[golfgnome]

Golfgnome

You wrote-: "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.'

What you are describing is a hitter's action. If you want to be a hitter, that is fine.

However, a switter is a golfer who combines swinging actions and hitting actions.

A swinger uncocks the left wrist by the release of PA#2 - which is a passive action and the force involved is a CF. The only active force that a pivot-driven swinger applies in his 4:2:3 release action sequence is due to the fact that the pivot drives the left arm through PP#4. When the pivot subsides, PA#4 releases and the left arm catapults forwards away from the torso. The moving left arm pulls the clubshaft via the left hand's grip at PP#2. That's the only force that a swinger applies actively - a pulling force at PP#2. The club eventually releases passively due to a CF action, and then PA#3 eventually releases passively.

A switter, by definition, must be applying an additional push force at some time point during the downswing. If you are a switter, then I would like to know when/how that push-force is applied.

Jeff.

As happens so many times, someone like yourself gets so lost in the "pattern" that they lose sight of what works and what doesn't. In an effort to re-create the wheel you create new terms such as "switting". Homer was very specific in his research and I can't find this term anywhere in TGM. If you wish to use such terminology then I suggest you write your own book and do your own research.

Why I suggested that people not get lost in a specific pattern I meant that they should understand how the accumulators work so they can use them best when needed. There is a HUGE misconception in TGM that hitters do not rotate. This is complete nonsense.

Hogan said he wished he had 3 right hands, does this make him a swinger or hitter? Who cares, he sure did not. If you carefully read through TGM you will find many references to the right arm that will make you understand that it is in no way passive as you suggest.

When you talk about "the only force that a swinger applies actively" you are once again creating a "THE WAY" procedure that will not work for every situation. If a 4 barrell is a hitting pattern so be it.

If you wish to be a book smart "theorist" then I suggest you only use the terms that Homer used in his book. If you want to use the book as Homer intended it, to improve your game and your student's, then I suggest you become less reliant on "perfect patterns" and gain more knowlege on how the components can effect each other, positively or negatively.

I am not a book smart person. When I do schools with Lynn and Ted I feel very inadequate in regards to my lack of recall to specifics in the book. I do feel that I have a great working knowlege of the book and how to apply it to my own game and explain it to my students in an understandable fashion. The book is tough enough to learn without adding "terms" that are not there.

I will not post further on this until the terms are used properly. Switting is not a pattern, so I can't give a detailed description of it.