Yoda Swing Sequence

[airair]

I have ordered the "Alignment I" videos and bought The Address video and Brian Gay video. But I am struggling with the book.

[JerryG]

I have ordered the "Alignment I" videos and bought The Address video and Brian Gay video. But I am struggling with the book.

Join the club. It isn't easy. However, once you get started, stay with it. It is a most helpful resource. Carry it with you wherever you go and when you have a little dead time, open it and get acquainted. The more you do it, the better you will like it.

[airair]

Join the club. It isn't easy. However, once you get started, stay with it. It is a most helpful resource. Carry it with you wherever you go and when you have a little dead time, open it and get acquainted. The more you do it, the better you will like it.

I wonder if it takes a certain sort of mind to be able to digest this in a good way? I may view this more positive in the future (I hope so) but I find it overcomplicating to describe that you are holding a club with both hands and swinging it back and thru ( the ball), reviewing it in 5 or 6 or 7(or more?) ways, all with their own aspects, defintions and labels. "You can get afraid of the dark with less" (effort than this) (a clumpsy translation from my native language)

[JerryG]

Rich Hunt as Richie 3-Jack did made a good effort at clarifying the book a bit. You might try there on his blog.
Personally, while I also find the Yellow Book complicated, I wouldn't live without it and use it often for clarification and edification. I suggest you take it in snippets.
As with me, keep it close at all times and just look. I think the more you use it, the more acquainted you will become and the more useful it will be. Granted, it is very easy to get frustrated.

[KevCarter]

I wonder if it takes a certain sort of mind to be able to digest this in a good way? I may view this more positive in the future (I hope so) but I find it overcomplicating to describe that you are holding a club with both hands and swinging it back and thru ( the ball), reviewing it in 5 or 6 or 7(or more?) ways, all with their own aspects, defintions and labels. "You can get afraid of the dark with less" (effort than this) (a clumpsy translation from my native language)

"Demanding that golf instruction be kept simple does not make it simple — only incomplete and ineffective." HOMER KELLEY

[airair]

"Demanding that golf instruction be kept simple does not make it simple — only incomplete and ineffective." HOMER KELLEY

My experience is that it is very difficult to learn something I don't understand. So I feel the learning process has to be simple enough to be able to learn what's necessary, before moving on in stages to more difficult stuff. Not learning something because it is too difficult at one stage also makes it incomplete and ineffective.

An easy reader version or TGM light would be a good first step. We have to learn to crawl before we can walk.

[Yoda]

An easy reader version or TGM light would be a good first step. We have to learn to crawl before we can walk.

That would be Components #1 and #2, the Grip.

And, 1-L #1 and #2, Centered Arc.

And, the Basic and Acquired Motions, 12-5 #1 and #2.

Each introduced, taught and monitored by . . .

A competent Instructor.

Which, of course, most 'surfers' are unwilling or unable to pay for.



I applaud every self-effort to improve and learn, but for a seeker to think that they can reach their true potential all by themselves is a dillusion. The truth is . . .

They cannot.

Who could learn to read and write all by themselves?

And to be frustrated by their own unrealistic expectation is an unnecessary psychological impediment in their lives. Life is difficult and short enough already. Why complicate it with the unrealistic and unattainable?

The great artists of the world have been trained, most for virtually their entire lives. And the majority of these greats -- from the ice to the piano -- can trace their instruction (and its lineage) for many years, if not generatations. In golf, if asked, Jack Nicklaus would state:

"From Morrison to Picard to Grout to me."

That lineage alone spans eighty years.

I have more to say here. Maybe later.

[airair]

That would be Components #1 and #2, the Grip.

And, 1-L #1 and #2, Centered Arc.

And, the Basic and Acquired Motions, 12-5 #1 and #2.

Each introduced, taught and monitored by . . .

A competent Instructor.

Which, of course, most 'surfers' are unwilling or unable to pay for.



I applaud every self-effort to improve and learn, but for a seeker to think that they can reach their true potential all by themselves is a dillusion. The truth is . . .

They cannot.

Who could learn to read and write all by themselves?

And to be frustrated by their own unrealistic expectation is an unnecessary psychological impediment in their lives. Life is difficult and short enough already. Why complicate it with the unrealistic and unattainable?

The great artists of the world have been trained, most for virtually their entire lives. And the majority of these greats -- from the ice to the piano -- can trace their instruction (and its lineage) for many years, if not generatations. In golf, if asked, Jack Nicklaus would state:

"From Morrison to Picard to Grout to me."

That lineage alone spans eighty years.

I have more to say here. Maybe later.

I have plans to see a competent instructor in the near future.

[Etzwane]

I have plans to see a competent instructure in the near future.

I hope you can find a good TGM teacher. Here in France there are no officially certified instructors. I've asked my pro about TGM, he's interested in TGM, trying to understand it but his english is not good enough to get very far. There's another pro I know that incorporate in his teaching some concepts that are close to TGM but he never mentioned TGM.