Re: a technical manual, why can't it be clear and easily readable?
SuperDave,
You find The Golfing Machine unintelligible for the same reason you
would find a post-introductory text in virtually any technical field
unintelligible: You understand neither the concepts being presented
nor the professional terms used to present them. This would be
particularly true of a Handbook whose stated goal is to briefly acquaint
the student with both.
With diligent application, the reader can bootstrap himself to the level of
the text as presented. Or, for a shorter way to the same objective, he can
train under a competent Authorized Instructor. Absent one or the other or
both of these approaches, the book will remain inaccessible. That fact does
not detract from the genius of Homer Kelley's work...