Power Accumulation and Swing Patterns

Power Accumulation and Swing Patterns

These terms coined by Homer Kelly serve us well to explain how out of line conditions seeking a straight line can release stored energy to enable us to vary power out put, what we have to understand also is that as individuals it becomes apparent that we all swing the club differently and thus some people tap into one particular power accumulator more readily that others (finding one more natural), thus giving us different looking patterns to our golf swings.

So how does this work, well first of all there are 4 accumulators:

#1(Muscle Power) is a bending right arm, which is always striving for a straight line condition, this is controlled via the right triceps muscle always pushing away from the glenohumeral joint of the right shoulder, the left arm prevents the right arm from achieving this in the backswing, thus the right arm folds during backswing right arm external rotation and abduction (away from the midline).
#2 (Velocity power) is the cocking and unlocking of the left wrist, remember that radial and ulnar deviation is a small motion, controlled by the forearms.
#3 (Transfer Power) is the turning and rolling of the forearms, pronation and supination.
#4 (Radius Power) this is the angle of the left arm and left shoulder, at address the angle would be close to 80/90 degree angle, that angle decreasing during the backswing and vice versa on the downswing.

So a flat shaft plane in the backswing at P3 would be an over utilisation of the #3 Power Accumulator thus overriding the #2 power Accumulator which creates the up in the backswing, so simply reverse engineer this applying a anti clockwise rolling action in the backswing, this will cause the #3 accumulator to become less active thus stimulating the use of the #2 accumulator allowing a steeper more on plane backswing.

No Mind

How many of you reading this are truly present? In the moment? In the now? Having an experience and not just thinking about one. You see thoughts are like clouds that float across the blue sky they arrive and then they go again but most, see a cloud/thought and attach themselves to this idea and it is pritty save to say they are not truly present, you may have felt this in a golf lesson where for some unknown reason you feel like the coach does not really care, I have had this told to me by many pupils who come seeking my advice explaining to me that their old coach had switched off after only 5 mins into the lesson, that's because they are locked into mind, thinking about the dinner they are having that evening or relationship problems, your coach should be with you completely from start to finish, make sure they are.

So remember this you cannot cure something with the same thing that created it, you cannot cure mind with mind (psychologists take note), we have to learn to escape this illusion, we are not talking of an empty mind we are looking at it like an empty container, it is a mind that is fully present, aware and free. When was the last time you played your best golf? Did you have an experience that was like you had left your brain behind in the locker room? Free you mind, free your golf, do not get attached.

Here is a Japanese Koan for you: So you put a baby goose into a bottle and feed it, when the goose has grown to full adult size, you then want to get the goose out of the bottle without hurting the goose or breaking the bottle, how do you get it out?