Bobby Jones' swing - captured by high frame rate camera

[nevets88]

Driver and iron swings in what looks to be >200fps and clear too. Good music as well.

[Zeph]

Steady head: Check Weight forward: Check Flat left wrist: Check Diagonal sweetspot path and clubface control: Most likely check :-D

[chilipepper205]

Very nice. Thanks for the post. It is a great looking swing.

[jamo]

I'm always amazed when videos like that (same with Hogan videos) find their way onto YouTube. It's cool, but I feel like with the music, black and white, and the lack of talking, I should be watching people scurry around a street, dig the Panama Canal, or watch baseball wearing fedoras in a stadium plastered with ads.

[nevets88]

Video has come a long way. And 4x HD, 3D have yet to arrive.

Originally Posted by jamo

I'm always amazed when videos like that (same with Hogan videos) find their way onto YouTube. It's cool, but I feel like with the music, black and white, and the lack of talking, I should be watching people scurry around a street, dig the Panama Canal, or watch baseball wearing fedoras in a stadium plastered with ads.

[The JollyGolfer]

Originally Posted by Zeph

Steady head: Check

Weight forward: Check

Flat left wrist: Check

Diagonal sweetspot path and clubface control: Most likely check

I love the fuidity of this swing and how loose BJ addresses the ball but his back swing is far from textbook.

Over rotating his wrists: Check

Laying the club off at the top: Check

Reverse hip pivot: Check

As usual all the great players have great impact conditions as stated already by the above poster. But I'm not sure I understand the 'Weight forward' part.

[Apotheosis]

You can see the weight forward perfectly at 1:05.  Straight left leg, right knee bent slightly, looks like his right heel is slightly off the ground.

[The JollyGolfer]

Originally Posted by Apotheosis

You can see the weight forward perfectly at 1:05.  Straight left leg, right knee bent slightly, looks like his right heel is slightly off the ground.

I was looking at the driver/wood at 0:34. Although he has similar conditions to what you say above and his right heel is more off the ground, surely as the mass of his body is still behind the ball surely his weight is not yet forward. I take it by forward you mean over his left leg. I think even at 0:38 he still hasn't finished transfering his weight forward. Unless I am understanding weight forward incorrectly.

[Zeph]

I was looking at the driver/wood at 0:34. Although he has similar conditions to what you say above and his right heel is more off the ground, surely as the mass of his body is still behind the ball surely his weight is not yet forward. I take it by forward you mean over his left leg. I think even at 0:38 he still hasn't finished transfering his weight forward. Unless I am understanding weight forward incorrectly.

You don't see the weight forward at 0:34? He can't get the hips farther forward without dragging the right foot along. The mass of his body will be behind the ball since it's a driver and the ball is placed forward. By weight forward, we mean at the left leg, not relative to the ball. The weight moves forward (to the left foot) with any club in the hand. There will be more mass ahead of the ball with an iron than the driver, but again, that's not what we mean. Weight distribution at impact should ideally be around 90-95% on the front foot or something like that. It looks to me like Jones is pretty close to that number here. You can see at 0:34 that his right foot is up at the toes and obviously not holding a lot of weight.

[iacas]

Originally Posted by The JollyGolfer

I was looking at the driver/wood at 0:34. Although he has similar conditions to what you say above and his right heel is more off the ground, surely as the mass of his body is still behind the ball surely his weight is not yet forward. I take it by forward you mean over his left leg. I think even at 0:38 he still hasn't finished transfering his weight forward. Unless I am understanding weight forward incorrectly.

0:34 here (on the right):

And just for the heck of it, an iron:

[bunkerputt]

That's some world class club-throwing right there.  Also, 185y 3-iron in 1930!  That's pretty incredible I would imagine.  A lot of people nowadays would take that.

[boogielicious]

Thanks for posting.  I am more amazed that he is wearing a tie!!!  I would choke to death.

[Rebecca Wilson]

Originally Posted by iacas

0:34 here (on the right):

And just for the heck of it, an iron:

I have never had my swing analysed but I once read a book on this, something like swing analysis for dummies and I am sure they drew the line up from the ball.  ???

[iacas]

Originally Posted by Rebecca Wilson

I have never had my swing analysed but I once read a book on this, something like swing analysis for dummies and I am sure they drew the line up from the ball.  ???

Sometimes that's the appropriate line. When you're talking about where your weight is, though, the center of your stance makes a lot more sense.

[EverythingGolf]

Even Jones had a one plane center pivot swing. Notice the hip slide!!