New Yoda Video -- Delivery Path And Flying Wedges
 

Courtesy of my California student, Doug, here's a four-minute clip from our all day-session last winter. The focus is on the Delivery Path of the Hands and precisely how the Straight Line Path can be determined. Along the way I touch on Plane Line Tracing and the Flying Wedges.

Note: When I discuss the 'Golf Machine Stroke' I mention beginning 'with the Left Wrist Flat, Level and Vertical. I am not suggesting this is the preferred Address Position. Instead, I am referencing its Impact Fix alignment and establishing the Plane of the Right Forearm to direct the Hands on the Backstroke's Right Forearm Takeaway.

Also, when discussing the Right Forearm Flying Wedge, I concentrate on the Cocking (Vertical Motion) of the Right Wrist as the #1 'bad guy' because Doug's Overswing was causing some problems there. However, once the Impact Fix degree of Bend has been achieved (usually at the Top), then there must be no additional Bending or Flattening (Horizontal Motion) of that alignment until the end of the Follow-Through.

Enjoy!

http://www.lynnblakegolf.com/gallery...els_wedges.wmv

Fantastic Yoda - just fantastic :)

I loved it all :)

Nice
 

Beautiful explanations!!!

Good stuff Yoda.

Love it.

It shows the kind of instruction that can be given.......and what one may be missing out on.....I've gotta come see one of you guys work your magic....

I just can't imagine that you can get this kind of learning experience from anywhere outside the "TGM world."

I find it amazing that we get a sneak peak at the best instructor(s) in the world that no one knows about- yet.

-Paul

Truth Tellin'
 

Birdie,

I am pleased to announce that our own Henning Lundstrom, 2004 PGA Teacher of the Year for the largest of five sections in Sweden, and I will be presenting before more than 600 Golf Professionals at the PGA of Sweden Teaching Summit just outside Copenhagen on March 11, 2006.

In the past six months, I have twice presented before groups of United States PGA Professionals and on both occasions have sensed their collective, progressive spirit and the bar that has been raised. Now, off the building blocks of my wonderful August experience in Germany, this is the next link in our international chain of destiny. The world is learning that a fertile field lays waiting just beyond the bounds of conventional golf instruction. And there is no doubt in my mind that it will embrace it.

Thank you for being there every day supporting our efforts. I appreciate it.

It's ALIVE!!!!!!!!!!!
 

And the crowd goes WILD!!!!!

O.K. That has to be the BEST DAMN 3 minutes and 50 seconds of golf video instruction ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You can read the book and read the book and read the book and read the book.

But you can't get that from the book!!!!!!

In less than 4 minutes you have crystalized the most fundamental Alignments in The Golfing Machine. Fantastic!!!!

You need a crawl thing on the bottom like on CNN with "Here comes 7-3 Magic of the Right Forearm." "Freeze it here comes 2-J-3." "And now for 2-P The Wristcock." "Pow! 6-B-3-D"

What was particularly engaging was the visual of the VERTICAL PLANE OF MOTION of the Left Wrist Cock.

I love The Golfing Machine. Please daddy give us another fix.

You truly have a gift.

Draggin' My Wet Mop Soon!
 

Thanks, Colonel. Next week, when we're back on line with our new and exciting site, we'll put up a longer clip of a Short Game practice session. Nothing earthshaking, I'll just be draggin' my wet mop...

Over and over again.

With a few Cut and Lob Shot Variations, of course!

Link didn't work
 

The link did not work for me. Do I need a plug-in or password to watch the video? I'm new to this. Thank you.

teach

It should be ok
 

No, you should be able to view it. This particular video is housed on another website and we are linking to it (as such it takes a few minutes to load). The server could be busy. We are going to try to get this one on our own server soon.

- Trig

Thanks
 

Thanks Trig. I tried again several hours later and still got no response. Can you please let us know when the video is available on the LBG server?

teach

Sure will. It will probably just be a couple of days at the most.

By the way, I just clicked the link and it took a few minutes for it to load for me...so I know it's slow going right now.

Fantastic stuff Yoda! I think I am really starting to incubate the relationships between the wedges, straight line delivery paths, and tracing the plane line.

I think the best visual image I have heard (and I just saw you illistrate it in the video) is "spearing a fish" from the top. If you can spear a fish then you are in the right position from the top and can take the straight line delivery path without having to make compensations.

Keep the videos coming cause they really help clarifying concepts in a way that "seeing" can only do.

Thanks!!

Keith

make sure your windows media player is working it wasnt working for me either but i reinstalled wmp and now it works fine

Yoda,
This the best video on TGM I have ever seen I hope you have more.

More Video To Ya
 

Thanks, ram1. Now that we are getting our 'sea legs' with this web thing, there will be much more video. Next week, for example, we will put up A Lesson With Yoda. It runs about an hour and is an excerpt from a two-day Private Workshop session earlier this year. Also, I'll be putting up some Short Game video to support The Scoring Zone Forum. Finally, some commercial DVDs will soon be available. They are admittedly homespun, but they are also chock-full of information and will be worth every penny.

I'm waiting anxiously for some of that homespun stuff....

Yoda, some of the best cooking is definitely "homespun":mrgreen:

is this hitting vs. swinging?
 

Excellent explanation of the delivery path. It is so refreshing to watch a demonstration by a "golfer".

Aiming Hitting And Swinging Hands
 

Thanks, WAE. The title of your post asked if this was "Hitting versus Swinging." The answer is that both Hitter and Swinger can use the same Straight Line Delivery Path to Aim their Hands on the Downstroke. However, Hitters tend to complete their Backstroke at the Top of the Straight Line (Right Shoulder high) and Swingers tend to go beyond this Top to the End. In this procedure -- Top Arc and Straight Line -- the Hands travel in an arc beyond the Top and retrace that arc during the Start Down.

Aiming The Aiming Point
 

Yoda showed that the Straight Line Delivery Path of the Hands extends all the way down to the Aiming Point which lies on the Straight Plane Line. For a photo explanation, please turn to 9-3 and notice the obscure black arrow extending from the Deliver Path to the Ball.

The Straight Line Delivery Path taken by the Hands is parallel to the Right Forearm Angle of Approach. In the video, it just so happens that the Aiming Point is the ball. If you wanted to move the Aiming Point forwards (i.e. in front of the ball), the straight line thrust/path the Hands take would still be parallel to the Right Forearm Angle of Approach, but merely moved forwards by the desired amount.

Bravo Lynn! What a wonderful clip :mrgreen:

arc vs. straight line delivery
 

Lynn,
Thanks for your reply.
As a Manzella labeled "swinger" I see my delivery path on more of an arc with a sweep type of release. I haven't met too many people that are happy with the way their swings look on film and I'm no exception. I would love to have a more delayed trigger release with a straighter delivery. Would this be more for looks than results?
Regards,
Will
- also a big thank you for this web site.

Handsome Is As Handsome Does
 

The sooner you begin the Release, the higher the Handspeed required to achieve a given distance. Therefore, all else equal, the short, quick arc of the Snap Release will produce greater distance than the Sweep Release.

A quality clip with some creative hand manipulation with the dowels. My attention however went to your weight distribution and knee positions.

Appreciate the opportunity to participate and my compliments on the new site.

DRW

Dueling Dowels
 

Thanks, DRW. We're just as happy as we can be with our new digs. And we've got so much more on the drawing boards. Just keep on comin' back and you'll see!

And thanks to for the compliments on my dowel work. As my good friend and long-time Massachusetts PGA pro, Drew Chapman (drewitgolf) likes to say, I "do-well with my dow-ells!"

Yeah, speaking of Drew. where has he been???. Some say they last saw him shooting pool???........

The Life of a PGA Pro
 

Sorry for my absence. We are still going full bore up in New England. At least for a few more weeks. Tournaments, lessons... I can hardly find time to read all of the great posts, let alone find the time to put in my own "two cents".:( Throw four kids into the mix and time is not on my side. I hope to be more committed in the future, if not just committed;) .

Also, I am still lamenting over my Boston Red Sox. Injuries and lack of pitching did them in:( .

As General Douglas McArthur said, "I shall return".:cool:

Porch Light Is On
 

We miss ya, Drew, and know you're busy. But keep on readin' and post when you can. We've left the porch lights on for you!

Great stuff! But is the video complete? - it stops suddenly. My download shows only 49Mb.

Yoda,
Please do one of these clips on the release.

Quick Service
 

Good idea, ram1. Check out 6b's latest video from the Woodmont Workshop http://www.lynnblakegolf.com/gallery/files/r2roll.wmv. That comes pretty close to meeting your needs right there.

Yoda,
Thanks.

Heres a picture of Lynn I made from the film achieving a perfect Turned Shoulder Plane with Zero Shift.



Notice that the Plane Angle goes through the Sweet Spot, the #3 Pressure Point and the Tip of the Turned Right Shoulder at the Top. The #3 Pressure Point is ALWAYS on this Plane while the Right Shoulder Turns back to it on the Backstroke and then Turns Down it on the Downstroke.

With a Right Forearm Takeaway yet. Thanks, Mathew!

Roll video problem
 

When I try this link, I get "The source filter for this file could not be loaded."

What does that mean?

Wolfman & Company
 

Wolfman,

Please report your problem to Site Admin. There, your message will be sure to be read (and almost certainly faster than a general post in our many threads).

In the threads, your query will be hidden among the hundred or more posts filed during the day.

Addressed to Site Admin, your query will be read almost immediately and stand alone or in very small company.

Well, almost.

Some Admins are also machiners that read nearly every post. Wait, all of the admins are machiners. :D

My recommendation is to avoid direct links to the subdirectories in the gallery and just go directly there. There are redirects and various administrative stuff that happens in those directories that make linking less reliable then just letting your fingers do the walking over to the Gallery room. Grab some popcorn, drinks, and twizzlers before stepping in. Grab a good seat and enjoy the videos.

Bagger

yep, I read 'em too
 

I downloaded and played that link OK, so I did a quick search on your error at google. It sounds like there might be something wrong with your media player.



Feel free to PM me if you need more help!

Regardless, I'd follow Bagger's advise and hang out in the gallery - lots more cool stuff there!

HOOAH! Thats cool Mathew, thanks. Would you say that, at the Top, the plane is closer to going through the middle of the shoulder rather than the tip? If my eyes deceive and it is the tip, how far should we get into the Downstroke before it's ok for the tip of the shoulder to move above the plane? Is it a gradual move, I mean, is the turn always slightly flatter? (threadjack, my bad :( )

You meant it when you said perfect, right? [-o< Because if you did, and it is, I can adjust what I thought it took for the shoulder to be on the TSP at impact, and put my doubts/confusion to rest :)

Is it the shaft, or the sweetspot that should be on the plane? I thought it was the shaft and that the dowels play the role of the shaft in these drills. Mathew, are you saying that the dowel represents the invisible sweetspot plane? In the book, the lines representing plane angles go through the hosel... ahh I'm confused. When most experienced TGM'ers talk about plane, are they actually referring to the sweetpot plane?

Thanks Mathew! Excellent images - ;)