The video above is a very funny piece by trick shot artist J C Anderson lampooning instruction based on The Golf Machine (TGM). TGM is based on a book by Homer Kelley (here). Some of the concepts in Stack & Tilt methodology came from TGM (here), in fact you can look at S&T as a simplification of TGM.
Reading through Kelley's book is almost impossible. Every rule of good writing (see George Orwell's rules here) is broken repeatedly. Kelley was an engineer and took an engineering/physics approach to analyzing the golf swing. What he did continues to fascinate people trying to understand the golf swing, but getting through the book is no easy matter.
I once remember reading that the American engineer Buckminster Fuller (Bucky Balls, the geodesic dome and the Dymaxion car) had been driven crazy by the industrial revolution (if you want to read and understand more about Buckminster Fuller, there is a great website here). Possibly the same could be said about Homer Kelley and golf. Both Homer Kelley and Buckminster fuller did such solid and useful work and have so many committed followers that we really can't overlook their accomplishments, no matter how it is presented.
No comments:
Post a Comment