I’m not into the golfing machine system since thinking of the swing as pure geometrical idea doesn’t line up with how I see the golf motion (e.g. Ben Hogan didn’t keep his head still). I only write this article because the name of my “classification” is swinging and TGM has something called swinging too.

In TGM the hitting motion is basically that you push the club with the trail side and the swinging motion is that you more pull it with the lead side.

Great Mechanical Instruction – FMM Another Direction

Here is Tom Tomasello demonstrating the swinging and hitting pattern in The Golfing Machine

Mr Tomasello is demonstrating both the hitting and swinging motion and it has very little to do what and how I teach. Sure, there are similarities in the way that some part looks similar but that’s about it. The Golfing Machine is one of the finest attempts to explain the golf motion. It’s amazing in it’s complex systematization (very easily explained in the video) and the explanatory style that is highly mechanical certainly fits a subset of golfers, but I’ve gone in another direction. I work solely with the dynamic force in the club and let the body react.

TGM Swinging vs Other Solutions

The outcome of a golfing machine swinging motion is rotating club face (much more rotation than the old timer swinging style) and the struggle to time this is the whole motivation for the great works of John Eriksson. He was basically a test subject for TGM swinging motion. Teamed up with Bradley Hughes he teaches basically the opposite of this “out of control” blade through his hoganesque teaching philosophy available on advancedballstriking.com. This system I can really recommend even though I recommend my own FMM Swing even more (I’m kind of biased 🙂 ).

Both solve the same fundamental problem: Removing the chaotic blade from your game. Mine is more about utilizing early power creation and an intentional power acceleration and blade controlling through and post impact all the way to the finish. ABC is more about utilizing a forearm skillset and a controlled hit with a drilled post impact afterlife.

I don’t write this to trash TGM. I just write it to separate myself from what they instruct. There are plenty ways to swing a golf golf club and TGM is one of them.

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