Just had that thought one day, and once a thought gets fertilized, I can’t let it go until I have at it. Actually, I was watching Mall Rat mash some potatoes one night with a utensil that had some of those curvy lines on the head of it and I got to thinking about mashing potatoes, or mashing a ball. I just like to try different ideas for fun, so I was serious…any ideas how to do that. I know the curves would eat up length so an insert of shaft material may need to be added, but like I said going 5 or 6 bends along the way crimps the shaft because the curves get too tight. Thought about stuffing something inside the shaft as a buffer, but didn’t know what would work while still being able to get it back out when done.
You should maybe speak to a plumber, they have various tools for pipe bending. But tapered steel golf shafts are not going to bend the same as parallel copper pipes using their tools.
You could melt some lead into the shaft and melt it back out again, that might work.
If you do try that, you should heat the shaft up quite a bit before you pour in the lead as the lead will solidify pretty quickly when it hits a cold shaft and you would never get it right down to the bottom.
Nfbandon making some great progress here.
By tightening up the post impact side, we were able to get him to slot the club better at transition.
Big strides have been made working on the superslotting module, but also tightening up module #3 to get
it all to work.
You can get a feel for the explosive action of the pivot right through impact. This is a real pivot driven hit.
The first time I have really seen this from him. On the video, after he hit the next shot, the first words from his mouth were
“OMG”!
The arms are not engaged in the strike or hit here. This is all body and forearm rotation striking the golf ball.
Congrats on the breakthrough.
Nice stuff from some of you guys lately… keep it going!
NFBANDON,
I have been following you here and over at SID. Thank you for making your journey public and congrats on reaching your goal. Your story is very inspirational for those of us that are trying to swing with a pivot driven hit. Also, John, great job on helping him reach his goal. Now I am off to hit my bag a few hundred times!
That is a 58’ Wilson Staff Dynapower 5 iron that has a lie angle in the mid50s (I don’t remember exactly…this is a set I bent instead of John and I have bent sets anywhere from 3-6 flat…although these feel closer to the 6 than the 3) and is lengthened to 38.5. Has the original WS stiff shaft (red rubber plugs). I love the feel of the WS and they hit very straight. My only issue with them is they hit it high so I don’t play them when the wind is up…and it is up a lot here in Texas.
Grux,
Thanks for the nice comments. I know with John’s help there is a lot more to come.
im not an ABS student but have been following this site for almost a year. I have been working on the putting method, mostly trying to get my putting stroke to feel the same as my golf swing. Just amazing results. My green reading and speed are so much better and i make many more putts than normal.
still working on my swing. which still needs a lot of work.
The video is not speeded up - I looped the part from impact to finish…
Maybe this part is the hardest part to grasp, because it is so fast and a
full body workout. Since I practice it, I believe the part after impact is equally
important than what happened before, definetely no freeride with the club for me.
There is no doubt in my mind that one of my heroes
did it as well somehow similar.
Still a work in progress and I am very thankful to Advanced Ballstriking to come up with brillant ideas,
otherwise nobody talks about…
I didn’t know where to post this, so here it is. I know, all the talk about Rory’s hips double-shifting, forward, then backing up, whatever. Is there something else going on? Lots of talk lately about the hips from the top accelerating and then decelerating coming into impact (bracing for impact), torso takes over and rips it left.
This concept of continuous hip rotation to the finish, fast and furious, I’m not so sure. Hip rom is limited, shoulder rom is not. Is it how one applies acceleration in the swing? Here’s what I find curious. I have never read anything from Rory directly talking about how his hips work in the swing. What’s going on here?
I could be wrong here…but He looks like he is pivot stalling somewhat post impact (which swingers do)…but then again his shoulders appear to keep rotating over his stalled hips…Looks like a very powerful cohesive body tension from his shoulders and hips/lower body.
Let’s suspend talk for a moment about what we might perceive as pivot stalling…
So, if you didn’t have any frame of reference…neither intellectually, from a real-world golf experience, scientifically, didn’t know anything about golf, didn’t know anything about Rory; was told Rory is tops in the golfing field as it stands today.
You have no emotional investment in your answer, you don’t play golf, could care less… What’s going on with his swing?
Without 3d programs we cant see what is really going on… but Rory’s hip do slow down in the downswing before impact which i believe then speeds up the upper body.So in theory turn and turn dosent happen but it appears as if the lower body opens and moves forward then slows… doesn’t stop and the upper body rotates hard and then the hips release or move forward… my 2 cents
I think this matches up with the golf club changing planes and moving at different speeds also so nothing stalls body nor club?
The answer lies in his left leg. Watch it…he never gets over to the outside of the left foot. This is way another instructor we know over on sitd likes his swing so much. I have no idea if Rory was taught this or it is just something that he always did. I have played around with it…the idea of actually feeling like you are resisting with the lower body CW as the rest of you rotates CCW. Could get some pop doing that, but I think it would injure your back if you did it as a matter of routine. I don’t think this is the way to play precision golf. There are reasons Rory hits the untimely hook, and I think this is one them.
On the downswing he moves his hips to where he wants them to be, and the hips reach the position he desires before impact. In the meantime, but with a bit of delay, he hits through the ball, with power supplied by his upper regions. With that job done, he lets momentum move him into his finish position.
Actually, I was watching Mall Rat mash some potatoes one night with a utensil that had some of those curvy lines on the head of it and I got to thinking about mashing potatoes, or mashing a ball. I just like to try different ideas for fun, so I was serious…any ideas how to do that. I know the curves would eat up length so an insert of shaft material may need to be added, but like I said going 5 or 6 bends along the way crimps the shaft because the curves get too tight. Thought about stuffing something inside the shaft as a buffer, but didn’t know what would work while still being able to get it back out when done.
