Speed Research I

It's black Friday and the mall was mobbed and thus I was off to a different range then I usually use.  Got part way there and decided a U-Turn was going to make me a happier golfer and not hate the bargain shoppers.  The ones at the outlet mall are some of the worst drivers I've ever seen in action.  Best to stay clear!


There are a number of ways to generate speed and I wanted to try out the method where the swing is initialized by the lower body, which then slows to pass energy to the chest and eventually the speed gets passed to the arms and finally the club.

What this meant was an attempt to slow the hips after I'd got them going.  The do the same with the shoulders.

This is kind of a different swing thought for me.  I was able to do it (and have we not heard that before!).  It allowed me to keep a better balance; a very good thing. 

However I cannot claim a lot more distance.

I got a much higher ball flight and it seemed to put me in a position to make a nice athletic movement when it came time to hit the ball.

The only issue I had with this was a tendency to pull the ball a little bit.  I think I was not staying behind the ball as much as I should and that forced the arms a bit over the top.  But this was not too common and it is a drastic improvement over a low duck hook.

So far I'm happy, but without some measurements I'm not sure I've gotten the faster club speed.

But the balance and ease of swinging like this are benefits. 

I looked at a couple of bull whip cracking videos.  I always thought that one needed to pull the whip handle backwards to create the crack, but it does not seem to be true.  As the whip hand goes out, as long as it stops, the crack will show up.  It was important in doing the coachman's crack (there are many "cracks") to make sure of a full back swing and the swing to produce the crack was not a fast or violent action.


The next thing to examine is "supple wrists," to allow more of a whip action.  What I've seen on this seems to be a bit in conflict with Malaska's arm action model.  There are a few things to investigate!