More Thoughts on Speed

A while ago I was going to work on club head speed and that basically went nowhere as other issues and thoughts intruded.

But I was thinking in the shower about the prior post, it hadn't been written at that time, and the concepts of speed and power came up.

If you are swinging something and are going to hit something that is heavy, think axe and log, you brace for the impact and the body tightens up and as you hit the log the body is trying to drive the axe through the log.

This an example of power.

Now how about hitting dandelions with a golf club.  There is no weight to the flower.  We will whip the club through and not think about the hit much as there is nothing important going on at impact.

I think that we average golfers are more prone to think of impact as an axe and log and not cutting off flower heads.

I'm going to see if I can use this to speed things up.

I also ran across a video where the instructor was talking about speed.  "If you want get faster then think about being fast past the ball and not at the top of the backswing."  Apply the speed at the bottom and not at the top.