Tomasello's pattern is not the "end-all-be-all" of golf stroke patterns. It takes a lot of work beyond watching videos and reading old articles to make this or any pattern work. My biggest problem with making this pattern work in the real world is understand how the pivot works. I think that 90% of the golf stroke is the pivot, and Tomasello totally washes over it, but insteads preaches this hands controlled pivot fallacy. What he says and does are completely opposite. Learn how to pivot first and then add you right arm. That is how golf is played and it doesnt matter if you are a hitter, swinger, or switter. The hands cannot logically ever control the pivot; the pivot cannot logically control the hands. It takes both. It is the pivot stupid
That is how I learned how to use my right arm in the golf swing, it is how most good players control the swing. Everything else is jsut theory and marketing.
Add a correct pivot and you now have a maximum participation stroke.
"Have at it." I have and the ball sails 290 + down the fairway with a draw.
Tomasello's pattern is not the "end-all-be-all" of golf stroke patterns. It takes a lot of work beyond watching videos and reading old articles to make this or any pattern work. My biggest problem with making this pattern work in the real world is understand how the pivot works. I think that 90% of the golf stroke is the pivot, and Tomasello totally washes over it, but insteads preaches this hands controlled pivot fallacy. What he says and does are completely opposite. Learn how to pivot first and then add you right arm. That is how golf is played and it doesnt matter if you are a hitter, swinger, or switter. The hands cannot logically ever control the pivot; the pivot cannot logically control the hands. It takes both. It is the pivot stupid
That is how I learned how to use my right arm in the golf swing, it is how most good players control the swing. Everything else is jsut theory and marketing.
Add a correct pivot and you now have a maximum participation stroke.
"Have at it." I have and the ball sails 290 + down the fairway with a draw.
The above comments are a deviation from TGM...see 12-13-0.
IN TGM the ARMS LANE IS THE POWER LANE NOT THE PIVOT...Hips do not provide power they only maintain velocity.
Last edited by Delaware Golf : 03-04-2007 at 05:42 PM.
Tomasello's pattern is not the "end-all-be-all" of golf stroke patterns. It takes a lot of work beyond watching videos and reading old articles to make this or any pattern work. My biggest problem with making this pattern work in the real world is understand how the pivot works. I think that 90% of the golf stroke is the pivot, and Tomasello totally washes over it, but insteads preaches this hands controlled pivot fallacy. What he says and does are completely opposite. Learn how to pivot first and then add you right arm. That is how golf is played and it doesnt matter if you are a hitter, swinger, or switter. The hands cannot logically ever control the pivot; the pivot cannot logically control the hands. It takes both. It is the pivot stupid
That is how I learned how to use my right arm in the golf swing, it is how most good players control the swing. Everything else is jsut theory and marketing.
Add a correct pivot and you now have a maximum participation stroke.
"Have at it." I have and the ball sails 290 + down the fairway with a draw.
Of course the pivot is important. A hands controlled pivot is NOT what you think it is. You have the wrong idea of the term- “Hands controlled pivot.” It is NOT an arm swing.
The pivot moves the hands. The pivot does the “work.” What the pivot does NOT do is control the, or think for, the golf stroke. The pivot is designed by the hands to delivery the club to the ball.
Although Zones 2 and 3 (arms and hands) supply the power to the ball. Zone 1 (body- the pivot) generates POWER. The pivot provides Throw OUT power like a rotor. Max out all the Pivot Lag you want and power it up.
The pivot components are 7-12 through 17:
Pivot
Shoulder TURN
Hip TURN
Hip Action
Knee Action
Foot Action
None of which hold the club but generate Lag and Throw –Out.
So when you hear the term Hands Controlled Pivot you know that it isn’t an arm swing but a well designed body motion that generates power (what ever amount is appropriate for the shot) to the arms and hands. Once the hands are educated and have designed this power pad- let it work for you.
Of course the pivot is important. A hands controlled pivot is NOT what you think it is. You have the wrong idea of the term- “Hands controlled pivot.” It is NOT an arm swing.
The pivot moves the hands. The pivot does the “work.” What the pivot does NOT do is control the, or think for, the golf stroke. The pivot is designed by the hands to delivery the club to the ball.
Although Zones 2 and 3 (arms and hands) supply the power to the ball. Zone 1 (body- the pivot) generates POWER. The pivot provides Throw OUT power like a rotor. Max out all the Pivot Lag you want and power it up.
The pivot components are 7-12 through 17:
Pivot
Shoulder TURN
Hip TURN
Hip Action
Knee Action
Foot Action
None of which hold the club but generate Lag and Throw –Out.
So when you hear the term Hands Controlled Pivot you know that it isn’t an arm swing but a well designed body motion that generates power (what ever amount is appropriate for the shot) to the arms and hands. Once the hands are educated and have designed this power pad- let it work for you.
I think that the above is why it is very important to train the pivot. Do so properly, and it allows you to monitor the pressure points, and use the hands effectively. If the pivot is faulty, you'll have to make compensations. You're hands have to be that much better, just to hit passable shots.
When performing swing exercises with the feet and knees together one could still obtain considerable distances despite a minimal body pivot. How come?
Even with feet together, you have a shoulder turn and to a lesser degree a hip turn. The shoulders are in BOTH the pivot components and the power package components. The shoulders transmit the pivot motion in the stroke to the power package. So even feet together can never be a pure non-pivot motion. Feet together drill does eliminate the Feet, Knee and Hip Actions but not the Hip or Shoulder TURNS. You still have the Accumulators 4, 2, and 3 or 1, 2, and 3 in that drill.
Imagine the precision the Right Shoulder needs to be the portal between Pivot and Power.
IN TGM the ARMS LANE IS THE POWER LANE NOT THE PIVOT...Hips do not provide power they only maintain velocity.
Physically impossible!
Physically impossible aye....from the man himself.
Tomasello on the big muscles trying to generate power.
Tomasello: Don’t let your right elbow go behind you, it’s got to stay in front. Straight up…..Uncock….Yeah uncock the elbow…. nice and smooth….how easy can you do it.
Yeah that’s good….then you just face the target right.
Can you appreciate that… if that was a hammer or an axe and all that you did was this (drop it), how much power would that generate all by itself.
See, it isn’t that the hips are producing power, they are not, they are only maintaining the velocity that you generated here (uncocking of the right elbow, karate chop), that’s all they do….hips don’t generate power….it’s just to continue the speed that you generated here (karate chop)….how long does this take to get going there (uncocking the right elbow), not very long….and the hips continue that motion, that’s all…..So the big muscles do not supply power…but they want to." Tom Tomasello October 1993.
Thanks Mr. Tomasello for clearing that up....(Karate Chop it). Do you really understand TGM.
DG
Last edited by Delaware Golf : 03-05-2007 at 08:06 PM.
The pelvis is not attached to the shoulder girdle. We can move our hips independently of our shoulders. Thus, clubhead speed does not increase because of fast hips, in fact, it can slow down because moving the hips too fast can throw everything out of sequence. A quicker shoulder turn through the ball however will increase clubhead speed.
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"In my experience, if you stay with the essentials you WILL build a repeatable swing undoubtedly. If you can master the Imperatives you have a champion" (Vikram).
The reason you can't sustain the lag is because you are so eager to make the club move fast (a reaction to the intent of "hitting it far"). So on a full shot you throw it away too early, which doesn't happen for your short chip. (bts)
Of course the pivot is important. A hands controlled pivot is NOT what you think it is. You have the wrong idea of the term- “Hands controlled pivot.” It is NOT an arm swing.
The pivot moves the hands. The pivot does the “work.” What the pivot does NOT do is control the, or think for, the golf stroke. The pivot is designed by the hands to delivery the club to the ball.
Although Zones 2 and 3 (arms and hands) supply the power to the ball. Zone 1 (body- the pivot) generates POWER. The pivot provides Throw OUT power like a rotor. Max out all the Pivot Lag you want and power it up.
The pivot components are 7-12 through 17:
Pivot
Shoulder TURN
Hip TURN
Hip Action
Knee Action
Foot Action
None of which hold the club but generate Lag and Throw –Out.
So when you hear the term Hands Controlled Pivot you know that it isn’t an arm swing but a well designed body motion that generates power (what ever amount is appropriate for the shot) to the arms and hands. Once the hands are educated and have designed this power pad- let it work for you.
The legs pushing into the ground and the ground pushing equal energy back generate the inital forces that make golf swings possible. The body's ability to muscularly harness and redirect that energy makes good golf swings possible.The muscles that rotate the torso certainly help to harness and redirect this energy to the powerful muscles that move our arms, hands, and golf club.
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