Well, today I went out with my aeroswing for a short session. I started with my Srixon driver and my feet close together. I was seeing swing speeds of 50ish, 60ish, and 70ish with just a few swings like that. I then set up with a wider stance and was getting speeds of 70s-80s. I was just letting my swing loaf along for a baseline. Once I switched to the aeroswing with one pineapple I was seeing speeds of mid/ high 70s for 10 swings at 80%. With both i was seeing low/ mid 70s. At 90% I was seeing mid 80s with one, and low 80s with both. At 100% I was seeing 90s with one, and high 80s with both. I then stepped down to one pineapple at 100% for about 6 swings, and I was seeing high 90s, low 100s. I think the best I saw at this point was 106. When I swung just the shaft, speeds jumped up to 125 on the 1st swing, and a slight decline down to 120, 115, 113x2, 111 on the final swing with the bare shaft. When I grabbed my driver and took a few swings with that, my 1st thought was, WOW this thing is heavy. My best with my driver was 106. At this point, I was fairly well worn out at the moment.
By the end of this session I have probably swung 95 times, everywhere from 70% to full send, damn the torpedoes 100%. With everything from my heavy Srixon z785 (210-215 grams head only), down to a bare shaft that weighs about 80-100 grams with grip adapter, washers, screw, aeroswing plastic washer, rubber piece, and ziptie.
What surprised me was the bare shaft speed jump from 121 high yesterday to 125 today.
I do 10 swings with each pineapple step per power level. The reason I decided to do that is because I haven't dropped the $ on the mini.
If I'm remembering correctly, the workout is 4 swings with just the mini, 4 swings with one full size, 4 swings with one full size and the mini, then 4 swings with both full size. I threw the extra 4 in to make it an even 20 swings for power level because it's easy to remember.
Going forward I will be taking 10 swings with one pineapple on my step down, and 10 swings with just the bare shaft. That will give me 100 full swings for the workout. Which is probably appropriate as I card about 100 strokes for 18 holes.
I don't think I'll be counting the swings with my driver at the beginning and end, those are going to be just to see if my beginning speed climbs at about the same rate as my ending speed does. I figure that with my driver I will also have an idea as to my real driver swing speed.
I'm open to any, and all comments and thoughts on this project and look forward to the journey and seeing if this cheap aid will help me gain speed and distance. The nice thing is this is all air resistance and not a weight that I'm swinging that can stress my body more than I already do. I think if this works out, it would be a great way for an older golfer to maybe gain some distance, or at least hold onto the distance they currently have.
Let's see where this takes me.
