Net Force Discussion - Simplified Golf Physics

[@garthdownton8645]

Who am I to doubt you! But! Like driving a car 99.9% have no idea how that car runs, they blindly trust that it is going to perform! This is my golf swing! The repeatability of result is my only feedback that supports the physics of my move. Thanks Moe Norman!!

[@TheNYgolfer]

garth Downton There are some people (few and far between) who want to know how a car runs so when it breaks they can figure out what's wrong with it. Others (the vast majority) call a mechanic. What do you do when no mechanic is available? Rely on what has worked in the past? Turn the key again and again in the hope it will start eventually? Ignorance is bliss..... sometimes. Moe Norman knew more about the golf swing than he is given credit for due to his eccentric personality which gave the impression he was not very intelligent but just an idiot savant when it came to golf.

[@johnnyparker9928]

The golf swing is a pulling action - Moe Norman.

[@maralvor]

I am not a scientist but am not thick either. You lost me however within the first few minutes. Not quite sure why but I suspect it was because you didn’t explain initially in sufficient detail the correlation of your illustration to the golf swing, although you were clearly trying to do this. I know from M Hebron’s books about pulling, rather than pushing, but the cliff/cable diagram seemed difficult to grasp-possibly because of the cable/weight analogy. Anyway, possibly because I am more thick than I think! ,this was not as much help as I thought it would be!

[@Keockk]

In other words, you re almost as boring as my online classes

[@llaw999]

The point is not about pushing or pulling. It’s just to illustrate the direction of the applied force relative to the mass. I don’ think this is something you would think about while swinging. More for analysis.

[@tmunday7270001475143]

Great instructor! Thank you for improving my game with swing methods I can understand & implement

[@jmm4081]

So what does this mean? Are we supposed to pull the handle up and in? I don't know what this means?

[@woodyvincent7702]

If this is simplified, I would hate to see complicated.

[@dtgps]

Irrelevant, BS in no 3 you can push the cable as much as you want. The weight will still fall at rate of gravity. The golf club is a lever. For clubhead to move down to the ball, the butt end has be moved up and for clubhead to move out to the ball the butt end of the lever has to be pulled in. Its that simple. Why all the BS? to baffle brains?

[@TheNYgolfer]

mikal He didn't explain it well but there is a reason he said it's a "cable not a string". A "string" is too flexible to add a pushing force to the weight. A cable , if stiff enough, allows you to add a net pushing force towards the pulley which then gets transferred to the weight since the cable is stiff enough to not buckle under the pushing force you apply. So if you push hard enough the weight will fall faster than gravity. He did however, not explain it very well, as to how this applies to the golf swing.

[@LeeComeauxGolf2017]

Irrelevant

[@TheNYgolfer]

Lee Comeaux Golf Only to those who care not know. Some people want to know "why" not just "how". Makes you a better golfer because when your game goes to shit in the middle of a round, and you can't remember what the hell your instructor once told you, you can figure out why the wheels are coming off and put them back on yourself. "Paralysis by Analysis" doesn't apply to everyone. For some people however , the less they know , the better off they are. "To be good at golf you have to be either very smart or very dumb" - Author unknown to me but Phil Mickelson said it to David Feherty on his show

[@oliverizzard8751]

There's no confusion. It's about speed and quality of impact. That's it...

[@arjanpetersen]

oliver izzard sure... it is the same with food. You eat it and shit it out . Dead simple.

[@user_1664]

Wtf

[@ve1803]

incredibly irrelavent

[@thomasfraser9072]

Sorry I know of only one scientist who has a mean golf swing. So what’s the point? Could you simplify a bit for us stupid people who loves to play golf. 🤯😒