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Ah ha! Now I understand Yoda's reference to "da bat"! :laughing9 |
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Get Rhythm ....
Im not sure what Hogan had to say about the little bat exactly (does anyone have the Nick Seitz interview ?) or A.J. Bonar's "da bat" for that matter either (apart from what I gleaned after wading through the "golf dude in the basement" videos waiting for him to eventually cough it up.... don't say I didn't warn you if you try to find this on line. Its pretty funny but its really long).
Assuming the sweetspot does revolve around the shaft practically then the face would not be a lever I imagine. However the bit about Horizontal welding the point of contact together makes sense to me and my hands. But here's a question .... wouldn't the increased club head travel associated with Horizontal Hinging (assuming some #3 angle of course) increase the club head speed for any given hand speed? PS If you imagine the face as a little bat you would tend to roll it ........but only Homer's Hinge Action concept has the precise alignments necessary to help you determine how much is too much or too little. But you gotta get Rhythm, gotta gotta gotta. |
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Horizontal Hinging gives more compression because it eliminates the layback component of Angled Hinging. |
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I luv ya, man, but at Lynn Blake Golf, we never "choke down". Or up! Hasta la vista Johnny Miller! :laughing9 Instead, we only . . . Grip down. To my Certified Instructors, this is an important point: "Grip down" . . . NOT . . . "Choke up". Remember, The Computer is always listening. And . . . Complying. :salut: |
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Larry Nelson was the dominant Ryder Cupper of his day (9-0 in his first two Cups) and three-times Major Champion (one of only three men to win three majors in the 1980s). As we talked on the Atlanta CC practice tee, he balled his left and right fists in front of him -- no club and with his forearms level to the ground. Then, he turned both fists 90 degrees to the right. Finally, he twisted his balled left fist 'hard left', leaving his right wrist in place. He looked me in the eye, and said . . . "Fastest move in golf." He felt there was a "piece of string" between the two fists, and his object through impact was to "break the string" with his left hand. There were no launch monitors then. Today's 'new breed' and their 'name' brands were a decade or two away. Meanwhile, great athletes were hitting great golf shots and performing 72-hole scoring miracles. Whatever, this is what my friend Larry Nelson had to say . . . 'Way back when.' :salut: |
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one of the primary concepts of the golfing machine is to monitor the clubhead and clubface through the hands, we guide the motion through our Hands because the clubface will do accordingly. As if the clubface were the hands...similar to gripping down to the face..... How ever your hand rotates, that little bat does accordingly.... |
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looks like it is rotating about a center point not the handle end here...wouldn't want to be this ump http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCX_XlRYYDo |
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How bout the bat lies flat against a vertical plane through the left shoulder?
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AJ thinks that the clubface rotates around the shaft, which is why he calls it "da bat". Moreover he thinks that the rotation of the clubface speeds up the sweetspot. I thought so too, until HK pointed out that it's actually the shaft that rotates around the sweetspot. The only way to make the sweetspot go faster is to swing faster or drive harder, and no amount of increase in rotational toe speed around the sweetspot will add to it, because the hosel is backing up as fast as the toe is going forward. |
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On the lesson tee now almost every day, I am more aware than ever of its importance. Consciously or subconsciously, the higher-handicap golfer does not allow the natural rotation to occur. Hence, Golf's #1 Snare: Steering (3-F-7-A). I demonstrate the basic concept two ways. First, using my big club and a plumb bob. Then, with the aid of alignment rods, the interaction between the Sweetspot, the Clubshaft, and their respective Planes. If I can scare up some help this weekend, I'll do a video. :-) |
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There is a lot of talk about science and release, but the way you teach the finish swivel has been a huge help in my world, and has saved a lot of my students from steering. I'll never forget working with our friend Dodger on it right after you taught me. HUGE! I think clearing a little more of the fog with a video on the club face would be wonderful. Thanks! Kevin |
What a lesson that was. In minutes Kevin had me hitting high draws into a wind coming right at us. I went from a guy who hit pushes, shanks and quack hooks to a guy that actually hit some golf shots with compression. Now when I practice, the first thing I hit is a sand wedge, working on 12-3 and the finish swivel. It usually gets me right where I need to be. Unfortunately I have five months to go before I step on another golf course. Lots to work on in the basement.
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Cheers Dodger! :salut: Kevin |
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The line of compression is one of the first things I read about when I began studying the "Golfing Machine by Homer Kelley". Ben Doyle mentions it at the end of the forward, Homer talks about it in Chapter 2-0 and explains what it is in 2-C-0. What I've always wondered was, how it is done?
I've seen many discussions in forums, blogs, videos, etc. All of the explanations I've heard refer to the straight line from the left shoulder to the club-head at impact. Straight left arm, flat left wrist, bent right wrist and forward leaning shaft. This is referred to as the line of compression. I would say that this is actually the alignment of compression. This morning I woke up with this thought about sustaining the line of compression, "a bullet hole thru a baseball". As the club-head is moving thru the impact interval, it's true path direction is "ever changing on the plane", i.e. moving more and more to the left. The proper un-cocking of your left wrist during this interval will cause the club face to point more to the right. As the butt of the club raises during the un-cocking motion, the lie angle changes and the face points more to the right. These two alignments offset each other creating a straight line, kind of like changing angular force to linear force, thus sustaining the line of compression. The result would be a perfectly struck golf shot. On a different note, maybe Congress could sustain their line of compression better if the left movers and the right movers could offset each other creating a perfect government! HaHa |
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The sweetspot is the bullet....from a definition standpoint it don't have squat to do with no arms no wrists or even no foward leaning shafts....the manipulation and sustaining may have something to do with the parts...but some dingdong showing a line running up the left arm is fundamentally out of his tree. LINE OF COMPRESSION Example bullet hole through a baseballUh dude....It ain't up his arm...it'd be down there on the mat... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cns3T...yer_detailpage Test...failed. |
The Ball has a Center of Gravity. The Line of Compression does not pass through the Center of the Ball. Although the Center of Gravity of the Ball intersects the Center of Gravity of the Clubhead Orbit, the Inclined Striker will create an off-center Strike (Vertical Plane). All objects will (eventually) Rotate around their Center of Gravity.
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Rhythm and more Rhythm
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Sorry for the delay. Mr. Kelley was addressing rhythm on a tape from one of his original masters' gatherings. I don't remember the specific context, but I AM SURE of hearing him say what I referenced before. Take care, EC |
I suspect Homer meant that had he understood Rhythm from the outset , his golf would have been far better. Giving him little or no reason to undertake his research.
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Does that seem correct? :rolleyes: ICT |
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Release of the body?
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Remember, the swing happens in the blink of an eye. We can focus on address, top, and finish. Everything from top to finish happens from preparation and intent. Kevin |
Kevin, I figured out why I was shanking so bad with the Taly. Can you guess why? Now I wish I had'nt given the thing away.
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Steering? I'm anxious to here what you've discovered! Kevin |
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