Post by Richie3Jack on Jan 25, 2010 13:12:55 GMT -5
One of my favorite movies is 'Time Cop' with Jean Claude Van Damme. If you have never seen it, and I'm no JCVD fan by any means, it's a really good movie. The premise is that we are wayyy into the future and scientists have discovered a time machine mechanism. However, nobody is allowed to use it because changing events in the past, regardless of how harmless they may seem or how good they may seem, may cause catastrophic consequences. As they point out in the movie, one may want to go back in time to kill Hitler before WWII breaks, but that may set off a chain of events that are even worse than Hitler and WWII. And one of the things JCVD's character tries to do is to prevent Ron Silver's character (a politician) from going back in time and bolstering his political status.
Anyway, in this thread I want to imagine us going back in time and being able to tell ourselves NO MORE than 7 things about the game and our swing and what we would need to do.
Like 'Time Cop', you cannot use things like 'invent the titanium driver' as it's a product that would increase your fortune. Just stuff about improving your golf game. Here's mine, in no particular order.
1. I would show what impact looks like in a basic sense (open shoulders, hips, bent right elbow, flat left wrist) and explain that.
2. I would get into 'low point' and making proper ball then ground contact.
3. I would explain the D-Plane 'new ball flight laws' as I understand them now and go over each type of missed shot and what the club was doing at impact.
4. I would discuss clubfitting and staying away from longer, more upright and lighter irons and explain that it's okay to go with a longer, lighter driver because in the future the drivers will be lighter and longer and you need to keep up with the power game. But the irons should still remain, specifications wise, pretty heavy, flatter and shorter. As well as getting into why you should at least have a set of blades for practice.
5. I would extensively explain green reading as I understand it today.
6. I would explain power and what produces it, from clubhead speed, AoA, compression (more or less explained in #2), 'smash factor', and what I believe is important and correct from HK's 'Endless Belt Concept.'
7. I would tell myself to ignore whatever anybody says using a camera and to use your own camera and use it quite often. Noting that I should spend less on new equipment and save it towards gettng a big, clunky camcorder and then noting that camcorders will get smaller, better and more affordable as time goes along.
3JACK
Anyway, in this thread I want to imagine us going back in time and being able to tell ourselves NO MORE than 7 things about the game and our swing and what we would need to do.
Like 'Time Cop', you cannot use things like 'invent the titanium driver' as it's a product that would increase your fortune. Just stuff about improving your golf game. Here's mine, in no particular order.
1. I would show what impact looks like in a basic sense (open shoulders, hips, bent right elbow, flat left wrist) and explain that.
2. I would get into 'low point' and making proper ball then ground contact.
3. I would explain the D-Plane 'new ball flight laws' as I understand them now and go over each type of missed shot and what the club was doing at impact.
4. I would discuss clubfitting and staying away from longer, more upright and lighter irons and explain that it's okay to go with a longer, lighter driver because in the future the drivers will be lighter and longer and you need to keep up with the power game. But the irons should still remain, specifications wise, pretty heavy, flatter and shorter. As well as getting into why you should at least have a set of blades for practice.
5. I would extensively explain green reading as I understand it today.
6. I would explain power and what produces it, from clubhead speed, AoA, compression (more or less explained in #2), 'smash factor', and what I believe is important and correct from HK's 'Endless Belt Concept.'
7. I would tell myself to ignore whatever anybody says using a camera and to use your own camera and use it quite often. Noting that I should spend less on new equipment and save it towards gettng a big, clunky camcorder and then noting that camcorders will get smaller, better and more affordable as time goes along.
3JACK