Young Yoda

[MBCpro]

The School ran 2 1/2 days. We would begin on a Friday afternoon and close shop late Sunday afternoon. The fee was a flat $500, and it included a textbook (The Golfing Machine); handout materials in a three-ring notebook; the Sequence Photo analysis; and lunch on Saturday and Sunday. It was a good deal, but maybe not quite as good as it sounds. Remember...

Gas was only 47 cents a gallon!

Yoda,
Any pics of the handout materials?
47 Cents a gallon??
I asked in a earlier thread your thoughts on teaching without a ball or indoors into a net, I am a believer that this maybe the best way to teach, although not practical in today's world, but I often see great progress destroyed but the hypnotic effect of distance and direction of ball flight as I believe Mr. Kelley stated it.
Just curious of your thoughts since you have experienced teaching both ways, most of us have only taught outdoors.

Thanks,

todd

[Yoda]

By the way, compare the Geometric theory (the cardboard model in Post #12) with its demonstrated Equivalent (Ted Fort's avatar...his Left Arm and Club per Post #13 or elsewhere).

[Blade]

" The training was rooted in the precision alignments of the Mechanical Checklist For All Strokes (12-3) and the Twelve Sections of the Stroke (Chapter Eight). We would first learn to identify the boundaries of each Section -- Students would call out the name as they moved to it ("Start Up"..."Backstroke"..."Top," etc.) -- and then pose for ten seconds in each, monitoring the Alignments as I called them out. We also worked hard on the three-step Address Routine of 3-F-5. Over a period of three days, these alignments became more and more habitual, and students learned to both train and check themselves. We moved from Posed Positions to very Slow Motion Strokes through the Positions to Normal Speed Strokes. Much of this was done first with a ClubSHAFT only and only later with a real Club. And always without a Ball (except as a reference point to Swing through!)."

Yoda, is it possible to recreate this learning 'process'(or a detail of it) demonstrated in a downloadable gallery video? With you identifying "the precision alignments of the Mechanical Checklist For All Strokes (12-3) and the Twelve Sections of the Stroke (Chapter Eight)."

Moving from the posed positions to a slow motion stroke would 'cut to the chase'or essence more than anything else I can imagine.

These old photos are classic reinforcement of TGM principles unaltered by fad or latest trends.

Blade.

[Trig]

Great, great, stuff Yoda!

[Matt]

Very cool brochure and pics, thanks for posting them!

[Yoda]

"The wicked flee when no one pursues. But the righteous are bold as a lion."

--Proverbs 28:1

After my initial exposure to The Golfing Machine and especially after I had spent a week studying with Homer Kelley, it didn't take me long to begin the assault on conventional golf instruction. And it mattered not the target of my corrective efforts (in this case, one Jack William Nicklaus after his Golf Digest article in December 1982).

Arrogance?

Or The Truth articulated in polite but no uncertain terms?

You be the judge!

[Mathew]

Great post yoda

[Yoda]

Great post yoda

Thanks, Mathew. It is old news, but still fresh as the morning dew.

Homer Kelley was far ahead of his time. Too far, really, for him to see the universal acceptance of his ideas.

But his time has come...

And it is now.

[Jim.Cook]

Isn't it interesting......
Your letter was dated December 18, 1982, yet I can go to the range today and still see the diagram. Years later and your information is still as true as the day you typed it. Unaffected by todays glitz and glammer, this is a sign of the real TRUTH.

Last night at the range I watched for an hour as one of the highest rated (rated by one of those magazines) instructors in Massachusetts was giving lessons. I was in the same place as his student..... just not getting it. Until, that is, I met Yoda and the fog lifted. I just wanted to shout "YOUR TEACHING IS ALL WRONG" but I held my breath and felt sorry of the student.

By the way, what word processor did you use for your letter?

[dcg1952]

Yoda, just curious----did Golf Digest or Mr. Nicklaus ever reply to your letter???