Why are they called Flying Wedges?

[KnighT]

1) Why did Homer Kelly choose the term "Flying Wedges" to describe "the precision assembly and alignment of the Power Package basic structure" ?

2) Is there a reason that the Flying Wedges were presented with power accumulator #3 ? ?

[6bmike]

the wedge shape- like a sail - flys via Educated Hands along the Plane Line.

These wedge shapes form by the horizontal right arm and wrist, set into the vertical left arm and wrist (the cock-uncock of the transfer accumulator- #3) are whirled or driven (flying) as the striaght plane line is traced by pp3.

Two wedges - one horizontal and one vertical = TGM.


Dang- Tigers scored two runs. Oh well, up 5-2. still

so far, knock on wood (twice) wearing my lucky shirt and hat.


OUCH- a third run !

[KnighT]

Is the word 'Wedge' specificaly used to imply that when the flying wedges are set, there is literally an imaginary 'wedge' jammed into this plane of motion ?

If this is the case, then does the right arm flying wedge freeze and maintain it's bend, while the left arm flying wedge allows the left wrist to cock and uncock which alters the size of the wedge ?

I believe that Homer Kelley selected the term 'Flying Wedges' very carefully.

[12 piece bucket]

Is the word 'Wedge' specificaly used to imply that when the flying wedges are set, there is literally an imaginary 'wedge' jammed into this plane of motion ?

If this is the case, then does the right arm flying wedge freeze and maintain it's bend, while the left arm flying wedge allows the left wrist to cock and uncock which alters the size of the wedge ?

I believe that Homer Kelley selected the term 'Flying Wedges' very carefully.

here are two definitions:

Flying:

1. [n] an instance of traveling by air; "flying was still an exciting adventure for him"
2. [adj] done swiftly in or as if in the air; used e.g. of a racing start in which runners are already in motion as they cross the starting line; "a flying start"; "crossed the goal line with a flying leap"
3. [adj] hurried and brief; "paid a flying visit"; "took a flying glance at the book"; "a quick inspection"; "a fast visit"
4. [adj] of or relating to passage through the air especially aviation; "a flying time of three hours between cities"; "unidentified flying objects"
5. [adj] designed for swift movement or action; "a flying police squad is trained for quick action anywhere in the city"
6. [adj] moving swiftly; "fast-flying planes"; "played the difficult passage with flying fingers"
7. [adj] streaming or flapping or spreading wide as if in a current of air; "ran quickly, her flaring coat behind her"; "a fluttering scarf"; "flying banners"; "flags waving in the breeze"
8. [adj] capable of or engaged in flight; "the bat is a flying animal"


Wedge:

1. [n] a block of wood used to prevent the sliding or rolling of a heavy object
2. [n] something solid that is usable as an inclined plane (shaped like a V) that can be pushed between two things to separate them
3. [n] (golf) an iron with considerable loft and a broad sole
4. [n] a heel that is an extension of the sole of the shoe
5. [n] a diacritical mark (an inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters (such as c) to indicate pronunciation
6. [n] a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States
7. [n] any shape that is triangular in cross section
8. [v] squeeze like a wedge into a tight space; "I squeezed myself into the corner"
9. [v] fix, force, or implant; "lodge a bullet in the table"


putting two together:
Flying - done swiftly in or as if in the air
Wedge - a block of wood used to prevent the sliding or rolling of a heavy object

Construct a sentance(I could use some help refining this): Use the structural strength of a triangular shaped block of wood between each arm and the shaft (placed on the plane of the motion of each wrist) to allow this structure to create swift (uncompensated) motion in or as if in the air.

LOOK LOOK LOOK . . .



FLYING WEDGES Example – multiple sails on a sail boat.
Mechanical – Push-Pull rams on hydraulic excavators mounted at 90 degrees to each other to position and hold the main beam.
Golf – Maintaining the constant simultaneous In-Line relationship of the Clubshaft with the Left Arm and the Right Forearm positioned at ninety degrees to each other along the Line of the Left Wristcock and the line of the Right Wrist Bend.

[6bmike]

Is the word 'Wedge' specificaly used to imply that when the flying wedges are set, there is literally an imaginary 'wedge' jammed into this plane of motion ?

If this is the case, then does the right arm flying wedge freeze and maintain it's bend, while the left arm flying wedge allows the left wrist to cock and uncock which alters the size of the wedge ?

I believe that Homer Kelley selected the term 'Flying Wedges' very carefully.

Check the video in the gallery under Lynn Blake called Dowels and Wedges. I think that is one where Lynn explains the shape, a TWO sided wege shape (Left arm and acc#2- it is NOT a TRIangle)that flys as accum#3 is released.

Yes- the right FW remains bent. Its wedge is the bend of the wrist and hand.

check the video.

[KnighT]

Thank you so much, Bucket !

These pictures are great, but I still am confused a little bit. I know from the machine concept that the right arm should be a piston. These pictures clearly show a hydraulic arm which is powering these machines.

I think it is the mechanics that I do not understand:

FLYING WEDGES Example – multiple sails on a sail boat.
Mechanical – Push-Pull rams on hydraulic excavators mounted at 90 degrees to each other to position and hold the main beam.

The main area of confusion is the 90 degree thing. My original interpretation of this was that the right arm supports the left arm at a 90 degree angle to the primary lever assembly. Sometimes I think I feel this, but it is difficult because my hands are the tip of the triangle.

I am looking at sailboats and trying to see where the force is being directed to accelorate/power the boat. I can visualize the sail catching the wind then pulling or pushing the boat where ever the sail is attached to the boat (it also depends on where the sail is located in relation to the direcion of travel), and I can also see the big beam in the middle as being important; but I cannot see exactly how this relates to our flying wedges. It is getting 'less unclear', but you guys have helped alot.

I would really like to understand these flying wedges.

[12 piece bucket]

Thank you so much, Bucket !

These pictures are great, but I still am confused a little bit. I know from the machine concept that the right arm should be a piston. These pictures clearly show a hydraulic arm which is powering these machines.

I think it is the mechanics that I do not understand:

FLYING WEDGES Example – multiple sails on a sail boat.
Mechanical – Push-Pull rams on hydraulic excavators mounted at 90 degrees to each other to position and hold the main beam.

The main area of confusion is the 90 degree thing. My original interpretation of this was that the right arm supports the left arm at a 90 degree angle to the primary lever assembly. Sometimes I think I feel this, but it is difficult because my hands are the tip of the triangle.

I am looking at sailboats and trying to see where the force is being directed to accelorate/power the boat. I can visualize the sail catching the wind then pulling or pushing the boat where ever the sail is attached to the boat (it also depends on where the sail is located in relation to the direcion of travel), and I can also see the big beam in the middle as being important; but I cannot see exactly how this relates to our flying wedges. It is getting 'less unclear', but you guys have helped alot.

I would really like to understand these flying wedges.

The KEY . . . it is Left ARM Flying Wedge and Right FOREARM Flying Wedge . . . Not Right ARM.

Head to the Archives and check out the Magic of The Right Forearm Primer . . . the answers you seek are there.

[KnighT]

Thank you again, bucket.

I have taken your guidance and enthralled myself into the archives on the Magic of the right forearm. In one post Yoda says 'read the last paragraph of 7-3 until you know it'. I am giving that paragraph serious incubator time.

Also, I am trying to LOOK, LOOK, LOOK at how my right forearm moves the club.

I think my wedge assembly is improving, and sometimes I feel 3 dimensions.

[mb6606]

Focus on the wing and supporting strut. Remind you of something?

[KnighT]

Focus on the wing and supporting strut. Remind you of something?

Great image ! I LOVE appropriate pictures. They really help me with visualization and understanding. Bucket's pics are great also. I still look at them alot.

Thank you. That is very much how my arms are beginning to feel. My right arm feels tighter and closer than it ever has before.

I can sense a major difference in the way I hold a golf club, and the way that I move it....all because my power package assembly is improving. Before flying wedges and my TGM quest, my golf swing was very sad: I had no idea about how to apply force through the golf club and into the ball. All I was concerned about was hitting the ball and I probably flipped my hands at the ball. I think that I was primarily swinging the club with my wrists and body pivot. No power. No idea of proper mechanics. I could hit it straight (if I actually hit it), but always wondered why I would hit a 7 iron and my dad was hitting his Pitching Wedge on the same hole.

Then, after I got into this great book I made some nice improvements. But, I never felt like I was applying the ideas in the book; probably because I did not understand them (still do not completely, but I am scratching the very large surface). This website has resulted in exponential gains in my swing progress in a very short amount of time. Now, I go through sections in the book that I have not read in a while and will actually realize 'hey, I never understood that sentance before...not it makes sense'

I am putting alot of focus on my flying wedges. I think that without proper flying wedges trying to take on anything else in the book is like 'spittin in the wind'. My wedges are the only thing between my body and the golf club.

Actually, I am beginning to feel like the golf club is an extension of my left arm and right forearm. It is a whole world of difference in comparison to my dainty hand and wrist swing. I try to think 'left arm is part of the club and is only moved by the right forearm'. I try to program it in at impact fix. 'right forearm'. I am actually finding pressure point #1 and it's related power accumulator as a result of better assembly. My old way: club hangs from the wrists and is moved by the wrists and body rotation. My new way: club is attached to left arm and right forearm. If the right forearm moves, then the entire structure is moved together as a single unit.

This gives a much different sensation than my very poor 'old way'. The old way felt like the club was just loosly flopping somewhere around my right shoulder at the top, then just kinda blackout after that. I think I was just feeling the clubhead and sort of flinging it back and forward (nothing even close to 3 dimensional, no down or out) My 'new way' makes me feel like all my muscles are working together to move this structure. As a result of the motion (always initiated by the right forearm) the entire golf club is being moved. It makes the shaft of my 7 iron feel like a toothpick. It feels very light, and I have the sensation that I am in control of it.

Sorry for babbling, but it's kinda exciting to feel like I am beginning to apply this concept of the flying wedges that was so mysterious to me.