I’ve played quite a few sports growing up, and am recently trying to learn golf. There’s quite a bit of technique involved in a golf swing and then I got thinking “how do we know this is the right/most efficient way to swing?”. Same thing for a hockey slapshot, diving, etc. Who comes up with the “proper” technique and why is it standardized? Does it come the best performers, and then everyone mimics (like the famous high jump technique)?
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In the case of swings – individual parts of your body can only move so fast. So to maximize swing speed, you try to compound as many slower motions as you can together to achieve maximum speed.
We have basically solved the aspect of human motion. There are some tweaks to golf to make sure you have the proper face angle on the club and the proper low point in a swing – qnd with baseball to make sure you deliver the barrel to the pitch location. But otherwise they are just sequentially rotating for maximum speed.
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