Instruction
Clement: Why your practice swing never sucks
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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Equipment
Mitsubishi Diamana WB: Club Junkie takes a technology deep dive
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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Equipment
2024 Vokey SM10 wedges: Club Junkie’s full fitting video
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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geohogan
Dec 16, 2018 at 9:52 pm
When the left shoulder works down in BS, the shoulders tilt and hips slide .. rather than turn.
ie left shoulder down= false turn.(very common instruction for single plane swing)
Better to elevate the left scapula and let hips and shoulders turn almost exactly the same degree.
Ref. The Hogan Manual of Human Performance: GOLF, 1992.
stevek
Dec 17, 2018 at 10:23 am
I have The Hogan Manual 1992 so please provide the exact reference pages for your assertions…. taken out of context.
stevek
Dec 17, 2018 at 10:25 am
I have The Hogan Manual 1992… so please provide the page references for your a as sertions… taken out of context.
Gun Violent
Dec 16, 2018 at 9:56 am
Awful.
Just lift the heel and let the knee turn inwards, you won’t have to feel any of those strains and you can get the club, the shaft, and the hands behind and farther away from the ball and the torso will go along with it enough to give you plenty of ball speed as you bring the club to hit the ball.
No need for this stupid, irresponsible drill for people who have no flexibility and they’ll just hurt themselves doing this.
geohogan
Dec 16, 2018 at 9:57 pm
@GV, in addition to freeing up the knees to allow a full hip turn, elevate the left scapula to allow the left shoulder to move laterally across the chest.
The exercise in the video is common single plane instruction, with left shoulder down, shoulders tilting rather than turning and hips sliding rather than turning in BS.
Hips have no means to turn other than by the knees. If knees havent moved then the hips have not turned. The Slide of the hips is a common error they only gives the illusion that the hips have turned.
Ref The Hogan Manual of Human Performance: GOLF. 1992
Gun Violent
Dec 17, 2018 at 9:04 pm
Yea, and I also think the illusion to people of how a swing “looks” to them, whether it looks properly rotated and a deeper back-swing is also due to people’s build, even here in this video, this coach is chunky and has a hard time turning that chunky body and makes his arms short looking and so his swing looks not as fully turned, as it were.
If you had long arms or are as flexible as John Daly and the club just gets in positions without having to turn so deep, there is no need for this exercise
stevek
Dec 16, 2018 at 11:31 pm
… ditto… and 95% of all golfers worldwide are rigid between the hips and shoulders so that both turn in unison in the BS and DS. This means there is no X-factor separation that creates torque from the hips up to the shoulder span.
geohogan
Dec 17, 2018 at 9:17 am
X factor is bogus.
Shoulders are made up of shoulder joint, that is mounted on our moveable, scapula.
Shoulder joints are not lumps fixed to our torso.
Scapula range of motion allows up to 40 -45 degrees of rotation without moving the sternum.
Knees can move hips about 45 degrees. Add scapula ROM to that to achieve 90 degrees of ‘turn’, without any stress on the spine.
stevek
Dec 17, 2018 at 10:20 am
X-factor is real and important for a more powerful swing. This is proven with 3D motion capture and other scientific data equipment.
If your lead shoulder slides too much in the BS you’ve got “soft” shoulders, typical of children, women and weak men. Strong men have solid shoulders held in place by muscular build of the shoulders and chest. This keeps the shoulder span stable for torque generation.
It’s likely your scapulae slide around and ruin your swing strength and power.
smz
Dec 18, 2018 at 6:28 pm
X-Factor is a reality for men with a strong flexible core and spine. Pot belly men are rigid between the hips and shoulders and are forced to rotate their hips and shoulders in unison… causing a very low power swing. This is a Golfswing Fact….