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Posted by Butcho
on 10/14/2009, 8:43 am
162.39.191.X
"A Golf Lesson"
This is something you won't get anywhere else Wayne so listen up my solipsistic friend.
Most golf teachers preach three grips in golf. The trinity of Vardon, Nicklaus, and Babe Ruth.
I teach two.
Feet and Hands.
Most golfers are absorbed in their connection with the club and most especially its impact on the little ball. This one-sided, this radical monism, is unbalanced. Anytime we stress one aspect of a polarity at the expense of the other ours is a tenuous position at best, an extremism at worst.
There are two grips in golf. One is the obvious grip of the hands on the club. Whichever way works for you. The other is the grip of the feet on the ground. One must be grounded in the big ball if one wants to have any consistency with the little ball.
Firm feet, soft but not limp hands. Relatively firm and soft. Feet 6, Hands 4.
Grab hold of the big ball with your feet. Not a death grip, but with intention. This is the grip that controls the swing. Most people have it upside down.
Balance is in the feet.
Connection with the club is in the hands.
When the hands overpower the feet as is the case with most golfers consistent direction is hard to accomplish to say the least.
Good golf starts with a dynamic balance between the hands and feet.
Everything else is superfluous. Supination, pronation, and other slights of hand.
The golf swing is a unity between two poles. A synergy of seeming opposites. A whole greater than the sum of its parts. A unity, not a monity. The feet and the hands book-ended by the address and finish positions. All other positions are an illusion. For harmony to exist the two positions of the golf swing must be in dynamic balance. The feet leading and the hands following are the categorical imperative of a repeating golf swing. The feet are more yang and the hands are more yin. But as in all polarities the seed of one is in the other.
I assume you want to have sovereign contentment where your golf game is concerned. Hogan's Secret was in the dirt. He said as much. But nothing further. A fox that one. Everything else Hogan said was a dissection of what is by nature whole. The golf swing. Most people are lost in the parts. The One plane swing--the popular radical monism swing theory of today seems to simplify what becomes overly complex. All in an effort to find the one slot. Hackers and Swing Theory Hucksters alike.
Forget about the one plane swing. Impossible to repeat. Tiger can't do it, and neither can you. Either loop out or in. The slot can be found from either direction. A loop can be consistently repeated, a straight line cannot. I digress.
Swingers on the other hand have their feet on the ground and their hands on the club with intention. The little ball goes where one visualizes if one's swing is in right relationship with the big ball first. Little ball second. Wu-golf.
Do not consciously lift your feet. Roll your feet. Rock and Roll my goofy-footed friend. Rock and Roll.
Now for a tip. Maintain a relatively constant eye line. It can move back and forth, up and down. But keep it square to your target line. The shoulder and hip lines are secondary. Keep a level head without becoming anal about it. We are organisms, not machines.
The full return is not to the One. It is to Unity. From the Unity comes the polarity of the One and the Many. From the Tao comes all taos.
>1<2,
Butcho
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