What part of your body does YOUR swing speed come from?

[BaconNEggs]

When I'm playing well, it feels like my legs, core, and shoulders are all in sync and the power is really flowing through my arms as I approach impact. Not that I'm actively thinking about swinging them hard, but more so than other parts of the body I feel energy through them; I really feel a snap or whip through the ball. The thought is definitely synchronized power that flows through the arms into the ball.

 

If I'm not playing well, the feels are all over the place. Sometimes it feels like I'm actively trying to power-swing with both arms, sometimes maybe just one arm feels more dominant. Other times it feels like my arms are wet noodles and my body is doing the swinging. The only consistent thing is that my body does not feel like it is in sync, my tempo is probably horrible, and it definitely shows in my scores.

[Jack Watson]

I read Knudsons book and after that I tried to implement what he said.  Load on the backswing and unload on the forward swing.  Arms along for the ride.

Didnt work.

Regardless of personal feel there has to be muscle activity in the arms and hands to keep the swing in synch with the pivot.  

Again we run into feel not being real.  You can swing and look 'connected' great without thinking pin arms to body and turn.

Its being in synch that counts imo.

For me if I think pivot and let the arms ride my left arm gets pinned across my chest my space is compromised and I don't have enough pivot to get out of it.  I can't use that feel when I swing.  

For me what works is hands.  Like a lot of folks say skipping a rock.  It's not exactly that but it's similar for me.  When you skip a rock your body sequences a certain way if you have done that enough, as I have.  For me it's the same sequence in a golf swing and for me things workout better with the mind in the hands vs on the body.  When I skip a stone I don't think hips first but they absolutely do go first every single time.

 

[saevel25]

On 6/30/2017 at 0:39 PM, BaconNEggs said:

 Not that I'm actively thinking about swinging them hard, but more so than other parts of the body I feel energy through them; I really feel a snap or whip through the ball. The thought is definitely synchronized power that flows through the arms into the ball.

There is a kinematic sequence that produces power in the golf swing. How a golfer feels the golf swing is entirely individualistic. 

I feel no whip like movement in my swing. I feel more what I am working on. Right now it is a certain feel in the back swing then feeling like I swing the clubhead out towards the ball. It might feel more like I am swinging my hands out as well. 

My distance comes from fast arm speed. 

 

[yanni]

I did some measurements yesterday with my iron 7 and a low cost swing speed radar. So in reality swing speed might ab bit higher (when I look at my actual distances) But this does not really matter.

Here are some results.

1) Swing speed with focus on the wrist. Not much body movement. I am was getting speed from 65-75. But this speed was very inconsistent.
2) Swing speed with focus on hip/body turn. Also similar numbers. 66-75. Also not very consistant.

With both on this options to reach 75 I had to put a lot of effort in my movements which probably would give a very bad ball strike. And 75 did not happen most of the times.

On time I managed to control the hip turn and active wirst snap with both hands and I got close to 80. But this was very difficult to do and just happened once. 

Then I tried something different. As I am not very flexible and only play golf for one year I realized that I do not fully turn my body during the upswing. My back tilts around 45 and not 90 degrees normally. So this time I really put some effort in twisting my body as much as possible so my back is pointing to the target. This gave me 70 mph. But every time (!!) now. So this was way more consistent than the other options. The next thing I did is to completely loosen my wrists. This gave me another 2-3 mph as this created more lag. So looser I felt after this tension the higher the speed. When I tilt up that far I have no chance to actively control my arms, hips or wrist any more. So this movement is 100% passive (compared to the others). It feels very uncomfortable but I think it has to be that way to build up tension. 

When I add active hip rotation this add add another 2-3 mph which will get me close to 80. But at the moment this difficult for me and I think gives no enough control I think. I yet have to try if I can hit any balls with this "new" swing thought.