mandrin
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On a TGM forum there is presently a thread on ’heavy hit’. With Christmas on its way it sort of naturally led me leaning a bit towards religion viewing this thread. The Bible first was taken as is, then various interpretations/schisms, and subsequently science came along and clearly said no. As a consequence followed a period with plenty of confusion, many not knowing where to find a basket to put their eggs, with some deftly clinging to either extreme.
The latter attitude is exactly where this particular TGM forum is presently, led diligently by a 900 year old guru, who knows the yellow bible by heart and defends every scrap of idea in it as is, doggedly, tooth and nail. Yet there are now also those who are shaken up by the scientific arguments and try to marry there TGM beliefs with the cold reality of true science. There is even a false prophet, no_mind_golfer, in their midst, which has kept his cool so far, but will inevitably reveal his true character before long.
In contrast, Brian, by his own admission, has spent many, many hours during several years, studying diligently TGM, trying to muster and unravel the very complex and intricate web of HK’s ideas but finally quickly evolved beyond and has gone to a very pragmatic “whatever works” approach. That must have been somewhat of a painful process since there is definitely some strange attraction inherent in the TGM belief system, appearing to be the alpha and omega of golf.
So, since on this forum we are now all a bunch of very pragmatic fellows, I have a question for all the members, who are definitely more concerned with practical results than with dogmatic ideas and theories. Considering Fig1 - an extremely heavy mass directly behind the shaft - does it have a large, reasonable, small, or perhaps simply a negligible effect on the departure velocity of the ball, when compared to the departure velocity for the situation depicted in Fig2, without the heavy mass?
To make the situation as extreme as possible the shaft is not aligned sidewise, as occurs when hitting in a real golf swing during impact, but rather length wise. Hence all of the weight of our imaginary ‘heavy golfer’, weighing only 100000 kg, - equivalent to the weight of 2,174,000 golf balls - is directly bearing onto the ball, at impact.
I am sure that Brian with his magnanimous character might even consider putting some brand new golf balls under the Christmas tree for those coming up with a correct response.
The latter attitude is exactly where this particular TGM forum is presently, led diligently by a 900 year old guru, who knows the yellow bible by heart and defends every scrap of idea in it as is, doggedly, tooth and nail. Yet there are now also those who are shaken up by the scientific arguments and try to marry there TGM beliefs with the cold reality of true science. There is even a false prophet, no_mind_golfer, in their midst, which has kept his cool so far, but will inevitably reveal his true character before long.
In contrast, Brian, by his own admission, has spent many, many hours during several years, studying diligently TGM, trying to muster and unravel the very complex and intricate web of HK’s ideas but finally quickly evolved beyond and has gone to a very pragmatic “whatever works” approach. That must have been somewhat of a painful process since there is definitely some strange attraction inherent in the TGM belief system, appearing to be the alpha and omega of golf.
So, since on this forum we are now all a bunch of very pragmatic fellows, I have a question for all the members, who are definitely more concerned with practical results than with dogmatic ideas and theories. Considering Fig1 - an extremely heavy mass directly behind the shaft - does it have a large, reasonable, small, or perhaps simply a negligible effect on the departure velocity of the ball, when compared to the departure velocity for the situation depicted in Fig2, without the heavy mass?
To make the situation as extreme as possible the shaft is not aligned sidewise, as occurs when hitting in a real golf swing during impact, but rather length wise. Hence all of the weight of our imaginary ‘heavy golfer’, weighing only 100000 kg, - equivalent to the weight of 2,174,000 golf balls
- is directly bearing onto the ball, at impact.I am sure that Brian with his magnanimous character might even consider putting some brand new golf balls under the Christmas tree for those coming up with a correct response.
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