Hula like pivot

[12 piece bucket]

I just had a "great find" experience on U-tube - an overhead swing video view of great golfers. That allowed me to study their hula hula flexibility.

As you can see, they all have great hula hula flexibility.

Here is their end-backswing position.



I placed blue dots over L5 and C7.

Note that all the golfers have-:

1) A good pelvic rotational movement in the backswing.
2) That pelvic rotation causes their lumbar spine to have a rightwards orientation.
3) A large shoulder turn that torques the mid-upper thoracic spine, and verticalizes it.
4) Rightwards tilt of the spine and the upper torso thereby producing a reverse K position at the end-backswing.

Jeff.

p.s. Side-issue - It's interesting to see how much Palmer's left foot rotates during the followthrough/finish phase of his driver swing.

Sweet pictures Jeff . .. . I think you got the dots draw on their collar bones though . . . . Actually those dots may be an approximation of where the left shoulder is at top . . . I see those pics as evidence of a more vertical spine . . . but hey . . . . whatever.

Pretty cool to look at their hip slants and the angle of the right leg . . . those backswings are pretty close. We can debate all that reverse K and stuff . . . but the all look they are going to tip over to the left in these pics to me.


As to the side issue . . . place your cursor on Player's left hip . . . . see how much more forward his hips go . . . no place it on Palmer's . . . his hips don't go forward very much at all. Palmer has way less axis tilt than Player. This is one of the big deals in Palmer's whirly bird finish . . . he don't push his hips foward . . .note Souchek has the same deal going on.

You can see the results of these moves too . . .Look at the down the line views. Pause Player when his left arm is parallel to the ground on the downstroke . . . note how much more back and in it is. Pause Palmer . . . he's more "out" on his plane . . . shifted his plane line left due to not getting tilted as much.

Also note how FAST Player releases #4 . . .

I like Player has a nice motion . . . he had to get a lot out of his body power lb 4 lb.

I have seen the video before . . . but great job on the pics. Thanks for sharing . . . Should we continue the fight