[hcw]

If you still believe that the body creates the speed and power in your golf swing, and pervious pages have not yet changed your mind, You can stilll prove it to yourself by following the directions below. You will need a device to measure your clubhead speed.


S1 After warming up, measure the clubhead speed of your driver using your normal swing and averaging the three highest readings. This figure respresents 100% of your speed and energy potential.

S2 With your feet together, swing and measure your clubhead speed. (This eliminates the contribution of the body).

S3 From your knees, swing your driver and again measure your clubhead speed (This eliminates the body and the sequence (vertical drop).


S4 Finally, while still on your knees, swing the club with your hands, wrists, and forearms stiff or immobilized. The clubshaft should point at the middle of your chest during the entire swing. (This eliminates the body, vertical drop and hands, and measures only the contribution of the arm swing).

dg,
well this probalby illuminates why we were on different sides of this issue...i disagree that the above exercises eliminate the body components as listed...in all of these your hips are still moving and this is powered by muscles in you legs...S2 and S3 maybe eliminate some hip turn velocity b/c of decreased balance ( for S3 depending on how far apart your knees are), but especially problematic is S4 which i think does pretty much the opposite of what's stated as far as the body element goes...if your arms are fully extended and immoblized then none of the arm muscles including the trail tricep do anything...what is moving the whole assembly are you hips via you leg muscles and maybe some torso muscles, you have really eliminated everything BUT the body/hips/legs!

-hcw