I like the stop action also…very revealing…especially the pelvic thrust garbage.
IOZ Will get to some excerpts from Norwoods work maybe today if I get a chance…last night our 15 year old Westie decided he didn’t want to shag balls anymore and suddenly died. So a few things to do.
In the meantime…mostly his work with shadows concerned how certain movements will increase arc widths and certain moves will shorten them. That notwithstanding, he really has some good information on L arm extensor action…way ahead of it’s time…and he said that Hogan had the best left arm in the business.
I’ll try to get some words about that up when I can. But I note there is a Norwood topic area in Advanced Concepts, so I will put something there. RR
Now I could be a complete mo-ron (I know I know) on this . . . . but I DO think Hogan did a “hump” move . . . he just humped a goat around the corner . . . . to steal a phrase my man 8iron . .
Sure! goat humping from a “purist goat humping” stand point to my mind would be humping a goat at the target line . . . . hogan for sure humps . . . he just humps a goat (let’s call it a sheep) over to his left . . . so hogan is a sheep humper not a goat humper . . .
I guess there’s more to it than I was seeing…again.
I was impressed with Hogan keeping his shaft on plane, or even below, vs the guy who is straightening/standing up and has allowed his shaft to get steeper.
I know TGM says impact is not the same as address,…everyone says that don’t they? I don’t think they advocate straightening up like that guy is doing as opposed to Hogan.
It’s one thing to do an “impact fix” at address, but another to be able to return the shaft on plane dynamically during the swing. I know, being a violator of this goal.
Goat humping/ sheep humping/ purists…CC, can you weigh in on this?
Sheeps, goats or pigs…humping toward the target line is a no-no prior to, and at impact…in my experience it means that things are going too quickly from the top, and the levers are releasing too early from the top because the pivot is not doing its job.,across the chest kind of stuff. Or OTT will cause some of that too because lever extension is happening early.
I’m sure Captain has some great ideas about humping…but maybe a different image RR
He may say something like:
“Sheep humping is only advisable when in front of a water hazard because in that case the sheep will provide an opposing humping force.”
Humping in my mind is good . . . long as you do it at the right time and in the proper direction/location . . . . check out them long driver types . . . Zubak does some MAJOR humping . . . Hogan was a humper . . . just not a goat humper . . . . look up caber tossing . . . . it’s like Hogan was doing a caber toss to his left and around the co’ner.
The Captain doesn’t do bestiality…the closest thing would be Kama Sutra positions with animal names. Though I’m certain pets have observed or been displaced by vigorous sexual activities. (note: no animals were harmed during the making of any films)
I think the goat humping term originates or was at least popularised by Slicefixer (aka Geoff Jones). My understanding is that it relates to an unintentional loss of posture / spine angle / tilt / flexion (whichever term is right ) through impact and is often associated with pivot stall. The pelvic thrust / tail bone release I think is more often seen as a post impact thing, often seen by some schools of thought to be desirable e.g. in S&T, some MORAD patterns etc
The right hip and right foot have different motions in the 2 eras IMO. In Power Golf (pg 149 in my copy) a caption under a post impact face on image ends with “…note the right foot”…
Not that I am suggesting this is a Dan Brown style message from the past …but it always struck me as a little strange that he never makes much reference to the right foot during paragraphs…but his right foot is in an interesting position at this point of his swing…and a different position to the way it was in the 1930s images…even allowing for the variation in camera angles IMO.
Glad you enjoyed my youtube “goat franchise” series…
RR
