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Originally Posted by KnighT
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My idea for the thread is to find something that can be easily explained and translated to correct mechanics.
My idea is leverage. If you can show how the golf club is a class 3 lever, and how your left arm becomes another class 3 lever while holding the club then you understand the simple machines involved in the swing. If you can give this concept, along with how to change the length of the lever then I think the new student has an advantage
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You're certainly free to make the thread go any way you want it to, but how many new golfers will understand levers and fulcrums, let alone what class 3 means? I'm an engineer and I had to look up what class 3 means just to be sure I remembered correctly. Why not use the original "club is swung on an inclined plane beneath a stationary (relatively) head". Hands, arms and club go up and down this plane, meet the ball just before the bottom of the arc. For a plane image use the "sheet of glass" analogy. This is the most basic image, and can be applied to both small and large strokes. Leverage will be utilized and felt before they know what it is, then the concept of leverage can come a little later when they are trying to optimize the power of the stroke. On the other hand, if you're talking to a technically oriented soul, then talk leverage, they'll get it. Most won't. Just my 2 cents.
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