Swing harder => Shift to shallower plane?

[tongzilla]

Brian talking about Sergio's swing:

And I'd bet you a bunch of money, that Sergio would shift MORE trying to win a long drive contest.

Why?

Would someone who's a natural single shifter (or someone who uses and stays on the TSP on the downstroke) also exhibit this tendency to shift to a shallower plane when trying to hit it harder?

 

[Brian Manzella]

I have a few theories...

But...I say it only because I have seen it before.

 

[Kevin Shields]

If someone wants to really throw a ball hard sidearm, they lift their arm higher and drop it more aggressively. The drop runs into the rotation of your body and you get an explosion of speed. So it is with golf.

 

[tongzilla]

But it can also be said that one can generate more force and speed by punching in a straight line rather than a curved one.

 

[holeout]

But it can also be said that one can generate more force and speed by punching in a straight line rather than a curved one.

I think the point is that while it "could be said that" doing things in a "straight line" or "with the least amount of compensations" would be most efficient, powerful, and effective, in the real world it just doesn't work that way.

 

[Brian Manzella]

Oh....

But it can also be said that one can generate more force and speed by punching in a straight line rather than a curved one.

The punch is on a straight line, but the WINDUP is a curve.

 

[birdie_man]

I think because for Elbow Planers the float and the shift (and the "sit down") are happening at the same time:

More float (which is the real goal) = more shift.

Just a theory.