Another classic with lots of food for though.

This helps me understand why I need a stiffer shaft than my swing speed would warrant. Thanks for resolving that mystery.

Hope this is not too off-topic: Would it be correct to say that the fastest clubhead speed at contact will be generated with a) the latest release, and b) the fastest transition move that one can make and still generate continued acceleration through contact?

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In discussing this forward bending action of the shaft, it is important to note that rarely, if ever, will the shaft arrive at impact in a “lag position” (as in Fig 3), in which the shaft is flexed backward. To do that, the golfer would have to arrive at impact with at least a part of their wrist-cock angle still un-released. Perhaps the closest example of a shot in which the shaft is close to lagging backward at impact would be Tiger Woods’ famous “stinger shot.” To hit the ball that low requires Tiger to not fully release the club as he drives his hands through impact ahead of the clubhead. quote

Despite the tendency of the club head to overtake the grip and cause the shaft to take on a forward leaning aspect, as Mr Wishon states is the case (club head throwaway in TGMese), the alignments that Tiger achieves in Fig.3 are those that we should be trying to emulate.

Read and re-read the Lynn Blake interview. Then read it again.

Flat left wrist, bent right wrist. Flat left wrist, bent right wrist. Flat left wrist, bent right wrist. Flat left wrist, bent right wrist. Got it?

As a G.O.L.Fer it is your bounden duty to Sustain the lag.

Hope this is not too off-topic: Would it be correct to say that the fastest clubhead speed at contact will be generated with a) the latest release, and b) the fastest transition move that one can make and still generate continued acceleration through contact?

Sounds pretty good mate.

Only issue is most people when attempting a quick transition will cast the club and are gone from there. I assume by fast transition you are talknig about the pivot starting down quickly (load the lag), then maintaining that speed through the downswing (store the lag) and then a late release (use the lag).

laney: yes IF you can do it…otherwise a mid release point will get most players to THIER max.

Remember the later the release the faster the clubface has to square up. THAT is either DNA based or learned at the bottom of a lot of buckets to become a trained action.

Lag it as long as you can. Not as long as a book might say is max power.

Golf is about controllable power maximised to your own ability.

Toolish and Guru and Dart,

You are awesome! You probably don’t know how helpful you have been to reinforce what I have felt in my body with your clear words. I’ve emailed myself the replies the three of you posted yesterday, so I can easily review them.

Right now, I can maintain the load ok, but I haven’t figured out how to turn up the speed/acceleration without throwing it away. That’s the next step. Do you have any clues?

As for release, my teacher tells me to just set my wrists and hang on, and don’t think about it because when the force gets strong enough there’s nothing I can do to stop it anyway. Do you agree?

Laney: The answer was in the Smooth reply. Maintain the SAME pressure from go to wooo(p). Keep the rpms the same rather than the old image of low and slow backswing and then disrupting it all on the way back down with the jerky transition.

If the RPMs are the same it is easier to not throw everything away with the gorilla right wrist trying to flatten in the mistaken rush for clubhead speed, or being thrown off track with the cast being thrown out with the bath water at the top.

If you keep the TomT image of the left hand karate chop going down plane then rolling post uncocking FLW life is great.

Ok, I can keep the rpms the same, and that works just fine.

I reread what I wrote above and it doesn’t make sense. Let me rephrase it this way: Would it be correct to say that the fastest clubhead speed at contact will be generated with a) the latest release, and b) the fastest constant acceleration that can be sustained through contact? Noting that acceleration is rate of change in velocity, and constant acceleration would by definition be smooth.

Thank you again.

Yup.

The later the release point the least acceleration is washed off before impact.