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.
To be blunt, Homer was theoretically diverse to the extreme. He would never say something was wrong. Incompatible with certain other components maybe but not wrong by itself. I recall an example when during a Masters Class a student asked him if it would be wrong for a swinger to use the Angle of Approach procedure. His reply was something like:
"Well.........no.........but he's got a lot of work to do, a lot of compensations to make".
Its my opinion that the best students who learned directly from Homer embraced, lived , taught this attitude. TGM is not a method as written.
There is a guy I know of who teaches a pattern, a good pattern, his pattern. A pattern in stark contrast to his teachers pattern. He makes a lot of hay criticizing TGM for not including some of his x procedures, for being a closed loop. Its music to the ears of those that think the book is overly obtuse................"stick with me Ill show you the shortcut through the dark forest".
If it gets you where you want to go then great, its a good fit for you. They would be surprised to find that Homer would not be averse to it in any way. But Homer would also recognize any tendencies , compensations which may be inherent. (Perhaps an incompatibility too ) And that is where method teaching gives way to more diverse, informed discussion and approaches artistry.
So we have choices, lots of them. And Homer was all about options. A mind boggling array of options. On that, we should all be able to agree.
By the way, my cross handed friend ended up winning the local Champions of Champions event. Beating some 30 odd club champions, most of whom where half his age. Amazing.
Hybrid Mode
