mandrin
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In the thread ‘A Helping Hand” the discussion gravitated around the idea of resisting impact deceleration.
Several times there was mention of a heavy hit, dragging a wet mop, swinging slow and heavy, getting the body into the swing.
There are really two notions intertwined, -1- applying torque and -2-increasing the effective mass of the clubhead.
However, these two notions don’t quite stand for the same thing.
-1- A golfer can be convinced that he can resist impact deceleration by applying torque to the club shaft using his muscles.
-2- One can also compare a very beefy golfer with a very light weight golfer both developing the same clubhead speed at impact. Many if not most golfers intuitively feel that the heavy golfer will get more distance.
Let’s delve a bit into the second option.
We probably all have read posts which are about a club attached to a train or heavy vehicle and a tiny girl golfer both striking a ball with the same clubhead speed.
This translates very vividly the very strong intuitive notion of almost all golfers, convinced that one can somehow increase the effective striking mass of his clubhead.
TGMers are quite familiar with this notion. However does it correspond to reality?
Several times there was mention of a heavy hit, dragging a wet mop, swinging slow and heavy, getting the body into the swing.
There are really two notions intertwined, -1- applying torque and -2-increasing the effective mass of the clubhead.
However, these two notions don’t quite stand for the same thing.
-1- A golfer can be convinced that he can resist impact deceleration by applying torque to the club shaft using his muscles.
-2- One can also compare a very beefy golfer with a very light weight golfer both developing the same clubhead speed at impact. Many if not most golfers intuitively feel that the heavy golfer will get more distance.
Let’s delve a bit into the second option.
We probably all have read posts which are about a club attached to a train or heavy vehicle and a tiny girl golfer both striking a ball with the same clubhead speed.
This translates very vividly the very strong intuitive notion of almost all golfers, convinced that one can somehow increase the effective striking mass of his clubhead.
TGMers are quite familiar with this notion. However does it correspond to reality?
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