Questions - Head - Tripod - Movements - Alignments
I will try this again in a new thread in hopes of not getting into match here but just some answers and insight so I can better understand this..
Okay, maybe I am missing something here so if a few will humor me and respond to the questions, maybe I will understand.. Please bear with my strange logical path here:
1. The head, movement on its own can be
a. Up and Down
b. Around (rotate)
c. Side to side (ear to shoulder)
d. Combination of the above
Isn't all this independent head moving accomplished with the base, the neck for a lack of proper technical terms, as the point of movement?
Isn't this the type of independent movement that Homer said was not to happen regarding the Stationary Head?
2. This 'tripod' is it suppose to be an 'Isosceles Triangle (2 sides of equal length)'? Doesn't a tripod indicate 3 legs? Is this not a Bipod?
Now for my ignorance...
3. Where does TGM state the head is to be in the center of the stance? Isn't the center to between the feet?
I mean 1-L-1, 1-L-2 and 2-H, don't state that as I read them.
4. If the pivot center of the shoulders are permitted to move (other than rotate), side to side, up or down, doesn't this indicate either
a. Set up position is not correct if this movement accomplishes correct alignment at impact?
b. If the movement moves off and the back on prior to impact, isn't this a case several compensating moves that serve no purpose if they weren't done? (This assumes that moves counter each other to null out the result).
c. Wouldn't the Low Point be moved by moving the pivot center? (Would this account for a variation where the ball placement would either be more forward or backward depending upon the movement from what might consider optimal as defined by the primary lever?)
d. Can 'POWER' not alignment be accomplished more effectively with a moving pivot center over a static center? If so does this require a certain degree of hand/eye coordination, timing, etc.?
5. Movement of the pivot center(head, neck, etc.), would this not encourage swaying and bobbing in the less physical golfers?
6. Do we get confused when monitoring the head by the face on view, when in-fact rotation is acceptable and most heads have more depth than width coupled with the angle lending itself to appear to move up and down and sideways when it is really rotation? Obviously some head movements are truly head movements when we see them the static reference points in the background clearly show this, while others the appearance may be deceiving?
I have always subscribed to a stationary head, rotate okay, but moving off the ball or toward the ball seem to me making the golf stroke more difficult and more dependent upon timing and other physical and mental attributes. In short it complicates IMO. That is not to say you can't move it, and that you won't get better resutls but the reason for the better results may be that you are now compensating for mixed component variations or fault execution.
So without attack, etc. Can I get some answers so I can better understand the discussion and learn.... All posters welcomed...would like to hear from Brian, Yoda and the other senior TGMers especially to these questions