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To and Fro and The Star System Triad
Originally Posted by larryRSF
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Originally Posted by MizunoJoe

Yoda,

How far past ball separation does your right wrist stay TOTALLY bent?



The Flat Left Wrist and Bent Right Wrist Alignments are established in Impact Fix (7-8 ). The amount of 'Flat' in the Left Wrist is an absolute .

All this is the Geometry of Wrist Alignments during the Stroke, including Impact, Hinging and Swiveling.



I feel like I walked in during the second act. What is all that technical stuff? The Head Pro at my club is an Ernest Jones, Manual De La Torre method teacher. He would be falling on the ground howling with laughter after reading these posts. I know Gary Sowinski (national champion teaching professional) thinks the golf swing is simple. Just swing the clubhead down the target line and the ball will fly there. Duhhhh. He believes that when we try to do that, the clubhead will do that, and the ball will do that. Technical detail stuff just paralyzes us. It sure looks like Bobby Jones kept it simple also.

Anyhow, as a very analytical engineer, I reject detail in the golf swing. I just want to keep it simple, relax and swing. (and then mostly work on my short game)

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History confirms that there was no shortage of skeptics at Kitty Hawk. And why not? After all, 'ol Orville and Wilbur down at the bike shop were trying to make one of their three-wheelers fly! When word of that nonsense got out, I'm sure the sound of laughter-howling skeptics hitting the ground was deafening.

The fact is that Laughing Skeptics and Innovation have always gone hand in hand. So it comes as no surprise that the innovation of The Golfing Machine is greeted with more of the same. But also with furrowed brow. Because that innovation does not promise the Fool's Gold of a simple solution to a complex problem. Instead, it recognizes reality: Demanding that the Golf Stroke be made simple does not make it simple. Nor does demanding a teaching philosophy that "rejects detail" make that methodology simple. It merely makes it incomplete.

Does anyone honestly believe that the best players -- Tiger Woods, for example -- pursue the Holy Grail of 'Simplicity at all Costs?' Of course not. They are looking for 1/4 of a Shot per Round and any edge they can get. And that edge is found in increasing the precision of the Samenesses (the Basics / 1-J) and ultimately in the fine-tuning of the Differences (the Variations / 1-K).

The undeniable truth is that the Golf Stroke is a fantastically complex Motion performed by an even more fantastically complex mechanism; namely, the human being. We humans have countless moving parts that serve us well in our day-to-day activities. But they also can move in ways that are not appreciated by The Ball.

Hence, many of these parts demand a control, a consciously programmed Mechanic that can be reduced to an Identifiable subconscious Feel. But without the underlying Engineering System, the player's Feel System is saddled with an impossible task: Reproducing -- on demand, under pressure and with extreme precision -- an integrated Pattern of unknown Mechanics.

Is it any wonder there are so many poor players? Those defeated souls who not only do not know what (Basics) they are doing -- much less how (Variations) they are doing it -- but who also embrace the Band-Aid of Simplicity as the solution to their ignorance?

The Golfing Machine offers the rational alternative. It provides a Basic Motion Curriculum (12-5-1/2/3) and two Basic Stroke Patterns (12-1-0 and 12-2-0) that enable the player to systematically gain mastery over the 24 Components of the Golf Stroke. Pursued in this manner, the player can enjoy continuous improvement and progress toward an attainable goal -- whether that goal is to break 90 or to break 70. Or...he can continue to forever chase the will o' the wisp of 'Swing the Clubhead.'

You mention, for example, Manuel De La Torre. Over my 41 years in Golf, I've heard nothing but good things about the man. And his famous one sentence 'method' is simplicity defined: "The golf stroke is a to and fro motion."



Okey dokey. Simple enough. "To and fro." No 'detail' cluttering up that baby!

But let's dig a little deeper. 'To and fro' with what? Why, Silly Goose, the Clubhead, of course! Crediting that Patron Saint of Simplicity, Ernest Jones, we "Swing the Clubhead!" And we all know that the Clubhead must have a control. And Mr. De La Torre's concept of 'To and fro' -- pardon the detail, but we're talkin' Centrifugal Force here -- does just that.

But the Clubhead (and its Centrifugal Power) is only one Function of The Club! There are two more-- the Clubshaft and the Clubface -- and each of these demands a control as well. For example, suppose I suspended a Golf Club (using my thumb and forefinger to hold the very butt end) with its Shaft directly over the Target Line and with its Toe pointing directly at the Target. Then, further suppose that I started the Club Swinging 'To and fro' up and down that Line, just like the pendulum of a grandfather clock. Have I satisfied the simplistic definition of 'To and fro?' You bet! But are there any problems here? Absolutely!

First of all, the Clubhead -- and with it the Clubshaft -- is 'To-ing and fro-ing' in a Vertical Plane of Motion. Last time I looked, we golfers stand on one side of the Ball or the other with a Clubshaft that is Angled from the Clubhead, and that makes for an Inclined Plane of Motion. Secondly, the Clubface is hopelessly misaligned, and its Leading Edge needs to be Square to the Target Line at Separation. So, unless you've got a way to produce powerful and accurate Golf Shots by Swinging the Clubhead ('To and fro') in a Vertical Plane and striking the Ball with the Toe of the Club, your 'Simple' System just hit the Reality Wall.

And it was so unnecessary.

Because we who understand The Golfing Machine know that it culminates in the Ultimate Simplicity the Golf World has so long sought in vain. And that Simplicity is the Star System Triad: The Three Imperatives (Flat Left Wrist, Clubhead Lag Pressure Point and Straight Plane Line) controlling the Three Functions of the Club (Face, Head and Shaft) through the Three Stations (Address, Top and Finish).

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