Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / The "Muntz trying to play golf" thread

Good to see you are still alive:)

Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / Edwin's log - I welcome any and all help!!

GE-C how simple is a chip shot? How simple is a pitch? Surely any good golfing teacher can set a simple pattern to get a player to do that? Great engineering and you do not have to use big words to get it to work. The teachers certainly don’t have to.

KISS is good for golf based on a solid foundation.

Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / Overswinging

Welcome MargY’.

Many golfers of all ages and both sexes think that a longer swing just has to be more powerful than a shorter one.

One reason is that on TV everyone is belting it a mile with a big swing – perception of what is going on.

Also if we make a big enough swing then Centrifugal Force ( whirling a ball on the end of a string) will pull many bits of a golf swing together if we let them. So longer again seems better.

However if we tinker with trying to add power to the string, eerrr clubshaft during a swing it often will disrupt the orbit of the head and splat we have a duff in play.

So, we need to get a good clear idea of what needs to go on in a swing rather than the blurred perception of what we grasp from the TV screen. Head into the Golf School area and read from Fix Your Swing and you will hopefully get your head around the plan.
Then its all about learning the actions needed to make the motion happen a little better each practice session.

Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / Let's Talk GOLF MACHINE!

Dap: if you do a search into the bowels of this forum you will find that yours truly rather tongue in cheekily said CF was a fictional force:) It started a looonnngggg (and boring to most) physics discussion. haha.

In here we do try real hard to keep to things with practical application and semantics can be left in general to the more in depth forums.

I think we all know a rock twirled on a string is kept tight by CF (or as numbers asks by what other term or collection of terms?)

If you guys do wish to kick on with this idea, set up another thread please:)

I am off for the weekend at this point. Have a great time out there all.

Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / Let's Talk GOLF MACHINE!

CF is recongnised by engineers for what it is so we can disregard that one for a start, an old chestnut. Add to that the Glossary clearly defined how it and many other terms were ulitised within the book to avoid confusion.

Endorsement is not the right world either. Engineers could not find fault with the assistant’s findings.

Hardly think this forum fits into one which is closed minded? I think in here you should find that we have happily said if there is new info that fits the Laws of force and motion that can be used life would progress. Lag’s teachers are a perfect example.

Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / Let's Talk GOLF MACHINE!

TGM HQ have said that the info in the archives. The MIT engineering fellow who did put their eyes to it would be long in their graves at a guess so hard to say how they went about it.

The book is a hard read and confuses more people than enlightens first up that is for sure. Poorly written though portrays that the underlaying info is poor when it is the other end of the spectrum.

Once you get how to work your way around the contents, its full of gems, practical ones.

Topic: Golf Equipment / Total Golf Performance - (Club Fit, Melbourne)

Good to see you went on a search for good info:)

Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / Let's Talk GOLF MACHINE!

dap: The book got sent to MIT in the early days. It came back with 100% from the eggs who’s only negative comment was “wish it were easier to read”.

Doubts expressed elsewhere generally are just that. Few have managed to pull the concepts apart before finding their own ideas are somewhere else in the work and actually utilised.

Homer was a man not a demi god that is for sure. Anyone who finds additional work that you can use to improve your golf I am all for as it would have to fit into the engineering dept approach that he took himself.

Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / Styles' journey to Scratch and beyond!

Fed up? I would be too with the weather you have had to put up with lately. Wet and grey skys made of somber moods which in turn lead to rushing out to hit balls, play holes in any break in the weather. Word there is rushing. Leads to trying to control too much and forcing your way around a course trying to squeeze in more from less time available.

Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / Let's Talk GOLF MACHINE!

Lag: I think that one good thing about having a long time incubating the yellow book and not working directly for too long under someone like “a Ben” for us lot down under is we are not strapped to a single pattern learning process. When our students get together for a hit you can hear them talking on the range or 19th hole along the lines of,
“Boy what a classic swinger you are.”
And,
“I never could do that hitting thing you just nail it with.”

Even at the Roadmap workshops we show hitting and swinging to show that neither is right nor wrong, more that some people are more naturally inclined one way or the other to one type of power generation.

The fact is few know how to teach a hitter when they walk onto a lesson tee and this leads to a longer and tougher learning process for the player.

Blonde or Brunette, don’t mind:)

Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / Frozen Right Wrist

For the sake of simplicity you can set the angle for the bent right wrist at Impact Fix. Hitters can make their backswing from there if they wished to. Swingers then ‘see’ the angle at Impact Fix before going back to an Adjusted Address and then reset the angle and freeze it there in the initial take away motion where the FLW is also established (which has to bend the right wrist back by definition).

Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / Going to the next level.

Don’t feed the Dobbsy. He will be back no doubt as another name when he wants to throw a stone through the school window.

And yes I have.

Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / Flat vs Upright

Ben has been and still is a great teacher of the swing. Homer was a smarter cookie and that he knew there was more than one way to skin the cat and thank goodness for that.

Styles was telling me that I need a ferry ticket to Ireland rather than the plane last night its been so wet. I have my floaties packed as I did see pics of the course where the bridges had been swept away.
Guess the bright side is no crocs about.

Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / Keeping elbows close together

Numbers: you have been listening to your tutor and hearing what he is saying very well. Keep it up.

Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / Clearing the right hip

I would like to hear how Brownman describes it as a user rather than teacher. His journeys insight will help others who have not been there before.

Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / Keeping elbows close together

What does it look like when you have your flashlights on plane?

Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / Clearing the right hip

It was unPC but boy that sticks in the grey cells like glue.

Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / TGM Book

Some people love the book. Others sleep reading it. It is not a how to by numbers, more why things work with millions of variations on offer. All The Golf School is based on it in much simplified English.

Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / TGM Book

golfguruATiseekgolfDOTcom for a shiney new one.

Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / Clearing the right hip

Get a hoola hoop and learn that you can easily disengage your hips from your shoulder motion. You can keep in shape better too:)

Stick your hands on your head, make your back turn. Now slide the hips a tiny bit forward (not turning, sliding), leaving your shoulders where they were. THEN drop the right shoulder down plane and rotate. It is actually a very graceful motion once you get it. Until the penny drops it can feel very forces as you are so used to doing everything as single hips and torso motion.

Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / Master Accumulator and PP#4

Numbers that is a very good observation for hitting. It is there but smaller than for a swinger. Top of the class.

Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / Keeping elbows close together

Yes it would seem a pretty silly idea.

Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / Master Accumulator and PP#4

I am sure Lag’ will enjoy this thread. If you revisit the beginnings of Lets Talk TGM there is a lot about #4 in there.

Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / Master Accumulator and PP#4

What cranks the gyroscope for the swinger? Remember the hands lag the pivot which pulls the pulling hands for Drag loading.

Grab an old shaft or your dowel and hold it in your left hand only and work on the #4s in left side isolation. Then then add the right hand to the shaft and see what you feel using the swingers action.

Then try Drive loading it.

Topic: Ask Golf Guru - Golf Instruction / Master Accumulator and PP#4

Hitter or swinger?