Many of you may have examine the previous day's submit and puzzled why a waltz rhythm made any sense as an technique to golf swing rhythm and series -- and why it might be higher than any of the other "counting" techniques you've got heard earlier than.
Today I'll come up with a short clarification of the idea I believe is in the back of it.
Although Dr. Neal never says so, the whole idea of the golf swing being similar to a waltz rhythm comes from a book/CD combo called Tour Tempo by John Novosel. (That link takes you to Amazon, but it's just so you can see the actual book. I get no money should you decide to buy it.) I first found the book when it was released in 2004 and it really helped me when I was struggling with the tempo of my swing. Here's the basic idea:
Novosel turned into making a golf infomercial again in 2000 and became analyzing a few videotape of Jan Stephenson's swing, checking the various positions in her movement. In the system he mentioned the body counter at the videotape machine and saw that her backswing became taking 27 frames and her downswing to impact took 9 seconds. (In case you do not know, wellknown American broadcast video records 30 frames every 2d.)
That's a three-to-1 ratio of the elapsed time of the backswing to the elapsed time of the downswing.
As time went on and he studied extra swings for analysis, he observed that most of the seasoned swings followed that pattern. For the most element, the fastest swings ran around 21/7 (Jack Nicklaus was one), the midrange around 24/8 (Phil Mickelson) and the slowest around 27/9 (like Stephenson's). A lot of them weren't specific, of path -- they might vary with the aid of a body or two at the backswing or the downswing, but it turned into close enough (given the character of videotape) to call it a 3-to-1 ratio.
Which, if you want to liken it to a dance, you can count as a waltz rhythm. OOM-pah-pah, OOM. That's 3-to-1.
Dr. Neal's method -- with specific swing positions corresponding to the beats of the waltz -- may be a bit of overkill to most of you. But as I stated in the submit, you may attention on the 2 "OOMs" -- which is basically what Novosel's CD does inside the e book. It offers you click on tracks that you may play whilst you exercise to help you internalize the rhythm. That's what I did back in 2004.
But the waltz count is an awful lot less difficult to use, absolutely due to the fact you do not need to stick earbuds in your ears. And -- always an vital consideration for me -- when you consider that singing the rhythm does not require any system, the "OOM-pah-pah Method" is some thing you can use at the same time as you're actually out at the path.
Anyway, I just idea you may want to realize why I did the day prior to this's put up. It's just another tool, one that you may use if it enables and ignore if it would not. But most importantly, it doesn't fee a dime as a way to find out.
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