Book Errors

[Bagger Lance]

Tis tread is a big hit! LOL.

I thought it might be valuable to have an area where book errors are documented, thinking that it would be helpful to members and the home office.

Oh well.

Bagguh

[Weightshift]

I thought it might be valuable to have an area where book errors are documented, thinking that it would be helpful to members and the home office.

Oh well.

Is there a list of 6th Edition errors?

[annikan skywalker]

Error..moved #10 Hinge Action to Zone #2...9-2...p.125...but forgot to change the last paragraph in 9-0 on Page 121... "And, any Hinge Action is Ball Control(Zone #3)...WTF....now I'm really confused....

[Yoda]

Error..moved #10 Hinge Action to Zone #2...9-2...p.125...but forgot to change the last paragraph in 9-0 on Page 121... "And, any Hinge Action is Ball Control(Zone #3)...WTF....now I'm really confused....

Hinge Action is one of the Three Major Concepts of The Golfing Machine. As such, its identity and lines of demarcation must be crystal-clear. In the new 7th edition, editorial inconsistencies (throughout the book) have caused those lines to be blurred and, hence, its identity to be compromised.

I don't yet have the 7th edition, but it wouldn't surprise me if the Chapter Ten subtitle under Hinge Action (10-10) is still Ball Control. And Ball Control is defined in 9-0 as a Zone #3 function. In fact, Zone #3 includes "all the elements of Ball Control" and, as you have noted, "any Hinge Action IS Ball Control (Zone #3)." Zone #2, on the other hand, is defined as "Club Control" (9-0) and "Power" (9-2). The conflict is obvious and demands resolution.

See my post #5 in this link http://www.lynnblakegolf.com/forum/s...ead.php?t=3036 and also its imbedded link written well prior to the 7th's publication.

In my opinion, the removal of Hinge Action from Zone #3 and its re-assignment to Zone #2 was the biggest challenge facing the publisher of the new 7th. I do not underestimate the difficulty of integrating that re-assignment with the rest of the book. However, if the publisher was not prepared to make the necessary changes -- changes I am convinced Homer Kelley would have made prior to publication had he lived -- then Hinge Action should have been left to reside without conflict in Zone #3, its established home for the prior six editions.

[annikan skywalker]

So are you're implying it could be in both Zones...Zone #2 the Arms Lane is what it does...moves around the pin....Zone #3 the Hands Lane are what it controls...the Clubface?

[Yoda]

So are you're implying it could be in both Zones...Zone #2 the Arms Lane is what it does...moves around the pin....Zone #3 the Hands Lane are what it controls...the Clubface?

If you see Hinge Action -- the Rhythmic Roll of the #3 Power Accumulator (the Angle formed between the Left Arm and Clubshaft when the Club is gripped under the heel of the Left Hand) from Impact to the end of the Follow-Through (Both Arms Straight position) -- as being automatically induced by the Physics of Rotation (Hitting or Swinging), then you see it as a Zone #2 (Power) Component.

If, on the other hand, you see Hinge Action as the veneer control applied by the Flat Left Wrist to individualize that Motion -- independent of the Motion itself -- into the three distinct applications of Clubface Control (Close Only, Layback Only and Simultaneous Close and Layback), then you see it as a Zone #3 (Purpose) Component.

One not-so-minor problem: If you see Hinge Action as being purely a function of the Physics of Rotation, then what do you do with Vertical Hinge Action (and its Clubface Layback Only)? It is neither the natural byproduct of Hitting (with its Muscularly-Powered Angled Hinging -- Simultaneous Clubface Close and Layback) or Swinging (with its Centrifugally-Powered Horizontal Hinging -- Clubface Closing Only). It is always, then, regardless of Lag Loading procedure, a "deliberate mechanical manipulation" (6-B-3-0). And that can only be Zone #3.

[EdZ]

If you see Hinge Action -- the Rhythmic Roll of the #3 Power Accumulator from Impact to the end of the Follow-Through (Both Arms Straight position) -- as being automatically induced by the Physics of Rotation (Hitting or Swinging), then you see it as a Zone #2 (Power) Component.

If, on the other hand, you see Hinge Action as the veneer control applied by the Flat Left Wrist to individualize that Motion -- independent of the Motion itself -- into the three distinct applications of Clubface Control (Close Only, Layback Only and Simultaneous Close and Layback), then you see it as a Zone #3 (Purpose) Component.

One not-so-minor problem: If you see Hinge Action as being purely a function of the Physics of Rotation, then what do you do with Vertical Hinge Action (and its Clubface Layback Only)? It is neither the natural byproduct of Hitting (Muscularly-Powered Angled Hinging -- Simultaneous Clubface Close and Layback) or Swinging (Centrifugally-Powered Horizontal Hinging -- Clubface Closing Only). It is always, then, regardless of Lag Loading procedure, a "deliberate mechanical manipulation" (6-B-3-0). And that can only be Zone #3.

I suspect the debate will continue on this one, but suffice to say, per 2-S there is a valid argument for both zone 2 and/or zone 3 per Yoda above.

Sometimes it is helpful to remember that humans 'divide' and 'categorize' for perspective, yet often that very act of trying to organize and describe gets in the way of the 'whole picture'.

[tongzilla]

...then Hinge Action should have been left to reside without conflict in Zone #3, its established home for the prior six editions.

Yes! I agree.