The FMM Swing system is the result of my mission to understand the inner workings of the old-school greats—and to adapt them to modern golf. I spent eight years figuring it out and two years making it teachable. These are their forgotten master moves.

I’m Petter Tärbe, and my greatest passion is sharing the joy of ball striking. You can read my story here if you’d like.

The old masters figured it out way before videoing every angle, force plates and trackman. They played with equipment so difficult that failure wasn’t an option. Back then, it was called “the secret in the dirt.”

I’ve basically rediscovered old swing knowledge and adapted it to a teachable concept. It all boils down to two main intentions in the swing arc and something to put it on steroids.

Or as Ben Hogan roughly said: “try to do the opposite of what you think and you’ve probably got a great swing”.

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  I teach through a progression from learning the Smooth V4 first and then a more Powerful V8

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  The old school way of creating power is a smoother longer journey that fundamentally utilizes centrifugal and centripetal force in a clever way.

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  Using the FMM Swing System brings you a lot of goodies for your golf game. Explained here.

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  There are different solutions to striking a golf ball. I provide the contextual layer in this video

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  So how does it work? Check it out in this video

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I focus entirely on the driving intentions of your golf swing. The inner layer. This leads to extreme simplication in execution but it still takes a month to learn since you need skill development (hint, quick fix doesn’t work).

The entire swing system is designed around how you connect with the golf club using two key intentions in the swing arc—ultimately blending into one smooth, fluid motion.

• Step 1 – Understanding your Movement – You answer a questionnaire and send current swing videos. We then have a short non cost meeting to see if this is for you. I create a starting ball striking analysis video for you with your fundamental challenge and your golf swing vs the FMM golf swing.
• Step 2 – Understanding the FMM Swing – We step into foundational knowledge studies. A 50 page booklet accomponied by videos. Then a Q&A Knowledge Meeting.
• Step 3 – Building Your FMM Swing – A completely different style of communication with HOW you do this. The good stuff if you will. Long story short – you train two driving intentions as your baseline engine and then add one body component to make it shine.
  • The training goes through 4 stages and takes somewhere around 30-40 efficient hours.
  • You start it off with a “test it out phase” so that we resonate in the way I teach and the way you receive information.
  • Feels right? Let’s go into the swing change for the duration that it takes. I’m available with on demand feedback during it.
• Step 4 – Personalized Tendencies Analysis – We wrap it up with a recommended future training plan to make you play more golf and train less.

• Starting “Try it Out” fee is 200$. This includes the ball striking analysis, all knowledge material and a test period.
• Test Period Good? Then I add 300$ and will be available on demand during the change.
• My first year teaching this (starting Q3 2024) it’s 500$ total. I’ll raise the price to 1000$ total later in 2025.

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  My full bag walk through.

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  This video is about generating a feeling of how it is to play golf with a system as simple as the FMM Swing System. Lofoten 18 hole round with -4 result.

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Wish to Reach Out?

Let’s talk to see if we’re a good fit. If you prefer just sending an email you can reach me on: petter@forgottenmastermoves.com.

To provide the best experience, I work with a max 10 students at a time, so there might be a short wait list.

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  When you use the swing arc as your engine shot shaping becomes simple and enjoyable.

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  Being centered and effortless is the outcome of actually dancing around on your feet. 

  If you follow the natural movement it becomes a more effortless feel.

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  What’s the engine of a golf swing? What truly drives it? The answer depends on the swing system you follow. In the FMM Swing—rooted in the timeless motion of the old greats—the engine is a combination of the club, hands, and arms, along with the intentional tasks you give them.

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  If you know how to generate and accelerate power effortlessly, you’re on the verge of playing unmanipulated golf. This style of swing requires less training and allows you to focus more on playing.

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  Flatter clubs is a cheat code if you're using the old school motion

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  You don’t need to manipulate the golf swing. By relying on the swing arc for power, you can bypass many difficult and unnecessary moves. The transition should be as effortless as possible, especially since it happens in a part of the swing that’s hard to consciously control. The greats of the past figured this out long ago.

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  There are many different swing styles, but the classic golf swing was built around one key principle—utilizing the swing arc. Over the last ten years, I’ve studied what the greats did and how they did it. Through the FMM swing, I teach the inner driving components of the swing arc, which comes with a major advantage: It creates automatic, synchronized body rotation in the golf swing.

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  I prefer to play golf with an abstract feel. Being too mechanical and overly internalized makes both the game and performance suffer. Most importantly, it takes you out of the moment and makes you less of a player.

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  Effortless power is incredible to achieve, but effortless playable power is even better. Playability means finding the perfect balance between power and control. The great golfers of the past mastered the swing arc to generate early power and accelerate the club through precise mechanics. But how do you accelerate a circle? You act towards the center.

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  If you’re into golf technique, you’ve probably heard the term “golf system” more than once. The FMM Swing System is heavily influenced by the swings of legends like Hogan, Snead, Palmer, Nicklaus, and Watson. At its core, it’s about training your swing with the simplest possible intentions to achieve complete club connection—just like the greats did.

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  If you understand how to generate and accelerate power while also being aware of clubface closure, you unlock true control in golf. This is the best feeling, no matter which swing system you follow.

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  When you use the swing arc as your main power source you are active from the top backswing position all the way until the end of the follow through.

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  Training the two intentions that I teach puts you in direct contact with the dynamic energy in the golf club.

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  If you actually allow your club to overtake your hands you help out to release centrifugal force. This is a pillar of what the old greats did and creates effortless power.

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A Defined Power Concept – Most golfers have a subconscious non defined power relationship. This leads to, most of the time, a broken engine (and for most golfers over the top problems). What I offer is a concept of how to use the swing arc for defined power. An engine rebuild.

Complete Inner Layer Focus – If you aim your attention to the driving intentions of power creation, power acceleration and clubface control in the swing arc you start training the skill set that drives your entire motion. You train two intentions as the baseline engine in your swing and then use the best power boozter of them all = old school full body extension.

What I Don’t talk about – Wrist angles, swing planes, swing paths, shoulder planes etc etc. These are all byproducts of acting natural with the above mentioned intentions. The biggest win is quite likely that you can ignore most instruction and gain laser like focus in training.

Learn the Skill Set & then Play Golf – Being mechanical on the golf course is limiting. If you train the skill set of creating and accelerating power in the swing arc you can actually reach the level of just “feeling your swing” instead of being highly technical.

Clubface Control through Old-School Release – The difference between 8 and scratch in hcp. The old timers used a mechanism to control the clubface without strangling the club. Clubface control in an effortless state.

I had a wish to create effortless playable power in the simplest possible way. Through my studies I found that the golf swings of the 1940-70s (and partly the 80s) were less complicated and superior for both competitive and casual golf. Somewhere in the late 80s and 90s the golf swing became more manipulated (2 plane swings etc) and less natural.

The deeper I digged the more obvious it became. The solutions to golf swings, with origins long before Hogan and the gang, were easier to learn, execute and enjoy than modern more mechanical instruction.

My absolute belief is that if you time travelled these guys into modern golf they would top the leaderboards. But at the end of the day the decision to go more old-school was mainly preferential.

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Maybe the FMM wasn’t really your thing. Maybe I can help out with something else?