Yes, trust it or no longer, Bobby Jones simply wrote a few matters approximately gradual-motion video!
Sidney Matthew, who has written several books about Bobby Jones, did a small collection of Jones newspaper columns called Bobby Jones Golf Tips: Secrets of the Master. And one of those columns, called On Making the Warner Brothers Films, references some earlier slo-mo film shot in 1930 by the Jenkins Laboratories in Washington for the PGA and its teaching professionals.
In case you are interested, here is a YouTube video of that pictures. Note that it consists of not best Jones however Miss Joyce Weathered (another top newbie on the time, who performed lots with Jones) and the awesome Harry Vardon. I know that is the photos due to the fact Jones mentions Weathered and Vardon inside the article.
Jones made some thrilling observations about viewing and studying from "slow-movement images" that every golfer have to listen, given how smooth it's far to tape your personal swing in recent times -- one observation particularly:
I think, now that we have had years of slow-motion study, almost every first-class golfer knows well enough how he hits the ball. The guess has been removed. But even slow-motion pictures need interpretation. The one great difficulty from the standpoint of the average golfer has been in separating the consciously controlled movements from those that are purely instinctive. (p117, my emphasis)That's a remarkably wise observation that even TV analysts don't recognize. There are a great many things in your golf swing that you do without even thinking about them, the same as in other area of your life. And if you don't know the difference, you can actually screw up your golf swing because you end up interfering with things you shouldn't try to control.
For instance, it is a part of the motive why analysts are so pressured via Bubba Watson's swing. They can analyze it and figure out what he's doing, but they can't figure out a way to replica it. That's due to the fact they want to manipulate things that Bubba isn't controlling. For example, they want to determine out how Bubba times that little jumping circulate of his... But it really is the incorrect question.
Bubba isn't thinking about the soar; he is simply considering how he needs the club face to contact the ball. When he swings the club, his thoughts subconsciously sequences his frame moves -- along with that leap -- so that his hands can get the club into that function.
In different words, they need to consciously control what's without a doubt an instinctive circulate. And it is just not going to take place!
That's part of the reason my posts -- and my books, I admit it -- sometimes seem to approach things from a strange perspective. I want you to learn how to control the things you need to control but just let the other things happen instinctively, the way they're meant to happen.
Next time you start struggling with your golf swing, it might be a good idea to spend some time on the range just trying to swing the club without so many "I need to..." thoughts in your head. Instead, think about hitting the ball to the target. Focus your attention on the target. You might be surprised just how much of your golf swing is supposed to be instinctive.
At least, that is what Bobby Jones believed... And he failed to do too badly at the game. ;-)
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