Longitudinal Acceleration
 

What is the best way demonstrate/explain longitudinal acceleration?

Re: Longitudinal Acceleration
 

The "Power Release", or Ben's image of shooting a pebble out of the end of the shaft at the plane line.

Re: Longitudinal Acceleration
 

When does Longitudinal Acceleration begin? Does it begin at Release point? Mr. K mentions drawing an arrow from the quiver is that Longitudinal acceleration?

Thanks!

b

Pulling On A String Versus Pushing On An Axe Handle
 

Swingers begin the Longitudinal (lenthwise) Acceleration of the Golf Club immediately in the Start Down. In other words, they Pull -- Drag -- the Clubshaft Down Plane (toward the Plane Line) in the direction it is pointing. Hitters, on the other hand, Push -- Drive -- the Clubshaft Radially (directly from behind).

Re: Pulling On A String Versus Pushing On An Axe Handle
 

Thanks Yoda! Quick follow up . . .

The thread on Bobby Clampett got me thinking or confused on this. A Swinger is typically completing the Backstroke at End vs. Top. In order for the club to be Pulled Down Plane from End, would the club not be pulled in a horizontal fashion from End to Top and then Down Plane?

Just curious . .

Thanks!

B

The Re-Tracing Motion
 

The re-tracing from End to Top is a circular motion, not straight-line. Per 1-L #9: No matter how the Lever Assembly is driven, it always moves in a circle.

Re: The Re-Tracing Motion
 

This is a foggy area to me. How does 1-L #9 fit into the Straight Line Delivery Path? Or is it just a straight line effort? Please explain!

Two Straight Lines That Make A Curve
 

Both the Hands and the Clubhead require Down Plane Guidance.

The selected Line Delivery Path (7-23) guides the Hands Down Plane ('straight line' Thrust toward the Aiming Point). See also the Endless Belt Effect (2-K #6) and its implied Top (of the Line Delivery Path) and Release (bottom of the Path). See Photo 9-3-6, at Top and Release, and the shadowed arrow illustrating the straight line direction of Thrust.

In contrast, 'Tracing' (with the #3 Pressure Point and Right Forearm) the selected Straight Line Delivery Line (the Plane Line per 7-5) guides the Clubhead Down Plane (and results in the curved Clubhead Blur -- Arc of Approach and Attack).

Through Impact, these two Components -- Delivery Path and Delivery Line -- produce identical Clubhead orbits (the Clubhead Line-of-Flight per 2-N-0). Thus, though the Hands' Thrust -- Muscular (Hitting) or Centrifugal (Swinging) -- is Straight Line, the Lever Assembly itself moves in a circle.

Practice each Component diligently -- but separately.

Re: Two Straight Lines That Make A Curve
 

Dr. Green Wallop,

Oh Thee of green skin and Yellow knowledge, do you prescribe Tracing vs. Line Delivery Path as different strokes for different folks? Or I guess my question is what type of faults does tracing help and what type of faults does Straight Line Delivery Path help?

Thanks!

Bucket

Delivering On Plane Thrust
 

Both Components are necessary. Tracing the Plane Line keeps the Sweet Spot On Plane. Driving your Hands (and their derivative Thrust) down the Delivery Path directs your Thrust at a specific point on that Plane Line. Of the two, the Delivery Path has priority.

Re: Delivering On Plane Thrust
 

Would that be with both swinging and hitting? With swinging, directing PP#2 and with hitting PP#1?

The Power Regulator
 

Hitting or Swinging, the three Pressure Points in the Hands are located directly behind the Shaft. Accordingly, each drives toward the Plane Line (1-L#10). However, the Power Regulator (2-M-2) -- the Clubhead Lag Pressure Point -- is assigned to the #3 Pressure Point (the meaty part of the right forefinger).

Hitters Aim and Thrust (via the Right Triceps) the #3 Pressure Point. Swingers Aim the Lag Pressure, but Centrifugal Force alone provides the Thrust. Hence, Hitters sense #3 Lag Pressure Point pressure more strongly than Swingers.