Nothing earth shattering here, just an observation I found interesting.
Every morning when opening up the vertical blinds on the doorwall it’s always a 50-50 proposition to whether or not I grab the correct cord. There are two cords at the end- one allows linear travel, and the other allows circular travel. It seems I always grab the wrong cord first and the blinds bind up somewhere.
The other day I noticed how clever the manufacturers are in designing the cords. The straight cord string allows linear travel, and the other cord has all these little orbs, or spheres to grab. So it we want circular travel of the vertical blind we feel for the orbs, and then to let the blinds go down the track linearally, we grab the straight one. No more 50-50 for the Rat…I’ve been programmed by the manufacturers.
Funny how they can bind up too. Linear first than circular has less travel and can get bound up, opposed to circular first than linear. I know it doesn’t specifically relate…but found it interesting as a small world item. Couldn’t find a real good video, but this one shows the orb chain near the end.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzV1T5g0Js8[/youtube]
Great stuff, IOZ, plus it’s very funny which is really the most important thing
My favourite frame is no.3 because the force of the lens explodes at 90 degrees to the applied force, which has big links to good golf. If you were to try to create that lens explosion by sending the sledge hammer dtl, which makes some sort of logical sense, you’d probably just scuttle the whole thing a few yards down the garden. And you and the hammer may go with it! Sounds familiar I reckon…
Revisiting an old idea here, but it’s interesting to see the similarities in the right arm actions early in the backswing, and then the resultant reaction on the way dwon. Btw, that downswing action of the hockey player isn’t artificially compressed, he really does get down that low. Pretty cool.
Good call, IOZ, imo it’s definitely related. I’d see that action as a natural motion from any sort of propulsive action using the rear side. The extremes in golf would be Jimmy Bruen or Miller Barber, they were hurlers in more ways than one, but there are plenty of examples of it. It’s important to look beyond the picture though. Hogan talked in very clear terms that you have to use the left arm to take it away, and he also talked about starting down with the left side/fingers. So you can basically assume that that image, or the way his right arm is functioning in it, is passive, it’s being carried back there; it’s on a ‘free ride’ of sorts. Then it seems he activated it when it was needed coming into the hitting zone.
Personally, I can see a certain amount of strain in Hogan’s left hand and wrist area during the takeaway(with a softness in his right hand/arm), it does appear to me to be in control so I’d have to take his word for that, and that it wasn’t just a feeling. Obviously there are larger motions taking place simultaneously, it’s not just a wimpy left arm swing back! Interestingly, the hockey guy in that video talks about the left arm moving across the chest in the ‘backswing’. Whether or not that was an active goal or just an observation of what took place, is unclear to me, but his mentioning of it is interesting when added to Hogan’s point. Do you have any insights on that?
It’s not earth shattering stuff, and I’ve talked about it before, but as always, I think it’s interesting to see the similarities. Here’s a Trevino side by side that I had(copyright TwoM’s golf!). It’s like the way Lag talks about the so-called perfect set up having nothing to do with impact, it’s similar issue here, we’re just a few frames either side of that.
Cool video. I reckon Hogan did some similar stuff around the top, as well as some, what I’d call, counter rotational(torquing)stuff through the zone(similar to the linear hands/rotational hips as the guy says in the vid) Tough to see in the frames, but there’s definitely some torquing going on here…
Been trying to upload a photo here for the last half hour but it keeps crashing my os- never happened before, I’ll give it a shot another time…
It’s been a while, lads, I hope all is well…
Been working on images/feelings as ever… Good one here. Lots of great strikers(G. Norman, De Vicenzo, B. Hughes, etc…) brought it down like this… takes a lot of effort to bring the shaft down parallel and deep like this…
Not really a small world image, I suppose, but anyway…
Nice picture though…
Because of this throw, the javelin was made heavier and less aerodynamic so they didn’t have to make the field bigger. Sadly as we all know golf has gone the completely opposite direction, making the equipment go farther thus having to make the playing field bigger. Let’s get the IAAF to run golf, couldn’t do any worse than what we have now!
Goodness they should have done this for golf! thanks for sharing this ocat1979!
Just wanted to check back in here and apologize for my absence lately, life got in the way
I hope everybody’s ok and enjoying the game!
Cheers, IOZ/Paul
The right elbow out on the way back seems to promote the opposite going down. Is this similar to the trevino loop in your opinion?
