Visual drill - Model Golf screensaver a thing of beauty :)
 

see what u think

this is a free download

http://www.modelgolf.com/common/screen_saver.asp

also dont forget to download the separate help file

includes notes on:

Observational Learning

"How often have you had this experience? You have attended a golf tournament and watched the PGA, LPGA, or Senior PGA players with their rhythmic, apparently effortless, yet powerful, swings. When you return home and finally have the opportunity to get to the golf course, you find the rhythm and tempo of the professionals has somehow seeped into your swing.

You play some of the best golf of your life in the next two days. You may not have paid any attention to the specific mechanics used by any of the Tour players you observed, yet your swing seems to have improved dramatically after watching the best of the pros.

You may not know it, but you have engaged in what educational psychologists call modeling, or observational learning."

Anyone else experienced this - I have, maybe this was why.

Visuo-Motor Rehearsal
"The best way to use Model Swing Saver to improve your golf swing is to practice what sports psychologists call visuo-motor rehearsal. Watch the model swing for five full swings. Then close your eyes and rehearse in your own mind the swing you have just seen repeated on the computer screen. "


Chris

The very reason that one of the best things to get TGM 'out there' is to do a high quality, low cost to user, screen saver.

Sybervision for TGM

That you can both 'see' and 'hear'. From chip to pitch to full swing, from zone 1, to 2 to 3.

From imperative 1 to 2 to 3....


1, 2,3,4 - what are they (TGM) waiting for? :idea:

8)

You have to be careful of the "low cost to user". Last time I check, Model Golf was in bankruptcy proceedings. :cry:

YES, YES, YES. Where all of the components and variations are on a menu and you can select one and visually see what it looks like. It would be 3d so you could rotate around the golfer and see it from any angle.

Boy would that be great? Enter in the desired component selection and then sit back and enjoy. MG I know you catch some flack for your posts on GEA. Dont get discouraged with some of those guys. There are a few basic scoundrels there love nothing more than to stir the pot. If they dont want to learn and just want to offer up silliness and doubt, just ignore it.

Yowser Ed!
 

What a great idea!

Not a small undertaking but it's finite. Consider the 24 components, the 3 zones, the 12 stations, the variations and it's a lot of modeling, but not impossible.
It it could be done with just images, or flash video would simplify.
Thinking out loud.
What a fantastic training aid.

Good stuff!!!

Bagger

t would be neat

It would be a heck of a undertaking

How many combinations exist? (over 400 quadrillion!)

The concept of visualization to re-enforce a learning patterning, has proven to be a sound way for some to learn.

Oh, some will say the model golf swing 'model' has some serious faults regarding on how it was built. I am not clear on all the issues, but Chuck E. has studied this model and I believe interfaced with Ralph Mann.

I have the full system, it actually would be a great model (not the content) but the layout and style to build a TGM Handbook. It is interactive with a CD, the book and the full blown screen saver is pretty neat.

A fully fleshed out version would indeed be a huge task, however computers are amazing things these days ;)

The beauty is that you can start this fairly small - the three imperatives - with good examples of each (tour pros pics, take the best example of each)

Then loop photo's/short clips of each hinge action.

All the while showing IMPACT over, and over, and over

And 'hearing' IMPACT

Chip, pitch, punch, full


Doesn't need to be anything more to start.

Fan - yep, not the same as model golf - there is an army of AI's out there to back it up. Add a lookup to instructors based on zip that links back to the TGM main site (one place to update). Eventually you can sell 'add ons' that have more content or explain a specific pattern. For starters, just stick to the two outlined in chapter 12.

Check out Nick Dougherty - who teaches him? He would be a 'model' choice IMO.

Outstanding swing IMO