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Sports Science: Rory McIlroy

  • 12-07-2011 1:15pm
    #1
    BiffoGooner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 751 ✭✭✭


    Interesting video on Rory's amazing hip movement. Worth a watch if you're into the technicalities of the swing. 720 degrees per second hip rotation. :eek:

    It's the first video on this page :

    http://search.espn.go.com/john-brenkus/videos/6


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  • #2
    The_Kew_Tour
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,460 ✭✭✭✭The_Kew_Tour


    Class video. I must get working those hips :p

    Very interesting to see it from different way as to how he hits it so long


  • #3
    Almaviva
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,490 ✭✭✭Almaviva


    Interesting. The slight pause/reverse in the middle of his down swing is very odd looking.

    Golf swing analysis quackery seems to attract some of the worst physics though, which does hold back true understanding of what is going on in the swing - "drawing energy from the ground, through the legs...into the club".


  • #4
    LostPassword
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 366 ✭✭LostPassword


    Almaviva wrote: »
    Interesting. The slight pause/reverse in the middle of his down swing is very odd looking.

    Golf swing analysis quackery seems to attract some of the worst physics though, which does hold back true understanding of what is going on in the swing - "drawing energy from the ground, through the legs...into the club".
    It's true though - Rory's true secret is that his legs are actually nuclear fission reactors that process traces of Carbon 14 isotopes in the ground - the club is then propelled forward by the electromagnetic field that is produced much like the operation of a regular rotary motor.

    You heard it here first people - the _real_ secret of the golf swing.


  • #5
    Keano
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    Video is not playing for me, very odd!


  • #6
    BiffoGooner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 751 ✭✭✭BiffoGooner


    Keano A Legend wrote: »
    Video is not playing for me, very odd!



    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZS8xaWleuRk


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  • #7
    The_Kew_Tour
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,460 ✭✭✭✭The_Kew_Tour


    LostPassword wrote: »
    It's true though - Rory's true secret is that his legs are actually nuclear fission reactors that process traces of Carbon 14 isotopes in the ground - the club is then propelled forward by the electromagnetic field that is produced much like the operation of a regular rotary motor.

    You heard it here first people - the _real_ secret of the golf swing.

    Thanks for clearing that up


  • #8
    PARlance
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,511 ✭✭✭✭PARlance


    Anyone going to the spawell driving range tomorrow night, wear a helmet and a bomb disposal suit....I'll be a shanking :D

    On second thoughts, just stand to my left


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