Circle Circle Dot Dot - Geometry of the Circle

[12 piece bucket]

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 . . .

[12 piece bucket]

Circle. Circle. Dot. Dot. Now I got my koodie shot. Or was that LOB SHOT (2-C-3)? Throw it away! Throw it away! Throw it away, now!

The G.O.L.F. CIRCLE or CIRCUMFERENCE or CLUBHEAD ORBIT is what the Geometry of the Circle is all about . . . so let's make the room spin 'round and 'round like the blades of helecopter.

Homer, as in Kelley not Simpson, tells us:

The Geometry of Golf has two aspects – the facts and the illusions, visual and sensory. When facts are understood, the illusions not only cease to mislead but can be utilized.

Let's start with the FACTS please . . .

The ONLY part of the Circle that is not a STRAIGHT LINE is the CIRCUMFERENCE. The Circumference is produced by a Radius (Primary Lever Assembly) which moves about a center via CF or Muscle Power.

Regardless of how the Lever Assembly is driven, it moves in a circle.

Where does the Circle live and breath???

All the action of the Golf Club takes place on a flat, inflexible, Inclined Plane which extends well beyond the circumference of the stroke – in every direction. The full length of the Clubshaft remains unwaveringly on the face of this Inclined Plane – Waggle to Follow-through. Every other Component of the Stroke must be adjusted to comply with that requirement.

[Yoda]

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?

Go for it, Colonel. The page always starts clean enough, but it gets marked up a lot before I'm done! If there's something salvagable there, go ahead and put it up.

[12 piece bucket]

Go for it, Colonel. The page always starts clean enough, but it gets marked up a lot before I'm done! If there's something salvagable there, go ahead and put it up.

Alrighty then. We got us one of them scanners at work . They won't let me touch it since I ate half of the Crayons out of my box. I'll do some recon work and try to scan it. But remember since I am Bucket I have no clue what to do after that. If I scan it could I e-mail to somebody to post?

[12 piece bucket]

That's right y'all LINE OF COMPRESSION . . .

2-0 . . . GEOMETRICALLY ORIENTED LINEAR FORCE
Principles are simple – their applications get complicated. The Principle of Golf is the “Line of Compression.” The Mechanics of Golf is the production and manipulation of the “Line of Compression.” The Secret of Golf is sustaining the “Line of Compression." Precision is recognizing and reconciling minute differentiations.

So where is the damn LOC on the Circle huh punk huh!!!?!!!

It's the Chord beginning at Impact Point and through Low Point.

2-C-0 . . . Briefly stated, it is necessary to find a way to compress the ball through a particular point along a particular line, and maintain this compression through the same particular point along this same particular line straight line, through the entire arc of the Impact Interval, and with geometrical precision for consistent control. Study 2-K and 2-N. . . .

In other words, the original contact points of the Clubface and ball must remain in contact throughout the entire Impact Interval.

[Mike O]

[quote=12 piece bucket]That's right y'all LINE OF COMPRESSION . . .

So where is the damn LOC on the Circle huh punk huh!!!?!!!

It's the Chord beginning at Impact Point and through Low Point.

QUOTE]


At the intersection of 1)TGM, 2) two and three dimensional space 3) Impact physics- Well there's a pile of bodies or a mental institution- So just admit me now!

Colonel,
I know you need company in there- you built the post and now they will come- they'll need to build a new ward on that mental facility!

The line of compression created at impact is a tangent to the circle of the sweetspot.

Again, I wouldn't dig too deep in this area- otherwise you won't be living at home anymore - you'll be living with a lot of other patients and seeing people in white jackets on a daily basis.

[12 piece bucket]

The line of compression created at impact is a tangent to the circle of the sweetspot.

Again, I wouldn't dig too deep in this area- otherwise you won't be living at home anymore - you'll be living with a lot of other patients and seeing people in white jackets on a daily basis.

Mike O,

The People the come to visit me everyday. The People they are my friends. The People . . . they are Bucket's friends. I love The People.

Hey Mike . . . I thought I read on another forum that you told this lost soul that he wanted the ball leaving as a Chord?

Back to rocking and The People.

B

[Yoda]

...I wouldn't dig too deep in this area- otherwise you won't be living at home anymore - you'll be living with a lot of other patients and seeing people in white jackets on a daily basis.

Hey Mike . . . I thought I read on another forum that you told this lost soul that he wanted the ball leaving as a Chord?

With the Ball positioned Up Plane from Low Point, the Clubhead's Line of Flight will always pass outside the Ball's Location. Hence, it will also pass 'outside' the Line of Flight. Which makes the Line of Flight a chord to the Clubhead Orbit.

Except that it's not a true chord because the Ball's Line of Flight is in a vertical plane and the Clubhead's Line of Flight is in an Inclined Plane. And the Ball leaves the Plane at Separation and hence its 'exit' from the circle occurs at that point (and not on the 'other side' of the circle). But, no matter, it still performs as if a chord.



Beam me up, Scotty.

And make my own very long-sleeved white jacket a 44 long!