birdie_man
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...the first "X-Factor"...lol...
....found this somewhere else:
"The combination of the elastic properties of the SEC and the muscle spindle stretch reflex facilitate a more powerful contraction than is possible without a quick "pre-stretch." Here's a very simple demonstration: squat down nice and low, pause for a count of two, and try to jump as high as you can. Now, from standing quickly drop into the squat position and jump as high as you can. Obviously you jumped higher when you dropped quickly into the squat position rather than pausing in the squat position. The same goes for the golf swing. The more stretch you can get in rotational muscles (eg. internal and external obliques) the more power you can produce. How do you get more stretch in these muscles? You increase the distance between the insertions. So in the golf swing you rotate your trunk away from your pelvis (this is a really crude way of describing this but this post will turn into a textbook if I go into more detail and accurately describe things). So the idea that "the greater the turn of the shoulders in relationship to the hips creates tension and upon release of the hips more speed is generated by the upper body playing catch-up to the lower body" is totally correct from a physiological and biomechanical standpoint."
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I said:
"OK....
I read this...
And it honestly seems to make sense....
But then....
How do you explain Sam Snead (LONG), Bubba Watson (longEST on tour), JB Holmes, John Daly, Mike Austin....etc...
http://www.golfdigest.com/instruction/swin...08samsnead.html
http://www.golfdigest.com/instruction/inde...mberwatson.html
http://www.golfdigest.com/instruction/inde...mberholmes.html
http://asafgolf.free.fr/images/golf/swings/daly_96_face.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7...in_Sequence.JPG
I mean....I read and hear a lot about guys not turning their hips.....but I don't see it.....maybe (some of them) keep their right knees 100% bent (because they've been told to).....although not VJ, Bubba, Phil....or Hogan, Snead, Jones, Nelson...anyone before Nicklaus.......
....but anyway....I see a lot of turned hips (turned a good amount)...
....found this somewhere else:
"The combination of the elastic properties of the SEC and the muscle spindle stretch reflex facilitate a more powerful contraction than is possible without a quick "pre-stretch." Here's a very simple demonstration: squat down nice and low, pause for a count of two, and try to jump as high as you can. Now, from standing quickly drop into the squat position and jump as high as you can. Obviously you jumped higher when you dropped quickly into the squat position rather than pausing in the squat position. The same goes for the golf swing. The more stretch you can get in rotational muscles (eg. internal and external obliques) the more power you can produce. How do you get more stretch in these muscles? You increase the distance between the insertions. So in the golf swing you rotate your trunk away from your pelvis (this is a really crude way of describing this but this post will turn into a textbook if I go into more detail and accurately describe things). So the idea that "the greater the turn of the shoulders in relationship to the hips creates tension and upon release of the hips more speed is generated by the upper body playing catch-up to the lower body" is totally correct from a physiological and biomechanical standpoint."
...
I said:
"OK....
I read this...
And it honestly seems to make sense....
But then....
How do you explain Sam Snead (LONG), Bubba Watson (longEST on tour), JB Holmes, John Daly, Mike Austin....etc...
http://www.golfdigest.com/instruction/swin...08samsnead.html
http://www.golfdigest.com/instruction/inde...mberwatson.html
http://www.golfdigest.com/instruction/inde...mberholmes.html
http://asafgolf.free.fr/images/golf/swings/daly_96_face.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7...in_Sequence.JPG
I mean....I read and hear a lot about guys not turning their hips.....but I don't see it.....maybe (some of them) keep their right knees 100% bent (because they've been told to).....although not VJ, Bubba, Phil....or Hogan, Snead, Jones, Nelson...anyone before Nicklaus.......
....but anyway....I see a lot of turned hips (turned a good amount)...
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