Since joining this forum, I feel that I have been enlightened greatly about the golf swing. Many of you have explained elements of the swing like no where else. This is especially true of Brian. Ifeel, as a teacher, the more we can explain how the swing should feel at certain points in the swing, the easier it is for all to understand. A question for all:After contact, shaft is forward, right wrist bent, left wrist flat, how should each of your hands move toward finish? For the right to remain bent, doesn't it have to move counter clockwise to the left of the target? This is a part of the golf swing that, IMO, has not been sufficiently explained. Yes, I have Homer's book and have read it more than once. I just wish someone would come out with a version "for dummies". Brian?
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TGM for dummies...great idea. It would have to be a very long book. I think Homer put it as efficiently as possible to expound would take alot. I'd pay $100+ if it was good. It seems though that the golfing machine owners have some sort of clamp on the TGM info that gets out. I don't know this for sure, just seems that way to me.
They paid a LOT of money for the rights to the book and should be allowed to do what they want. Cliff notes would be great. SPend 100 bucks on the Ben Doyle Tape, it explains everything and ya get to watch the movement. Spend 300 bucks ( alot I know) and get the matt with it, that might be the cliff note version of the book in that, it contains all the components on it and more.
Homer did years and years of work to get this info out to the public. I know they own it, but why keep it a secret? Are they afraid to sell to many books or have other people interested. Do Homer some honor and get this stuff out to the masses. It is truth and it is obvios it works. I have the Doyle tape and have learned tons off of it, but would still love the book explained by someone who knew what Homer was talking about. It is a journey I know and I enjoy it, but it would be great to have a map to the map. This stuff is golden, why keep it hidden.
The new owners are not trying to keep it a secret, far from it. The new and last version of the book is due out soon, but money is tight. This is the worst market since Bush I, in the late 1980s, for book publishing. I know of someone who is trying to produce a companion book, a notes version. Hopefully this and another book will be published sometime soon. The owners want to be true to Homer (and a promise to Sally) and not produce a product that is incomplete. And of course the money needed to get a book out is enormous. TGM is not a general read or even a general golf read like Leadbetter or Pelz would be. Soon it might if we can enlighten others.
For now, the TGM and Evan’s forums are the next best thing to a notes version. And of course Brian’s ability to teach TGM is unsurpassed.
I hated the book at first. Now the pages have become familiar, it is an easier read. The discovery rate is way up. Yoda, Chuck, Stickney, Manzella and of course all the faceless posters on the two mentioned forums I give full credit.
I hope the additional book gets going soon.
Preface
"Please remember this is intended to serve as a manual and tries to adhere to a textbook style of writing which customarily eschews selling, debating, reminiscing, opinions and hilarity. The presentation is basically 'technical writing' but, for its emphasis, with a definitely conversational style through-out the book."
"Please remember this is intended to serve as a manual and tries to adhere to a textbook style of writing which customarily eschews selling, debating, reminiscing, opinions and hilarity. The presentation is basically 'technical writing' but, for its emphasis, with a definitely conversational style through-out the book."
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6bee1dee is absolutley correct. The final edition has been ready for some time. Publishing is a matter of $$$$.
The final edition of the book, however, is not the final chapter for the new owners. Stay tuned.
The final edition of the book, however, is not the final chapter for the new owners. Stay tuned.
Brian Manzella
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read the first paragraph of 1-H....
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