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GOLFREVEALED on AIM

Please consider this explanation of why a matter so important, indeed so very important, as Golfrevealed's singular basics treatment of 'aim' is seemingly relegated to an 'odd issue' page, supposedly, titled THIS'N THAT. For one thing, although numerous of the sister sites' pages contain some rather trivial and casual matters partially, all pages contain, likewise, critical matters as well (as is the case here with a fairly full treatment of GR's important departure relative the treatment of the basic commonly known as 'AIM'.) For another thing, on page MORE of GME (golfmadeeasy) there developed just too much to cover to devote sufficient study and explication to this relative rare case of our system delving into common so-called 'basics', since OUR version (and we think it's the best one) of this basic IS a departure, IS quite different from what you have usually been instructed!  And for a final thing, quite frankly we want the earnest student of our new golf method to visit (and need to visit) all of our limited number of pages because, well simply because that persistent a mind IS requisite to learning and grasping an approach quite different from that with which he or she may have been indoctrinated previously.

 
The above said, let us first, now, cover something concerning which golfers may not be precisely aware concerning the take-off aim and flight of a golf ball. The struck golf ball does NOT take off in the direction the club FACE is pointing. No, it takes off in the direction the club HEAD is traveling. That is precisely why we have and are able to have such things as fades and draws, slices and hooks. Therefore if we aim with the club face we negate any skill behavior of the flighted ball that we may have intended, or else we force ourselves to try to manipulate, control the attitude of the club face during the club swing. A sorry thing to be trying to do, just as the great Ben Hogan said in his FIVE LESSONS, "I don't give as much as a passing thought to how the face of my club will contact the ball. . . . .Consciously trying to control the face of the club at impact is folly."
." Well you are so RIGHT, Mr. Hogan (as you were in so many things)!
 
But, still then, NOT trying to do so (and effectually doing so) is so terribly difficult - difficult to avoid trying to do this very thing we shouldn't do or try to do!  Most all golfers fall much of the time into trying to do this. Tour golfers no less (much) than ordinary golfers. Why is this? Why IS it so difficult to avoid? We're pretty certain it lies in the supposed requirements of 'aim' and the instructions golfers are invariably given to aim the club face squarely to the target.
 
YES. SURE. "Squarely to the target." But, good golfing friends, consider the reality of the situation and the confusion and uncertainty with which the golfer is thereby faced through such instruction! The face of the golf club head, be it a wood or an iron, Is NOT a rounded undifferentiated easily 'point able' end like the striking end of a cue stick in pool, nor does the golfer have the enviable opportunity that the pool player has (usually) of getting right down with his eyes virtually level with and face on with the action. Oh no! How well we know it. Isn't that right? The golfer stands sidereal to ANY consideration of 'aim'. He not only views the club face from this prospect, BUT in doing so he is also looking at a planar surface that is quite confusing aim-wise indeed, since its very loft characteristics give it a skewed appearance to the eyes striving for guidance from and to it!
(No WONDER some redoubtable golfers, the fine young Sergio Garcia for a suspected by us case in point, but not one alone by any, any means - we believe Sergio would benefit and advantage extremely through practice swinging with the GR practice club we shall introduce to you here - no WONDER Sergio can turn himself and spectators into bundles of nerves at times with his fidgeting maneuvers addressing the ball - he is trying to get comfortable about 'aim' !)
 
Because AIM is a very 
aleatoric matter, a gamble indeed, when undertaken with the club face as guide, as at least partly advised by present golf instruction. The human eye and the inclining club face and the angle of viewing approach are just too multi faceted to comprise a decent 'aiming' mechanism, not to SPEAK of the still graver fact that such a method of AIMING will, in consequence, set up an either conscious or sub-conscious (it matters not which - one is as ruinous as the other) resolve and effort on the golfer's part to guide and control the club face's attitude in the process of the downswing. And we already know what the great Ben Hogan had to say about that. It's folly. Pure folly!  All the foregoing is one example of a very troublesome infraction of one of GR's cardinal and very simple rules, i.e.- DON'T DO WHAT WILL HAPPEN!  (You will more and more get to understand and appreciate the worth and value of this simple admonition as you progress in your understanding of and experience with the GOLFREVEALED way.)
 
So how, then, IS the totally crucial matter of 'aim' to be accomplished? Why the way you routinely 'aim' your physical activities every dynamic routine moment of your daily living! You aim with the attitude of your body and trunk, whether the motion is to be frontal or sidereal. When you move along in living, when you undertake to do something that involves the entire body in full and critical, no, requiredly symphonic cooperation, you don't 'aim' the undertaking with your hands, for cry eye, you aim it with your BODY! -- AND SO BE IT WITH THE MATTER OF AIMING IN GOLF!
 
In golf, and especially critically in GR golf, you determine the "bee-line" direction to the target in the numerous ways already familiar to you in golf lore - the perceiving of two spots on the ground that align together in that bee-line to the target, and then you take your stance, your body arrangement, absolutely as parallel to that line as you can possibly manage it. Forget about closed or open stances (ordinarily, except where terrain circumstances demand otherwise.) But in all events HAVE  imaginary yardsticks across your back and shoulders all lined up parallel to that target line. Then set the club head down close behind the golf ball (rules allowing) with the club head's face exactly as it was fixed in the taking of your grip, ALL a matter of original accomplishment, NOT a matter of eye adjustment or acknowledgement whatever (the EYES set the club down behind the ball but they DO NOT INSTRUCT ITS FACE IN ANY WAY . . . THAT has been done in the GRIP!

So THIS is the way to set your aim, but golfers being human beings, golfers having eyes that want to view and reflect on intricacies, golfers wanting to, liking to with their eyes determine and make make  'adjustments' (it's only natural, folks, it's the way we live;but it shouldn't be the way we manage and play our golf, except in a relative few special situations that sometimes arise.) - - again, GOLFERS being, after all, human beings, notwithstanding all that we've said here it is going to REMAIN a difficult task for the aspiring good golfer to change his learned way of 'aiming' and maintain that all-body approach to the matter which we have described, refusing to give in, eventually in the process, to that sorry eye adjusting business. 
 
What shall be done about this? Take heart! GR is on its way to you with guaranteed help, assistance and eventual CURE!!
 
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The GR assistance and early cure to the problem is accomplished through two (either one of which is probably enough to do the job) patent pending golf practicing articles, both of which come packaged with the full GR HOME ACADEMY, but either of which can also be purchased separately. In the course of this page, each will be illustrated.
 
What is necessary is to rescue from and cure, by new habit!, the golfer's current and thoroughly entrenched habit and penchant for, in the course of aim and address, studying, looking at, becoming aware of the face of his club. We have already discussed in several ways, and substantiated with quotes from no less entitled an authority than Ben Hogan himself, the evil of this fixation to, either by eye or through pure mental envisioning, concern oneself with -the face of the clubhead, its angle, its tilt, any of all that! We cannot but accent and re-accent the matter here. Over and over again. Because it's bad business and the good golfer must get himself cured of that!
 
GR's cure (and we wonder if anyone can  come up with a better, a more reliable and certain cure - we doubt it - the malady is not a simple thing to overcome) is for the golfer to become accustomed to considering (seeing) his clubhead as a faceless object, accustomed to aiming it under that consideration, accustomed to swinging it under that consideration! The only form of 'faceless yet real and tangible object we can think of is a perfectly round sphere, a globe, a ball. Thus the two items of GR's invention and cure that are afforded to the problem!
 
The one is an actual regular, standard golf club shaft on which the affixed club head is not your usual wood or iron, but rather a four & 1/2 inch diameter hollow ball. With this club the golfer practices aim, address, takeaway, swing and strike through on ordinary plastic golf balls such as those already prevalent everywhere (every golfer has them, we think). The item is named the Practice Genie (TM) and it is pictured below:
 
 
 
 
 
It is of a proper weight to closely approximate an ordinary club head and it is entirely durable for immeasurable practice sessions over an extended period of months and years, properly used having a life expectancy not untypical of any other golf club. Proper use postulates the hitting of only hollow plastic golf balls (or other spheres of similar, not greater, resistance) and the teeing up of said target balls moderately as for hitting off the tea, as the club would not longest withstand the striking down into hard turf as is, of course, done in the case of most irons play.
 
Practice with this club in but a brief time accustoms the golfer to thinking of and viewing his club in a new and correct light, as a golf tool that is automatically self adjusting and responds
to him only on the takeaway and back swing as needed, but after that, on the down swing, it responds merely reflexively, automatically and in accordance with the physics of stretched tendons and positioned levers, precisely as the supposed 'return' golf action should operate (but does not if the golfer ignores the GR maxim
"don't DO what will HAPPEN"!)
 
And why will practice with the GR GENIE obtain, establish this happy observance as new habit for the greatly improving golfer? Why because of a number of things which, employing the tool as outlined in its accompanying instructions, he or she can't help but perceive as factual and, in result, make these GR truths matters of practice, first by dint of studied adherence to them, but early on by dint of ingrained habit! Thus -
 
1. Grounding the ball clubhead down in back of the practice golf ball (or just grounding it down, golf ball or no golf ball) the golfer is instructed to roll his wrists gently back and forth right and left (that very wrist roll which indeed golfers should avoid in their dynamic actions.) To the practicer it is pointed out, then, that this rolling accomplishes nothing as respect the round golf club head's attitude to the ball. It 'faces' the ball no differently than it did before, because, after all, it is a perfectly round globe and has no differentiable 'face', one from the other! So what could possibly be the purpose or use of this rolling of the wrists? Nothing, nothing at all. So why DO it? Surely it is merely a 'nerves' thing and accomplishes nothing in this static stage of the golf maneuver. BUT OH THE UNCERTAINTY AND ADDED RISK AND HARM it can impart to the dynamic golf action when takeaway and all the rest (return) are commenced!! Golfing friends - BELIEVE it!
 
2. Next, in the instructions, the golfer is invited to slowly swing the practice club back and forth in the air by extending his arms approximately armpit level in front of him. Asked to follow the to and fro moving club head with his eyes, it is pointed out to him that there is no way by rolling his wrists that he can change the ever constant facing of the round golf club head by purely "rolling the wrists". So why roll them? He can alter the club shaft's attitude to the sky, the ground and the horizon, of course - with any number of body parts and maneuvers, which is what DOES happen (and should, necessarily so), in the actual dynamic golf swing. But that's another matter and has nothing to do with rolling of the wrists.

3. Next it is time for the practicing golfer to actually hit with the Practice Genie and instructions encourage him or her to do this, reminding only that the ball will not become substantially airborne but instead will early be merely skimming along on the ground. Thus, he is reminded, there is no reason for him to look up whatever, for if he does he will only have to look to the ground again to see the rolling ball. Thus he will be encouraged to keep his eyes non shifting in a head that remains largely down, except for such unavoidable rising as the golf stroke itself eventually forces.
 
4. And finally the golfer is encouraged to merely practice swinging at random with this device with body and physique in whatever attitude he chooses, but experiencing the FACT that there is really no reason whatever for rolling either his arms or his wrists, as doing so will have no influence on the round ball club head's attitude to whatever direction it is travelling. The line of motion at any time will dictate the direction of dynamic force, not any 'facing' of the club head, which is as it is and must be in the actual golf effort and which is precisely what the golfer (ALL golfers) needs to have ingrained in his golf knowledge and psyche, so as to discontinue for all time this useless (worse - very harmful) 'rolling' of the arms or the wrists or the hands!  The arms, the wrists, may, do move up and down, they may,do move sideways also. Every thing in its time, without the golfer doing it (except on the takeaway and back swing.) But in every event, nothing should 'roll'!
 
The GR Practice Genie will early begin to get this point across. So also will its companion practice device, the likewise patent pending GR article pictured next below and called The Jacket Genie (TM):





The Jacket Genie is very like the hollow round ball club head of The Practice Genie, except IT is
conveniently and temporarily fitted by the golfer around any of his golf clubs as he may choose. It is opaque and the enclosed head of his golfclub is of course therefore no longer visible to him. The Jacket Genie is sufficiently light weight as to not appreciably change his club's swing weight. Instructions recommend to the golfer essentially the same trials and observations as hold sway for the Practice Genie club, except in the case of the jacket it is not recommended that any kind of a practice ball be actually struck. Practice balls could actually be struck, but it is not recommended as, because of the jacket's attachment means, the same life of the device as the Practice Genie club could not under that use be fairly expected. The jacket practice is recommended for simple aiming and swinging exercises without actually striking practice balls, but this is a matter for the users choice and discretion. The jacket will not really early be damaged, but in time it is sure to suffer.

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It's a good idea, here, and maybe necessary, to make PLAIN to golfer readers why we at GR rant and rail so much against wrist roll. After all, it seemingly has been well tolerated by many golf authorities and instructors in the past. In fact, the only earlier lamenting by golf people against this practice has been in, with some of them, a preference for and reccomendation of the familiar "square to square" style of golf. But on the other hand, many golf  'authorities' over the years have by no means insisted on the square to square approach. Actually, GR, in its knowledge that, PARTICULARLY with GR's magic understanding and treatment at the crucial MOMENT of TRUTH near the top, and its knowledge also that even in ANY case (the secrets or not) the 'rolling' in takeaway automatically will, in the down swing, return to the club face's original bias at address (unless the golfer makes a heroic and senseless effort to not let it do so), GR, in reality has no horror of non square to square as such, but only to the fact that the rolling on the takeaway and backswing ROBS the golfer of priceless POWER (distance) that he otherwise could HAVE!! The 'rollaway golfer', let us call him here for sake of nomenclature, will never have the power and distance of his counterpart who DOESN'T roll his wrists!!

Did we perchance sense a perking up of the ears, attention and interest of most  golfers here? We rather think that we did! (smiling)

But it's very very TRUE!  And THAT (nothing much else, really;if you want to roll, well then roll) is why GR is so emphatically set against it! (Indeed, do we have so much power and club head speed that we wish to reduce them? If so why not just take a shorter club?)

Here's the explanation. It's good science and it's CORRECT!

As you take the clubhead away and around and up to the right you acquire increasingly a tension and a fair amount of resistance in all your body. Tendons are stretching. And ligaments. All your body is winding up as would a mechanical clock. You've heard of torsion. Well  torsion is being set.   NOW . . . .

TO the extent that you 'roll' either your arms, or your wrists, or anything else, for that matter, you are making the journey around, up and back easier (indeed, that's probably unconsciously why you do the rolling in the first place. That plus also the deceptive DOWNswing feeling as explained in the blue print section of  page MORE, here quoted "Further, on the downswing, then, whatever does happen, in any event as the clubhead and your wrists gyrate and quickly change the roll there is a marvelous feeling of strain and power that, apparently, makes the golfer happily feel that he is shattering the world with his force! Apparently this feeling can become very seductive and be unconsciously coveted by the golfer, for all of its year after year failures.")   

BUT . . .

At the very same time you are DISallowing the desireable atretch and tension and tortion that would otherwise be available to impart to the downswing the power and speed you so need and want.

                             so now you can   understand why  
                                 GR consistently admonishes you

                        DON'T ROLL.
For those who like little 'demonstrations' wherebye they can prove things for themselves (and who doesn't) , try this: - Just lean with your elbows uopn a table in front of you. Then bring your hands up together in front of you in a prayer like attitude. Now cock your wrist straight up as far as they'll go. Release the tension caused and SEE how vigorously and speedily they snap back to where they were. THAT'S body parts power and tension!

NOW resume the praying attitude. THIS time roll your wrists to the right (OR left, doesn't matter) as far as they'll go. Now discontinue any inclination to HOLD them there. OH MY! See what happens/? NOTHING! Nothing whatsoever. Those happy, lazy, perfectly comfortable rolled wrists are delighted to just rest there right where they are!

Get the idea? So much for any power hopes with rolling body members!

BTW - putting it more banally, in golf, rolling the wrists is a cop-out. Don't cop-out unless your physical condition truly makes it necessary.

(Incidentally, the GR Golf Academy incorporates numerouse of this type of self demonstration. Very effective.)



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