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.'
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