I was particularly proud of when I asked Dr. Neal "Does the right leg drive the hip turn, or does the left hip pull." He concurred that the right leg drives and the idea of a left hip pull is faulty.
Shear force is our friend.
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I was particularly proud of when I asked Dr. Neal "Does the right leg drive the hip turn, or does the left hip pull." He concurred that the right leg drives and the idea of a left hip pull is faulty.
Shear force is our friend.
I was particularly proud of when I asked Dr. Neal "Does the right leg drive the hip turn, or does the left hip pull." He concurred that the right leg drives and the idea of a left hip pull is faulty.
Shear force is our friend.
Was a particular type of pivot used as a basis for the answer to your question?
Virtuoso
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Oh boy, LOL. Based on what he says about the golf swing, there must have been huge issues. His presentation has a beautiful array of "intelligent sounding" things about the way the brain works mixed with completely mistaken assumptions about the basic laws of physics. And, it's all delivered with a kind of "aw shucks, I'm just talkin' good ol' country common sense" type of speak.
That's not to say he can't get some people hitting the ball better. I think he does well with a lot of students.
Virtuoso
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I was particularly proud of when I asked Dr. Neal "Does the right leg drive the hip turn, or does the left hip pull." He concurred that the right leg drives and the idea of a left hip pull is faulty.
Shear force is our friend.
Yes, dittos on that. Without being able to twist our feet against the ground, we essentailly have nothing. Stand on an office swivel chair and you can hardly move the golf club at all. You can't even make half of a backswing, let alone a downswing. You can move your hips from side to side, you can push up and down on your left leg (S&T), but you can't create any shear force, and thus no swing.
We didn't really outright get into it, but if you just keep your weight on your left leg there is very little ground shear to push the hip turn with. Everything is stacked over the leg. All you can really do is push up as you said. You need that shear force to drive the right leg with and adds power to the very first part of the kinetic link.
Richie3Jack
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Was there any discussion of Jay Z and the Wu Tang, along with Warren Buffet and Malcolm X?
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birly-shirly
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All good stuff. But put this idea together with the distinction between weight and force, and things get muddy. At least, they do for me...
I can stand on my left leg, raise my right foot off the ground and then drive it back into the ground with enough force to jump sideways, and I can do it without moving my CoG back towards where my right foot contacts and drives against the ground.
Not saying that's optimal (doh!) and it's obviously a wild exaggeration of anything that I'm aware of anyone teaching - but thinking about how that move would register on those force plates is illustrative of some of the issues.
Steve Greffen
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Well I for one wanted to be there in person very badly and once released I will cherish this video rewatching it over and over.
And I will always be in line for all other material from Brian.
Thank you Brian for making that choice and for all that you do for the instructors out there. See you at GTE #2 soon!!
Steve
PS I wish I could have been there for the Finney moderation of Brian!!
Too funny stuff
Dariusz J.
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Again, weight is a force (mass x gravitational acceleration), thus, it is a very accurate and useful term provided gravity is constant - which is constant unless you intend to leave our planet. The same accurate term as mass in a given environment (gravity). Never say that weight is an inaccurate term then.
I said "again", since I said it all in a thread about weight shift not so long time ago. It is no rocket science we do not need any symposium to know such basic things. When you jump your weight is not constant because you add forces which orientation vectors are pro or contra gravity.
Oh, yes. A very good friend
Well said. The scenario of using rear leg horizontally oriented forces vs. lead leg vertically oriented forces is much more effective from the biokinetical point of view. Needless to say that the more horizontally oriented the force is the more room is for benefitting from shear forces and, consequently, torques.
Cheers
birly-shirly
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What was the issue with the open face/in-to-out path combo?
Jared Willerson
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I really figured this would be a 20 page thread by now.. Why is everyone so mum? How many people were there? What were the topics?
So far we have David Lee....that's it, what else happened?
So far we have David Lee....that's it, what else happened?
Richie3Jack
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Me, too. And I think a lot of people that went don't want to give that info out since they paid $250 for it (not including travel expenses) and with the video coming out. I'd be averse to discussing it a lot if I were in their shoes.
3JACK
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Michael Finney
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Mostly travel reasons and getting back to normal schedule....also, it may have to do a little with respecting those who actually showed and spent theirnhard earned bucks.....that being said, the good stuff will come out in time...
As far as attendance, we did fine...I'll let Brian get more into that if he wants to......whether we had 3 or 103 isn't the matter, the ones who showed and the ones who are anxious about the release of the video are the real seekers..
I have a feeling we will do many more of these in the near future
As far as attendance, we did fine...I'll let Brian get more into that if he wants to......whether we had 3 or 103 isn't the matter, the ones who showed and the ones who are anxious about the release of the video are the real seekers..
I have a feeling we will do many more of these in the near future
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