[innercityteacher]

I believe that Dr. Jorgensen's work would disagree that hinge action, whether horizontal, angled, or vertical, could have any effect on ballflight with regard to how the face is behaving during the "impact interval' (time the ball is in contact with the face of the club). I don't believe he would agree with the notion that the face is 3 degrees more open at impact than it is at seperation, either; impact doesn't last long enough and the face doesn't rotate fast enough for that to be possible. This is just from what I understand of his research.

Impact is 450 millionths of a second and a 10% change of anything or any change of intentionality is significant, and that's where Dr. J's work simply misses what is going on. Let's review some facts. Two highly skilled PGA pros swing at different speeds and get different distances. Two more PGA pros swing at identical speeds yet one is almost always in the fairway and the other struggles to find it. Take one pro. Put him/her in the rough of varying lengths and watch the mayhem ensue. Try different types of sand, water, pasta, jello, mud, different types of grass in the rough (Did you see the SPIKE TV golf show with Brad Faxon. If I recall correctly, he could control his shot out of jello but not pasta. I think it was the marinara.) It all matters.

Why are their different golf balls? Marketing? Yep. Performance. Yep. Have you ever hit a woman's Karma with a putter vs. a Pro V 1 or a NXT? Do shafts matter? Weighting? Club materials?

What about using the "Iron Byron?" Why are clubs and balls tested? Why "V" grooves vs, "U" grooves? I think one degree of open and the intentionality of the golfer really matters a lot!

A computer takes a snapshot of an event and measures the event "as best it can." It does not see the stream of events which flow to produce the outcome. Or, let's say it measures an athlete's entire swing from start to finish. The computer's program is written by a human looking for "causality." So how did Tiger win the tournament on his broke leg? What was the chain of events? How many girls was he with during the previous contest vs. the one he won?

I swing slowly. So let's say the period of impact for me is one entire second. (Man, it feels like that some days!) While working with TGM for this first year, I must've ripped 10 gloves but never in the same spot! Every time I focused on one wobble, another appeared! Ever have a round with a loose glove or temperature variance from the front nine to the back?

Let's take Extensor Action instead of a hinge. Same speed of impact. No EA and I feel lost. The right amount of EA and "hello beautiful!"

I won't bring up Chaos Theory, yet, but just start ruminating on the idea of 43 dimensions! BTW, those people at Chernobyl learned about the damage a sub-atomic particle could do the hard way.

Little things matter a lot.


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