I didn’t play any sports growing up and my kids are in it now. I hear a lot of talk about “following through” and “follow through”. Throwing a baseball, shooting a basketball, golf swing, hockey, swinging a bat.
In these cases the ball / item has already left or has been hit so why is follow through important? Does it have an effect on the initial release / impact?
In: Physics
The follow through is important because it gives the coach basically a history of what has occurred previously.
So in order to get a good follow through you must have a good initial swing. If you have a bad golf swing for instance you can’t have a good follow through.
For instance a lot of players slow down just before impact resulting in a very abrupt follow through if you tell the golf player to swing harder through impact the ball will go further also the follow-through will look better.
So it’s kind of a mind trick telling the player to have a better follow through will indirectly result in a higher impact velocity
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