If you don't like a given Component Variation, recommended or otherwise, then Homer Kelley would be the first to tell you to avoid it and use something else. The reasons for 'not liking' something range from physical inability to execute to psychological. There are ten trillion Strokes in TGM, roughly half Hitting and half Swinging. Use the one(s) you like. Again quoting Homer, "Do whatever you like. Have fun! Enjoy the game!"
That's what it's all about.
Yoda,
When I start to concede to my physical and psychological limitations I may not get out of bed in the morning-- but like Sisyphus I must push onward. Naturally I eventually abandon the component variations that I find too unwieldy. However, Homer’s editorial on 12-2-0; “Avoid “customizing” it with other Variations until it approaches the “expert” stage.”, mutters in the back of my mind. Golf is a set acquired skills, Homer provides the master schematic –variations galore– do I have the wits to sort out what works for me? Hope springs eternal, that's where the fun must be!
Respectfully,
HGH
I have some defininte thoughts on this that have been on my agenda to post for weeks. I'll get to them when I return from Pine Needles.
I just wanted to say that I am a Bobby Jones fan. I've watched his tapes so much that the picture is no longer clear. The beauty of Bobby Jones was that he had the three imperatives on every shot, and he was also a master of the three "essentials" (a stationary head, balance and rhythm). I believe he had a triple shift plane angle variation ( 10-7-D) which he repeated masterfully. The beauty of TGM is that it allows for everything that Bobby did and gives students and teachers so many options. Bobby Jones said in his tapes and book to "do what's most natural." If a teacher can see what a student's natural tendencies are and work within those confines and not violate a flat left wrist at impact, hands leading a trailing clubhead and an on plane downswing, then that student is doing what Bobby said. That student is "doing what's most natural." Have a great day!
Good thoughts, JG33,
In an earlier post (somewhere!), I discussed the ideal nature of the Noncompensated Stroke Patterns of Chapter 12. But I did not make the point you have correctly made (and that Homer made in 1-H). Namely:
Hybrid Mode
