What Component is Most Responsible for FORWARD?

[12 piece bucket]

And should you ever think about FORWARD?

[Martee]

Arm Rotation - responsible for the Backward, Upward, Downward and Forward motion. In other words the Horizontal and Vertical motion.

Shoulder Rotation - responsible for the Inward and Outward motion, In otherwords the incline or angle motion, the motion across the Vertical and Horizontal.

Only if you want a 3 dimensional golf stroke...

[Matt]

Don't even think about it.

The fact that at some point your lever assembly passes your left shoulder is enough to make it happen. It has no choice but to move forward.

[nuke99]

I think it does more harm to a hacker thinking forward. already too much of Forward.

Out out is more important . Meanwhile axis tilt takes care of down.

[12 piece bucket]

Don't even think about it.

The fact that at some point your lever assembly passes your left shoulder is enough to make it happen. It has no choice but to move forward.

Short Post but one that is as strong as TRAIN SMOKE!!!

So essentially you are driving the Lever Assemblies and club DOWNPLANE . . . Which if you were to imagine yourself standing in the hole of that clear plastic plane thingie that Mr. K built would be TO THE RIGHT OF YOU and DIAGONALLY SLICING your body somewheres betwixt the shoulder and hip right?

Good post!

[Martee]

Not to be picky but for the primary assembly to pass the left shoulder, that would mean you have completed the follow through.

Homer defined the down stroke as DOWNward (Attack Angle) and OUTward (Plane Angle) AND FORward (Apporach Angle). All Three MOTIONS are the product of the influence of the Inclined Plane on the down stroke forces.

The arms the component where the forward motion comes from...

[Matt]

The average golfer would be best served by not thinking FORWARD at all. All it does it invite steering and swinging towards the target.

My clubhead travels forward. But do I move it forward? If I don't try to move it forward, will it move backwards? Of course not.

Down, yes.

Out, yes.

And that's all I focus on.

[rwh]

What Component is Most Responsible for FORWARD [and] should you ever think about FORWARD?

Bucket, you are definitely into some serious smoke. I'm down for a dime.

Do we not have a clubhead that travels in an arc? Things moving in an arc only go clockwise or anti-clockwise. There is no forward or backward. And there is no inward or outward, at least not from the standpoint of the orbiting object. It's just going around and around. (I know you took those girls on the Tilt-A-Whirl at the carnival).

The swing arc of the clubhead is essentially the same whether you are performing it on the horizontal (torso vertical) or on an inclined plane (front of torso bent down toward the ground).

Arguably, thinking (conceptually) of anything other than swinging the clubhead in an arc is disruptive.

[Sonic_Doom]

Bucket, you are definitely into some serious smoke. I'm down for a dime.

Do we not have a clubhead that travels in an arc? Things moving in an arc only go clockwise or anti-clockwise. There is no forward or backward. And there is no inward or outward, at least not from the standpoint of the orbiting object. It's just going around and around. (I know you took those girls on the Tilt-A-Whirl at the carnival).

The swing arc of the clubhead is essentially the same whether you are performing it on the horizontal (torso vertical) or on an inclined plane (front of torso bent down toward the ground).

Arguably, thinking (conceptually) of anything other than swinging the clubhead in an arc is disruptive.

You nailed it, IMO.

Could one compononent be responsible for all three impact dimensions? i.e. the PIVOT moves the club clockwise/counter-clockwise on the inclined plane and the ball is positioned accordingly on that plane.

Blue skying,,,

[12 piece bucket]

Bucket, you are definitely into some serious smoke. I'm down for a dime.

Do we not have a clubhead that travels in an arc? Things moving in an arc only go clockwise or anti-clockwise. There is no forward or backward. And there is no inward or outward, at least not from the standpoint of the orbiting object. It's just going around and around. (I know you took those girls on the Tilt-A-Whirl at the carnival).

The swing arc of the clubhead is essentially the same whether you are performing it on the horizontal (torso vertical) or on an inclined plane (front of torso bent down toward the ground).

Arguably, thinking (conceptually) of anything other than swinging the clubhead in an arc is disruptive.

Super post!