LynnBlakeGolf Forums - 3-F-5 Address Routine and Waggle Discussion

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Originally Posted by Thom

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Yoda - I think I remember that your waggle procedure is a little different than most. My waggle is just bending back the right wrist to feel the #3 pp and also to get a look at the onplane path of the clubhead.

Can you please go into details on your preferred waggle procedure (feels and visuals)

Welcome from Copenhagen, Thom! I was only eleven years old when I last visited your country -- and my take-a-way memory was Tivoli and two attractive young women smoking cigars near the entrance. :shock: It's been a long time, but I'm coming back soon! 8)

To your question:

The true Golfing Machine Waggle is far different from that generally perceived to be correct. It is an Arms Waggle, not a Wrist Waggle. I questioned Homer Kelley extensively on this subject. I even pointed to the traditional view (the Hogan Waggle per Five Lessons) and demonstrated.

Homer: "That Waggle is a very destructive thing."

Young Yoda: :shock: "What's destructive about it, Homer?"

Homer: "Look at what you're doing!"

Young Yoda : :? "What?"

Homer: "You're Flattening your Right Wrist!" :evil:

And sure enough, that is exactly what I was doing. I had plenty of company: It's what all players do -- and have done throughout the centuries -- when they Waggle traditionally: They Bend and Flatten the Right Wrist. Bend and Flatten. Bend and Flatten. Not exactly the move you want to make through Impact! In fact, it is nothing more than the deliberate and ignorant Full Dress Rehearsal of False Feel Wrist Action (6-D-3)!

The Horizontal Bending Motion is entirely proper. The Horizontal Flattening Motion is not. The sad truth is that this procedure reproduced is guaranteed Geometrical Disruption and Golf Stroke Disaster.

The sophisticated TGM player Waggles with his Arms, not his Wrists. He rehearses his Flying Wedge Alignments (including the Flat Left Wrist and Bent Right Wrist and the On Plane Right Forearm); his Extensor Action; his On Plane Pressure Points; and the Clubhead Lag.

The Address Waggle...

Phase Two of the Three-Step Address Routine (3-F-5)...

An indispensable element of the Computer's Fourth Pre-Shot Programming Routine (Chapter 14).

The Waggle...

"It has a purpose!" -- Homer Kelley