[golfgnome]

Golfgnome

You are free to answer in any manner of your choice, but your answer is evasive by my standards. If we took that attitude (that birds know how to fly, and fishes know how to swing - without thinking about it) and applied it to the golf swing, then we could simply assume that a golfer simply knows how to swing a golf club without having to think about the process. However, the fact that the average golfer's handicap is apparently 97 attests to the fact that swinging a golf club is not so simple, so instinctive, so automatic. That's why Homer Kelley spent so much time studying the golf swing. He apparently thought that he could solve the problem in a few weeks, but then ended up spending 40 years thinking about the problem and testing his ideas.

You state that a person throwing a ball only has to straighten his right arm to execute the throw. That's generally true. However, golf is a two-handed game. The grip end of the club responds to forces from both the left hand and the right hand. The left hand is the conduit for pull-forces and the right hand is the conduit for push-forces. As a switter, you are (by definition) using both forces, and I would like to know how the entire pull-push process is executed.

Jeff.

In the words of Augusta Golf, I am about to go "Chuck Norris on your ass"!

If my answer is evasive by your standards then I suggest you read some of my previous posts on this subject or watch the videos on this site. Homer did spend 40 years studying the subject and I am greatful for his work. Yoda once told me that when Homer spoke he often glossed over items because he assumed that people knew what he was talking about. I guess I made that assumption with you.

I am not going to rewrite the book, I have spent plenty of time studying, applying, and teaching it for the last several years. I have found that the Star System Triad explains much very well: The 3 Imperatives applying the 3 Functions through the 3 stations which should be sought.

Yoda always tells the story in his schools "there is learning to tie your shoes, then there is just tying your shoes." For those people who are still playing poorly, they are either not applying what they have "learned" or have mastered and ineffecient process or really just don't care. My detailing how I do something will only benefit me. The main ingredient to learning is self discovery. "The instructor can only inform and explain-the student must absorb and apply."

I did not say that in order to throw a ball you only have to straighten your right arm. I said, in so many words, that it is a coordinated motion that is led by the pivot followed by a throwing (straightening) of the right arm.

Golf is a two handed game. However, the left wrist cocks and uncocks by the bending and straightening of the right arm. The flat left wrist must be maintained in order to maintain rhythm. The problem I see with must bad golfers is that they try to "pull" the club through with their left arm, which leads to all sorts of malfunctions. The left hand is simply a clamp which attaches the primary and secondary levers together. The right hand is also a clamp which senses acceleration and direction of thrust.

There is no "switter"!! If you use right arm thrust then you are probably "hitting". A four barrell pattern technically is hitting. Personally, I do not care. I know that when I pivot correctly, I am able to deliver my right shoulder and arm down plane to follow through. My pivot is the "pull" my right shoulder and arm deliver the "push". If I have a passive right arm then I hit passive shots, and I do not care for those.

Most people on this site who have seen me hit a golf shot would probably agree that I look like a swinger. However, I have never tried to limit myself to a "label" and I have gotten better because of it. My game improved when I understood what my right arm and shoulder were supposed to do, go down plane.

I simply can't give you a "detailed" procedure because ONE does not exist. Like I said I simply focus on the Imperatives to produce the shot I want.