Keeping the right foot on the ground through impact does slow down the hips.
Could this be a key for golfers to "snapping the kinetic chain" for more distance?
Here is a slow motion video of the late great Sam Byrd, Jimmy Ballard’s teacher.
Notice Sam's pivot which is nothing like Jimmy teaches or as I call it the flat footed pivot through impact.
I can see in this video that there is defiantly a “Snapping the Kinetic Chain” going on here. I did some testing on it a little tonight and I did produce a little more club head speed working with this pivot. The swing did feel more in sequence as well.
Sam Byrd learned this action from Bill Mehlhorn. I have seen video of Bill hitting balls doing it as well. Both Sam and Bill were long ball hitters.
I can remember just before I started working with Jimmy Ballard in the early 90's I use to have this flat foot pivot that I learned from my dad. I could hit my wood driver 270-280 down the middle. Then I changed my pivot to Jimmy Ballard's fire the right side pivot lifting the right heel of the ground well before impact and I was only hitting it 250 -260 with a slight pull. I even had a new Taylor Made bubble driver as well.
I have never gone back to the flat foot pivot but I think I will now.
Could this flat foot pivot be a key for golfers to snapping the kinetic chain better and add distance? I will find out. I will do some more testing with golfers and my swing and see.
It is amazing how much you can see with this old time footage!
Kenny Perry's not too old, but he certainly keeps the foot down through Impact. I often use something in my teaching to demonstrate this very point.
I have no issue with the segments slowing and transferring momentum to the next segment. It's the intent that I question. Do they slow? Yes. Can the intent to "brake" increase speed? I highly doubt it.
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