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Originally Posted by Pa Jayhawk  At least to me, it would seem the second part of your statement contradicts the first. IMO, with proper mechanics of any reasonable swing you would never have to worry about proper release as it will just happen naturally assuming you use proper mechanics.
I guess my question would be, why did it take about a year to learn if everything just falls into place naturally. It only took me a week or so to learn proper release mechanics once I knew what it meant, why would I want to spend a year learning a new swing for the sake of not wanting to learn proper release? Not say a one plane swing is a bad thing, as mine more closely resembles one-plane, however to say you don't have to worry about mechanics of a release on a one-plane swing is unnecessary if the rest of your swing is correct could be said about a two-plane swing as well.
Maybe I am missing something, but to me the release on either seems to be roughly the same, and occurs after the transition/non-transition of planes on either of the swings.  |
You wonder why it took me a year to completely overhall my swing ,switching to a OP swing? I didn't just change one thing. I changed everything about my entire swing.
I never said it fell into place naturally. It took me a year to learn. My layman's opinion is a OPS is harder to learn but easier to maintain and easier on the body. Thats why I underwent the major overhaul.
As for your last point the release in a tradional golf swing and in Jim Hardy's version of the OPS are completely different. His OP release is done soley with the arms and starts as soon as you start the downswing. Thats the beauty of it you can't release too fast or too hard if you have the proper movements ingrained.
This isn't an infomercial or an argument. I was board at work and thought I'd post what I thought was funny.
My subtle point was he could forgoe learning the proper release for his swing and learn a new type of swing. The new swing of course being much more difficult and time consuming.
I guess it wasn't funny.