As mentioned previously, I've decided that the next quest will be for more club head speed (chs).
A short survey of Youtube videos suggests there are a couple of ways to go about this.
I'm not really interested in long driving contests and those guys seem to a couple of very athletic things: squat, leap and get off their feet. I'm not up to that and I'd hate to hurt myself.
Other methods suggest that in trying to hit a ball harder, you hit it shorter. And to hit it longer, you need to decelerate the various parts of the body as energy is passed from body parts to the arms and finally to the club.
Well, slowing down is something I've gotten good at as the body slides into late adulthood. Surely, I can get me some of that.
It also seems to me that the slowing of the lower body earlier in the swing should provide a more stable platform at impact.
This method is akin to cracking a whip, where a slowing/halting of the whip hand is needed to pass the energy to the whip.
I should get to the range tomorrow and I'll see about exploring this method.
When I was 30 years younger, I remember thinking I was pretty long and 250 yard drives were not uncommon. Maybe I was more limber and stronger and maybe I did things differently and it might even be true that I was not all that long in the day. But I remember that my iron distances being longer than now, so I think there's been some slippage.
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