yikes...this reply sure sounds like my present situation...i hit alot of high fades these days, AH for sure in a long long swinging procedure. your reply about the swivels and stuff has hit home a bit here in canada...i am also very interested in your statement about 'dont keep, create the lag' i would love if fo you to expand on that thought. thanks
When people say 'keep', it leads to the keeping of the power accumulators. We call it accumulator lag (not good). The question is: How does the clubhead stay behind the hands? The simple answer is: The grip has to have greater pressure placed against it than that of the clubhead's momentum. You don't 'sustain the lag' by keeping the clubhead from passing your hands. You keep pressure in the pressure points of the hands that is greater than that of the energy of the forward moving clubhead.
When I stopped trying to keep the clubhead behind everything and started trying to keep the grip in front of everything, my game changed forever.
Since my wife is a licensed counselor who specializes in the sisterhood of G.O.L.F. widows and she's been watching me respond to all these posts, she wanted to offer her services to all the widows of the Kool-aid drinkers. She said she can attend any of our future G.O.L.F. schools to help the ladies cope. Her code name is Princess Leia. She'll be attending all of the schools in exotic locations.
When I stopped trying to keep the clubhead behind everything and started trying to keep the grip in front of everything, my game changed forever.[/quote]
Ted, could you further expand on this quote, I have been concentrating on dragging the clubhead through impact. Should my focus be more on the grip end??
When I stopped trying to keep the clubhead behind everything and started trying to keep the grip in front of everything, my game changed forever.
Ted, could you further expand on this quote, I have been concentrating on dragging the clubhead through impact. Should my focus be more on the grip end??[/quote]
I was under the impression for a long time that I had to 'keep' the clubhead from passing my hands. It made me 'keep' my right arm bent (accumulator lag) too long. I always felt the need to hold everything back. The epiphany came when I realized that the clubhead didn't want to go forward (law of inertia). Everyone had always told me about "clubhead" lag, but I heard new terminology: lag "pressure". I realized that PRESSURE against the handle being greater than that of the momentum of the clubhead would keep the handle winning the race to the ball.
Pulling with centripetal force or pushing with muscular drive can create lag pressure. Because hitters load the pressure on the back of the shaft at top, we have the luxury of carrying that lag pressure (felt in the #3 pressure point) from top through impact. The swinger, on the other hand, loads the pressure on top of the shaft. When using a snap release, the #3 pressure point rotates very late to a position that's behind the shaft.
Other terminology that I hate to hear is "clubhead speed." I'd rather be able to measure someone's "hand speed."
\Other terminology that I hate to hear is "clubhead speed." I'd rather be able to measure someone's "hand speed."
Aren't the hands actually moving slower than the clubhead though because they are gradually rotating as they move into impact and through to the follow through postion.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that the hands travel a much shorter distance than the clubhead from the parallel to the base line on the downswing(Mac's P5) position through follow through.
That being said hand speed would be considerably slower than clubhead speed. Correct???
So well it may be easier to measure clubhead speed, the hitter should work on increasing hand speed.
Hand speed is dependent on release type, the earlier the release the higher hand speed needed to produce the yardage equivalent to that of a short quick arc of the maxixmum delay per Mr. Kelley.
Tom Watson with his sweep release has much more handspeed than Ben Hogan with his snap release.
Rather than clubhead speed or hand speed shouldn't the focus be on ball speed, resistance to the deceleration of impact?
Hand speed is dependent on release type, the earlier the release the higher hand speed needed to produce the yardage equivalent to that of a short quick arc of the maxixmum delay per Mr. Kelley.
Tom Watson with his sweep release has much more handspeed than Ben Hogan with his snap release.
Rather than clubhead speed or hand speed shouldn't the focus be on ball speed, resistance to the deceleration of impact?
todd
Yo Todd,
Sounds like you're a proponent of sustaining the line of compression! Man, you'd better call Philly and thank him for that "gift" Monday night. My Cats will let your Boys know whose for real Christmas Eve!
Hand speed is dependent on release type, the earlier the release the higher hand speed needed to produce the yardage equivalent to that of a short quick arc of the maxixmum delay per Mr. Kelley.
Tom Watson with his sweep release has much more handspeed than Ben Hogan with his snap release.
Rather than clubhead speed or hand speed shouldn't the focus be on ball speed, resistance to the deceleration of impact?
todd
"resistance to the deceleration of impact"...a primary concern of the hitter. As we are in the Emergency Room for Hitters, snap releases are TABOO! No maximum delay for me. Horizontal hinging would give me the heebie jeebies.
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