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No wonder you did well with the club throwing, Air!

I participated a general training course as a teenager. I think it added up to 4 weeks full time so it was quite a lot to take in. One of our teachers had been a national team coach in discus and shot put. He taught us about something he called "central motion". When I started to play golf in 1989 and the pro told us about the golf stroke, the central motion came back to my mind. It was basically the same.

I think a lot of the fundamentals for discus and javelin is very relevant to getting a feel for what the pivot should do in the golf stroke. The rotation, the footwork, the sequencing of feet, hips, shoulders then arms. The "keeping the lag pressure on" until the ball / javel, discus or whatever has been launched.

One perhaps important difference is that the swing center is lower in your spine when you play golf, since the ball is on the ground.

Unfortunately I hadn't the world's best technique in the throwing events either - I used too much arm power and didn't get the most out of the rest of the body. I also started with golf in 1989, but unfortunately I already was 41 years old, but it's (almost) never too late...