Understand your swing with the help of physics | Swing Expedition | Golf Channel | GOLFPASS

Swing Expedition host Chris Como takes a deep dive with sports biomechanist, Dr. Sasho MacKenzie to show how understanding the basic physics of the golf swing can have a tremendous impact on improving your game and shooting lower scores. Watch the extended cut, full episodes and exclusive lessons on GOLFPASS.com/SwingX. #GolfChannel #SwingExpedition
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[@credfouples5980]

That golf ball he addressed all video was not struck, that grinds my gears lol

[@frankz8411]

I personally would love to see more of these kind of videos (explaining forces, pressures, and angular momentum). A great follow up to this video would discuss the build up to maximum speed down to the contact point. I’ve been trying out a throw back and then out method with mostly good results and didn’t realize that the throw back helped to transfer the pressure to my lead foot. To me the key then is to coordinate rotation with backward pressure of the lead foot (away from the target). This has helped me to get my hands going back inside without consciously doing anything but “responding to forces”.

[@rogerstclair830]

Paralysis by analysis brought to a whole new level.

[@jacksaintjack2844]

I suspect that somewhere in all this discussion and terminology is some really, really good stuff, but I'm not prepping for a physics exam. I'm prepping to strike the ball better. Perhaps you guys could actually SHOW us HOW to do it from address to the finish?

[@OnlineSessionDrummer]

Jack St. Jack check out Eric corgono and athletic motion golfers and overhand golf 😀😀😀

[@Silly.Old.Sisyphus]

they clearly can't.... but i can! kzbin.info/aero/PL4y5Wtsvtduo8OY5_l1BdS22ZWFUw2Vr2

[@drkviol8013]

Magnolia plantation golf club is where this is shot, in Lake Mary, Florida

[@richiehunt5097]

Yeah, it's just a driving range now. The course doesn't exist, it's Mike Bender's driving range.

[@reidthompson6272]

You guys have come a long way since the devoted golfer video.

[@gregsuske2131]

Sounds pretty simple to figure angles and pressure the trick is being able to do it

[@frednegus7017]

I have a few questions you may be able to help me with. Do you think the longitudinal centre of gravity has a bigger affect on club face squaring vs centre of mass. Do you think think the club face squares or do you square it. Do you actually try to shift your weight or does it simply shift because the mass shifts with the pivot. Do you think linear motion ( lateral motion ) has a detrimental affect on the angular motion. Does the club shallow at start down due to axis tilt ( target ward ) or is it fore arm rotation from the elbow. I was wondering if on plane motion is more efficient due to throw out motion or should the golfer strive for club manipulation. You talked about release and I was wondering if that was the club seeking its inline condition with the arm or is it some form of extended pivot motion. I have a few more questions but I shall save them for a later time. Thanks for your interesting video. Cheers

[@davidlaville6424]

Obviously you read The Golfing Machine. Try reading it deeper, it has the answers you're looking for.

[@frednegus7017]

David Laville Thank you for your kind and insightful advice. It is so generous of you to respond with such incisive direction. I will definitely look up the book you mentioned. Cheers F

[@garrymajor7528]

There is no reading it deeper unless you have a masters degree in anything other than golf this book dose not show you how to hit a good golf shot .The image of skipping a stone across the water or Pete cowens axe drill or hogans insider throwing side arm will take you a lot less time and give you a far better mind image to hit your best ball.Imagine the club is a hammer and the ball is a nail which you are going to hit into a piece of wood on the ground just in front of the ball should work fine.

[@millju4]

3:30 That was an awesome golf shot! Yeah, Ive done it before...... AWKWARD. #reaction lololol

[@ddrummer1821]

I swign gud!

[@andrewfarrell3986]

I can feel everything he was just saying. So incredibly interesting….

[@TeddyCavachon]

Because of how the club head mass attaches at the heel it steers the shaft and hand like a rudder steers a boat or elevators control the pitch of an airplane. If at the point in an extended takeaway where the CLUB FORCE cocks the wrists the golfer’s grip manipulated the toe of the club so it is pointing forward that forward tilt of the toe mass will cause it to be steered up to the top on a steeper plane than if the golfer intentionally lays the toe and face open with wrist action (e.g., pronation of the left hand) before the wrists cock. That cause and effect of the toe mass steering the path is very evident in the swings of rank beginners who do pronate their left hand palm down in their takeaways resulting in a too low, elbow bending swing path with club out of position at the top. I had that swing fault as a beginner which is how I became aware of the effect toe angle at the point the wrist cock and the club mass accelerates rapidly around the hands affects path. I learned to use the cause and effect to change path at will, creating a steeper Nicklaus style swing path when wanting to hit fades and a lower Hogan style path when hitting draws with my baseline straight shot path somewhere in between with my left hand gripping the club at its natural hang angle at address as learned from Nicklaus in the 1980s reading his book “Golf My Way”. In the early 2000s I changed to a Hogan swing style and learned to take the club back on a lower plane by copying his wrist action as taught in “Five Lessons: The Modern Fundamentals of Golf.” Prior to learning golf in my 30’s I had swung sledge hammers and axes and cast fly rods and even cracked a bull whip a few times and realized the roles gravity and wrist action played in performing the work in those devices. In the case of the whip it is changing the wrists from radial deviation to unlar deviation (thumb up / thumb down) action and locking the wrists into full unlar deviation which creates the whipping action around the hands which accelerates the tip of the whip past the sound barrier (700mph) - the crack is a mini sonic boom! I realized Hogan was creating that same whipping action around his hands in his downswing to accelerate the mass of his club head by analyzing videos of his swing frame by frame. As the his hands dropped below his waist they slowed down and are sharp in the videos but the club shaft and head are blurs indicating the club head was being accelerated much faster than the hands were moving forward, the same action used when hammering a nail or chopping wood with an axe. Duplicating Hogan grip and wrist action during the downswing I realized his impact position would lock my wrists BEFORE impact if I allowed the club force generated by whipping the club around my hands like he did to pull my wrists down into maxed out unlar deviation. That action occurs in all golf swings if the golfer allows the force to pull the trail arm straight but in the conventional swing occurs several feet in front of the ball. It is the pulling of both wrists in to ulnar deviation which allows the club force to turn the wrists over in the finish. But by doing it through impact I realized by duplicating his action Hogan was using the earlier locking of the wrists to lock the face of his club square to the target just as the compressed ball was ready to release from face. The last action in the last foot or so of his downswing was a snapping of his wrists down just like cracking a whip creating a last minute burst of acceleration a conventional “sustain the lag” swing lacks. When the wrists lock up and the club face also abruptly stops the laws of motion cause the compressed ball to decompress off the face more rapidly which creating a distinctly different higher pitched “click” which was often mentioned in stories about Hogan’s swing. Incorporating that action into my swing resulted in much more striking force, ball compression, distance and spin loft with irons. Once aware of that cause and effect I realized a few other notable straight and long ball strikers also used the radial / unlar deviation wrist locking to accelerate the club head mass around the hands and release the ball straight to target at will: Moe Norman and trick shot artist Harry Frankenberg (Count Yogi). I verified that by learning to duplicate their swings also. Hogan, Norman and Yogi all used the same physics cause and effect but with different grips and which locked wrists and face square at the moment the ball released.

[@jacobr4558]

Your comment is pure gold!!! I have come to almost the exact same conclusion. And funny enough I have duplicated the swings of Moe norman, Bryson dechambeau, and now I'm starting to understand Fred Couples and DJ. The radial/ulnar move is the snap that everybody's missing and misunderstanding. To me it's actually the essence of the swing!

[@TeddyCavachon]

@@jacobr4558 Thanks for that comment. I’ve been doing golf videos on KZbin for the past year or so to try to get more people to try that style swing. I just did one to explain how and why I came to re-build my swing around the Hogan waggle action: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fHStZ4OwjN6pma8

[@erikts70]

What would Oger from revenge of the nerds say?

[@thomasfraser9072]

In order to feel the weight and momentum of the traveling head club down to and through the ball; swing your club with your trail little finger. That is all anyone needs to know All these words and ideas spoken when the fact is the true golf swing is a one compounded science proven move called “The Conservation of Angular Momentum “ and it becomes so easy to do once anyone fully begins to understand the basic science behind it. Jack Nicklaus did it. Moe Norman and Ben Hogan did it and yet neither of these three great golfers ever fully explained it. Not selling a thing only stating a fact. Cheers

[@hawgifan]

The hands determine shaft angle. Try measuring hand path and wrist angles It’s difficult to follow when you talk about controlling club face and shaft angle When the club Has no input on how it’s swung

[@jmtgolf2756]

Dang I thought my 93mph 7 iron swing was quick and Sash just said I’m a joke to him

[@pisanu6699]

I've never seen any PhD guys play a good golf in my life.

[@CraigalFun]

Who's here after Matt Fitzpatrick winning the US Open

[@jaywatson9493]

What the hell language are they using in this video?, I'm trying to learn the golfswing. Damn I thought the instruction would be in english!

[@jeffreyluciana8711]

My swing never followed the laws of physics

[@davidwest9768]

Incomprehensible drivel..

[@markgreen4167]

Krk

[@miltonpurdy1784]

We forget to play the GAME. If you tell a 10 year old to throw a baseball to his friend, he doesn't think about anything, he just throws. Our objective is to get the ball in the hole. Focus on the TARGET. Hit the ball at the target. If you get out of your own way, your body knows how to do that. Hit the dsmn ball toward the target like a 10 years old would do. Move along.

[@dpardo74]

Blah blah blah......Hit the ball with the stick. People make this too complicated.

[@jacobr4558]

Who gets to spend years "researching" the golf swing? How does that even happen in a person's life? Who pays for that? I don't even understand life sometimes. Some people start working at 16 years old to help their family put mediocre food on the table while other get to follow whatever whim comes along. Reality is so strange sometimes.

[@TheBlayner]

Lol wtf

[@markflolid5930]

This is a jumble of thoughts with zero discussion of physics.

[@db76177]

Huh??

[@joevelte4252]

could have explained this better.

[@iiZAPPx]

The swing isn't that complicated. If you aren't an athlete then you're going to struggle. If you are an athlete you should be capable of producing a solid swing given you have simple instruction. Love the science of it all but videos like this help nobody. Nobodyyyy. Just a lot of lingo. Waste of 99% of the viewers time because unless you are already playin a single digit handicap I doubt you know what is going on here.

[@jacobr4558]

If you are athletic you would need CORRECT instruction. Faulty instruction can ruin any player regardless of ability or intelligence.

[@jacobr4558]

The swing IS that complicated but instruction shouldn't be. If you can't make someyhing simple you are not a good teacher.

[@topgun7086]

The worst instructions you can get

[@joonslee1971]

i bet doc is a crappy golfer

[@danwilliams9833]

The information is great BUT I learn by doing and if these great points aren't demonstrated as they are being described it ends up being BLAH BLAH BLAH!

[@jamesfitzgerald6636]

Chris is so boring! Jesus! Talk plainly

[@coachRJ_]

None of this makes sense.

[@joevelte4252]

Too much yapping. Lost the points trying to be made.

[@SL0409]

What a load of absolute waffle 😂 100x mire complicated than a golf swing ever needs to be

[@Jedi101]

and not one mention of the golfing machine the only book you need. these guys just plagiarize that book to make themselves seem like they invented this stuff or are geniuses.... nothing more

[@jacobr4558]

Homer Kelly didnt invent the golf swing.

[@HUYNGUYEN-jp8xo]

Talk is so cheap

[@TheBamanda2]

Huh??