Exactly Martee. The Hands and their Clubhead Lag, Flat Left Wrist and Plane Line should become a subconsious addiction.

Emphatically, Hands (Imperatives) are not educated until they control the Pivot (Essentials).

I had to go with extensor action.

My Vote
 

R-H-Y-T-H-M

I have not been here for sometime so I nosed around. Maybe I should not be a busy body but I needed to contact Lynn in regards to somthin' somthin'.

Not to steal any thunder but the above bolded was already placed in the Imperative List in the very beginning and then removed.

With the above in mind here is a lil' food for thought:

1. One must be capable of defining Rhythm. Homer defined Rhythm as keeping the clubshaft and the left arm in line. What happens when this is accomplished? Yeppir, one then has accomplished Imperative #1 which is, the Flat Left Wrist.

2. Rhythm is likewise based upon Hinge Action. Each Hinge Action has its own significant Rhythm. It is associated with Accum. #3. By the way if you have no accum. #3 you get Angled Hinge Action travel (I like this word) and Rhythm. Ok back to Rhythm and Hinge Action. With how hinge and rhythm are associated with and tied together. With these two items we then have one of the key ingredients to the golf stroke which Homer called the "Primary Concepts" which is, the Hinge Action of an Angular Motion operating on an Incline Plane. This is what Homer named the "Basic Golf Stroke."

3. Homer also made the following paraphrased statement. If someone would have described Rhythm to me I would have never needed to write the book.

So the above is a small amount of fodder for consideration and so now......I leave the rest to Lynn.

Thanks all and I am now off to my beach.

Best to all.

Randy

Howdee Randee!
 

Love ya, Randy. Solid post. Drop in more often... we got goin's on goin' on and appreciate your observations and comments.

Rhythm = RPM.s????

Hi all,

I truly believe in the importance of rhythm as a potential Imperative, but once one has trained a sucessful/rhythmic swing, how does one maintain that rhythm during periods of stess or fatigue while on the course? It strikes me that the maintenence of rhythm is one of the fundamental differences between humans and the true 'golfing machine'. The human body does get tired, and sometimes stiff and rusty. The human mind does at times get stressed, frustrated or suffer from a loss of focus. I would suggest that problems maintaining the straight plane line and the flat left wrist can be overcome during the round by sheer intellectual effort but the essentials of balance and rhythm require a physical, body participation/precision that can be difficult to maintain during periods of fatigue. Anyone who has ever shot a scorching front nine only to break-down on the back as fatigue sets in and rhythm is lost knows what I am talking about.

Some say that you need to recognize this loss of rhythm and start playing your 'go-to'shots to close out the round, but when I am in the middle of it I often refuse to accept that it is happening and try to force my way back into a good rhythm, rarely with any success.

What do you guys do, start humming the Tennesse Waltz?

I don't think Rhythm is imperative. If you have a flat left wrist whereas no portion of the primary lever assembly will move forward independantly you have no choice but to execute a hinge action with its particular rhythm which will be of some useful in some application or another.

RHYTHM

Yoda,
It's 9/24 at 5 pm.... I've been checking this thread every hour since yesterday at 7 am..... what is the answer? I have to know!!!!

What he said!!!!!!