Not sure where to put this but amazing….
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Trip the shaft a la Freddie Gruber! (Also, I’m a big Rush fan, and @lagpressure is too.)
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That’s cool to know. I’m a big Rush Fan as well. I converted a whole bunch of young kids in the hood and my nephew and his friends as well growing up. Saw them a few times as well. Still can’t believe that Neil is no longer with us.
My dad who loved Buddy Rich and was born and died in same years as him even liked Neil Peart after I had him listen to YYZ…
He also loved Ben Hogan and had his book 5 lessons which messed me up a bit :).
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The Freddie Gruber video I posted on youtube got taken down. Wrongfully so I think because it was for instruction only. Buddy Rich and Freddie Gruber were tripping the drumstick in the same way Hogan was tripping the golf shaft. I suspect Ted Williams was doing the same with his version of lumber!
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The Moeller technique has been around for generations, dude literally wrote the book on it a hundred years ago. Music instruction tends to be a lot better than golf at keeping its ancient wisdom alive and standing on the shoulders of giants. Passing down the fundamentals. Golf seems to have people trying to reinvent the wheel left and right…
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I don’t know if I would say golf has tried to reinvent the wheel, I would say that many people overlook the back story of the golf technology explosions. One was the end of the Cold War where all these military industrial complex’s had all these precious metals just sitting and not making any income on it and the golf industry wound of being the recipient of those metals thus The Big Bertha was born and the rest is history. So in essence you can thank Ronald Regan for the decline of persimmons when you pull back a few layers.
Secondly people use to look at divots and try to determine what happened with their golf swings and we know now that looking at a divot to try to determine what happened in your golf swing is akin to pissing into a stiff gale wind.
Another result of the military complex, using technology to see how missiles and rockets were behaving and interacting with the ground and the air was picked up by the golf industry again.
I think progress has happened and I personally think the lovers of persimmon and classic swings have done a terrible job retaining its culture. You don’t see The Hickory Society having issues worldwide and they put on some amazing events with former tour players etc. Also the Hickory Society has good tournaments and events in nearly every metropolitan area. And on top of that they did an amazing job getting men in their 30-40s to buy in and be part of keeping it alive.
So now the question must be asked, where did classic golf drop the ball and we really can’t blame the USGA or R & A because Hickory has survived a good life with the same USGA & R & A in place. So maybe classic golf needs to self reflect and do an autopsy to see the real cause of it’s death. ?
What Say You ?
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Who came up with such silly nonsense about looking into comparing golf strokes and drumming strokes. But as long as we’re on that road anyone seeing Moeller in play here. 
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The issue is with the elite game. We need not look further than pro baseball. They kept wood and didn’t significantly change the ball (still a wound ball)
Amateur baseball is called softball…. more user friendly and tailored for the masses.
Elite golf force a “softball” version upon the pros without preserving the elite game.
Any “game” is defined by the parameters… size of playing field, rules, equipment restrictions. The business of golf has damaged the elite professional version of the game of golf. In other words, the game of golf and the business of golf are not the same thing. The purpose of the USGA/R & A should be to protect the game of golf from the business of golf or other disruptive entities…. but clearly they have been “compromised”.
The cat is too far out of the bag to restore the proper parameters, but this does leave the door wide open for a new organization to do what needs to be done for the elite level game.
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