My idea for the thread is to find something that can be easily explained and translated to correct mechanics.
I think if you understand the design of the club, and how the body best conforms to that design, then the mechanics of how to properly move the club should work itself out. I have been thinking about how the two best fit together lately.
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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"Golf is not a subject but a motor skill which can only be learned and not taught." - Michael Hebron
"The Body, Arms and Hands have specific assignments during the Golf Stroke, and they must be coordinated into one efficient motion." - Lynn Blake
The proper mechanics ("effect") can only be obtained by executing the proper intention ("cause"), which is "sustain the lag".
__________________ Yani Tseng, Go! Go! Go! Yani Tseng Did It Again! YOU load and sustain the "LAG", during which the "LAW" releases it, ideally beyond impact.
"Sustain (Yang/陽) the lag (Yin/陰)" is "the unification of Ying and Yang" (陰陽合一).
The "LAW" creates the "effect", which is the "motion" or "feel", with the "cause", which is the "intent" or "command".
"Lag" is the secret of golf, passion is the secret of life.
Think as a golfer, execute like a robot.
Rotate, twist, spin, turn. Bend the shaft.
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
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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