The Problem with Modern Teaching? Too Much Data
Over the last 20 years, I've witnessed the emergence of a troubling
trend in swing analysis: an overabundance of reliance on numbers. Launch
monitors tell us way more than we need to know. Clubhead speed, attack
angle, ball speed, launch angle, spin rate—and a lot more. Recreational
players are beginning to treat this data like golf's Holy Grail, and
their pursuit of perfect Tour-player numbers is not only stifling their
improvement, it may also be destroying their bodies.
For 400 years or so, golf was played with the left heel coming up on
the backswing and the left knee releasing behind the ball, with the hips
and the torso turning freely. All of a sudden, around 30 years ago, the
modern swing decided that was all wrong. Now you're told to keep your
left heel down on the backswing and resist with your lower body to
create torque and separation in the hips and shoulders. There is no real
reasoning behind this philosophy, other than the fact that the "reverse
C" swing of Jack Nicklaus and Tom Watson was thought to cause back
problems. Well, I'm here to tell you that this "modern" swing has caused
more back problems than ever before.
(Golf.com)
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