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Clubhead Acceleration: Longitudinal Acceleration or Radial Acceleration?

Clubhead acceleration, the seventh of ten distinctions between the two perfect golf swings.

The two perfect golf swings are The Centrifugal Force Swing (swing swing) and The Muscular Force Swing (swing swing).

The seventh distinction is the ACCELERATION CLUBHEAD.

In The Swinging Swing, acceleration of the clubhead is achieved by pulling down on the grip end of the golf club. This accelerates the axis of the club along, longitudinal acceleration. This longitudinal movement is maintained until the clubhead leaves a perpendicular line of the shaft with the ground. Once the clubhead leaves this line, centrifugal force takes over and brings the clubhead into impact with the golf ball. This longitudinal acceleration starts quickly and the clubhead gains speed as it moves down, out and forward through impact with the golf ball.

In the swing swing, the club is accelerated in this precise order:

1. The downward pull of the hands initiates acceleration.

2. Centrifugal force, left wrist decocking, adds speed

3. Uncocking the right arm adds more speed

4. The rotation of the body adds the final acceleration

In the muscle-power swing (the bump swing), clubhead acceleration is achieved by a simultaneous downward, outward, and forward thrust of the right arm against the shaft of the club. This thrust of the right arm toward impact with the golf ball is a radial acceleration. Radial acceleration starts slowly and increases in speed as you move through impact with the golf ball.

In either the centrifugal force swing or the muscular force swing, the clubhead picks up speed from the beginning of the downswing until the clubhead has passed through impact with the golf ball.

In swing to swing, from the start of the downswing to the follow through, the clubhead is always being thrown.

In the hitting swing, from the start of the downswing to the follow through, the clubhead is always being pushed.

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