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Tom...Tom Who? :laughing9 That is what the man said there can be no doubt! :salut: Just one of the many ways to do it.

DG, wow Tom T. suggested that "actuating", firing, the #2 Accumulator should be considered part of STARTDOWN generally speaking? That would make every shot , by definition, a Full Sweep release would it not? I can see it for a short soft high wedge or something but not for full power.

In a world filled with golfers who hit from the Top, Id say Homer was more about storing the Accumulated power (#2 Angle) for a later Release. To say nothing of Float Loading during Startdown where even more #2 Angle, power, is Accumulated.

Using 'both forearms" at the same time to fire #2? Never noticed that before. Interesting. Trying to think of the appropriate Throw combinations for that one. A left wrist throw and a right wrist throw , together? I dunno. That would make for a good thread, a Release thread though.

Read the 7th edition and see where Homer references the term "Full Power".

DG

That is a fantastic position, one that every swinger should use as a reference.

One of the key reasons being a proper left hand grip, taken at fix.

Thanks EdZ

DG, I was merely responding to your words above. If this is not representative of Toms beliefs about Startdown then the misinterpretation is not mine, (for a change).

I have no problems with an arm centric perception of things. Im a bit of an arm swinger myself. The quarterback firing a long bomb throw is probably not thinking about his pivot for instance. But that doesnt mean that his arm precedes his pivot actually, sequentially. Homer is very clear that Startdown is the period of Right Shoulder acceleration. The period of Arm/Hand acceleration is later, sequentially. Hogan in the Shell's WW of Golf tape traces this move of the Shoulders (and Arms together, fully loaded Power Package) back to the movement of "the lower body". This all relates to the best drill in golf, to my mind, the Startdown Waggle.

Hogan is the Man
 

Yes, I'm wrong....Tom Tomasello is wrong...and geez we can't forget Homer...he's wrong too!!! Hogan is the Man!!! Why waste your time with TGM!!!

DG, respectfully, I don't think thats fair. Perhaps a different interpretation, but nobody loves TGM more than O.B. yourself, and many other followers of YODA. We are on the same team here...

:salut:

Kevin

DG, it was not my intention to suggest that either you or Tom Tomasello had something wrong. If that is what I have communicated then I apologize to you.

You are obviously a huge Tom Tamasello fan and I respect you for that. On the other hand I know very little of Tom Tomasellos work, having only seen the Australian videos a few times.

TGM is not the theoretically closed loop that some suggest it is. Homer acknowledged the existence of non catalogued, X procedures. Neither Lynn nor Homer were averse to them in the least to my mind. But I believe that Homer would theorize about the implications inherent in the procedure, I know Lynn sure does having discussed a few of my own, X procedures with him. It was the implications of your two armed pull down in Startdown that motivated my first comments. There are so many usable variations , trillions of them, that to say something is flat out "wrong" would be rather short sighted to my mind.

I got my butt whipped a few years ago by a guy who hit every shot cross handed. He took the game up at the age of 43 too. Amazing. I celebrate the differences and the sameness ...........but really just wish I looked more like Hogan.

PS Speaking of Hogan, at the end of the Shells WW of Golf match they gave equal time to Sam Snead. His start down thought......... a pull down of the left arm! Vive la difference.