Power & The Kinematic Sequence
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- Category: Inside Golf
- Published: 2022-02-15
Titleist staff member Mark Blackburn tells us that in an efficient kinematic sequence, the clubhead moves away from the ball first, then the hands, then the arms, then the torso (thorax), and then the hips. In the downswing, that sequence is reversed, unleashing the rotational energy stored up by coiling the muscles in the backswing. Just as the lead arm gets to roughly parallel to the ground in the backswing, the best players use the ground to shift their pressure from the trail foot into the lead foot. The pelvis fires first, and starts to uncoil. Then the torso, then the lead arm, eventually the hands and then, finally, the club.