It is accurate to say that more knee bend is preferential to less knee bend at address and through the swing? My thinking is it would help with the "normal/jump" part of the release and prior to that likely allow for a stable base from which torqueing the coupling point would feel more productive.
knee flex w/ a high torque, normal release
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dschultz6072
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Pretty sure he addressed the address in the release video. All I remember was him mentioning David Toms.
Just had a look at it again and he only talks about the balance (not too much forward, not too much to the heel) but not about knee flex.
Art, are you around? What is your research into the dynamic balance saying on this? When do you have more dynamic balance, when your knees are flexed more or when they are flexed less?
Personally I feel more stable when my knees are slightly more flexed but that could be just me. I think in Karate they want a bit of knee flex to bring the centre of gravity a bit down and that helps them to be more stable (at least that's what my brother a black belt told me). Not sure whether you can apply that to golf though.
Dear ParHunter,
Sorry I missed this question a while back, but I can confirm your intuition with data taken on both the Dynamic Balance System, and Dr. Mike Thompson's 'Weight Right' single force plate systems.
Bending the knees, while keeping the 'golf stance', and lowering the body an inch at a time by bending the knees DEFINITELY, increases the lower body dynamic balance and stability by moving the center of gravity/mass of the total body rearward, away from the ball. Naturally, at some point, depending on body shape characteristics, while the stability during the subsequent swing is increased, the plane(s) of the golf swing could be adversely affected. So, I would say, an athletic position like a linebacker, or quarterback receiving the ball from the center, or an infielder in baseball, is about as low as you would want to go.
In fact, if the 'Bumpy back, keep it back' doesn't result in enough dynamic stability margin, lowering the body 'an inch at a time' in combination with the right hip back is ALWAYS my next suggestion. This is particularly important for slender golfers with small 'Bumpys', and golfers with 'beer belly's', NO OFFENSE PLEASE, I have been the latter in a previous, and less healthy life.
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If you are too close to the ball, you have a better chance to jump.
Too far away make you have to go TOWARD the ball to much to hit it. Get it?
Too far away make you have to go TOWARD the ball to much to hit it. Get it?
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Is there a way to figure out how close you should be standing?
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