Michael Hebron

[little brit]

Wow! just got the book Golf Swing Secrets and Lies, by Michael Hebron. BC MIST recommended this book quite a while ago but it was never anywhere I had looked for it. I finally ordered it online and what a book. It is a large hardback with glossy full colour. The info. will take me a loooonng time to read and absorb.

Thanks BC.

[sweeper]

Very good book indeed... It has a chapter that is summarized and simplified
version of 'The Golfing Machine' by Homer Kelley. The book made me realize
that the source of clubhead speed is force.... F = m*a... If you apply force
to a mass, it accelerates... If there is acceleration, it means the mass is speeding
up.

After reading the book, I purged every swing idea I had and started to think
of golf swing as 'applying and aligning force'... 'Applying force' ensures
clubhead speed... 'Aligning force' ensures direction... With this concept, it is
really easy to create lag and compress the ball on the face of the club...
Totally different than flipping the club and squaring it with hands...
(I was a flipper before studying TGM... My right shoulder used to come over
the plane(Turned shoulder plane) pulling the arms and club off plane and I
was flipping my hands to square the club...)

Anyway... I also like 'Four Magic Moves to Winning Golf' by Joe Dante... There is
no reference to TGM in the book but the ideas in the book are very compatible
with TGM (Left wrist flat, right wrist bent, swinging and drag loading)...
The first magic move almost guarantees an OK shot...

I also can't wait 'The Impact Zone' by Bobby Clampett to be published.
Bobby Clampett was a student of Ben Doyle who is the first student of
Homer Kelley(I think)... The book will be published in April...

[sweeper]

You know what!!! Somebody put the the whole '4 magic moves...' book
on the net... And it is free...
http://newgolfswing.com

Enjoy...

[BC MIST]

Very good book indeed... It has a chapter that is summarized and simplified
version of 'The Golfing Machine' by Homer Kelley. The book made me realize
that the source of clubhead speed is force.... F = m*a... If you apply force
to a mass, it accelerates... If there is acceleration, it means the mass is speeding
up.

After reading the book, I purged every swing idea I had and started to think
of golf swing as 'applying and aligning force'... 'Applying force' ensures
clubhead speed... 'Aligning force' ensures direction... With this concept, it is
really easy to create lag and compress the ball on the face of the club...
Totally different than flipping the club and squaring it with hands...
(I was a flipper before studying TGM... My right shoulder used to come over
the plane(Turned shoulder plane) pulling the arms and club off plane and I
was flipping my hands to square the club...)

Anyway... I also like 'Four Magic Moves to Winning Golf' by Joe Dante... There is
no reference to TGM in the book but the ideas in the book are very compatible
with TGM (Left wrist flat, right wrist bent, swinging and drag loading)...
The first magic move almost guarantees an OK shot...

Yes, it is quite a book isn't it?

While there are certainly small variations in each, the three sources/tapes that helped me eliminate all the traditional swing nonsense that we are inundated with in books, The Golf Channel and the incorrect analysis by the weekend TV experts, are:
(1) "Knowledge Video" / "The Golf Solution" - Mark Evershed
(2) "The Secret to the Golf Swing - John Dunigan
(3) The TGM section of "Golf swing Secrets and Lies."

Having said the above, reading scores of other instructional books from Percy Boomer, Dante, to Hogan's 5 fundamentals, MacLean's 8 stepper, Leadbetter's mass technical confusion, and so on, makes me appreciate the simplicity and truthfulness of the three above sources, and the endlessly complicated, perception and feel oriented, paralysis by incorrect analysis, of the rest. All sources have some truths and some benefits but if one wants to achieve a simple, easy to repeat swing motion, using particularly (1) and (2), will help a lot.

[sweeper]

Yes, it is quite a book isn't it?

While there are certainly small variations in each, the three sources/tapes that helped me eliminate all the traditional swing nonsense that we are inundated with in books, The Golf Channel and the incorrect analysis by the weekend TV experts, are:
(1) "Knowledge Video" / "The Golf Solution" - Mark Evershed
(2) "The Secret to the Golf Swing - John Dunigan
(3) The TGM section of "Golf swing Secrets and Lies."

Having said the above, reading scores of other instructional books from Percy Boomer, Dante, to Hogan's 5 fundamentals, MacLean's 8 stepper, Leadbetter's mass technical confusion, and so on, makes me appreciate the simplicity and truthfulness of the three above sources, and the endlessly complicated, perception and feel oriented, paralysis by incorrect analysis, of the rest. All sources have some truths and some benefits but if one wants to achieve a simple, easy to repeat swing motion, using particularly (1) and (2), will help a lot.

I agree... I used to visit John Dunigan's web site frequently. He helped me open
my eyes and stop drinking koolaid... One point though... Although he puts
a lot of emphasize on the geometry of the golf stroke(plane), he doesn't mention enough about physics part of it(lag)...
That is the impression I got from his website. Maybe I'm wrong...
I didn't read his book. Maybe his book does a better job on the physics part of
it... I guess I will buy and read it...

[BC MIST]

I agree... I used to visit John Dunigan's web site frequently. He helped me open
my eyes and stop drinking koolaid... One point though... Although he puts
a lot of emphasize on the geometry of the golf stroke(plane), he doesn't mention enough about physics part of it(lag)...
That is the impression I got from his website. Maybe I'm wrong...
I didn't read his book. Maybe his book does a better job on the physics part of
it... I guess I will buy and read it...

From where I sit, lag is merely the golfer's ability to create, maintain and have the hands ahead of the ball, throughout the downswing, and at impact. The club head lags behind the hands. IF this is true, then John's recommended motion creates lag.

If lag refers to increasing the bend in the shaft, in the 12 to 6 plane, at the start of the downswing, then it is possible to increase club head speed as the leverage angles will straighten later, over the same distance, and raise the club head speed. However, and it may not be important, most golfers have the shaft bending FORWARD at impact, Tour professionals as well, even though the hands may be ahead of the ball. Maintaining this radial acceleration as long as possible, is one key to higher CHS.