WATCH: What are “ground forces,” and how can they help your golf swing?
There’s a lot in the golf media about “ground forces.” In this video, I help you sort through the issue and help you learn what you need to know!
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You hear that one all the time; I wish I could put my practice swing on the ball! We explain the huge importance of what to focus on to allow the ball to be perfectly in the way of your practice swing. Enjoy!
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Earlier this week, Mitsubishi announced the return of its iconic Whiteboard profile with the new Diamana WB shaft.
In our launch story, we offered a rundown of the key technology in the new WB — 80-ton Dialead pitch fiber, Aerospace-grade MR70 carbon fiber, Consistent Feel Design, and the Xlink Tech Resin System. To go deeper, however, we enlisted our Resident Club Junkie and bona fide shaft nut, Brian Knudson, to track down someone from Mitsubishi at the PGA Show. Fortunately, Mitsubishi’s Director of Global Aftermarket Sales, Jonathan Alongi, was on hand to answer all of BK’s questions.
Check out their discussion about the new WB, as well as the 20th anniversary of the original design, in the video above — time stamps of key points below, including a definitive answer as to how the surfboard graphic ended up on the original Whiteboard in 2004!
- :40 – Mitsubishi Japan expands to the U.S. in 2004
- :50 – “The shaft that set the standard”
- 1:12 – “The ‘board is back”
- 1:45 – WB or Whiteboard? Or both?
- 1:55 – The first iteration of the sixth generation of Diamana
- 2:10 – Incorporating key technology from a 20-year journey
- 3:10 – Modifying the tip section for more ball speed
- 3:50 – Delivering ball speed in a low-launch, low-spin shaft
- 4:20 – Drilling down on the shaft profile compared to the original Whiteboard
- 5:00 – The most impressive element of the new WB
- 5:30 – Butt, mid, tip specifications
- 6:00 – WB’s iconic graphics and the Diamana legacy — flowers, surfboard, numbering system
- 8:15 – An abundance of available weights and flexes
- 8:55 – More players going lightweight
Check out more photos and see what GolfWRXers are saying about Mitsubishi WB in the forums.
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Our Resident Club Junkie, Brian Knudson, goes through a wedge fitting with Chris Baingo, Titleist’s Club Fitting Analyst.
Get the full story on new SM10 wedges in our launch piece.
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Brett Weir
Nov 4, 2017 at 11:56 pm
No..no…no…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k13TcErA4LY
SK
Nov 5, 2017 at 12:42 am
Kelvin Miyahira is a moron who knows squat about free body force system as an engineer would know. He is asking us to “look at” and “see” something that is not being quantified by anything other than arbitrary observation.
The question is not “does the swing start from the ground up”, it is “what is happening between the ground and the soles of the shoes as the golfer starts his swing sequence”?
This question is answered by force plate measurements under the shoes and it confirms that whatever motions are initiated by the golfer the resulting forces and torques are resolved between the ground and shoes. Then those patterns are related to determine what is actually happening.
Kelvin is not a graduate engineer so he depends on his personal visual observations and applying intuitive physics to the golf swing. He is a shyster, plain and simple, but gullible golfers want to believe him just as they want to believe Homer Kelley’s TGM. It’s so pathetic.
geohogan
Feb 6, 2019 at 7:48 pm
@sk, I too have disagreed with Kelvin M, but go easy on the guy
About year ago he suffered a massive stroke at a very young age.
Save your “moron, shyster” comments for Potus.
Kelvin unlike Potus hasnt had malice in his motivation.
Sareheid
Nov 3, 2017 at 7:16 pm
Been trying SC methods for a couple of months and today shot my best score for 10 years.
Thank you Shawn, brilliant!
I will be 60 on Monday
etc.
Nov 4, 2017 at 4:43 pm
So share your best score with us. Did you break 100?
Sareheid
Nov 5, 2017 at 10:10 am
77
What’s your point?
SK
Nov 2, 2017 at 5:03 pm
Sorry, Shawn, but you don’t use ‘forces’ and ‘energy’ coming up from the ground because the ground is just the foundation that supports and reacts to the forces and torques you generate from your body.
The correct engineering terminology is “Ground Reaction Forces” (GRFs) that react to the forces from your body. The ground simply resists your body generated forces. Understand?
What you are advocating for the golf swing is good, but your interpretation of Newton’s Laws of Motion is somewhat off.
As an engineer I shudder how so-called ‘top’ golf instructors use Newtonian Physics terminology because they get it mostly wrong, but it doesn’t matter because the average golfer is ignorant and the scientific errors are irrelevant to the task at hand.
SK
Nov 3, 2017 at 5:02 pm
This is my ‘engineering’ explanation of GRFs. IOW the ground is dead and only reacts to the forces coming from the golfers shoes.
Most golfers and teachers think of the swing as starting from the club head and back up into the arms and core and stops there. The hips, legs and feet are just there to hold up things and should be kept ‘quiet’.
Others believe the swing starts from the ground up but that’s too far away from the club head and ball to understand.
The reality is the kinetic sequence chain utilizes the ground up and not from the club head.
For simplistic golfers club hits ball, ball goes far, ball goes far, best club hits best ball. I want them.