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Most important and best post in the last few days.
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Thanks, Brian and Mike! I owe YOU guys another dinner for putting together another video for me at midnight. I loved that Italian place in Manorville and can't wait to go back.
OK, if I understood the "punch line": a player that was "trying" to get to a hands-ahead impact had a 102mph swingspeed with a three-wood and, according to the model, if he stopped trying to do that, he'd get 11 more mph.
That doesn't necessarily surprise me, although that IS quite a jump. I have seen plenty of players, you two included, that struck me as having lower clubhead speed than their potential because of trying to "force" a hands-ahead impact.
Since you brought it up, let me ask a question regarding clubhead speed. Here we have a bunch of players that have extreme lag and are among the leaders in clubhead speed on tour, and we have no reason to believe that they are trying to "force" a hands-ahead impact in a speed robbing fashion. So what are they doing differently than you two, or the guy your scientist measured?
Yeah, I know these lag angles aren't measured in 3D and the camera angles aren't perfect, but doesn't this information suggest some sort of disconnect in your model? If JB starts releasing like Jerry Kelly, his clubhead speed is going to 136mph from his current 125? If Alvaro starts releasing like Oosthuizen, he's going to pick up 25 yards? I don't think so. Why isn't Westwood already outdriving Alvaro? Lee's a big, strong guy. I think there must be a "good" way to get extreme lag and added distance, because that is what the biggest hitters are doing! That's what I'm trying to find out. So should you guys!
Also comparing Westwood to Quiros athletically seems a pretty unfair comparison. You put them guys in a foot race I know where my money is going. Now a hotdog eating contest, I'd reconsider.
SEEMS AS IF.....it SEEEMS AS IF he has a valid point. IT SEEMED AS IF Homer Kelley had a valid point.
NEXT!
Jeffy - do you think that the lag causes the speed, or does the speed maybe cause the lag?
Maybe if Westwood had the handspeed that JB has - his clubhead would lag too.
Jeffy,
All other things being equal, does it make sense that applying the tangential force over a greater distance will results in higher club head speed?
Drew
One of the biggest mistakes is watching something from that position, where decrease of rotation speed and many other forces are effecting to the club. Even few inches after impact we something opposite happens that what player is doing.
That question is over my head. Better ask a scientist!
Looks like you are a few years out of date:
The man who made Westwood swap chocolates for chin-ups - Golf, Sport - The Independent
A few highlights:
"The key for Lee was generating power in both the upper and lower body," said McGregor. "So he embarked on a lot of Olympic-type lifting. He is 'power-cleaning' more than 180 pounds and he is 'power-squatting' maybe twice that much. It's all about replicating the explosive effort Lee wants to make in his swing."
Although McGregor is constantly updating the training schedule, there are some ever-present exercises which included rotational squatting on "wobble cushions". The typical three-hour session sees Westwood start off with 30 minutes of cardiovascular, warm-up exercises; then an hour or so of the heavy stuff, then work on whichever specific issues he might have. This might involve dumbbell work to strengthen his wrists or more recently work to the ruptured calf muscle which has blighted the middle of his season. Rather incredibly, on his "weeks off" Westwood will complete this arduous schedule daily.
"Yes, in those weeks at home he probably will be spending an average of two and a half to three hours a day in the gym," said McGregor.
I completely disagree.
Are you teaching the good player to do something very different than the pics?
I am not.
For sure I do. And I don't. Depends what of those pics You mean.
I like and teach hand and wrist positions in those pics to better players.
DO YOU?
...Actually You can't avoid it because of forces.
Can You explain one thing: How the bending left wrist and force to direction "normal" fits together? I can't see that connection in laws of physics.
You are kidding, right?
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Not a bit. I have seen players who try to avoid it as much as possible and no one could. It's really obvious thing that it have to happen because of the deceleration of the inner circle.
Bed time.. see You tomorrow
Woodland is standing in a bunker and I can't even tell if the ball is in there with him or outside of it. Not a great example.