A little Googling will keep you busy for a while as there are many sites. You will likely be pleasantly surprised that it is very much like your own ideas about considering and using various daily activities.
Many years ago I discovered the Alexander Technique. However searching the web I noticed that it has since then taken quite some expansion. It seems to be very popular nowadays. It is very attractive being so deceptively simple.
Just an introduction taken from one of the many sites on the Alexander Technique -
“The [size=125]Alexander Technique[/size] is a method that works to change (movement) habits in our everyday activities. It is a simple and practical method for improving ease and freedom of movement, balance, support and coordination. The technique teaches the use of the appropriate amount of effort for a particular activity, giving you more energy for all your activities. It is not a series of treatments or exercises, but rather a reeducation of the mind and body. The Alexander Technique is a method which helps a person discover a new balance in the body by releasing unnecessary tension. It can be applied to sitting, lying down, standing, walking, lifting, and other daily activities…”
Should we add brushing the teeth and shaving with the non-dominant hand to that knee bend recommendation?..I think Jackie Burke advised something like that.
Interesting stuff there, Mandrin, I did a little digging about it and it makes a lot of sense. It definitely fits in with a lot of my thinking. It’s a much harder prospect to spend your whole day moving incorrectly with all the wrong muscles etc. and then expect to all of a sudden pick up a golf club and do it right. Most people who are naturally good at a particular sport tend to be pretty good or at least competent in other sports too. I think this speaks to that ability to move correctly, in that the framework of proper motion is in place, all you have to do is figure out the nuances of each activity after that. I guess now that I think about it, this is really what this thread is about. Bad movement on the other hand is very difficult to overcome since it’s at the heart of the action. When you move badly your coordination needs to be out of this world to compensate. It’s a much easier game when the structure is in place…
I definitely agree with JB, Eagle, about brushing your teeth with your other hand. You’ll feel like you’re 4 years old again too One of the things I miss about driving back home is shifting gears with my left hand- I used to feel like that kept my left hand actively engaged in my days in a coordinated way… it’s little things like that that really do help imo…
I know Tennis is having a lot of the same issues with technology stepping over the foul line there also. Might be an even bigger issue there because they aren’t making the court bigger… so the matches are all about the power serve with a frying pan racket, and the game is a lot less interesting in my opinion… as a lot of the skill and strategy has been removed, similar to golf.
I heard Johnny Mac talking recently about how he feels he could still be out there winning if they were playing wood rackets.
Watson I believe would be about 10 years older than McEnroe. Maybe he’s right. I think that would add a nice dimension to the game.
Bom: Well done again. You sir are way ahead of the curve when it comes to finding great cross-applicable stuff to consider.
And it is funny that if one didn’t know that McEnroe was a tennis player, major portions of the video sounds like he’s talking about golf in Lag Land!
Are you sure in another life you weren’t a research analyst, librarian, or keeper of valuable records somewhere. Now that I think about it, perhaps the Dead Sea Scrolls might have some golf nuggets!!
Hank Aaron…one of my heroes. This one is from about 1958. Shows an approximate “p4” baseball equivalent. This swing went on to hit 755 home runs by the mid 1970’s. He had plenty of singles, doubles and triples also.
He supposedly developed strong wrists and hands carrying ice as a youth in Mobile, Alabama( presumably huge hunks carried with metal tongs).
Yeah that McEnroe clip is kind of hard to believe alright- I’m telling you guys, it’s a small world we’re living in, you just gotta pay attention!
RR, I am strangely drawn to the smell of old books or some reason, you could be on to something with my past lives theory…
I definitely agree about tennis being ruined by the racquet- how anyone breaks serve at Wimbledon anymore I’ll never know- it would be interesting to see some stats on the % of service breaks/points lost as a result of winners/getting it back in play vs double faulting, or the speed discrepancy between 1st and 2nd serves over the years- I equate the huge 1st serve and slower super spinny 2nd serve to bomb and gouge golf… I’d find the women’s game more interesting at this point if it wasn’t for all the noise violations… I’m way too young to be such a curmudgeon! Where’s my pipe and smoking jacket…
The winning ram had a longer period of acceleration: 5 steps to 3 steps for the loser. Although, to be fair…the losing ram could have been pulling a “rope a dope” routine. RR
Ram on left used “ground force” with all four legs, with forelegs adding a second stage thrust, and probably generated greater momentum at impact than ram on right using only two rear legs to generate momentum. Maybe it’s better to say the momentum of the ram on left died off less into impact than the momentum of the ram on right. Seems like direction of force of ram on left was driving lower through and beyond while ram on right was falling into rather than driving through. Also, it seems the ram on left had some advantage of charging down a slope and ram on right was disadvantaged with charging up slope. Also, the left ram’s smash connected while the right ram’s shot was clumsy; it’s a sweetspot/chi thing. Ram on left probably timed the bracing of his body better than the ram on right. Seems like ram on left pounded a lag bag in the basement during off season working through mods 1 through 3. Ram on right skipped the bag work and gambled he’d prance through the rut on good looks and a nice car.
Great observations, guys… I like the shaft flex for sure, and I actually hadn’t noticed the longer run up to be honest…
1teebox covered a lot of the bases, nice work, man!
The slope is relevant for sure but the slopes horizon suggests that they’re on the brow of a hill so it’s really hard to tell who really has the upper hand. The darker colour of the ram on the left makes me feel like he might be a little bigger though it may just be the colour… hard to tell.
IMO you can look at it two other ways: 1, from the perspective of the arms/club, 2, from the perspective of the body. Either way the winner waited and is braced with some load left at impact(maybe pavaveda’s holding the shaft flex comment)
If you look at the rear legs of both Rams you can see that the one on the right spends it really early while the one on the left holds it for a bit, until impact, and then delivers the blow. This may be the slope, but regardless the reality is that the one on the left is much stronger at impact than the one on the right, and has his load ready to unload. As I said above, you could see this as a braced or flexed right elbow at impact, or you could see it as the holding of the entire mass momentum(loading into the R leg on the way down) in order to deliver it into impact- both of which great strikers do. Maybe it’s kind of the same thing at the end of the day. The use by the Ram on the left of the double leverage point utilizing the front legs may also play a part for sure, similarly to the way we swing a club… interesting stuff! I don’t have all the answers but I know that this situation is very similar to impact in the golf swing… I hadn’t thought of some of the things mentioned…
Thanks a lot for thinking about it and taking the time to respond…
Cheers
Been thinking about starting a thread called “Home on the Range” which would provide some daily sights and sounds from life at a driving range. Could be a fun and interesting read…what do you guys think?
For instance…in my years managing the range I’ve never heard anyone say anything other than 1. “Is the grass open today.” or 2. “Can I hit off the grass today”- or something to that effect. I’ve never heard anyone ask ever if they could “hit into the grass.” . Wonder why that is- I think a mindset of hitting off something
versus into could lead to trouble…unless you’re a pick cleaner.
Or I could tell you about the woman shopping for Lamkin grips for her husband came into the shop and asked…
"My husband likes Lambskins…do you carry them? I wish Captain could have been there for that one.
Bom if you have Windows Vista or 7 you can use the snipping tool to capture anything from the screen
By the way the Ram on the left looks very much like Knudson at impact from that Shell match.
Macs,
I’m working with one of your namesakes so maybe I’ll go digging in it to see if there’s a similar application I can use. Good call on the Knudsen btw- I can see it right there for sure. Lag, I reckon I might take Moe against one of those Rams- as they say, he looks like he was built like a brick sh*t house…
What’s amazing about that video is that the Ram on the left doesn’t even seem to flinch on the way through, it’s like he just keeps on strolling. He checks his stride but it’s well after the impact. A lot of this stuff around impact re: acceleration reminds me of a story I heard when I was a kid about how can a fly stop a train. Has anyone heard that one?
One of the things I miss about driving back home is shifting gears with my left hand- I used to feel like that kept my left hand actively engaged in my days in a coordinated way… it’s little things like that that really do help imo…
RR
