biomechanic » Mon Nov 02, 2009 11:29 am
I'm not getting into any heart rending sob stories or exchanges of mud slinging with you, that's just an absurd waste of time. OK you struck a bad patch or two in life and you state you have beaten that, that is commendable, I applaud that.
However I recall a very wise old saying..”I once complained because I had no shoes, then I met a man who had no feet.” I'm the wrong person to wave the “poor me” banner in front of. I've seen too much and I have seen too many who have risen above their challenges with displays of courage and determination that few could begin to imagine. To them I bow my head in respectful and genuine salute!
I have no cause to judge you, I don't know you, you have not inspired me with any great desire to want to get to know you.
I'm a little confused here. Please explain why “your field”, your biomechanics, holds sole and total domain over all other fields of inquiry into the search for facts to answer questions relating to human motion! I'm serious.
quote..”If someone is going to bastardise the field I'm in and add beleifs and mislead people with incorrect information, I will make a stand and tell you how it is black is black. I don't want our field bastardised like the golf industry has been, with belief systems and opinion or ego's. I won't tolerate it.” (Copied and pasted, your spelling, your grammar, not mine)
“You won’t tolerate it.” Sunshine, you have pissed me off and that in itself is an accomplishment. I try very hard to be tolerant but your arrogance needs to be brought to task.
I hate, with a passion, the zealots and the missionaries who demand conversion to their causes and beliefs, at any cost. More human blood has been shed, more hardship, devastation and deprivation has been inflicted on humanity by religious and political ‘missionaries’ than by any other cause in our brief but often sad history.
You have no more right to your opinion, and your expression of it, than anyone else has to theirs.
Allow me to demonstrate my point; we have two levers coupled together with a free hinge. A pulling force is applied to an insertion point in close proximity to the secondary lever, in this application, which pulls it, through an arc or motion, towards a point of origin sited on the primary lever. Could you agree that this would be a ‘mechanical event’ and not a biomechanical event. Could you also agree that such an event must comply with The Laws of Leverage and The Laws of Motion.
We have ‘levers’ involved under the Laws of Leverage and we have motion involved within the Laws of Motion. It is a quantifiable and qualifiable mechanical event.
If the levers translate to bones, the hinge to the human elbow and the pulling force is muscle contraction why is still not definable and understandable as a simple mechanical event? If two or more such systems act together towards a single purpose then it becomes a complex mechanical event.
It seems that you experienced some form of illness or injury that deprived you of the ability to walk (you state that you had to learn to walk again). Why couldn’t you walk? Was it because no electro-chemical impulses could reach your leg muscles to force them into contractile states? Didn’t you state in an earlier post that you whiz-kids trained each muscle according to your specific, identified needs. If muscles have memory why did your leg muscles ‘forget’ how to function? If they don’t have memory, how can your train them. If they can repeat learned skills where is the memory of that learning and skill stored? I know, do you?
Perhaps you meant that, by continuous, controlled repetition you could induce a muscle to ‘fire on a given command to achieve a very specific purpose’. However you couldn’t consciously control your leg muscles to move your legs, so it must have been the subconscious, the very deep subconscious, that could no longer cause your leg muscles to work. Was that because of damage or impediment to the associated nerve pathways, or, if they were intact, it must have been a deep seated problem way down in the subconscious brain.
In the golf swing the vast majority of the 206 bones contained within the human body move, in some way or another, in both the upswing and the downswing. Since human motion is really a sequential flow of bone movement, acting as levers within the confines of both the Laws of Leverage and Motion, and the vast preponderance of all skeletal muscle is involved, in one critical way or another, are you seriously suggesting that each of these muscles can be specifically and individually trained to perform it’s function to higher capability?
Are you suggesting that this can be accomplished within the time constraints proven to be involved in the entire golf swing and the downswing itself? Are you saying that this can be achieved through conscious control from the conscious levels of the brain?
Have you ever heard of pre-programming, any idea what it means and how it works, it seems not!
If you insist, we can visit the sequential flow of bones, as levers, within (say) the downswing and I will demand from you the identification of each lever/ bone precisely within its critical role in the entire sequence of events and I will ask you to identify the precise range of movement, rotation, etc that it was required to make, and did make, to achieve it’s fundamental position and purpose in order that the next bone, attached to it, could commence and eventually complete its assigned tasks and onwards the flow of sequential motion goes.
I will demand that you identify the satisfaction of Newton’s Laws of Motion within every muscle contraction and subsequent bone movement. I will further demand that you identify every factor involved in the radial acceleration, not only of the clubhead, but of every bone that acts as a lever within the entire flow of motion.
I can do that without reference to your cocked up version of biomechanics, can you do so through your perceived wisdom?
The true science of biomechanics I have the greatest respect for and hope for, relative to the future of mankind.
Before you throw your handkerchief on the bar room floor and turn your glass upside down to challenge the bar, you (might) be wise to look around you. Sitting quietly, there may be someone who may cause you to wish that you had gone straight home to your mummy, or to the ice cream parlor, instead of the bar. I’m speaking metaphorically of course, but certainly not tongue in cheek.
Gerry
…talking and thinking about golf and the swing is such a blast, an amazing journey. I’m even finally learning a thing or two about humility…!
