What is "Float Loading"?The process of creating Lag Pressure and Assembling the Power Package on the downstroke.
It got its name from the way the hands seems to float while all this assembly on loading is taking place. And the sheer laziness of it all.
The non TGM answer would simply be:
"Adding wristcock on the downswing."
But that would be very incomplete.
The weight of the clubhead, and the weight of the Primary Lever Assembly resisting acceleration, and therefore creating pressure on a Pressure Point.
What is the Power Package?The hands, the arms, the clubhead, and the right shoulder.
What does Assemble mean?Placing an Accumulator in a "ready for action" condition.
What is the Primary Lever Assembly?The left arm and the club as a unit.
What is the Secondary Lever Assembly?The club by itself.
What is an Accumulator?And out-of-line condition that can create force by becoming inline.
Such as:
Power Accumulator #1 - The bent Right Arm.
Power Accumulator #2 - The cocked Left Wrist.
Power Accumulator #3 - The turned Left Arm, Left Wrist, and clubshaft.
Power Accumulator #4 - The Left Arm that has be swung, or moved, across the chest.
What is a Pressure Point?When you Release a Power Accumulator, the process of getting the out-of-line condition "in line" requires force, and that force has to get to the Lever Assemblies to get to the ball.
Where the force is felt, is where the Power Accumulator is connected to the Lever Assembly.
Such as:
Pressure Point #1 - The bent Right Arm is connected to the Lever Assemblies where the right hand touches the left hand—the right life line.
Pressure Point #2 - The cocked Left Wrist to the Secondary Lever Assembly at the last three fingers of the left hand.
Pressure Point #3 - The turned Left Arm, Left Wrist, and clubshaft at the right forefinger where it touches the club—the Secondary Lever Assembly.
Pressure Point #4 - The Left Arm that has be swung, or moved, across the chest—where the Left Arm touches the chest.
What is Release?
The process of getting the out-of-line condition of a Power Accumulator "in line." With the goal of a certain location of completion, and a certain of amount of non-completion at impact.
Why does "Float Lading" often improve the quality of someone's impact?The golf stroke is a living, breathing thing. It works a lot better when the whole process "flows."
The force of the swing and the weight of the clubhead bends and unbends the clubshaft, while the body's muscles, tendons, and ligaments have lots of work to do as they move this golf club through space at a selected speed.
The Kinematic sequence that flows from the ground, through the knees, legs, hips, torso, arms, and wrists—the actual assembling, loading, delivery, storage, and release of the power accumulators, is the golfers connection to the clubhead that puts all this force into the ball.
Golfer's often INTERRUPT this sequence, by moving segments out of order in a attempt to get the club on the ball in a certain way.
By definition, this interruption is a MOVEMENT IN THE MIDDLE of the chain.
By using Float Loading, the golfer is—again by definition—using the GROUND to start the whole process, thereby short circuiting the interruption that often manifests itself in a yip.
What is Lagging Clubhead Takeaway?
The process of starting the club back from the ball by using the Pivot to pull the arms and thereby the hands FIRST, leaving—or Lagging—the clubhead behind initially.
When golfers employ this procedure, it often sets the stage for Float Loading— the downswing opposite of Lagging Clubhead Takeaway, because since the Pivot pulled the hands back, leaving the clubhead behind on the backswing, the reverse—pulling the hands with the pivot on the downswing leaving the clubhead behind: FLOAT LOADING—is often a natural occurrence.
