In this video, the blue line represents the energy stored in the wrists and muscles at this moment. From the blue to the green line, the energy is released and transferred to the clubface, which then impacts the ball. By the time we reach the red line, the energy is no longer in the wrists or muscles but has been fully transferred to the ball.
The key takeaway from this video and for your golf swing is to focus on transferring the energy to the clubface between P6 (Position 6) and P7 (Impact Position). This ensures the energy is released at the correct point and not too early.
IF YOU THROW THE BEND IN THE TRAIL ELBOW OUT EARLY IT MAKES IT IMPOSSIBLE TO STORE THE ENERGY IN THE WRIST. LOOK AT HOW THE TRAIL ELBOW IS STILL FULLY BENT WHEN THE SHAFT REACHES PARALLEL IN THE DOWN SWING. YOU WANT TO KEEP THAT ELBOW BENT SO YOU ARE HOISTING THE BALL UP AND OUT WITH YOUR ENTIRE RIGHT SIDE THROUGH IMPACT VERSUS SLAPPING AND FLIPPING WITH JUST ARMS AND WRISTS. YOU CANT SEE FROM THIS FACE ON, BUT HER SIDE BEND GETS HER RIGHT SHOULDER DOWN TO THE BALL WHILE KEEPING THE RIGHT ELBOW BENT AND IN CLOSE CONNECTED TO THE BODY.
You have the physics wrong. From the start of the takeaway it is the acceleration of the club head MASS which creates the kinetic energy. A wide outside the hands takeaway which pulls the club straight back to where it stops is what causes that kinetic energy to whip the club up around the hands at that point.
What most golfers told understand and few instructors teach is the there is an EXPONENTIAL increase in kinetic energy that occurs when velocity increases linearly. That rapid acceleration up around the hands when the body mass and leg leverage arrest it is what creates a huge spike in the energy the club head creates and the resistance of the stretching muscles stores in the lower and upper bodies. The downswing is mostly the return of the stretched muscles to their relaxed / pre-tensioned state at address. The more the club is swung back to extension with gusto the more effortless it whips up and forward at the top until finally the shoulder can't turn around hips any more. Making this occur when shoulders are 90° to swing line helps make the swing more consistent and that can be controlled via the flare angle of the back foot to get to. that benchmark.
What Byron Nelson discovered about metal shafts in the 1930s when first using a metal shaft driver is that pulling down with the hands as club head is still moving forward at the top bends and loads the shaft like a leaf spring storing kinetic energy from the club head.
On the way down the golf must keep the hands accelerating more than the club head to keep that bend in the shaft. Side bending the spine moves the hands independently of what hips and shoulders are doing to accomplish that.
Gravity is a factor in acceleration of the club head in the downwind but it's actually gravity acting on the mass OF THE LEAD ARM more than it acting on the club head above the hands UNTIL shaft comes back horizontal and hands our out of the way allowing club head mass to whip around the hands as they pass over the back leg.
If the golfer DOES NOT lift the back foot the hips will stop around 45° open and shift laterally to the target — that feeling of lead hip hitting a wall.
If the spine is also in side bend and foot is forced to stay down the hands will stop dead and the club head will accelerate around the hands so much the shaft will bow the opposite direction ( and the club head will snap off at the hosel. I know this because I've done it about a dozen times with irons and Driver experimenting with the cause and effect of accelerating the club at this point of the swing.
The ideal technique to get max acceleration before hitting the ball is to keep that trail foot down long enough to trigger a very rapid whipping around the hands of the club head mass EXPONENTIALLY increasing its striking force then get the hands moving again by lifting that back foot and letting the trail arm ROTATE LIKE A KARATE PUNCH which is what she is doing with her trail foot and arm.
That karate punch rotation part isn't part of a conventional swing style which is more like a palm slap at towards the target, in a karate punch action to straighten the trail arm the ulna and radius bones rotate the palm 180° and that creates more ACCELERATION of the hands than the palm slap at ball trail arm bio-mechanics most recreational golfers use because that's how they think it is supposed to work
It's a clue why small statue Koreans dominate the LPGA. That karate punch action is something they learn while American girls are learning to swing a baseball club or golf club the way the USGA teaches
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In this video, the blue line represents the energy stored in the wrists and muscles at this moment. From the blue to the green line, the energy is released and transferred to the clubface, which then impacts the ball. By the time we reach the red line, the energy is no longer in the wrists or muscles but has been fully transferred to the ball.
The key takeaway from this video and for your golf swing is to focus on transferring the energy to the clubface between P6 (Position 6) and P7 (Impact Position). This ensures the energy is released at the correct point and not too early.
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IF YOU THROW THE BEND IN THE TRAIL ELBOW OUT EARLY IT MAKES IT IMPOSSIBLE TO STORE THE ENERGY IN THE WRIST. LOOK AT HOW THE TRAIL ELBOW IS STILL FULLY BENT WHEN THE SHAFT REACHES PARALLEL IN THE DOWN SWING. YOU WANT TO KEEP THAT ELBOW BENT SO YOU ARE HOISTING THE BALL UP AND OUT WITH YOUR ENTIRE RIGHT SIDE THROUGH IMPACT VERSUS SLAPPING AND FLIPPING WITH JUST ARMS AND WRISTS. YOU CANT SEE FROM THIS FACE ON, BUT HER SIDE BEND GETS HER RIGHT SHOULDER DOWN TO THE BALL WHILE KEEPING THE RIGHT ELBOW BENT AND IN CLOSE CONNECTED TO THE BODY.
You have the physics wrong. From the start of the takeaway it is the acceleration of the club head MASS which creates the kinetic energy. A wide outside the hands takeaway which pulls the club straight back to where it stops is what causes that kinetic energy to whip the club up around the hands at that point.
What most golfers told understand and few instructors teach is the there is an EXPONENTIAL increase in kinetic energy that occurs when velocity increases linearly. That rapid acceleration up around the hands when the body mass and leg leverage arrest it is what creates a huge spike in the energy the club head creates and the resistance of the stretching muscles stores in the lower and upper bodies. The downswing is mostly the return of the stretched muscles to their relaxed / pre-tensioned state at address. The more the club is swung back to extension with gusto the more effortless it whips up and forward at the top until finally the shoulder can't turn around hips any more. Making this occur when shoulders are 90° to swing line helps make the swing more consistent and that can be controlled via the flare angle of the back foot to get to. that benchmark.
What Byron Nelson discovered about metal shafts in the 1930s when first using a metal shaft driver is that pulling down with the hands as club head is still moving forward at the top bends and loads the shaft like a leaf spring storing kinetic energy from the club head.
On the way down the golf must keep the hands accelerating more than the club head to keep that bend in the shaft. Side bending the spine moves the hands independently of what hips and shoulders are doing to accomplish that.
Gravity is a factor in acceleration of the club head in the downwind but it's actually gravity acting on the mass OF THE LEAD ARM more than it acting on the club head above the hands UNTIL shaft comes back horizontal and hands our out of the way allowing club head mass to whip around the hands as they pass over the back leg.
If the golfer DOES NOT lift the back foot the hips will stop around 45° open and shift laterally to the target — that feeling of lead hip hitting a wall.
If the spine is also in side bend and foot is forced to stay down the hands will stop dead and the club head will accelerate around the hands so much the shaft will bow the opposite direction ( and the club head will snap off at the hosel. I know this because I've done it about a dozen times with irons and Driver experimenting with the cause and effect of accelerating the club at this point of the swing.
The ideal technique to get max acceleration before hitting the ball is to keep that trail foot down long enough to trigger a very rapid whipping around the hands of the club head mass EXPONENTIALLY increasing its striking force then get the hands moving again by lifting that back foot and letting the trail arm ROTATE LIKE A KARATE PUNCH which is what she is doing with her trail foot and arm.
That karate punch rotation part isn't part of a conventional swing style which is more like a palm slap at towards the target, in a karate punch action to straighten the trail arm the ulna and radius bones rotate the palm 180° and that creates more ACCELERATION of the hands than the palm slap at ball trail arm bio-mechanics most recreational golfers use because that's how they think it is supposed to work
It's a clue why small statue Koreans dominate the LPGA. That karate punch action is something they learn while American girls are learning to swing a baseball club or golf club the way the USGA teaches