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THIS DEVICE I MADE EXPLAINS WHY GOLFERS FLIP

11/7/2021

 
I made this device to show that when the CLUB FLIPS the body doesn't open AND that when the BODY DOESN'T OPEN, the club flips. 

That was easy to see but then I was surprised. I kept spiinning the wheel and no matter how I swung it the device always had a flipped bottom. 

Bertie Cordle from DST golf in England and Dr. Sasho MacKenzie, golf bio-mechanist from Canada proved that the club needs hit the ball with a lag impact for it to be an effective say to strike the ball. No great ball striker ever has had a flip impact.

I found that using this system, the best way to SWING a golf club and be able to get a non manufactured (I.E. not faked, or held but done using natural forces) lag impact is to take the club back so that the lead forearm is only a bit past parallel to the ground and to have a wide backswing with flow (energetic change of direction with rhythmic smoothness that converts backswing energy into downswing energy).

I took it to the range that day and the results were impressive. 
I would like to get some numbers to confirm it but the short swings (left arm to parallel feeling) felt VERY solid and compressed. When I took the club back full the dispersion got wide and the ball went higher and felt more glancing.

Interestingly the balls seemed to go about the same distance. I think using the clicker on my forearm and hitting shots before it clicks shows something important about flow and getting the energy out onto the ball before it is expended (flipped). 

Next I'll do a fuller practice session with some numbers. 

Some one sent me some of Kevin Ryan's videos who is a brilliant engineer with a good mind for golf that did some mechanic modeling of the golf swing that goes way beyond what I did. What I did was a DOUBLE PENDULUM which KEVIN says is how poor players swing. He said GREAT PLAYERS use an entirely different mechanic (14 minute video).
Most golf instructors I talk to see forearm rotation as a bit of an annoyance and something that introduces inconsistency. certainly most instructors talk about REDUCING the RATE OF CLOSURE, through the impact area. Here Kevin is talking about the forearm rotation being the CRUCIAL PART of the swing and not something to be avoided but something to be embraced. in his estimation the hinging and unhinging (extension and flexion of the wrists) happens very little relative to HOW MUCH the forearms snap through the zone.

The only missing part is the GOAL. I don't see Kevin showing how the conical pendulum model helps you get a LAG impact. and in some of the examples where he overlays the apparatus swinging super imposed on an actual golfer, it seems like Kevin TILTED the apparatus to match the rate of flip to the swing.

I LIKE the idea that FOREARM rotation might not de the DEVIL that traditional instruction has made it out to be. Worth more invetigation for sure stay tuned.
Shaun Mckenner
6/19/2022 08:32:06 am

Hi Brendon
I often come across your videos on youtube and I appreciate your journey to both improve your swing and understand how it all works.
After watching "World's BEST Am Driver Raising the Speed Bar in Golf | TRADE OFF WITH DREW COOPER | Be Better Golf" and also before and after videos in the series.
Before I launch into what I want to suggest, I think I should give you a background to myself. I am 52 years old and I have been playing golf now for more than forty years. I first started playing with my Dad at a loclal golf course before joining my first Golf Club just on my 15th birthday. Withing a year I went from 26 handicap to 8 and another 5 months I got to 5. From then on I have played as low as 1 handicap. I have come to understand I have played with an early extension all my golfing life and in the last 2 and half years my friend I have been on a learning journey to overcome our deficiencies in our golf swing. This has been through a lot of trial and error and a lot of watching videos form yourself, Mike Malaska, Milo, And a host of others.
The connection, or should I say the "light bulb moment" was when understood that the mechanincs between most bat/ball and throwing are the same more the most part.
So when I come to my observation of what I saw in the video that I have mentioned I watched, I hope what I am about to suggest is hopefully constructive.
After watching your slow mo swing at 7:09 ish, I was trying to work out why it look restrictive after you improved your backswing. Then, after rewatching Drew's slow mo swing (and it something that I have been working on) is on your downswing the critical difference is Drew rotates his hips into impact and through. Remember the time ( I think it was Mike Malaska, or was it Milo) was tossing balls to you and you were hitting them with the baseball bat. In that video you had a much better hip rotation on the downswing because you braced causing you to rotate coming through a lot flatter that looked more like what Drew produces on his downswing.
Just further to this. Picture closing the door, where your right side (the the club is the door) which needs to rotate back to closing. But, where you would think of a normal door closing on the hinge, picture a pivot door and your left hip is the other side of the pivot and the centre of the hips is the pivot.
When you supposed to be bracing the left side that's when the pivot comes into play, I see when you driving through the ball, it's like your trying to heave your right side (the door) through the ball ( the door frame).

John B
8/29/2022 11:35:02 am

Fascinating stuff. Do you have a "real" job? How do you fund all the traveling you must do (if you care to share)? You have a really great way of presenting information and you really capture what it feels like to be a (more or less) "average" golfer but who wants to strike it at an elite level. Really inspiring stuff. I recently put a launch monitor system in my house and I am using many of the tools you use to work on my game. I too have discovered it's much easier for me to swing very limited swings and get solid contact. For me, it's been less than left arm parallel to the ground, but I'm working up to that level slowly. And flow of a swing is incredibly important. The more I pause or slow down at the top or try to "gather" myself, the more chance there is of poor contact. If you are ever in NJ I'd love to meet you and show you my indoor set up and talk some golf. JP


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