Brian Manzella
Administrator
Have you ever seen the "Copycat Recipe" websites? There are several of them on the 'net and they all attempt to do basically the same thing—recreate a recipe of a famous dish from a restaurant or food service company by taste. I am sure it is possible to get the food to taste the basically the same, especially after several attempts. But how many times do they ever taste exactly the same? And how many times is the recipe knocked off perfectly, ingredient by ingredient?
The recipe that always comes to mind is Houston's Spinach Dip. I have literally had 100 different versions of the dish at parties and the like, and lots of them taste great. Not a single one taste like, and has the consistency of the original. Not even close.
I am sure that at a lab, the ingredients of the ingredients could be found out. Even then, you'd have to try to figure out where they all go.
The golf swing is still a mystery. In 600 years of playing the game, and almost as many teaching it, and almost as many writing about it, and almost as many of that talking about it on video of some sort—what do we have?
Copycat Recipe websites, golf schools, and schools of thought on the golf swing.
Many espouse a certain pattern of movement that they claim is ideal. Most of these claims come from trying to back out the recipe of a swing from video.
Some use 3D, the six degree of freedom type or not, to help make their case. But almost never do these 3D inclusions have 3D on the players they based their pet movement pattern on. Ditto for force plates. Heck, no really good simultaneous 2D high speed video from down the line and face on exists for Ben Hogan, Jack Nicklaus, or Johnny Miller, just to demonstrate eras that have missing video of that kind. Heck, damn little simultaneous 2D high speed video from down the line and face on exists for any current players.
What good would that do any way?
All you'd have is a way to figure out what they looked like they did. No way in hell to figure out what they actually did. That's why golf instruction has been so poor for 100+ years. Copycat recipes that even done perfectly, just don't produce the same as the original.
Nowadays we have Radar machines that do a great but imperfect job of tracking the club and the ball. Super high-speed video that can show you things never seen before with human eyes. All of that for just slightly better copycat recipes.
Damn, I wish I had some Houston's Spinach Dip as I write this....
Anyhoo, man can not live on that dish alone. Although it would be fun trying for a half-day or so....
The answer to culinary delights is not in any recipe. The answer to happiness in any good or bad diet is many, many dishes, hopefully from the right food groups, in the right portions, at the right times of day.
The same with the golf swing.
One of them could be duplicated. But video won't do. You'd need really good 6 DOF 3D capture, force plates and a really smart scientist to back out the forces and the torques. Then you'd probably need years to perfect THAT swing, while all the while YOUR body is changing. Even the the guy or gal that was captured couldn't even go back in a year and duplicate that swing. Or a month.
No, the secret is in knowing how to apply the forces and torques to the only two things you are in contact with:
The club and the ground.
If you get it, you win. You discover how. And that how will NEVER CHANGE. Even as you do.
In the last few weeks I have had a couple of "almost understands" to half of that puzzle. Folks, if I am correct—and everything we have learned in PROJECT 1.68 tells me I am, NOBODY ELSE WAS EVEN REMOTELY CLOSE.
In fact, the folks trying to knock off one swing, or a group of them with a certain look, are further away then folks were 80 years ago.
They are missing an important ingredient. And just like all the folks who keep putting the wrong ingredients in their spinach dips, they are lost in a circle of mistakes and seems as ifs that make most dip copiers forget what the real dip even taste like.
I really feel sorry for most of them. I've been down all those silly roads.
I am so close to the whole secret, I can taste it.
And it doesn't have near all the damn sour cream everyone uses—if you get my drift.
The recipe that always comes to mind is Houston's Spinach Dip. I have literally had 100 different versions of the dish at parties and the like, and lots of them taste great. Not a single one taste like, and has the consistency of the original. Not even close.
I am sure that at a lab, the ingredients of the ingredients could be found out. Even then, you'd have to try to figure out where they all go.
The golf swing is still a mystery. In 600 years of playing the game, and almost as many teaching it, and almost as many writing about it, and almost as many of that talking about it on video of some sort—what do we have?
Copycat Recipe websites, golf schools, and schools of thought on the golf swing.
Many espouse a certain pattern of movement that they claim is ideal. Most of these claims come from trying to back out the recipe of a swing from video.
Some use 3D, the six degree of freedom type or not, to help make their case. But almost never do these 3D inclusions have 3D on the players they based their pet movement pattern on. Ditto for force plates. Heck, no really good simultaneous 2D high speed video from down the line and face on exists for Ben Hogan, Jack Nicklaus, or Johnny Miller, just to demonstrate eras that have missing video of that kind. Heck, damn little simultaneous 2D high speed video from down the line and face on exists for any current players.
What good would that do any way?
All you'd have is a way to figure out what they looked like they did. No way in hell to figure out what they actually did. That's why golf instruction has been so poor for 100+ years. Copycat recipes that even done perfectly, just don't produce the same as the original.
Nowadays we have Radar machines that do a great but imperfect job of tracking the club and the ball. Super high-speed video that can show you things never seen before with human eyes. All of that for just slightly better copycat recipes.
Damn, I wish I had some Houston's Spinach Dip as I write this....
Anyhoo, man can not live on that dish alone. Although it would be fun trying for a half-day or so....
The answer to culinary delights is not in any recipe. The answer to happiness in any good or bad diet is many, many dishes, hopefully from the right food groups, in the right portions, at the right times of day.
The same with the golf swing.
One of them could be duplicated. But video won't do. You'd need really good 6 DOF 3D capture, force plates and a really smart scientist to back out the forces and the torques. Then you'd probably need years to perfect THAT swing, while all the while YOUR body is changing. Even the the guy or gal that was captured couldn't even go back in a year and duplicate that swing. Or a month.
No, the secret is in knowing how to apply the forces and torques to the only two things you are in contact with:
The club and the ground.
If you get it, you win. You discover how. And that how will NEVER CHANGE. Even as you do.
In the last few weeks I have had a couple of "almost understands" to half of that puzzle. Folks, if I am correct—and everything we have learned in PROJECT 1.68 tells me I am, NOBODY ELSE WAS EVEN REMOTELY CLOSE.
In fact, the folks trying to knock off one swing, or a group of them with a certain look, are further away then folks were 80 years ago.
They are missing an important ingredient. And just like all the folks who keep putting the wrong ingredients in their spinach dips, they are lost in a circle of mistakes and seems as ifs that make most dip copiers forget what the real dip even taste like.
I really feel sorry for most of them. I've been down all those silly roads.
I am so close to the whole secret, I can taste it.
And it doesn't have near all the damn sour cream everyone uses—if you get my drift.
