LynnBlakeGolf Forums - View Single Post - Got Rhythm? Thread: Got Rhythm? View Single Post #101 01-17-2011, 12:45 PM BerntR Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 981 The club swinging the golfer Originally Posted by Yoda Actually, Centrifugal Force -- more precisely, the Centripetal Force that produces it -- is the essence of Rhythm. Yes I basically agree, But you gotta see this from the clubhead's point of view also As soon as the golfer has given the clubhead some serious speed the clubhead starts to give the golfer a really hard time. It will do everything it can to pull the hands out of the swing plane and also try to stup the hands from moving forward until the clubhead has taken the lead and pulls the hands through. If the clubhead succeeds in it's efforts the whole golf stroke will collapses in a giant flip. All this is due to CF and CP. When the golfers only uses CP it is basically responding to the clubhead CF. The golfer is then swinging the club and not the hands. And the lag and the swing plane is ruined by the release. The golfer need to enforce the hand path. It needs to override the slowing down - almost reversal - effect that the clubhead CF imposes on the hands. The golfer also needs to add some extra force downward (and inward) to prevent the clubhead from pulling the hands out of the swing plane. Since the left shoulder (the hinge pin) is above the inclined plane, the clubhead will seek to establish a new handpath on a plane that intersects the clubhead and the Left Shoulder. The Right Shoulder will be over the swing plane too, so pushing with the right tricep (drive loading or extencior action) will contribute to driving the hands forward and prevent them from flying out of the plane. Swinging the clubhead by CP only is certainly the worst alternative. Ignoring the clubhead and swinging the hands is the second best alternative. The good golfer anticipates how clubhead CF can destroy the geometry and enforces the hand path. The clubhead doesn't want to just be a clubhead. It wants to take over the show. It wants to swing the golfer. Clubheads have feelings too. No they don't. But when they start carry mass-velocity and still is in an out of line condition, they take on a will on their own. The golfer need to apply a healthy quantity of linear force to sustain the lag pressure through impact. I don't think many of the slicer's were made aware of that when they started to play golf. __________________ Best regards, Bernt BerntR View Public Profile Send a private message to BerntR Find all posts by BerntR