Interesting to see that Tiger can't rid of that "snap" at impact. You can tell an athlete to calm the pivot and count one two, but under the gun....no chance. This guy didnt grow up at the country club making pretty swings, he played all sports and knows how to make whatevers on the other end pop. An athlete like Tiger will always use his pivot to start the kinematic sequence from the ground up to delivery the snap at the bottom. I think he's done a great job changing his pivot to steepen his arm plane and cover it........problem is, that doesn't go well with low hands and big shaft lean......(fore right). Combine that with a wrecked personal life, only 3 different women a week, a quickly progressing bald spot, and a random swap away from the putter that won you about 12 majors......and you have a mere mortal. : ) For now............
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Rumor has it he is proficient at the big forward shaft lean..................
But, hilarity aside, do you really think that snappy movement really helps his power? My thinking he would hit it just as far, with better trajectory and far more consistency by calming it down, while still having a uper dynamic "from the ground up" action and not a pretty boy swing.
Right on CG, I hear his shaft is double x these days, built up and an inch over standard.... haha...this could go for days. Anyway, why a change in trajectory through calming the pivot? And what's "better"?
No doubt, the squat/jump adds timing issues, but at the end of the day it compounds centrifugal force and overall throw out speed. World long drive guys are virtually weightless at impact when measured on force plates. Ask Ted Fort, a guy he teaches is an up and coming world long drive guy that probably weighs 225.......he probably weighs 350 at startdown/release and 30 at impact. Its Tigers athletic dna and will always be a battle......yes keep working at it, but it isn't the death move as always proclaimed IMHO... forget it, just can't lean it that much with that pivot..........
Right on CG, I hear his shaft is double x these days, built up and an inch over standard.... haha...this could go for days. Anyway, why a change in trajectory through calming the pivot? And what's "better"?
No doubt, the squat/jump adds timing issues, but at the end of the day it compounds centrifugal force and overall throw out speed. World long drive guys are virtually weightless at impact when measured on force plates. Ask Ted Fort, a guy he teaches is an up and coming world long drive guy that probably weighs 225.......he probably weighs 350 at startdown/release and 30 at impact. Its Tigers athletic dna and will always be a battle......yes keep working at it, but it isn't the death move as always proclaimed IMHO... forget it, just can't lean it that much with that pivot..........
I have a friend who is thinking about getting into long drives and he does a very similar thing, its force down to jump up.
I know when I do it correctly I can get an extra 5--7mph on the driver but I lose my tush line to much and get under plane.
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Yep, the ole hump it and get underplane is nothing to envy. You wont see many big time verticals and humps on the pga tour (aside from Bubba).
CG,
Im not trying to gear tiger up for a remax, just saying you wont ever see him able to stand there calmly and swing his arms. It would be great if he could, and keep his head level, no dip and no jump and I GUARANTEE you he can do all of this over and over and over again on the range........but I've never seen it once when it mattered.
But more importantly and again, you can't use a stack and tiltish pivot (pivot, not arm swing) AND lean the shaft a bunch and expect to hit drivers anywhere other than off the volunteers head in the right woods.
But more importantly and again, you can't use a stack and tiltish pivot (pivot, not arm swing) AND lean the shaft a bunch and expect to hit drivers anywhere other than off the volunteers head in the right woods.
Why?
Can explain the mechanics that this pivot would have on the golf swing. I look at say Sergio and I see a very centered (stacked or whatever its called) and it seems to work well.
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It would be great if he could, and keep his head level, no dip and no jump and I GUARANTEE you he can do all of this over and over and over again on the range........but I've never seen it once when it mattered.
Agreed. Ive seen these swings on the range too and the over acceleration on the course. Which "he really doesnt need to do" ..........so said a man next to me at the Open last year at St Andrews.
When you watched Hogan practice , I bet you saw the same action he employed on the course. The only swing of his that I have seen where he was verging on over acceleration was the one from the Power Golf demo at Augusta where he leans back and launches it like like a Remax guy. Fell backwards and hit it high and long. He swung " out of his shoes" but it was a side show, only.
When Faldo was summoned to Shady Oaks (after Tiger's first win at Augusta) , Hogan who had heard of Nick's attempt to add length to his drive (against the onslaught of youth) offered this advice ..........IIRC ........"its not how far down the fairway you are but what side of the fairway you are on that matters". To my mind good advice then for Nick and good advice now for Tiger.
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