Annikan Skywalker - Downstroke Sequence

[tongzilla]

Tong...you're very flattering...

Swing would look better at 160lbs rather than 195lbs...

Thanks for the huge compliment....

My Swing is TGM Filet Mignon with some MORAD Bernaise!!! refering Back to our Hitting and Swinging analogies thread....

My Hit is TGM NY Strip with MORAD A1 Sauce!!!

After Lynn'shelp at Pine Needles...It really "polished up some alignments...my favorite frame is #7 with the Flying Wedges and the Hinge Action...I used to "swivel" through impact..erratic ball flight tendencies...The Rhythm of Hinging and the Flying Wedges...Cleaned it up!

Flattery is like perfume water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
-- Josh Billings

This ain't flattery, the precision alignments are self-evident for everyone to see.

You can really see the difference in Pivot Motion -- Massive Rotor for Swinging and the Launching Pad for Hitting (7-12). What a great demo.

Which bit of your swing shown is influenced by MORAD? It's just not obvious to my uneducated eyes.

[annikan skywalker]

Neck Tilts,Torso Tilts, Tailbone motion, Eyes, ears,...etc....


BTW..wish my rotor wasn't as massive...I'd settle for one that is smaller in size with the same horsepower or more....Smaller...but Faster!!! LOL

[Matt]

I like the squat you have - "riding a horse." And how it looks like you're really on your left side at the top and as you start down. I try to stomp down on my left foot almost as hard as I can during my swing, from startup to finish...

[annikan skywalker]

I used to push off my right foot and kick in my knee after some receiving some "wonderful" advice in my teenage years....I trained my right knee to move in the opposite direction by abduction of my legs....Little did I know I could get the same look if I used the ground via the Pivot train to pull via a transfer of momentum starting with the segments on my left side...ground up!!! Hmmmm!!! Manufactured versus Natural Physics????

[mb6606]

At impact your right heel is further off the ground when swinging versus hitting. Can you explain why??
Thanks

[tongzilla]

At impact your right heel is further off the ground when swinging versus hitting. Can you explain why??
Thanks

Not Annikan, but it's a consequence of the difference between the Massive Rotor and Launching Pad. I doubt it was a position he strived to achieve in itself.

[Yoda]

In his Hitting Stroke, Annikan uses a Double Shift Plane Angle Variation (10-7-C) -- a Shift from the Elbow Plane to the Turned Shoulder Plane and back again. From the Top, he uses its compatible Delivery Path, Top Arc and Angled Line (10-23-D) wherein his Hands drop vertically from the Turned Shoulder Plane to the Elbow Plane before beginning their Straight Line Drive toward the Ball. Check out the yellow dots defining the Delivery Path. Note the three vertical dots opposite the Right Shoulder and torso, and compare them against the backdrop of the frame of the mirror in the background and assure yourself that they do indeed lie in a straight line. This is the 'vertical drop' from the Turned Shoulder Plane to the Elbow Plane and aligns the Hands for their Straight Line Thrust toward the inside-aft quadrant of the Ball.

All this is 'proof positive' that the four Straight Line Delivery Paths are possible (courtesy of Downstroke Axis Tilt via Hip Slide). There are those who say that the Hands can move only in a Circle (Circle Path Delivery), a contention that would make the Straight Line Delivery Paths an impossibility and hence the catalogued Variations bogus. But then...

These are the same folk who insisted for decades that the baseball pitcher's curve ball was an optical illusion. They forgot to ask the batters!

[tongzilla]

In Annikan's Hitting Stroke, check out the yellow dots defining the Delivery Path. Note the three vertical dots opposite the Right Shoulder and torso, and compare them against the backdrop of the frame of the mirror in the background and assure yourself that they do indeed lie in a straight line. This is 'proof positive' that the Straight Line Delivery Path is possible (courtesy of Downstroke Axis Tilt via Hip Slide). There are those who say that the Hands can move only in a Circle (Circle Path Delivery) a contention that would make the Straight Line Delivery Paths an impossibility and hence bogus the catalogued Variations. But then...

Yes, but if the Straight Line portion of the Delivery Path was that short (only the length of those three dots joined up), this implies a much bigger curved portion of the path, i.e. a big pulley for a Random Sweep Release. Annikan's Release clearly occurs well past those three dots. Further evidence, which unfortunately we do not have here, is that Hand Speed continues to increase right until Release. I would presume the Hands have not reached their maximum speed after the last of those three dots, hence that cannot be the end of the 'Straight' Line Delivery Path.

Any comments?
Thanks.

[strav]

[quote=Yoda]

In his Hitting Stroke, Annikan uses a Double Shift Plane Angle Variation (10-7-C) -- a Shift from the Elbow Plane to the Turned Shoulder Plane and back again. From the Top, he uses its compatible Delivery Path, Top Arc and Angled Line (10-23-D) wherein his Hands drop vertically from the Turned Shoulder Plane to the Elbow Plane before beginning their Straight Line Drive toward the Ball. Check out the yellow dots defining the Delivery Path. Note the three vertical dots opposite the Right Shoulder and torso, and compare them against the backdrop of the frame of the mirror in the background and assure yourself that they do indeed lie in a straight line. This is the 'vertical drop' from the Turned Shoulder Plane to the Elbow Plane and aligns the Hands for their Straight Line Thrust toward the inside-aft quadrant of the Ball.

All this is 'proof positive' that the four Straight Line Delivery Paths are possible (courtesy of Downstroke Axis Tilt via Hip Slide). There are those who say that the Hands can move only in a Circle (Circle Path Delivery), a contention that would make the Straight Line Delivery Paths an impossibility and hence the catalogued Variations bogus.
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If the Hands are a portion of the Lever Assembly and they do not move in a circle as your 'proof positive' demonstrates, haven't you negated 1-L-8 and 1-L-9?

1-L-8. No portion of the Lever Assembly can swing forward independently.
1-L-9. Regardless of how the Lever Assembly is driven, it moves in a circle.

[tongzilla]

If the Hands are a portion of the Lever Assembly and they do not move in a circle as your 'proof positive' demonstrates, haven't you negated 1-L-8 and 1-L-9?

1-L-8. No portion of the Lever Assembly can swing forward independently.
1-L-9. Regardless of how the Lever Assembly is driven, it moves in a circle.

The Hands move in a straight line for only a brief period, whilst the Lever Assembly (the whole of Left Arm and Club) moves in a circle around the left shoulder socket.

How can the Hands move in a straight line but the Lever Assembly move in a circle simulatenously? The answer is the Axis Tilt during Start Down performed with a Stationary Head and Hip Slide towards your selected Delivery Line.