Your sore right elbow......... is a probable sign of Right ARm Swinging. A very good method but susceptible to this problem. You dont push a car with your right arm fanned, reckoned Homer. It puts too much stress at the elbow. Like a baseball pitcher maybe. I dont know, Im Canadian. Hmm well Fergie Jenkins was Canadi........a forget about it. Ask me about hockey and head shots, that I know first hand about.
You mention having a lot of #4, agreed. It makes total sense. For this Swingers Left Hand Throw procedure we are talking about, Drag Loading is a likely part of the Pattern. Ground up, 6-M-1. Pivot Power. Loading the knuckle. The Pivot takes the intact Power Package to its Release Point. Then you Trigger Release via a Throw .....of some sort. The later the better for the Swinger seeking distance.
Id venture that when you were Right Arm Swinging , assuming you were, you got a lot of the OUT normally supplied by the Pivot, via the Right Arm. In the absence of the Right Arm Swing, you'd need more Pivot. Hence your feel for the need of more #4 pressure, maybe. The Hitter and the Right ARm swinger dont need #4, Pivot like the Swinger does, they get the CF like Throwout elsewhere, most often. Not wanting to be accused of generalizing.
Im sort of guessing at all of this, but hopefully this line of thinking resonates. In short, and as you obviously know, its a system.
Bear, the other possibility is that I'm making all of this up......................which could be also be true. My grandmother was Irish after all.
Bear, the other possibility is that I'm making all of this up......................which could be also be true. My grandmother was Irish after all.
Not made up at all O.B. Here is what Homer said in 7-19 of the 6th edition:
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The “Right Arm Swing” is simply 10-3-K with the loosened Wrists (7-1) and longitudinal acceleration using 7-19-3 above. Only with this “Rope Handle” procedure can the Right Arm be said to “Swing” – and still per 1-L-9 and -10. But with the Axe Handle procedures there must be a straight line piston to avoid injury of the right elbow ligaments. So, if there is a twinge in the elbow, you are Swinging the Right Arm.
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At the risk of hijacking my own thread. The “experiment “ I was working with on the days I “tweeked” my elbow was INCREASING EFFECTIVE MASS, 2-E, 2-M-1, 2-M-2, 2-M-3. ( adding #1 to an elbow that is in front and pitching) [ 4 barrel swing] . I want that wet mop feel and at the same time I do not want ANY deceleration, OF ANYTHING through impact I want acceleration of EVERYTHING THROUGH to follow through. Did you ever see Ted Williams or Mickey Mantle break the handle off their bat just by swing force not by hitting the ball? (for you hockey guys that would be BH or GH breaking their stick before they get to the puck on a slap shot) Well,I have, And, I want to break the shaft without contacting anything. I will argue, that as CF increases the radius the club try to “back up” the hands. If I just let it happen everything slows down in spite of the “heavy” (But not what it should be) feelings in the hands. I want it to have mass and maintain velocity. I like Drew’s exercise of learn to throw a club down range BUT I think there are 2 things to look for; 1. Throw in the correct direction and 2. Throw it club head first (Does the club do a helicopter down range or is it an arrow?) I think if this can be done you become “King of the world” So, why let #2 flop around and contribute nothing but motion?
I need to mention. I need to find MAX so I can adjust back to OK.
The Bear
Last edited by HungryBear : 03-13-2010 at 10:57 AM.
There is a tradeoff between clubhead speed and hand speed in the golf stroke. If I take what you say literally I read that you wish to reduce your clubhead speed to increase your hand speed.
If you go for a snap release it will have a slow down effect on the hands. This is a good thing because it means that a bigger portion of the energy you generate in your down stroke is allocated from your body parts to the club head. This slow down can be fought of course if you're able to keep upp the good work and not just freewheel through the ball.
Homer called it resistance against slowdown and that is probably as good as it gets without killing the clubhead speed.
Personally I want maximum (or very close to maximum) swing speed through the ball. And then I want to add all the thrust I am able to deliver. Successful thrusting possibly gives 10-20 yards extra but only when the swing speed is intact.
[quote=BerntR;71470]There is a tradeoff between clubhead speed and hand speed in the golf stroke. If I take what you say literally I read that you wish to reduce your clubhead speed to increase your hand speed.
If you go for a snap release it will have a slow down effect on the hands. This is a good thing because it means that a bigger portion of the energy you generate in your down stroke is allocated from your body parts to the club head. This slow down can be fought of course if you're able to keep upp the good work and not just freewheel through the ball.
Homer called it resistance against slowdown and that is probably as good as it gets without killing the clubhead speed.
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I think that may be correct under the conditions that energy within the system is constant . I think BOTH can be increased by adding energy to the system in the same manner as resistance against slowdown is added. Trivial example would be the putt. a. like a pendulum add no energy. b. add mass to resist impact deceration. or c. accelerate through the ball.
I do not understand. why are there tradeoffs? I am missing something. I remember the book talking hand speed vs pulley size and high hand vs. low hands and max hand speed but I always related that section to general mechanical advantage . Is there particular section where homer makes the points I need to understand? Thanks.
The Bear
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