Momentous Heavy Driver - Hard to square up?

[SteveT]

I've got the driver and the lob wedge. Warm up swings only. Worthless to try and hit balls with them....

Why didn't you go down to your local industrial steel stock retail warehouse and purchased two(2) cold-rolled 9/16" diameter steel rods ... 43" and 36" long. Wrap some masking tape on the first 10" and then slip on a tacky tour wrap type grip and you've got a cheap swing rod.

If you want to get sophisticated, go to a muffler shop where they have an acetylene cutting torch and ask them to heat and bent, on their bench vice, about 3" of the rod end by about 30-40º for club-like eccentricity.. et voila... you have a state-of-the-art swing gizmo. Oh, and ask them to chamfer the sharp ends of the cut rods on their bench grinder before you install the grips. They may do it all for free too if you are a patron.

If you want to get really fancy, spray paint the raw steel with a primer.... and then you can paste a sticker on it ... skull & crossbones ... your college crest... strawberry shortcake ... anything.

Next question ....!

 

[cwdlaw223]

What does the Momentus heavy driver accomplish for your kinetic sequencing?

The golfswing is likened to a whipping, flailing, slinging action... with the clubhead being whipsnapped through release.

So how does the Momentus improve that action? It's like a stiff whip with a weight attached to the end!

If you believe it helps strengthen your fingers, hands, wrists, arms and shoulders, should you be attempting a dangerous rotatory motion with a weighted device... or should you be training each of those body segments individually?

Of course if you can conquer the beast, you can brag about your accomplishment and even claim it helped your golfswing... that is if you don't injure yourself in the process and get what you deserve.

Rapid almost ballistic throwing motion using an overweight object is detrimental to coordination because it changes the neuro-muscular sequencing. Yes, your golf club feeel "light" afterward because it's useless for a coordinated controlled golfswing. You may think it's good because it feeels good, but you are mistaken in your ignorance of human motor control.

Only individualized training of the body segments is beneficial. The challenge then becomes the coordination of the body segments with golf-specific training.

People who swing heavy resistance devices are not only wrong, they are ignorant of the scientific facts of physical training for golf.

But if it makes ya feeeeel gooood, buy it and brag (lie) how great it was for ya.

My post had nothing to do with using this club permanently. It was a post about face closure rate and club weight. There appears a definite correlation. Maybe not realistic, but definitely a correlation.

Please assume SteveT that when I start a thread I'm not looking for your ridiculous, child like responses. Go join Jeffy Golf for such nonsense.

 

[drewyallop]

Why didn't you go down to your local industrial steel stock retail warehouse and purchased two(2) cold-rolled 9/16" diameter steel rods ... 43" and 36" long. Wrap some masking tape on the first 10" and then slip on a tacky tour wrap type grip and you've got a cheap swing rod.

If you want to get sophisticated, go to a muffler shop where they have an acetylene cutting torch and ask them to heat and bent, on their bench vice, about 3" of the rod end by about 30-40º for club-like eccentricity.. et voila... you have a state-of-the-art swing gizmo. Oh, and ask them to chamfer the sharp ends of the cut rods on their bench grinder before you install the grips. They may do it all for free too if you are a patron.

If you want to get really fancy, spray paint the raw steel with a primer.... and then you can paste a sticker on it ... skull & crossbones ... your college crest... strawberry shortcake ... anything.

Next question ....!

What grade of steel should I specify?

You can be very funny at times Steven.

 

[SteveT]

My post had nothing to do with using this club permanently. It was a post about face closure rate and club weight. There appears a definite correlation. Maybe not realistic, but definitely a correlation.

Please assume SteveT that when I start a thread I'm not looking for your ridiculous, child like responses. Go join Jeffy Golf for such nonsense.

If I hurt your feeelings please accept my profuse apology. I'm disappointed you didn't see some merit in my general comments and not specifically aimed at you only.

What grade of steel should I specify?

You can be very funny at times Steven.

For a discriminating golfer like you, I can suggest a more expensive 316 SS, and polished brightly too...

 

[bluebird]

My experiment went like this. If it is possible to swing a heavier club the same speed then it should deliver more energy, so I added 26 grams of hotmelt glue into the toe of an old I-mix head. The results were less distance and all the profiles were low push slices. decrease in yardage was about 50 yards. I wish I had added the weight to the heel and tried a little less weight. Someday when my better half is not home, I am hoping to bake the head in the oven to melt it out.

 

[ParHunter]

Someday when my better half is not home, I am hoping to bake the head in the oven to melt it out.

LOL, Women can be so unsupportive

 

[Tony D'Antonio]

My experiment went like this. If it is possible to swing a heavier club the same speed then it should deliver more energy, so I added 26 grams of hotmelt glue into the toe of an old I-mix head. The results were less distance and all the profiles were low push slices. decrease in yardage was about 50 yards. I wish I had added the weight to the heel and tried a little less weight. Someday when my better half is not home, I am hoping to bake the head in the oven to melt it out.

Sorry for the digression...when I was young and stupid and learning how to refinish woods (when they were wood) I dunked an Orlimar driver head in a bucket of paint/varnish stripper overnight. When I took it out the next morning the epoxy insert had melted out of the head. My dad wasn't too happy.

 

[drewyallop]

Have you tried the orange whip?

No. Mistress Darke uses only red and black.

 

[drewyallop]

Yes. I don't like it. I try all of the goofy stuff at least once.

Good attitude cwd. I too have no regrets even though I know I have been suckered again.

 

[SteveT]

"Stupid is as stupid does." -- F. Gump ......

 

[cwdlaw223]

Good attitude cwd. I too have no regrets even though I know I have been suckered again.

I often learn something or it causes my mind to think about an aspect of my game I never thought about. I'm still orthodox, but learn from the unorthodox. The whole senior tour is filled with unorthodox swings.

 

[94monarch]

Interesting thought on the Momentus...The TPI Guys think you develop far better speed by swinging a very light club and training your muscles to move fast rather than a heavy club. I think it is a good stretcher...I keep a few of them on my range, but I suggest stretching only, not hitting.

 

[trashpar]

Why didn't you go down to your local industrial steel stock retail warehouse and purchased two(2) cold-rolled 9/16" diameter steel rods ... 43" and 36" long. Wrap some masking tape on the first 10" and then slip on a tacky tour wrap type grip and you've got a cheap swing rod.

If you want to get sophisticated, go to a muffler shop where they have an acetylene cutting torch and ask them to heat and bent, on their bench vice, about 3" of the rod end by about 30-40º for club-like eccentricity.. et voila... you have a state-of-the-art swing gizmo. Oh, and ask them to chamfer the sharp ends of the cut rods on their bench grinder before you install the grips. They may do it all for free too if you are a patron.

If you want to get really fancy, spray paint the raw steel with a primer.... and then you can paste a sticker on it ... skull & crossbones ... your college crest... strawberry shortcake ... anything.

Next question ....!

Too much work to do all that, plus I already have the things. Did have to get rid of the original grips, too small and slick. I do swing them to stretch out then swing the speed whoosh for a bit afterwards....