"Snapping the Kinetic Chain" - a new myth for the golf swing.

[purehitter]

Mike Austin’s power secret was that he applied thrust and torque to the handle snapping the club head maximizing club head speed on the down swing. Here is how he did it. At the start of the down swing his left arm which is connected to the upper body which is connected to the lower body provided an opposing force to the thrust and torque of the right hand and arm. This opposing force activates muscles in the body to try to prevent the thrust and torque from moving down for a fraction of a second.

I tried that before its actually an interesting concept...have you considered using another part of your body as an opposing force against the right hand/arm??[/quote]

When I was working with Mike Austin he tried to explain how he was doing this move. I on the other hand figured out if you apply opposing pressure at the fulcrum it would produce the results Mike was talking about. It was easy to do and you could repeat it. I am sure there are other ways to make this move. If you have any ideas please share them in the lab.

[2mongoose]

The snap the kinetic chain folks want you to increase the down swing pivot speed

Can you show me where the "author" of this theory made this claim?

and put the brakes on just before impact.

Do you mean actively trying to stop the pivot in order to generate additional speed or just letting it happen?

Again, if you could provide references to the above that would be great. Thanks

[dss]

I tried that before its actually an interesting concept...have you considered using another part of your body as an opposing force against the right hand/arm??

When I was working with Mike Austin he tried to explain how he was doing this move. I on the other hand figured out if you apply opposing pressure at the fulcrum it would produce the results Mike was talking about. It was easy to do and you could repeat it. I am sure there are other ways to make this move. If you have any ideas please share them in the lab.[/quote]

...give us a demonstration of this???

[purehitter]

When I was working with Mike Austin he tried to explain how he was doing this move. I on the other hand figured out if you apply opposing pressure at the fulcrum it would produce the results Mike was talking about. It was easy to do and you could repeat it. I am sure there are other ways to make this move. If you have any ideas please share them in the lab.

...give us a demonstration of this???[/quote]

Working on a video. I will post it when it is done.