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Physical Reactions of the arms
. ( Changed - 13/04/2008)
Back Swing Movement.
During the back swing movement the arms are simply pushed to
the end of the back swing movement by the rotational movement of
the very compact shoulder/arms-unit.
Down Swing Movement.
As soon as the left foot is pressed to
the ground, the hips are forced to quickly rotate/pivot/sway towards
the target area and simultaneously the shoulder/arms-unit begins
to rotate about its axis thus causing the shoulder/arms-unit begin
to rotate into the down swing movement.
However, regardless of how firmly you
hold the shoulder/arms-unit together, due to the inertia
effect the passive arms/golf club are unable to immediately
follow the movement of the shoulders - ( this delay is minuscule
but nevertheless it occurs) - Therefore the passive arms/golf
club begin to lag slightly further behind the movement of the shoulders
thus storing up a large amount of torsion/energy within the upper
body which will be used to good effect during the later stages of
the down swing and the follow through movement.
( I use the description "passive" to describe the
condition of the arms, but it should not be read that the arms are
all loose and floppy as the shoulders/arms-unit rotates back and
forth.
In fact the arms should be considered as an integral part of the
shoulder/arms-unit in so much that the arms will immediately respond
to any movement of the shoulders regardless of how small this movement
may be. The description"passive" means that the muscles
of the arms are completely dormant except to hold the elbows as
close together as is physically possible.)
However as the shoulders get very close
to the original address position, the golfer must begin to slow
down the rotational movement of the hips/shoulders so that the energy
that was built up within the upper body muscles can be released,
thus allowing the passive arms/golf club to spring back to the original
address position and therefore catch up with the shoulders at the
impact position.
Therefore it is the skill of the golfer
to judge the movement of the shoulders so that the club head makes
contact with the ball at the precise moment the shoulders return
to the original address position.
At the precise moment the club head makes
contact with the ball, the shoulders must be in the original address
position, the head
must be positioned so that the left eye is slightly behind the ball,
the hands
must not be ahead of the original address position and the weight
of the body predominantly over the left leg.
However as soon as the shoulders return
to the original address position, they must stop
rotating, albeit for only a milli-second, whilst the arms interact,
thus swinging the club head at a constant accelerating speed to
the bottom of the swing arc and also causing the right arm to fully
straighten.
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