Is the understanding of hinge action mandatory for the Golfing Machine?
Understanding hinge action and how it relates to ball compression, spin, trajectory was a huge eye opener to me when I started to read the yellow book.
It literally changed the way I wanted to strike the ball. It set my impact thinking straight in a way that made long lasting improvements.
When the touch goes away and the stroke falls apart you start thinking about what you're doing and what you're supposed to do. If your stroke is accompanied by faulty beliefs the thinking can make things worse. If you really understand impact you can manufacture shots that works.
Hinge action is certainly one of the topics that differentiates TGM from the pack. And vital if you want to become a shot maker who knows what he's doing.
My two cents.
Thanks but my mind just can't see what hinge action does. I think I have read everything I could but I still don't understand it. Thats why I was wondering how important it is. I quess I need someone right in front of me to show me.
Originally Posted by jerry1967
Thanks but my mind just can't see what hinge action does. I think I have read everything I could but I still don't understand it. Thats why I was wondering how important it is. I quess I need someone right in front of me to show me.
Please watch the below three video clips-
The first is critical for understanding what TGM is.
Clip two and three are hinge action presented by Yoda - He stands before you in these clips and teaches hinge action with precision. Because they are video clips he will continue to stand before you until you get it.
http://www.lynnblakegolf.com/index.p...oel-Class.html
http://www.lynnblakegolf.com/index.p...on-part-1.html
http://www.lynnblakegolf.com/index.p...on-part-2.html
I pasted the clips from the gallery/free videos.
HB
I don't get it either. The upper left arm (not the wrist) rolls naturally from the ball and socket joint at the left shoulder as it swings on an inclined plane, thus producing clubface roll on the plane. Rotating the torso, with no independent left arm swing, to swing the club on the plane, produces the same clubface roll effect. I'm not even sure that it is anatomically possible to manipulate the left shoulder joint to prevent that roll in a swing of any force, while keeping the shaft on the plane. But why would you want to anyway?
Originally Posted by jerry1967
Is the understanding of hinge action mandatory for the Golfing Machine?
I have trouble just delivering the club to a constant impact alignment, should I even entertain the need to use different hinges?
Originally Posted by gmbtempe
I have trouble just delivering the club to a constant impact alignment, should I even entertain the need to use different hinges?
gmbtempe my whole thing with Hinging being irrelevant is that I cant imagine not using it.......so Id say you should do some work on it when chipping and pitching.
When Im watching the guys on tv I see different Hinge Actions .......and the vast majority of these guys dont know about the three basic planes. Maybe this is why some guys struggle with certain shots? Arnie didnt have good flop shot say. I dunno. Although, and Im going from memory here Ill have to take another look at it, didnt Arnies old book sort of describe Hinging for bump and run shots.. what we'd call Horizontal Hinging? Hmmmm or was it Jacks book? I think it was one of Arnies. Got to dig those things out its been years since I looked at them.
Homer didnt invent Hinging ......he only defined its underlying geometry.
Originally Posted by O.B.Left
Homer didnt invent Hinging ......he only defined its underlying geometry.
I guess you responded this way to prevent an impression that TGM is a particular way of moving the club through impact and I agree that it isn't.
But what Homer did with his hinge analysis is also a massive knowledge invention that deserves to be reckognised. He took a huge leap forward knowledge wise.
Homer created a language and a system that enables us to differentiate and analyse various hinge actions and a myriad of other important details.
If he had tied his analysis to to various methods for learning different hinge actions it might even have been patentable method.
Originally Posted by BerntR
I guess you responded this way to prevent an impression that TGM is a particular way of moving the club through impact and I agree that it isn't.
But what Homer did with his hinge analysis is also a massive knowledge invention that deserves to be reckognised. He took a huge leap forward knowledge wise.
Homer created a language and a system that enables us to differentiate and analyse various hinge actions and a myriad of other important details.
If he had tied his analysis to to various methods for learning different hinge actions it might even have been patentable method.
Agreed. To clarify, I said it that way because I imagine Hinge Action has been employed for as long as golf has been played. If unknowingly. Homer's contribution was to decode it geometrically. Define it precisely. Bring it out of the darkness.
Bernt do you think a feathery with its different c.o.r (whatever that is) would make for a more profound ball response to Hinge Action?
Im going to look through my old golf books to try find something similar to hinging. We need Drew or somebody familiar with the with the books from the days of wooden shafts to help maybe.
Anybody got any leads to hinge action being mentioned in other golf instruction books. Id swear there's something in one of Arnie or Jack's books.
Ok that didnt take long, cant find my old Arnie books but here is Jack from "Golf My Way", 1974.
"The infinite variety of course and weather conditions encountered by the tournament golfer demands that he learn to "finesse" the ball, especially around the greens. Thus Ive gradually developed quite a variety of chipping techniques , two of them illustrated here. By swinging the clubface through the ball from open to closed (top drawing), I'm able to produce a low-flying, far-running kind of shot --a "hot" ball I call it. Reversing the process, I produce a higher-flying, softer landing chip shot--I think o fit as a "dead" ball--by swining the clubface through the ball from closed to open. Neither technique is beyond the reasonably skillful golfer who'll give some time to practicing these finesse shots."
He's pretty close, the top drawing looks like he'll it pull it left with that closed face at impact. The bottom one looks like a tiny push to the right. It lacks Homer's precision with the three associated planes, he doesnt discuss Angled at all. Good stuff though, really good stuff.
Id be interested in other examples from non tgm sources especially pre tgm. Maybe I should make this a new thread.
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Does the left arm separate from the left pic muscle, creating a gap between the left arm and the body during hinge action?
The "associated" planes are for understanding WHY the clubface moves as it does for each of the 3 hinge actions. But ALL of the action of the clubface takes place on ONE plane, the inclined plane. Thus, the following descriptions are not incorrect: horizontal=closing, angled=square, and vertical=opening. Cool?
