Been there, done that. I designed and built 3 Alignment Learning Aids to teach players how to Hinge and use the Right Forearm Angle of Approach. Dual Horizontal, Angled and Dual Vertical. You need only two Dowels and a coupler to connect them (or use your Left Hand)
TO USE: Hold the "Paddle-Wheel" Stick Perpendicular to the Associated Plane with your Left Hand. With your Right Hand, Grip the Lever Stick at Impact Fix with your Right Forearm On-Plane and the #3 PP on the Aft Side of the Shaft. Move the "Lever" Stick back and forth with your Right Hand, Forearm and Elbow.
NOTE: Grip the Lever firmly with your Right Hand with a Bent and Level Wrist. Don't allow the right hand to rotate as you move back and forth. This is Hinge Action. If you loosen your Right Hand Grip and Allow the hand to Rotate while the Lever Stick moves, then you're Swiveling.
This teaches Hinge Action and the Right Forearm Angle of Approach for that Hinge Action(and much more). These devices will force you to Hinge through Impact and You CANNOT Swivel through Impact with these devices.
Nice D . Different point of view or machine so to speak from 1L but not inconsistent . Did you draw Vertical Hinging?
Sorry if this is getting away from the Right Forearm Angle of A....
It's the same as 1-L. The Paddle-Wheel Hinge Stick is HKs Main Hinge Pin. But HK only indirectly tells you that it's the "Right Forearm Angle of Approach" that creates the "Hinge Action". Almost all TGM'ers are "trying" to Hinge by literally holding the Flat Left Wrist Vertical to one of the available Associated Planes and "The struggle" is endless as evidenced in a recent "Thread" started by a new member who is having difficulty holding the Left Wrist Flat. Because Hinge Action is not "cause"; it's an "Effect". These devices teach the Right Forearm Angle of Approach. By having an Approach Angle to deliver the Clubshaft and Clubhead to Impact, rather than using a "Swivel Action", the Hinge is brought into existence. By Varying the Angle of Approach, you change the Hinge Action.
If the new member and his teacher would use one of the devices I created, the student would learn the Angle of Approach of the Right Forearm and begin Hinging immediately. No more Struggle and he would soon grasp that the Right Forearm Angle of Approach is the mother of the concepts in TGM.
Homer Kelley knew this to be true:
Quote:
6-B-3-0 THE THIRD POWER ACCUMULATOR
With true Throw-Out Action (no manual Clubface manipulation), Centrifugal Force automatically aligns the Clubshaft and Clubface for Horizontal Hinging (10-10-D) regardless of the Grip being used. And Ball Position (2-N) for straight-away flight must agree with the amount of “Hookface” designed into the Club, and is, therefore, unalterable except with manual override action or adjustment of the Plane Line. True “Drive Out” Action holds the Clubface in Impact Fix alignment (7-10) and automatically produces Angled Hinging (10-10-C). Study 7-3 and 10-11-0-3. Regardless of Lag Loading Procedure, Vertical Hinging (10-10-B) is a deliberate manual manipulation.
With true Throw-Out Action (no manual Clubface manipulation), Centrifugal Force automatically aligns the Clubshaft and Clubface for Horizontal Hinging (10-10-D) regardless of the Grip being used. And Ball Position (2-N) for straight-away flight must agree with the amount of “Hookface” designed into the Club, and is, therefore, unalterable except with manual override action or adjustment of the Plane Line. True “Drive Out” Action holds the Clubface in Impact Fix alignment (7-10) and automatically produces Angled Hinging (10-10-C). Study 7-3 and 10-11-0-3. Regardless of Lag Loading Procedure, Vertical Hinging (10-10-B) is a deliberate manual manipulation.
Underline by Daryl.
What is the difference between "Drive Out" as you have quoted and "Throw Out" like it says in the 7. edition?
The clubface is "the flat left wrist" and the hinge is in the left arm. Set it at fix and hold it.
I think there is a lot of confusion in inderstanding-
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6-B-3-0 THE THIRD POWER ACCUMULATOR
With true Throw-Out Action (no manual Clubface manipulation), Centrifugal Force automatically aligns the Clubshaft and Clubface for Horizontal Hinging (10-10-D) regardless of the Grip being used. And Ball Position (2-N) for straight-away flight must agree with the amount of “Hookface” designed into the Club, and is, therefore, unalterable except with manual override action or adjustment of the Plane Line. True “Drive Out” Action holds the Clubface in Impact Fix alignment (7-10) and automatically produces Angled Hinging (10-10-C). Study 7-3 and 10-11-0-3. Regardless of Lag Loading Procedure, Vertical Hinging (10-10-B) is a deliberate manual manipulation.
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Please read my "sweet spot" thread down in the lab. And think through the dynamics, please!!
Three dimentional alignments to move ON a TWO dimensional plane. The hinge is Left side and keeps the "peas on the spoon"
Sorry- just my opinion- without motive.
HB
Last edited by HungryBear : 02-08-2012 at 11:46 AM.
The Flat Left Wrist "represents" the Clubface and then only does so if the Primary Lever travels at the same RPM through the Impact Interval.
Originally Posted by HungryBear
.... and the hinge is in the left arm. Set it at fix and hold it.
The Left Arm is a Lever. The Hinge is at one end of the Lever. The Left Shoulder is at the End of the Lever. The Hinge Pins are Located at the Left Shoulder.
Originally Posted by HungryBear
Three dimentional alignments to move ON a TWO dimensional plane. The hinge is Left side and keeps the "peas on the spoon"
The Path of an orbit is three dimensional. The Orbit can exist on a two dimensional Plane. Hinge Action and keeping the peas on a spoon are two different vegetables.
The Flat Left Wrist "represents" the Clubface and then only does so if the Primary Lever travels at the same RPM through the Impact Interval.
I think "make the motion" in this case with the "generic" flat left hand/wrist and the clubface will take care of itself.
The Left Arm is a Lever. The Hinge is at one end of the Lever. The Left Shoulder is at the End of the Lever. The Hinge Pins are Located at the Left Shoulder.
I kind-of stuck it in the arm because there are some rotary alignments to maintain.
The Path of an orbit is three dimensional. The Orbit can exist on a two dimensional Plane. Hinge Action and keeping the peas on a spoon are two different vegetables.
What off plane forces/motion do you have in mind that will make the third, off plane, dimension?
............ Now that you mention it- I like peas
hb
"The hinge.... keeps the peas on the spoon". I love that. That should be on a brass plaque in the archives. D, can you arrange for that???
I like the hinge at the left shoulder , think its ideal actually , but there are stroke types which don't allow for it to be so. Take for instance Billy Caspers zone 3 , hands, only putting in which he showed Vertical Hinging . He manipulated the Hinge Action ... used his Hands to Hinge. Or take the pure shoulder stroke putting method with any hinge action .... the Spine as the Hinge. Or my old uncle Terry who played golf with just his right arm after a bout with polio as a child left his left arm useless .... he had a beautiful Horizontal Hinge with Id say his Right Forearm or would it be right elbow as the location of the hinge.
Homer in the audio tapes said that any of the three zones could create the Hinge Action "as if it were located at the left shoulder". That said , I think "Right hand club head, left hand club face " is the ideal as using the right arm or hand for face control would necessitate the compliance of the right elbow , which is often one wild horse to have strapped to your club face alignment horse cart. Its got other things on its mind.
I kind-of stuck it in the arm because there are some rotary alignments to maintain.
The Path of an orbit is three dimensional. The Orbit can exist on a two dimensional Plane. Hinge Action and keeping the peas on a spoon are two different vegetables.
What off plane forces/motion do you have in mind that will make the third, off plane, dimension?
There are rotations of the Left arm. But those rotations are the Start-up Swivel and Release Swivel. They're independent of Hinge Action.
3 dimensional path = down-out-forward. No off-plane motion because the 3 dimensional path is within the 2 dimensional Plane.
Hybrid Mode
