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Now you got your Cooty Shot . . .

Let's learn about Circles! Make the world go 'round in Circles!
When I had my Swamp visit, Collards gave me a super Ground Schooling on the Geometry of the Circle and the Visual Equivalents. We learnt it at the Cracker Barrel over pancakes. Couldn't understand why Yoda used pen and paper. I'm mean flap jacks are round and we had surup. Whatever . . .

Holla for the genius of Mr. K!

Mr. K first kicks the willie bobo about GEOMETRY in the Introduction:

It may be that an octopus – or a “thing” from outer space- would need a different procedure, but for people- shaped golfers there is actually only “one swing,” as depicted in Chapter 8 and discussed in Chapter 7. This Basic Stroke is not a basic procedure but its basic geometry.

From he's off to the races like your 9th grade Maf teacher with the high water pants and white belt. Based on some the pics I've seen, he had this snazzy habidashery thing down pat too.

The relationships in the Golf Stroke can be explained scientifically only by geometry, because geometry is the science of relationships. So learn Feel from Mechanics rather than Mechanics from Feel. “Alignment Golf” – Feel from Mechanics – dispenses with all dependence on “mandatory” Positions . . . Alignment Golf simply smothers Position Golf, so translate your “Position Procedures” into “Alignment Procedures” as fast as you are able to do so.

So what relationships and alignments are important? According to Mr. K the G.O.L.F. swing is composed of two elements: The Geometry of the Circle and The Physics of Rotation. I flunked physics so not qualified to discuss that one intelligently.

Geometry of the Circle and Alignments for the purposes of this discussion revolve around the following:

CIRCUMFERENCE - The boundary line of a circle - FOR GOLF it is the approximate circular path that the Sweet Spot takes in the Stroke - a whirling weight on a string.

RADIUS - A line segment that joins the center of a circle with any point on its circumference - FOR GOLF Swing Radius is the entire length of the Primary Lever Assembly (the Left Arm AND the Club Shaft).

TANGENT - Making contact at a single point or along a line; touching but not intersecting FOR GOLF - Low Point/Low Point Plane Line - the lowest point in the Stroke

CHORD - A line segment that joins two points on a curve - FOR GOLF - there are a lot of chords - the Angle of Approach, the Angle of Attack, the Right Forearm Angle of Approach, and hopefully the flight of the ball. And the NATURE BOY of all Chords . . . The LINE OF COMPRESSION!!!!

FLAT - having a horizontal surface in which no part is higher or lower than another - FOR GOLF - Come on now y'all know this one

PARALLEL - Of, relating to, or designating two or more straight coplanar lines that do not intersect - FOR GOLF - the Low Point Plane Line and the Impact Plane Line

HORIZONTAL - At right angles to a vertical line - FOR GOLF - One of the 3 Planes of Motion giving us the "ideal application" of Horizontal Hinge Action.

VERTICAL - Intersecting at or forming right angles OR at right angles to the plane of the horizon or a base line - FOR GOLF - Another of the 3 Basic Planes of Motion wanna hit it high and soft?

STRAIGHT - Extending continuously in the same direction without curving -FOR GOLF - the Third Imperative - A Straight Plane Line

ON PLANE - Of or being a figure lying in a plane FOR GOLF - the orbit of the clubhead lying on the Inclined Plane of Motion OR the Flying Wedges.

CENTERED - A point around which something rotates or revolves - FOR GOLF - the Clubshaft rotating around the Sweet Spot

LEVEL - A flat, horizontal surface FOR GOLF - The LEVEL Right Wrist all important in the structure of the Right Forearm Flying Wedge.


Let's freak the Geometry on few of these. I have a drawing that the LGM (little green man) gave me that illustrates a lot of this stuff. I'll scan it and see if Yoda would allow me to post it. You cool with that Collards?

All aboard, next stop CIRCUMFERENCE . . .