Medicus Dual Hinge Driver and Stack and Tilt

The Medicus Dual Hinge Driver and the Stack and Tilt Golf Swing

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When using the stack and tilt swing, the golfer tries to keep most of his weight on his left side throughout the swing (for a right handed player).  So the golfer will have about 60% or so of his weight on his left foot at setup, and he will try to keep his head in the same position during the swing.  This is as opposed to letting his head and body weight shift a bit to the rear.  Some teaching pros do suggest that golfers should shift their weight and head position behind the ball and keep it there in order to generate more power.  So there are advocates of both approaches to the golf swing.  The reason the stack and tilt golf swing has been promoted is to allow the golfer to more easily shift his weight forward as he impacts the golf ball, and doing this can result in more shots hit with the club face square to the target, as opposed to hitting the ball with an open or closed club face.

As for the term stack and tilt, it comes about as follows.  When the golfer makes his shoulder turn, especially while keeping his head from moving to the rear, his shoulders will be “stacked” in a vertical fashion approximately above his or her front hip.  That is the stack part of the expression.  The origin of “tilt” is even less obvious.  When the player is at the top of the backswing, his back will be more or less facing the target.  At this point in the swing his spine angle will have tilted because he has turned his body and kept his head in the same position.  So the player has stacked his shoulders and tilted his spine when he executes this type of golf swing.  One could argue that one stacks the shoulders and tilts the spine with any sort of golf swing, even if he or she were to transfer weight to the rear and move the head back.  It turns out that the stack and the tilt are somewhat exaggerated when the majority of the golfer’s weight remains on the front foot throughout the swing.  And this is also a catchy phrase that seems to have a lot of marketing value, so stack and tilt it is.

The Medicus Dual Hinge Driver and the Stack and Tilt
So how does the Medicus dual hinge driver help attain the stack and tilt swing?  It so happens that one of the break points of the Medicus is at impact.  If the golfer’s weight is too far back behind the ball, the Medicus dual hinge driver will break, or become unhinged, at or just before impact.  If, contrarily, the golfer keeps most of his or her weight on the front foot, for a right hander this would be on the left foot, then the Medicus will not become unhinged.  

Of course the Medicus dual hinge driver has the opportunity of verifying the correctness of the player’s swing at five other positions as well, including the take-away, halfway through the backswing, at the top of the backswing, during the downswing, and with the follow-through.  For a more detailed discussion click here: Medicus Golf Club.  One more interesting note is that the sensitivity of the Medicus dual hinge driver can be adjusted by the golfer.  So if you can swing the club and hit balls without having the Medicus becoming unhinged, you might want to make it a bit more sensitive and see if you can still make swings without having the club break.  In this way the golfer can identify some parts of his swing that might have marginal flaws which did not manifest themselves with use of the Medicus dual hinge driver at lower sensitivity levels.

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