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"Snapping the Kinetic Chain" - a new myth for the golf swing.

It's a procedure ("Throwaway"), which can be useful, if handled properly. The key is timing the snap (or "Release/Throwaway').

A golf swinging human body is not a bull whip with gradually diminishing diameter in a long chain or thong. It is a structure with levers, fulcrums, muscles, and limitations/strengths not available to a whip.

The left arm is a fulcrum at the left shoulder. It can be pulled around by shoulder turn, and at the end of it is a hand, a clamp, that holds the club. But the shoulders have two arms, the right arm separated from the left by about 18", to which is attached a two levered arm, and again a hand at the end for clamping. That hand also has use of muscles in the forearm that can add force from palmar flexion prior to or during impact.

It can be, if the moving parts kept passive and flexible enough.

If you "stop" the shoulders turning prior to impact, there is no speedup of the arms. If you stop the hands moving forward prior to impact, there is no speedup of the club head. If you stop the left shoulder pulling the left arm prior to impact, there is no speedup of the left hand. As said, it is not a tapered structure.

Again, due to the "Geomery of the Circle" and "Physics of Rotation", they can speed up. Actually, the distal portion tends/wants to speed up ("Overtaking') in the circle. However, in the meantime, it's "Releasing" ("Throwaway") as well. The key is to prevent it from speeding up (being released) prematurely-delay the "Release", so that the ball is hit while the clubhead is releasing, instead of being released. A released clubhead (might have speed, but) has no thrust (for resisting against the "Impact Deceleration"). Delaying the "Release" doesn't produce delayed "Release". No (or resist against the) "Release" (or "Sustain the Lag") does.

In fact, the faster the HANDS CAN CONTINUE TO MOVE through impact the faster the club head itself gets propelled into the ball. By necessity the left shoulder HAS to slow down prior to impact: it is because the human body simply can't get there with the left hand dragging behind: its range of motion isn't sufficient. And this is one of the reasons for the straightening of the RIGHT arm on the way to the ball: to provide more force AND MORE MOTION THROUGH impact -- precisely to KEEP the left hand from slowing down.

If you slap a stick into a tree hard, it breaks off by contact with the tree. You LOSE; you don't gain force, by slowing down prior to impact on the tree. On the contrary, the harder you continue to drive your right hand, the louder and more forceful the smack. This is what the right hand does, in support of the weaker left arm being pulled by the rotation of the left shoulder.

Sounds like the procedure of "left arm pulls and right arm pushes'-"Switting", which can work beautifully, again, if handled peoperly.

3-D golf analyzers measure the sequence motion of the hips, shoulders, arms and hands. They do not measure thrust and torque So how can they say slowing down adds speed to the club head. The bottom line is they just want instructors and golfers to buy their 3-D golf swing analyzers for big $$$$.

People have different perspectives and purposes. If they measured something slows down and others speed up, so be it. Can't see any problem with that. Like people saw "Stationary Head" and tell you to keep your heady steady, so do for the "Flat Left Wrist" and "Bent Right Wrist" and "Forward lean" of the shaft through impact.

"Snapping the Kinetic Chain" is just another myth that will ruin the True G.O.L.F. Motion.

It's one of the procedures covered.

Mike Austin’s power secret was that he applied thrust and torque to the handle snapping the club head maximizing club head speed on the down swing. Here is how he did it. At the start of the down swing his left arm which is connected to the upper body which is connected to the lower body provided an opposing force to the thrust and torque of the right hand and arm. This opposing force activates muscles in the body to try to prevent the thrust and torque from moving down for a fraction of a second

Besides that, what Mr. Austin didn't tell you is that he probably has

the latest "Release" through impact, intentionally done or not.