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Post by syllogist on Nov 17, 2019 10:48:03 GMT -5
Dr. Mann,
I disagree with your assessment of a skilled vs. unskilled golfer. It is the unskilled golfer who tries to control the club with his hand.,
I don't say this because of any small muscle or big muscle theory or some other ridiculous theory. In fact there's likely no theory or evidence that can settle such argument. There are an infinite number of angles one can employ to send the club in orbit from the top but once it is sent into orbit, you're at its mercy and it can be merciless. If I were to place a baseball on a baseball tee and attempted to hit it on the sweet spot of the bat, do you think that once the bat begins it orbit, I am able to correct the orbit with my hands or some other aspect of my anatomy?
S
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Post by imperfectgolfer on Nov 17, 2019 11:09:25 GMT -5
Dr. Mann, I disagree with your assessment of a skilled vs. unskilled golfer. It is the unskilled golfer who tries to control the club with his hand., I don't say this because of any small muscle or big muscle the that can settle such argument. There are an infinite number of angles one can employ to send the club in orbit from the top but once it is sent into orbit, you're at its mercy and it can be merciless. If I were to place a baseball on a baseball tee and attempted to hit it on the sweet spot of the bat, do you think that once the bat begins it orbit, I am able to correct the orbit with my hands or some other aspect of my anatomy? S We are defintely at the opposite ends of the spectrum when it comes to this issue. I believe that the club's orbit should be dictated by biomechanical actions performed by the golfer and I believe that a skilled golfer should not simply send the club into orbit in an uncontrolled manner because it is very difficult (if not impossible) for subsequent biomechanical actions to correct an uncontrolled club's flight once it has been launched into orbit. Jeff.
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Post by syllogist on Nov 17, 2019 12:09:06 GMT -5
Dr. Mann,
I, too, don't think that the club should be sent into orbit in an uncontrolled manner. I believe that the biomechanical actions used to send it into orbit largely have to do with establishing a path for the orbit.
S
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Post by syllogist on Nov 17, 2019 12:27:39 GMT -5
Dr. Mann,
Related to this topic it a way is a comment that was made on a forum years ago. A woman mentioned that her husband was a golf pro who would tell her that an important aspect of the downswing is to "stress" the shaft. At the time, I had no idea what her husband meant as it is obvious that the shaft "stresses" under change of direction and acceleration. What more can one do? Only until quite some time after thinking about this, I understood what he meant based on a feeling that I had in during the downswing. If one sends the club into orbit correctly in the stages we've discussed, but most importantly stage 1 - torso with arms at the same relative speed, and in a tightly controlled accelerating rotation, one can sense the increasing MOI of the club as the downswing progresses - the increasing "effective weight" of the clubhead under force. Such would feel like the clubhead is restrained from fleeing outward until the bottom of the swing where one cannot do anything except to hold on. Therein lies why I think that later "direction" of the clubhead is futile.
S
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