Easter D
The Key to the Cave Door…
“The key is in the shadows. When we embark on a new journey or try something new, the first thing we do is try to become good at the task at hand. This a backwards approach because we don’t fully understand what lies ahead. The perception that we completely understand what lies even one foot ahead of the other is a fallacy. This is only if the path forward is one we are unfamiliar with. Golf is surely not a game of perfect. It also is a game of unfamiliarity and the sooner the golfer understands that, the greater the student can become.
Just like any hero learns its enemies weakness before it attacks so must anyone learn their own weaknesses. A hero looks for a chink in their enemies armor, a dragon scale that might be missing, or one small achilles heel preventing Rory from continued greatness. Welcome to Easter Egg D: Coloring in Codes.”
-Instructor
|||Combinations vs. Permutations|||
If the key is in the light, first we must understand the lock’s hidden complexity...
Every golf shot is a set. Every round of golf is a set. Every career is a set.
Statistics and probability can be applied to measure the player’s position(s) for each established set. For us, that means color.
We assigned A, B, and C to certain areas of each plane as we previously discussed our Tetra Model. A new golfer is like dividing by zero. The set does not exist but the potential does. The same, each next golf swing that is to happen in the future, is the same. The past is measured. It is our goal to use the past measurements, biases and trends of the ball flight, to predict a likely outcome and then for the most skilled players; change the outcome. The greatest golfers of all time such as Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, Ben Hogan, Walter Hagen, Bobby Jones, and many others, transcended the game by seeing their career into the next.
The first step into greatness is understanding your point of reference. This is less about understanding what I am showing you and more knowing when you have scaled control of the game itself. When the player exercises the ability to manipulate the ball flight, they begin to establish trends like the 12+ Handicapped golfer. The scratch golfer can solve the cube to control the outcome. What separates scratch golfers and Tour Players is the ability to paint a picture from only hues and dots.
For this to happen, speed, energy and friction have to be injected into our system. Heat creates color. Where a toddler is very black/white rolling the ball 10 feet, the potential energy create does not meet the threshold to dive into color codes - or produce color by surmounting enough energy. A PGA Tour Player creates heat, friction and energy by consistently manipulating the cube to their desire and shape the ball to each and every intended target. The closer the golfer gets to their target, the hotter the cube becomes. Equilibrium is attained when all planes are balanced - including the mental universe.
This is where the real work begins.
Welcome to the Hall of Doors…
Below is a tool the player can use to understand the positions/movements that create the outcome through our system. This is easier when it is one dimensional. In this case, only one image is needed. However, the golf swing occurs in a room with many planes and doors and windows that connect to other rooms. The combination of positions is drawn from previous models. A very in-depth understanding of those positions is necessary to go any further down this path. Turning around now to gather more information is not a bad strategy. For those that understand this material and choose to push forward, save this tool. This is a lifesaver on the course and during practice sessions if you really know how to use it.
The Lock below depicts Orange Swing Plane-Dimension-1 as it relates to left/right direction of the ball flight factoring blue/yellow/green height as a dependent variable in Blue Swing Plane-Dimension-2.
“We will not go through the body positions tied to each bit in this section - each position will be built written lesson material in the member portal. The purpose of this exercise is to shed light on the vast number of possible outcomes as a combination of events. Once we understand a combination, we look for certain patterns to apply a re-ordering permutation. This type of algorithm is how encryption keys are programmed to lock and unlock.”
-Instructor
A(x²)
+ B(x)
+ C
= f(x) => d(x) / d(y)
Rounds 1 & 2
“Before a golfer can begin to shape the ball, they must establish control over their shot patterns - and broken down further, body positions during each swing. Each of these sets are not broken down for a full round of golf. I was not going to be that thorough but you could be. The question is, ‘What am I looking at?’ Well the answer is, ‘It depends. What are you trying to see?’
The golfer should first begin by looking at the LARGE system. This is one full round of golf. For the advanced player, this could be one golf swing, or one part of one part of one golf swing. Scalability is consistent but the outcome is the same. The only difference is, once the player can scale their fundamentals down to each granule of sand, they will dominate any player that only sees the beach.”
-Instructor
Let’s use this one set for an example.
We are not going to break down every segment. That would be simply too much - too much? aha.. ha. But the intention is that when you begin to solve a golf miss or fault or try to cure a bad/limited motion, first the player needs to begin with a LARGE approach. The golfer cannot solve a slice by trying to flip their wrists because that is not the LARGER cause. Flipping the wrists or casting is an effect of the larger cause that does become a cause when the ball is flying through the air.
Suggest the four systems here are one golf shot. The player here stuck the ball and this was the outcome of every measurable position. First the golfer wants to understand why what happened happened and why the ball went where it did based on the golfer’s influence. All of these dots are measurements of one part of the swing. We have four parts that do not match but we want to find a way to make all four patterns match. We cannot start by looking at each section. If you look further at the LARGE SCALE you will see a trend in the smaller. Answer Key Here:
Rounds 1 & 2
Rounds 3 & 4
The Golfer can look at each golf shot and apply and certain LARGER principle to start reprogramming the swing. There is no perfect logic behind these exact figures. However, think about each color as a change to the set. Each correction to the set above realigns each set to match. Once this parameter set is realigned, the golfer can work on more complicated and complex concepts. IF we are to say this is a set of four (4) golf rounds, the yellow arrow adds lateral push through impact to realign the set. Perhaps in this set, the golfer was struggling with hooking the ball, and their applied solution to realign the set is to add lateral motion. This would be correct and the player solved the first issue.
This process repeats as in Round 3, the golfer focused on their timing at impact body/club and their directional push to the right that places a green effect on the height of the ball flight. In Round 4, the golfer added a pull to the left to keep the ball starting left of the target line after pushing the ball right in Round 3.
“This is golf. We play this game until it cannot be played anymore. And then, we pass our knowledge down to the next generation. As complex as what you are looking at seems, the golfer should not be overwhelmed be each and every color. By looking at the patterns in the set, they can find the correct permutation to the combination that was created from the past statistical universe of golf swings.”
-Instructor
