With your attitude, I rather spend my time fishing than explaining any TGM concepts. Good luck in your golf pursuits.
Touchy aren't we? You started all this by not being forthright in your reply. IMO you have no idea what the paddle wheel action is, no idea on how to explain it to others, that is.
Touchy aren't we? You started all this by not being forthright in your reply. IMO you have no idea what the paddle wheel action is, no idea on how to explain it to others, that is.
Alan,
I'm the one who supplied Lynn and his staff with the Tomasello video you found "very instructive"...that's what "Senior Member" means...
Oh my gosh, I think I paddlewheel all the way to impact while uncocking and I know I swing. Is that wrong? Also, Chuck Evans demonstrates paddlewheel using a tennis racquet which makes it clear what is meant (unless Chuck is wrong of course).
So, should I not paddlewheel as I downswing through impact? Just asking. TGM novice.
By the way, definitely some hostility here on this thread.
but not by me.
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Oh my gosh, I think I paddlewheel all the way to impact while uncocking and I know I swing. Is that wrong? Also, Chuck Evans demonstrates paddlewheel using a tennis racquet which makes it clear what is meant (unless Chuck is wrong of course).
So, should I not paddlewheel as I downswing through impact? Just asking. TGM novice.
By the way, definitely some hostility here on this thread.
but not by me.
let the haters battle it out.
Swingers can paddle wheel too, i just said "usually" it's hitters.
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I'm not a TGM or PGA certified Pro, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night
The Tomasello procedure that I remember him using most was...
1) Fairly narrow stance
2) Strong Single Action Grip
3) Used Horizontal or Angled Hinging... the way he explained this was very simple-- Horizontal- toe up to toe up // Angled- one way he liked to get this was to take it back with the face looking at the ball a little longer(no Turn). This made it pretty easy to get a little reverse rotation through the ball, resulting in a little fade.// Vertical- toe up to face up(bunker shots)
4) Right Forearm Pickup (He wanted you to Clear the right hip before cocking up)
5) Start Down(from TOP)-- He used several different ways of doing this, but the one I think he liked a lot was to (PULL) STRAIGHT DOWN. You could do this with the muscles of the right arm, left arm, or both. (Longitudinal Acceleration) Make no effort to go FORWARD! DOWN, THEN IT WILL SWITCH ENDS when it is ready.
6) End up with that MACHINE FINISH... Watching the ball fly from underneath(eyes not level), and have a "little kink in that right wrist."
This is a brief explanation. I realize some of his methods were a little different, but they did work. He simplified a very complicated book, and brought many people to TGM that probably would have given up on it otherwise. He made it FUN, also.
He taught other procedures also, but this is the procedure I remember most.
There's a bit of mistaken identity here, Weightshift.
Lee Dietrick (ldeit) supplied the Tomasello Video Letter Series.
Delaware Golf supplied its predecessor, the Tomasello in Australia Series.
Thanks. Yes, he appears a lot older in the Video Letter series -- and in the other series I seem to remember him saying "..here in Australia.." at one point. Such a pity that he is no longer with us, I would have loved to have met him.
<B>jim_0068</B> has provided "<i>paddle wheel motion is a slow consistant closing motion from the end of your backswing to impact usually used with hitters. It's closing and un-cocking at the same time at a steady speed all the way downplane. Swingers t[d]o the opposite, it's a sequenced release meaning they first un-cock and then roll into impact</i>"
Having, yourself, closely worked with Homer Kelley, do you have any "inside knowledge" as to why a paddle wheel was chosen? Feathering or partly feathering the blades of a paddle wheel, while the wheel is rotating at a constant speed, could be used to control the speed of the vessel. Frankly, I don't see the connection to the golf swing.
Having, yourself, closely worked with Homer Kelley, do you have any "inside knowledge" as to why a paddle wheel was chosen? Feathering or partly feathering the blades of a paddle wheel, while the wheel is rotating at a constant speed, could be used to control the speed of the vessel. Frankly, I don't see the connection to the golf swing.
The Paddlewheel reference has nothing to do with Zone #2 (Clubhead Power) and everything to do with Zone #3 (Clubface Alignment).
The blades of a paddlewheel remain vertical to their axis of rotation. So, too, does the golfer's Flat Left Wrist remain vertical (through Impact) to one of the three Basic Planes (Horizontal, Angled or Vertical). This Left Wrist Paddlewheel Action -- Hinge Action per 2-G -- produces an equivalent Clubface Paddlewheel Action with its corresponding Rhythm (Left Arm and Clubshaft remaining In-Line per 6-B-3-0).
And the basis of it all is the straightening Right Arm (Right Forearm and Elbow Action) executing its own Paddlewheel Motion. It is this Action that directly (Muscularly Hitting) or indirectly (Centrifugally Swinging) drives the Left Arm Flying Wedge and assures the proper Clubface Closing through Impact.
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