Pronation

[clay973]

I used to play alot of Badminton. One of the keys to hitting the shuttle harder is to pronate your arm during the swing. The power gained by doing this v's straight hitting is quite remarkable.

The top tennis players all pronate when serving to gain extra power. You can also see it in golf, boxing, squash and many other sports.

Would adding a pronation action to a pendulum increase the force which is passed on during collision? The way I understand it is that you are transferring both angular and linear momentum in this manner.

If nic added pronation to his golf club wheel experiment http://besslerwheel.com/forum/viewtopic ... highlight= would it produce better results than without?

[daxwc]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronation ?

[clay973]

http://winwithinbaseball.blogspot.com/2 ... lland.html

This also leads to greater force in a straight line behind the ball and accordingly greater velocity

[Mark]

My understanding of pronation is that it's a matter of stronger vs. weaker muscles.

Regarding your mention of collision - for a second, I thought you were referring to Nick's Conker wheel.

[clay973]

Nick had proposed mounting a golf club on a pivot so that it acts like a pendulum, then having it hit a ball at the bottom of the swing.

My question is, would that ball travel further if we also put a pronation type action on the club (as golfers do), rather than just a fixed downward swing.

[ovyyus]

My question is, would that ball travel further if we also put a pronation type action on the club (as golfers do), rather than just a fixed downward swing.

Probably, but pronation doesn't provide additional force for free. Pronation results in additional force due to the opportunity to do additional work.

[nicbordeaux]

Isn't pronation what make's you deaf ?

[ovyyus]

Might make you blind too :D

[Grimer]

Especially if you don't watch out for the golf ball.

[rlortie]

Deaf? Blind?

I believe this only effects those that have earned a master-pronation degree after many years of practice.

[Richard]

I am working very hard for my Masters

richard

[jim_mich]

Is this the joke thread? :))

[Mark]

No, Jim. Some boys just can't control themselves.

Now, where did I put that bottle of lotion?