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Comments on the Re-route by Taylor Spalding Set up to an imaginary ball with an imaginary club. In other words, take an address position. Now take a pendulum and hold it in the right hand while you are addressing this imaginary ball (if you're a left hander hold the pendulum in the left hand). Make a swing of a small amplitude, one which might produce a short pitch shot. You will notice that the weighted end of the pendulum makes a loop which displays a clockwise motion for the right handed golfer. It looks like a sideways capital cursive "J" without the return loop. If you make a larger swing with a longer pendulum this activity will become more pronounced. The return loop of the pendulum will likely brush the thigh upon its return or even bang behind the knee. Contemplating swing in this way is much more productive than talking about having a steeper swing plane on the backswing and a shallower swing plane on the downswing. These things may be true to the observer but they are incalculable to the one experiencing the swing. So much for "The Golfing Machine." In this little page it may appear that I'm conceding to the golf formalists. It sounds like I'm getting into the whole "trail of the path through space" trap(see "The Greatest Illusion In Golf"). Well I'm not! I'm merely demonstrating that when we spin within the swing sphere and place our mass into orbit, the mass in question wants to move toward the circumference. When we then take our mass out of orbit, the mass in question wants to move toward the center. These straight motions are always precipitated in curved space! If this is so then how can we profit from the idea of a "swing plane"? It's ludicrous! This whole idea of bringing the club "from square to inside the target line and from inside to square again" is complete delusion. For the right handed golfer this usually results in a counter-clockwise loop. In more common terms that's called a slice. You see, when we try to bring the club "inside" we cramp up all the moving parts and the body resorts to expulsion, throwing the hands out and forcing the "outside to in" path. The PGA mantra seems to have some severe cracks in it! The most natural motion is to just let this looping action happen all by itself and then you can forget all about swing planes. Just remember...Waning. |
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