Its strange how information finally gets stored into the computer. While hitting what seems like my 1000th chip and pitch shot this month, I stared down at my hands and realized I have been trying to control the clubface with my right hand. Duh??
Flat left wrist controls the clubface is something I would never get wrong on a written exam but it sure took long enough for it to find a file in my computer.
Since I have been controlling the clubhead quite well with the right hand and pp1 and pp3, it didn't take long to train the left. There is an keen awareness of both hands now. This feels good.
Hans,
The Incubator is a mysterious and wondrous thing. Our job is to get whatever we can out of new concepts and then toss the rest into the Incubator. We then turn the 'egg' over every now and then, i.e., revisit the stored information to see if anything new presents itself. The process cannot be rushed, only gently and purposefully assisted. The 'chick' must hatch on its own -- peck its way from the inside out -- usually without warning.
Homer Kelley understood and deliberately used the Incubator. He would "take it as fur as it would go" and then leave it alone and work in other areas. The ideas would always come. One day, for example, as he walked through his kitchen on his way in from his garage 'practice range,' he was blindsided by the Power Accumulator concept. "I realized there were only four Power Accumulators," he told me. "You could put them together in fifteen different ways, but there were only four. And just like that, I saw how I could catalog all the Components and Variations."
Use your Incubator in the same way and you will gradually come to truly know The Golfing Machine. You will have discovered its treasure, which like the finest South African diamonds, lies hidden deep within the blue clay.
Yoda, we were talking about the Computer and the Incubator the other day.
Last night I picked out Percy Boomer's "On Learning Golf" for alittle light reading. In the chapter 'Centered on Wrist Action,' which was a random page opened, it was amusing to read his idea about keeping the clubhead as far away from the ball as long as possible. Lag, he was instilling the concept of lag to his students. Feeling the clubhead far from the ball or left side was a desirable one, he explained. What made me grin was when he wrote after that: "Register that it your feel CABINET."
Before computers we had to file our golf feelings in the filing cabinet.
And one of Percy's classic 'registered feels' is that of the 'in-to-out' downswing. Though his work lacked the scientific basis of the Inclined Plane, his descriptive phrases and imagery captured the necessity and feel of the Down Plane Inside-Out Impact. He was not only ahead of his own time, he was in many ways ahead of our own. As proof, witness a Golf World whose teaching remains mired in the world of 'seems as if'...and a Clubhead forever doomed to move 'inside-to along the line-to inside.'
Hybrid Mode
