There’s a commercial airing currently, for a driver I believe, showing a super slo-mo of the “back-to-back” world long drive champion in action. Unbelievable. The problem is, they go fast motion between the “top” of his backswing (though you could almost call it the bottom, since he goes so far past parallel that the club is almost vertical) to impact, so you don’t get to see the part where the power is really generated. Not a swing I’d want to emulate, but very cool to watch.
But the very best use I’ve seen of the super slo-mo camera was when they caught a close-up of a a squirrel climbing up a tree. Very, very cool, as good as a science show.
]]>The slow motion replays of players’ swings are great, but they typically come only after a poor shot. The announcer will then spout off some cliche explaining why the shot went off line. I wonder if these guys would be able to tell you where the shot went without prior knowledge of the result.”
Totally agree. Sometimes you’ll see a bad shot with a good looking swing and Nick Faldo or Peter Kostis are like “Well, I can’t really see what went wrong. But maybe it’s ….” and they make up some lame reason.
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