You wrote-: "I'm 39 until the 26th of this month. I'm aware that some use age as an excuse, but I won't put up with that garbage. Tell them to get in the gym, take a lesson, or stop complaining."
Phew!
I have seen that attitude among many golf instructors. It is a great pity! The problem is not age per se, it's age-related physical inflexibility problems. Many elder people don't suffer from age-related flexibility problems - like Gary Player. However, others do - like Arnold Palmer. He has such poor torso flexibility at present that he virtually has to stand erect to execute a torso rotation. The age-related torso inflexibility problem is not remedial with gym workouts if the problem is genetic - an increased age-related genetic predisposition to calcification of spinal ligaments and/or increased fibrosis of the intervertebral discs and paraspinal ligaments that causes a major loss of disc/ligament elasticity.
OB Left
That photo of Homer has no relevance. Look at how he swings the string - his hand and arm is outstretched away from his body. In a "real" golf swing, a swinger has his right elbow in a pitch position alongside his right hip at the delivery position with the right elbow still bent - like Aaron Baddeley in the next photo. From that position, consider the biomechanical events involving the left upper limb that must occur if he wants to rotate the flat left wrist/hand 90 degrees into impact.
Jeff.
Last edited by Jeff : 01-18-2009 at 01:18 AM.
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