Somewhat anticlimactic. Thought there would be some interesting points about the release.
Is there a difference between two swings that would look the same if a stickman or identical high-quality humanoid that looked the same from this face on, or any other angle?
One of the things I want to be able to do is manipulate 3D humanoids to have the same kind of discussion. It wouldn't matter unless you also had some 6DOF 3D data to see what kinds of accelerations and decelerations there were in the pelvis, torso, left and right arms, and both hands and wrists.
If you had the 3D data in the hands of folks who look at those all the time, you'd be able to predict what the through swing would look like.
You really can't accurately FULLY classify a type of release with video. In fact, until there is a machine that can back calculate all the forces and torques, you are more or less swimming.
At the recent Top 100 retreat outside of Orlando, Phil Cheetham, the world renown biomechanist who works for the USA Olympic team, showed some graphs that showed accelerations and decelerations among other things.
I asked him the last question of the session. "Phil, what would you say to the folks that say that in the elite level ball-strikers, there is little to no deceleration through impact?" He laughed so hard it stunned me. After making sure it wasn't me who thought this, he laughed again and the whole room did as well. I didn't use any names, and that was probably a good idea.
It is easy to look at video and say all sorts of goofy things that make your point, but looking at graphs take all the guess work out of it.
As far as the original stickman release....as soon as the video that accompanies it is posted, every critic will be an expert.
