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I just started writing some crib notes to help me grasp TGM. The thing that confuses me most about the writing is the constant use of accumulator and pressure point numbers instead of names, so I put them down on one sheet of paper to serve as a reference. Maybe someone else will find them of use. And if anyone has other crib notes that they used or are using with TGM I’d love to see them too. TGM Crib Notes Aiming Point A point on the ground, along the flight line, on or near to the ball. For a delivery line method, drive the hands from the top of the backswing towards the aiming point. Power Accumulators #1: Right elbow. Bend until top of backswing. For hitting, straighten while driving right hand on line towards ball/aiming point. Little application for swinging. #2: Wrist cock #3: Wrist turn and roll. For swinging, turn on the backswing, roll on the downswing. Little application to hitting. #4: Left shoulder. Attachment of left arm to chest. Is also checkrein for right elbow drive towards aiming point. Pressure Points #1: Heel of the right hand where it touches either the left hand thumb or the clubshaft (per grip used) #2: Last three fingers of the left hand #3: First joint of right hand index finger where it touches the clubshaft #4: Wherever the straight left arm contacts the left side or chest. — Digital forums are a gift to the slow witted
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Hey, that’s great! Nice brief summary. I’ve got a nice callous on my #3 pressure point! A while back, I asked David Laville some questions about TGM, which were posted to RSG. If you want to see the Q&A, go to google and search "TGM Q&A" and you’ll see what is there, which is acually quite a lot. Mike – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I just started writing some crib notes to help me grasp TGM. The thing that confuses me most about the writing is the constant use of accumulator and pressure point numbers instead of names, so I put them down on one sheet of paper to serve as a reference. Maybe someone else will find them of use. And if anyone has other crib notes that they used or are using with TGM I’d love to see them too. TGM Crib Notes Aiming Point A point on the ground, along the flight line, on or near to the ball. For a delivery line method, drive the hands from the top of the backswing towards the aiming point. Power Accumulators #1: Right elbow. Bend until top of backswing. For hitting, straighten while driving right hand on line towards ball/aiming point. Little application for swinging. #2: Wrist cock #3: Wrist turn and roll. For swinging, turn on the backswing, roll on the downswing. Little application to hitting. #4: Left shoulder. Attachment of left arm to chest. Is also checkrein for right elbow drive towards aiming point. Pressure Points #1: Heel of the right hand where it touches either the left hand thumb or the clubshaft (per grip used) #2: Last three fingers of the left hand #3: First joint of right hand index finger where it touches the clubshaft #4: Wherever the straight left arm contacts the left side or chest. — Digital forums are a gift to the slow witted
– Mike Dalecki I do not patronize spammers. Help keep RSG clean! GCA Accredited Clubmaker. Web Site: http://www.dalecki.net/clubdoctor/ RSG-Wisconsin 2002 Report/Pics: http://dalecki.net/rsgwis2002/part1.html RSG Roll Call: http://rec-sport-golf.com/members/?rollcall=daleckim
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Hey, that’s great! Nice brief summary. I’ve got a nice callous on my #3 pressure point! A while back, I asked David Laville some questions about TGM, which were posted to RSG. If you want to see the Q&A, go to google and search "TGM Q&A" and you’ll see what is there, which is acually quite a lot.
Yeah I can find Thread 6, 5, 9, 4, and 1 (8a is indexed but missing). — Digital forums are a gift to the slow witted
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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Hey, that’s great! Nice brief summary. I’ve got a nice callous on my #3 pressure point! A while back, I asked David Laville some questions about TGM, which were posted to RSG. If you want to see the Q&A, go to google and search "TGM Q&A" and you’ll see what is there, which is acually quite a lot. Yeah I can find Thread 6, 5, 9, 4, and 1 (8a is indexed but missing). — Digital forums are a gift to the slow witted
Try searching just on TGM and Dalecki. There were other threads, now that I look, that didn’t include the "Q&A" in the title. Here are some of the titles: "More TGM Questions, DL Answers" "TGM Q&A–Thread Eight-A" It’s there. "The Golfing Machine–I got the book, going through it" Mike Mike — Mike Dalecki I do not patronize spammers. Help keep RSG clean! GCA Accredited Clubmaker. Web Site: http://www.dalecki.net/clubdoctor/ RSG-Wisconsin 2002 Report/Pics: http://dalecki.net/rsgwis2002/part1.html RSG Roll Call: http://rec-sport-golf.com/members/?rollcall=daleckim
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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I just started writing some crib notes to help me grasp TGM. The thing that confuses me most about the writing is the constant use of accumulator and pressure point numbers instead of names, so I put them down on one sheet of paper to serve as a reference. Maybe someone else will find them of use. And if anyone has other crib notes that they used or are using with TGM I’d love to see them too. TGM Crib Notes Aiming Point A point on the ground, along the flight line, on or near to the ball. For a delivery line method, drive the hands from the top of the backswing towards the aiming point. Power Accumulators #1: Right elbow. Bend until top of backswing. For hitting, straighten while driving right hand on line towards ball/aiming point. Little application for swinging. #2: Wrist cock #3: Wrist turn and roll. For swinging, turn on the backswing, roll on the downswing. Little application to hitting. #4: Left shoulder. Attachment of left arm to chest. Is also checkrein for right elbow drive towards aiming point. Pressure Points #1: Heel of the right hand where it touches either the left hand thumb or the clubshaft (per grip used) #2: Last three fingers of the left hand #3: First joint of right hand index finger where it touches the clubshaft #4: Wherever the straight left arm contacts the left side or chest.
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Hey, that’s great! Nice brief summary. I’ve got a nice callous on my #3 pressure point!
Speaking of callouses, I have them on the #2 and #3 pressure points and the right side of my right thumb. That thumb is the one I don’t understand. Should I be getting a callous there? Is it a sign of something dumb I’m doing, like maybe flattening the right wrist for impact? I play with plain old rubber wrap grips, not cords, in case that matters. — Digital forums are a gift to the slow witted
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Hey, that’s great! Nice brief summary. I’ve got a nice callous on my #3 pressure point! Speaking of callouses, I have them on the #2 and #3 pressure points and the right side of my right thumb. That thumb is the one I don’t understand. Should I be getting a callous there? Is it a sign of something dumb I’m doing, like maybe flattening the right wrist for impact? I play with plain old rubber wrap grips, not cords, in case that matters.
I have full cord grips on my clubs so any place I grip them I have either tough skin or a buildup callous. I have one at #3, also one at #2 (ring finger only, interestingly, as the pinky is overlapped on the other hand so it can’t get a callous, and the middle finger has nothing discernable). And I also have a tough spot on the right side of my right thumb where I grip the club. I don’t think it means anything particularly (David, comment please), though I’ve been told by a pro that gripping with the last 3 fingers of the right hand only is a good thing. I think that, since my thumb is sitting on the corded grip, it’s going to wear regardless. In your case, with old rubber grips, it sounds as if you’re gripping the club too hard. I’d also say that you should change those grips today. The harder and older they are, the stronger you must grip them to retain control, and the stronger you grip them the harder it is to get the release. I’d like to hear David address this. Mike Mike Dalecki I do not patronize spammers. Help keep RSG clean! GCA Accredited Clubmaker. Web Site: http://www.dalecki.net/clubdoctor/ RSG-Wisconsin 2002 Report/Pics: http://dalecki.net/rsgwis2002/part1.html RSG Roll Call: http://rec-sport-golf.com/members/?rollcall=daleckim
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Lonsdale, you couldn’t have done a better job of making this all crystal clear. I never really thought much about these pressure points when i grabbed the club….will give it a try today. got the day off and i’m going out to play!!!! Again, thnaks for your simplification here Eric
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(snip) though I’ve been told by a pro that gripping with the last 3 fingers of the right hand only is a good thing…
(snip) did you really mean "right" hand, or are you maybe left handed? — Dave Jones RSG Roll Call http://rec-sport-golf.com/members/?rollcall=jonesd
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(snip) though I’ve been told by a pro that gripping with the last 3 fingers of the right hand only is a good thing… (snip) did you really mean "right" hand, or are you maybe left handed? — Dave Jones RSG Roll Call http://rec-sport-golf.com/members/?rollcall=jonesd
How about ‘only the last three fingers.’ In other words, take the thumb and forefinger of the right hand out of it. Mike — Mike Dalecki I do not patronize spammers. Help keep RSG clean! GCA Accredited Clubmaker. Web Site: http://www.dalecki.net/clubdoctor/ RSG-Wisconsin 2002 Report/Pics: http://dalecki.net/rsgwis2002/part1.html RSG Roll Call: http://rec-sport-golf.com/members/?rollcall=daleckim
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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – (snip) though I’ve been told by a pro that gripping with the last 3 fingers of the right hand only is a good thing… (snip) did you really mean "right" hand, or are you maybe left handed? — Dave Jones RSG Roll Call http://rec-sport-golf.com/members/?rollcall=jonesd How about ‘only the last three fingers.’ In other words, take the thumb and forefinger of the right hand out of it. Mike — Mike Dalecki I do not patronize spammers. Help keep RSG clean! GCA Accredited Clubmaker. Web Site: http://www.dalecki.net/clubdoctor/ RSG-Wisconsin 2002 Report/Pics: http://dalecki.net/rsgwis2002/part1.html RSG Roll Call: http://rec-sport-golf.com/members/?rollcall=daleckim
that wasn’t my confusion…I’ve always been taught to grip the club mostly with the last three fingers of the left hand (I’m right handed). The last three fingers of my right hand have very little grip pressure. Maybe that’s why I’m a 16 
— Dave Jones RSG Roll Call http://rec-sport-golf.com/members/?rollcall=jonesd
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did you really mean "right" hand, or are you maybe left handed? How about ‘only the last three fingers.’ In other words, take the thumb and forefinger of the right hand out of it.
I thought it was supposed to be the last three fingers of the left hand and the middle two (ring & middle) fingers of the right. I’ve been experimenting with taking my whole right hand tension out of the swing by just lightly placing my right hand on the grip. Seems to help me turn better and keeps me from coming OTT. I’m a right handed golfer. My major calluses are on the inside pad of my left ring finger at the middle knuckle (where it touches my middle finger) and at the base of my left ring and pinky fingers. I also have a very slight callous at the #3 pressure point (right index finger where it touches the grip. Been playing without a glove for 9 months now and use Royal Slot Wraps (non-corded). — Washington State University "That shot is impossible!…Jack Nicholson himself couldn’t make it!"– Homer Simpson
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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – did you really mean "right" hand, or are you maybe left handed? How about ‘only the last three fingers.’ In other words, take the thumb and forefinger of the right hand out of it. I thought it was supposed to be the last three fingers of the left hand and the middle two (ring & middle) fingers of the right. I’ve been experimenting with taking my whole right hand tension out of the swing by just lightly placing my right hand on the grip. Seems to help me turn better and keeps me from coming OTT. I’m a right handed golfer. My major calluses are on the inside pad of my left ring finger at the middle knuckle (where it touches my middle finger) and at the base of my left ring and pinky fingers. I also have a very slight callous at the #3 pressure point (right index finger where it touches the grip. Been playing without a glove for 9 months now and use Royal Slot Wraps (non-corded). — Washington State University "That shot is impossible!…Jack Nicholson himself couldn’t make it!"– Homer Simpson
Scott, I also play without a glove but use WinnGrip Pro AllWeather grips. My left hand callouses are right below the first joint down from the finger tip of the last three fingers, and on the outside of my index finger below the knuckle joint. My right hand callous (only one) is on my ring finger, below the first joint, towards my middle finger. I think that these points indicate that my grip and grip pressure are OK, but was confused about Mike’s mention of right hand last three finger pressure. — Dave Jones RSG Roll Call http://rec-sport-golf.com/members/?rollcall=jonesd
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Just for the record, and because I am a lifelong student of the English language: Main Entry: 1cal