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Stiffer tipped "low spin" shafts will bring down the launch about a quarter of a degree and maybe 50 to 100 rpm backspin. Take care of the other 98.7% with technique.

Wow, it looks pretty crowded. Not much room to dive down into your angles at transition. It looks like you have to hang back on your heels and stand up to get out of the way of the club coming down.

Over-simplification of a motion actually makes it more complicated.

I just wonder what he thinks about the CGQuad....hmmm, I just wonder.......I bet he likes it.........for some strange reason...but not that strange.

Thanks Mike!

That club is coming extremely from the inside so the face/path differential is UUUGE.

That video is extraordinarily wrong. You are hitting low hooks off the heel because the face is closed vs the path enough to more than offset the heel gear effect adding some fade. If your face was square to the path you would indeed get some fade spin, but the closed face is making up for that and then some.

I'm looking around for Ashton Kutcher because I know I'm getting punked right now. Each POV can be used for a unique perspective of the swing and can show certain elements that can't be seen from other viewpoints. No one view is superior to another. The limits on information from individual 2D perspectives is what led researchers and instructors to 3D motion analysis, and the study of kinematics and kinetics. Saying that a 2D view from face on is THE cutting edge tool for swing analysis is just nonsense.

20 feet has nothing to do with it. Any kid 3 days out of Golfer's Career College would have identified Gay as having essentially zero hip rotation. Helen Keller could have done better.

yep, they are too high, and the shoulders are too tilted and open, and the right arm is too far behind my torso. All from a bad transition. ...but the angle of attack is not too steep because i stop and scoop. I'm 2-3 up at the ball.

Arms still get too far behind my torso and stand/stall at impact but it's better than it used to be.

I thought that was a reasonable question.

So to get back on topic, you came into this thread to say: A. The Brian Gay analysis was good or B. It was a bad analysis but he is normally pretty good and we should give him a break. or none of the above?

That sounds like me.

But which one, now?

Do we have to wait...or can we just do anything else?

It was all me. I saw the Kostis debate going on in the TigerDipGate thread and it reminded me of that video. Thought it would be fun to post for entertainment purposes.

Gay has literally the least active hip rotation on tour.....but I have to give Kostis credit for saying the impossible while maintaining and even tone in his voice. A true professional.

yeah sorry, typo, i meant add internal. I want to add internal and flexion, ie a little more up and away.