Understanding hinge action and how it relates to ball compression, spin, trajectory was a huge eye opener to me when I started to read the yellow book.
It literally changed the way I wanted to strike the ball. It set my impact thinking straight in a way that made long lasting improvements.
When the touch goes away and the stroke falls apart you start thinking about what you're doing and what you're supposed to do. If your stroke is accompanied by faulty beliefs the thinking can make things worse. If you really understand impact you can manufacture shots that works.
Hinge action is certainly one of the topics that differentiates TGM from the pack. And vital if you want to become a shot maker who knows what he's doing.
Thanks but my mind just can't see what hinge action does. I think I have read everything I could but I still don't understand it. Thats why I was wondering how important it is. I quess I need someone right in front of me to show me.
Thanks but my mind just can't see what hinge action does. I think I have read everything I could but I still don't understand it. Thats why I was wondering how important it is. I quess I need someone right in front of me to show me.
Please watch the below three video clips-
The first is critical for understanding what TGM is.
Clip two and three are hinge action presented by Yoda – He stands before you in these clips and teaches hinge action with precision. Because they are video clips he will continue to stand before you until you get it.
I don't get it either. The upper left arm (not the wrist) rolls naturally from the ball and socket joint at the left shoulder as it swings on an inclined plane, thus producing clubface roll on the plane. Rotating the torso, with no independent left arm swing, to swing the club on the plane, produces the same clubface roll effect. I'm not even sure that it is anatomically possible to manipulate the left shoulder joint to prevent that roll in a swing of any force, while keeping the shaft on the plane. But why would you want to anyway?
One of the easiest to understand, at least for me, can be found on The Golf Channel.
Watch a demo by Martin Hall. He uses hinges from Home Depot, affixed to his wrists. Almost too easy to apply.
I have trouble just delivering the club to a constant impact alignment, should I even entertain the need to use different hinges?
gmbtempe my whole thing with Hinging being irrelevant is that I cant imagine not using it.......so Id say you should do some work on it when chipping and pitching.
When Im watching the guys on tv I see different Hinge Actions .......and the vast majority of these guys dont know about the three basic planes. Maybe this is why some guys struggle with certain shots? Arnie didnt have good flop shot say. I dunno. Although, and Im going from memory here Ill have to take another look at it, didnt Arnies old book sort of describe Hinging for bump and run shots.. what we'd call Horizontal Hinging? Hmmmm or was it Jacks book? I think it was one of Arnies. Got to dig those things out its been years since I looked at them.
Homer didnt invent Hinging ......he only defined its underlying geometry.
Homer didnt invent Hinging ......he only defined its underlying geometry.
I guess you responded this way to prevent an impression that TGM is a particular way of moving the club through impact and I agree that it isn't.
But what Homer did with his hinge analysis is also a massive knowledge invention that deserves to be reckognised. He took a huge leap forward knowledge wise.
Homer created a language and a system that enables us to differentiate and analyse various hinge actions and a myriad of other important details.
If he had tied his analysis to to various methods for learning different hinge actions it might even have been patentable method.
I guess you responded this way to prevent an impression that TGM is a particular way of moving the club through impact and I agree that it isn't.
But what Homer did with his hinge analysis is also a massive knowledge invention that deserves to be reckognised. He took a huge leap forward knowledge wise.
Homer created a language and a system that enables us to differentiate and analyse various hinge actions and a myriad of other important details.
If he had tied his analysis to to various methods for learning different hinge actions it might even have been patentable method.
Agreed. To clarify, I said it that way because I imagine Hinge Action has been employed for as long as golf has been played. If unknowingly. Homer's contribution was to decode it geometrically. Define it precisely. Bring it out of the darkness.
Bernt do you think a feathery with its different c.o.r (whatever that is) would make for a more profound ball response to Hinge Action?
Im going to look through my old golf books to try find something similar to hinging. We need Drew or somebody familiar with the with the books from the days of wooden shafts to help maybe.
Anybody got any leads to hinge action being mentioned in other golf instruction books. Id swear there's something in one of Arnie or Jack's books.
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