Posted by: tom.guerry (tom.guerry@kp.org) on Tue Jun 18 13:13:41 2002

Hi -- I hope the clarification below is require by only a few.
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> “The batter has rotated to the launch position and completed his timing step. The front foot has been firmly planted. Forward motion has flow to a stop and he is ready to initiate the swing. Now, it is as if a stake had been driven down through the head and body, out the butt and into 6 feet of concrete; this will be the axis the batter will rotate on.”
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> The paragraph above is from a featured article on the site, “Rotation and the Stationary Axis.” The stationary axis is a key component to rotational mechanic and I have discussed it at length many times. – I assumed that anyone with normal intelligence would understand that the head would remain fairly stationary during the swing (“a stake had been driven down through the head”). But for those that need more of the dots filled in to see the picture, I guess that I should also point out that the forward movement of the eyes, nose, forehead and ears has also stopped.
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> Jack Mankin
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I'll bet anyone who has had a golf lesson has been told to keep the head still.This is common advice for beginners,but becomes constraining as the golfer develops.Another piece of advice for golfers as they progress is to pretend that the head is in the corner of a room at ceiling height such that it can't go forward(toward target) or out or up.Back and down some,however, is usually OK.In hitting it is probably also OK to go up a little with some necessary posture adjustments for a given pitch.