*Wasn't sure which topic to put this in, so someone please move it if they feel the need to*
I'll address this to Yoda first off, because I want a fresh opinion. Everyone else feel free to input though.
What are the "feels" that a Swinger and a Hitter are limited to? Am I able to feel right arm thrust if I'm a Swinger? Obviously the amount of accumulators matter. You were saying that Homer wasn't a fan of four-barrel combinations, yet he didn't stress this in the book. Again, a variation.
Finally, I usually have trouble keeping the club "steep" enough coming down - with a driver, it always wants to get "behind me" and underplane. Others have offered their opinions that it's a pivot problem, that the arms want to stay on plane but the pivot is faulty and won't allow that to happen. Thoughts on how to fix it, or the theory on how to fix it?
Mechanics constitute structurally "fixed" geometry and physics. Feelis the body's equivalent to structuring and its foundation is Educated Hands (Chapter14).
So, when you introduce any new Mechanic into your Basic Motion Pattern(12-1-0 / Hitting or 12-2-0 / Swinging), you better be able to Feelit! Otherwise, you cannot hope to even Reproduce it (1-J), much lessincrease its Precision over time (Preface).
Specifically, you've asked about the 10-4-D Four Barrel application forSwingers. Should you be able to Feel the Right Arm Thrust? You bet! Otherwise,at best you have the "lop-sided lottery" of an Engineering Systemwithout a Feel System (1-J), and at worst, you have nothing at all! You've gleaned from my prior posts that Homer was no fan of the Four BarrelStroke. That is true. He felt its disadvantages outweighed its advantagesfor all but the most elite of golfers (and even then it was suspect). And thereason for that is that Pushing (Hitting) and Pulling (Swinging) arebasically incompatible procedures (Chapter 13) and with the Four BarrelStroke you are, in essence, attempting to do both at the same time.
And yet he didn't make a big deal of it in The Book. That is also true.And the reason is that The Book is "the Duffer's Bible, the Golf Nut'sCatalog, the Circuit Player's Handbook and the Instructor's Textbook." (Preface)Each of these end-users has a different purpose. Homer felt hisjob was first, to solve the Problem of G.O.L.F. for once and for all time, andsecond, to put it down in such a way that it could best serve each individual'sspecialized need.
However, at no time did he attempt to dictate personal preference or evidencestrong feelings one way or another about the Variations to be employed. Hemight give little hints from time to time such as, "Well controlled Doubleor Triple Barrel Combinations have little to fear from the Four BarrelCombination that is less than fully mastered." (4-D-0) But other thanthat, his feeling was:
"I've given you the information. Put it together whatever way you want.Then, fly at it!"
That said...
In early 1983 Golf Magazine contacted Homer, told him they were going torun a multipage sequence of Bobby Clampett's golf swing, and asked if he wouldprovide the written analysis. He agreed and upon receipt of the sequence, he wentto work. For each of the photos -- from Address to Finish -- he provided adetailed commentary. He packaged it up and mailed it back to New York. John Andrisanni, then their senior Instruction Editor, opened the package, tookone look at the commentary and did something like this:
There was no way they could put that "talking in tongues" in theirmagazine. After all, The Tower of Babel was no place for their average22-handicap reader! So, they gathered their staff writers, plugged in the lavalamps, lit the incense, had a rite of journalistic exorcism and basicallybastardized the whole thing. When the magazine came out in April 1983, Homer wasfurious -- like that line from The Godfather when Don Corleone looksdown at the bullet-ridden body of Sonny and says, "Look what they've doneto my boy!" -- but there was nothing he could do about it.
The good news is...
We still have the commentary!
And in the Start Down (8-7) analysis, Homer made this point:
"Power Package muscle power (right triceps thrust) can make a minisculecontribution and only with great effort during a swing procedure."
To my mind, you just can't get any clearer than that. Yes, the Four Barrelprocedure can be done and if you want to do it then"Fly atit!" but realize that it is extremely difficult to accomplish,much less to master, and even if you do, it only adds a minisculeamount to the process, and then only with great effort. Whew!
Hey, given this, I'm going into the old Saturday Night Live EmilyLatilla routine of the late Gilda Radner:
"Never mind!"
Now, as for not being able to maintain your Stroke Geometry, i.e., stay OnPlane, per Chapter 4, "The key to control of the Golf Club is EducatedHands. Very few are the mistakes and troubles of a golfer that do not stem fromfaulty Hands."
So, your Hands may be being pulled out of their proper alignments by your Pivotor they may still be relatively ignorant or both. No matter! Until the Handslearn to monitor only themselves -- and not the Club and not theBody (Pivot) -- and to maintain the proper Three Dimensional Backstroke andDownstroke (2-F), then you still have UNeducated Hands.
And that is your problem. And you are not alone. On practice tees and golfcourses around the world, you see an infinite variety of heaves and jerks thatare supposed to be golf swings. And the problem is always the same: Habitreinforcing its Ignorance.
Homer's Star System of G.O.L.F. is not a "band-aid" system.As I've written repeatedly in other posts, you must go back to thesix components in Zone #1 (9-1) and then work your way into Zones #2 and #3.And Zone #3 (9-3 / Hands) can only be as good as Zone #1 (Pivot) allows it tobe. So, go back and look, look, LOOK (9-2) and re-build yourTotal Motion per 12-5-1/2/3. And all the while, really work on The Hands perChapters 4 and 5.
It takes effort and discipline, that's for sure. But...
It is the only way to make real, lasting progress.
Hybrid Mode
