Department of Re-Education

To get an idea of how wonderful the public education system is here in the United States, go back and read some of the Federalist Papers. Somehow the founding fathers were able to articulate whole thoughts through complex and succinct language. Yet they were able to express themselves intellectually without the benefit of the Department of Education. Look how far we have come ... or should I say, look how far we have fallen. What we have now should really be called the Department of Re-education. We have produced a population of younger individuals that are prone to propaganda and the dispensation of hearsay as news. Despite the abundance of instantly available information, we have a population that is less informed than  their counterparts of two hundred years ago.

Many students in Wisconsin, upon being interviewed about their participation in the protests in Madison, do not even know what they protesting. It is amazing to me that we have become a giant herd of sheep.

I put this comment in the golf blog because I was thinking about another great piece of literature. It is titled, The Art Of Golf, by Sir Walter Simpson. It is a fine display of the art of language. I encourage all golfers to read this book.

The all sport correlation

I want to do for golfers what this young lady does for surfers.

The Indoboard is something I have yet to try ... but I imagine it to be a wonderful tool for balance. Golf is similar to surfing because the act of getting up on the board requires an explosive movement ... a core based willingness to move with precision ... to move in the moment. Golf is similar ... the willingness to snatch the right moment ... with the quiet mind ... and place the hands into orbit ... whereby they are whisked away out of their orbit down to smite the ball. In both cases a wave is being ridden. This is the secret. Each activity requires a mind that has reached the moment of singularity ... the it before the big bang. This sounds deep ... and it is.

Surf Camp! I think I just added one to the Bucket List.

Yasi

Here we are a day later and Yasi is displaying a beautiful Golden Spiral at the bottom.

The bottom line in golf ... there is a self-correcting nature in form when the mass of the body becomes aligned with this waning and accumulating motion. Look! It's the Yin and the Yang of nature.

Here is the text I am about to post to a golf forum.

... Praying for safety of the Australians caught in this monster storm.

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This photo pretty much says it all.

This photo pretty much says it all.

Has this thread been beaten to death?

Does everyone agree that there absolutely no way that a pure golf swing can be separated from this powerful expression in the natural world? How could it be possible? This action moves beyond the contemplation of hitting vs. swinging, left vs right, up vs. down, in vs.out. Likewise in golf, the mechanical mind must release itself to that now moment. Golf, to me, is an act of simply placing the hands into orbit and removing them from orbit. If the hands are stable, the clubhead is stable. This was the Ernest Jones understanding ... he said, "the swinging club through the hands, finds its own center." I believe that all mass, through time, seeks to organize itself along this spiral. If we allow an eye wall to develop inside the body, this powerful wave can be accessed. Here then arises the notion of power through efficiency. When this efficiency is realized, time shrinks to nothingness, and the pure strike emerges ... ahh, a fine shot indeed.

So this is the nature of the Golf To The Core workshop. My purpose is to help the client realize and enhance the body's ability to find this efficiency ... reveal techniques on how to develop the inner eye-wall and how to develop the inner eye.

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Yasi

Here is another spectacular weather spiral ... Cyclone Yasi is hitting Australia.

The monster winter storm of 2011

That's a big beautiful spiral!


ZOOM

The next frame. Here I frame the spiral against the upper right hand corner. As the sun sets the spiral looks like a zygote floating in the womb.

Meeting the cable golf guru

Last week I contacted Dave Geier about the Golf To The Core seminar I have been putting together. We spent a good three hours together. I watched him give a lesson and later we had lunch at the driving range across the street. If you watch cable TV in Northeast Ohio, you probably have seen his commercial for www.golf-insideouttraining.com .

He has quite a good following. He has published a book and developed a very intensive training module for golf. He is quite enamored with the Golfing Machine and personally knows David Lee of Gravity Golf fame. I leafed through the Golfing Machine book as he was giving his lesson. It is the first time that I had ever turned a page in that book. I must say, it is detailed and complex ... and open to interpretation. Several teachers have developed their own methodologies based on that book, the Stack and Tilt method being just one of those. I am considering working with Mr. Geier as a member of the integral team he is assembling. I see myself as more of a group seminar guy. I am interested in core training and balance training via the blending of Yoga and martial arts. These are the things that will enable the golfer to get more out of personalized instruction. See Golf To The Core.

At the Golf To The Core site, I note that I am attempting to complete the Ernest Jones method. During our meeting, I made a specific reference to Mr. Jones. For those that don't know, Ernest Jones was a sweet swinger back before World War I. Ernest Jones ended up fighting in the war, and had one of his legs blown up. He ended up getting one of his legs amputated below the knee. There is a picture of him in his book Swing the Clubhead playing golf while standing on one leg. And he wasn't hacking it up. He played good golf while standing on that one leg. When I imitated Jones swinging on one leg for Mr. Geier, I purposely chose the opposite leg to stand on. I was disappointed that Mr. Geier did not catch my purposeful "mistake." He should have. Correctly imitating Jones would only have added credence to his own thinking. Oh well.

The reason I post this notice of our Wed. January, 26th meeting is simple: I have already been ripped off by that weasel, crony capitalist, Tony (pony tail) Little ... when he stole the Gazelle For Golf idea I gave him. Does anyone remember the "Rock and Roll Stepper?" That product was a direct result of information I passed on to him. I wanted to be a handshake kind of capitalist, but I guess I let my idealism get in the way of business. More the fool am I. I was thinking value added ... he was thinking, "how can I rip off this brilliant insight". It serves him right that his crony product was mass produced in China, laden with smelly, nasty, caustic rubber ... either returned to HSN or in the back of the closet warding off moths with its caustic smell. I hope Fitness Quest took a big, big hit on that ... serves them right!

My product is made in the U.S.A.

Kiss my butt "Pony" Little, and pass that on to your opportunistic, scammer brother of yours.

But I digress. I want to protect my intellectual property. So I am making a note here on this blog of our meeting last week.

He advertises on cable ... I don't. He can espouse the ideas I may have given him ... and call them his own. The ego is a tricky thing. I would like to be part of his integral team in a positive win/win situation. A large part of capitalism is mutual cooperation.

Maybe I should give Pony Tail guy a second chance. Maybe I should sue him ;~]

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GOLF GAMBLERS TAKE NOTE

There are a lot of big time golf gamblers out there. If you are one of them and are looking a golf miracle, I think I can help. I believe that if you attend my seminar, you will win more money than you could possibly imagine. I believe my seminar is worth thousands and thousands of dollars to the gamblers out there. However if you are looking for instant jolt of quick and lasting improvement, I am willing to travel and work intensely with you ... for a substantial fee. Fees are based on travel expenses, accommodations, and time. If you are a big time gambler and need to find the edge ... I know I can deliver.

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The Power of the Golden Spiral

This is a satellite photo of huge snow storm that hit the East coast over the the 2010 Christmas holiday. Nature proves to us that it is very powerful and dynamic when it organizes itself and expresses itself through the form of the golden spiral. Since we are inseparable from nature, there is every reason to believe we as individuals can summon similar power on a smaller scale.

I incorporated the spiral into a dartboard backboard that I constructed back in the mid 1990's. It is decorated with hundreds of wine corks I had collected over the years. This  was very time consuming ... drinking all that wine ...  just kidding. No, I mean that actual construction of the backboard. Working in fine dining establishments made cork collecting fairly painless. The board came out great! You will notice that the golden spiral on the board below starts in the lower left hand quadrant exits and then re-enters the left side of the board, drops off and re-enters the bottom of the board, juts off the right side of the board and re-enters in the top right quadrant. If you compare the spiral on the board with the photo above, you will notice that the spirals mirror each other. The construction of this board was not accidental. You will also notice a dark curved line cutting across the center. This represents and arm that is swinging a paddle. In this piece the dartboard represents both a compass face and a paddle. The picture does not do justice to this piece. I looks great hanging on the wall ... if I may say so myself.