought in vain. Andthat Simplicity is the Star System Triad:
The Left Hand (and its Hinge Action) controlling the Clubface;
The Right Hand (and its Right Forefinger Pressure Point Pressure) controlling the Clubhead; and
The Right Forefinger and Forearm 'Tracing' the Straight Plane Line and thus controlling the Clubshaft.
From the Address...to the Top...to the Finish.
What could be more simple and more complete?
Nothing.
Simply nothing.
P.S. You might want to re-think that "Just swing the clubhead down thetarget line and the ball will fly there. Duhhhh." stuff. You see, there isthis thing called a circular Clubhead Orbit and a Low Point PlaneLine that is located just below the Target Line but on the Face of the sameInclined Plane...Oh, never mind!
Linear Mode
