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Old 09-19-2011, 08:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Loren View Post
Thanks, Brownman.
It's the advantage in communication of having a common vocabulary.
With enough detail comes understanding and confidence. The mystery of the golf swing disappears. You can quit chasing tips, start analyzing the action and be skeptical of the words.

Accelerated momentum caused by centripetal force (centrifugal inertial acceleration) is very powerful stuff reaching a ton of ft/lbs of force and feeling like 110-120 lbs in the clubhead.
It's going to overtake at the slightest slow down. You don't have to try to make the clubhead catch up with the hands. Quite the opposite, you have to keep the hands ahead of the clubhead.

What Mike is really trying to do is execute the roll into impact before the clubhead overtakes and makes it meaningless. He's afraid of leaving the clubface open with an automatic snap, same as Tom Tomasello. If you don't get to both arms straight with a suitable hinge action, you've lost your lag. And you can't make it happen. Gotta get rhythm, and it's different for swingers and hitters.

So he's straightening the right arm early, about right thigh location or entry into the release area. It could feel like pressing down on a table top like George Hibbard described it.
The amount of force he would use determines if he's adding right arm power to a swinging stroke. Homer said "You could do that, but why would you?"

But it's in the book under 2-M-3 Muscles "Only with the driver must(?) you use both Pivot Thrust and Power Package Thrust for lack of a longer club."
So a hitter would add shoulder turn (like Luke), and a swinger would add right arm. MA was a swinger.
And only with the driver. Those are 4-barrel strokes.
Direction might be a problem. And it's not the legs and hips, Tiger, et al.

Now that O.B Left has made a great find of some video, I think we've just about got Mike Austin figured out.
If he says "Throw it around the circle." right away we ask "With what?"
If the answer comes back "Whatever you got." then it's pivot, shoulders. It's likely he means no plane shifts, and a laid-off shaft.
If it's "hands" we'd have to keep in mind Homer's admonishment "No part of the power package moves independently of any other part."
That's "connection", if you will. Done with extensor action in TGM.

So it looks like a wrist throw that's been turned into non-automatic by manually triggering the roll prior to reaching the end of the hands' delivery path, the bottom part of the reverse "J" in the hands' path. i.e. automatic, almost too late, but not likely with the acceleration of the clubhead coming at it. Unreliable, though.
Mike was probably adding right arm thrust on entry to the release area.

(Have no idea what a "puck release" is. Sounds like hitting.)
Thanks Loren,great post again , here is link for"puck release"
also ,as you will see called "slap hinge".
They apparently use it ice hockey,described like ..hitting puck so hard they would try to break the ice....

http://perfectgolfswingreview.net/austin.htm

scroll down page,its under hand,or wrist release section.
I think somewhere in my scribbling at the beginning,I may have mentioned that when I began to hit ala Austin,I felt as if I was vertical hinging to a degree...........turns out I was slapping like puck release.......for me,its a very interesting concept,probably not for everyday golf,but I did enjoy the length
Again,thank you Bm
By the way,thank you to innercityteacher for providing me with the link...
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