[Delaware Golf]

Dave,
Martee makes a good point- Full Power- is it written in the context of pressure point pressure?- or is it written in the context of maximum accumulators? - or a maximum combination of both? - Your view/feedback? In relation to your post?

Martee,
Good comments- Put in a little different way or clarifying your comments/perspective:
1) TGM is essentially the Star System Triad- the Three Imperatives applying the Three functions through the Three Stations - if you're having that as your essential guide to teaching students to lower their scores then you're teaching TGM.
2) If you're arguing, promoting other specific issues of the golf swing i.e. your golf swing essentials - then you've become too narrow and haven't grasped the nature of TGM- that it allows for all kinds of variations.
3) Or another way that you like to say it - is to drop the Star System Triad as the starting point and only look at things below it or something specific. That's the perspective that makes your point clear- that if you're teaching TGM then you're teaching someone the book, otherwise in regards to teaching TGM to students in regards to working on improving their swing- there is no TGM way- it's wide open - that is under the Star System Triad.

Mike/Martee,

Appreciate your comments...

My perspective has to come from Tomasello...I believe some think Tomasello strayed from the true teachings of TGM...with the 7th edition information, I believe Tommy was really teaching from the book the way it's presented in the 7th edition. Tommy was in contact with Homer up until the end, in fact, I believe Tommy was the one who arranged Homer's speaking engagment in front of the PGA the day he passed away. I guess some of you know that Homer passed away in Tomasello's arms.

I believe Tom taught 12-2-0 the way that it's written as a vehicle to understand the pivot in a swinging action. Tommy definitely followed building the swing in stages per 12-5-0...on cassette tape from my 1993 lessons with Tomasello on the driving range at Deer Track...Tommy had me start the downswing by triggering the downswing with the right forearm then generating the release with pivot thrust by way of the left hip (a pulling action of the left hip, review the Tomasello chapter series for left hip references). With the 7th edition comments in 12-5-3...for me, it makes sense what Tomasello was doing...he was making me aware of the left hip prior to adding Full Power with the uncocking action of the right elbow through the throwing action of the right forearm. Why? Tommy didn't want the student to apply so much attention to the uncocking of the right forearm that they would lose track of their pivot condition by stopping their left hip from sliding at the beginning of the downstroke or quit their left hip action in the rotational phase of release. Once you had the feel for the pivot, to add Full Power, Tomasello added the uncocking action of the right elbow through the right forearm, the pivot now just responded to the uncocking of the right elbow through the magic of the right forearm.

I recommend watching the chapter 5 video in the Tomasello chapter series before responding to this post. It probably wouldn't hurt to read 10-3-K, 10-D-3, 12-5-3 and 7-3 too.

On the lesson tee with Tomasello, I asked Tommy where in the book does it say, start the downswing with the right forearm (trust me, at the time I was as curious about this as many of you are), Tomasello's response, 7-3. Second comment from Tommy, The MAGIC OF THE RIGHT FOREARM.

DG