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Problems with club calibration after today's maintenance

• Woodoworkery 3,498 Posts

  Fri, Sep 30 2011 5:27 AM

  birdwell:

  hmm..

  checking out the new movements, I think this might be a good change.Before the 'taper'  was sort of strange, seemed like it wanted to be like a fourth-order bezier curve.  

  

  I never got a good feel for the taper, it was even hard to count how many movements you actually had in a swing, as some of the movements were bunched up together. Thus you could not trust anything below 2 avatar movements down from the top. (and even the 2nd down seemed off sometimes) 

  Before there were 18 avatar movements, now it is 12

   

  Now, the new scale is close to linear at at the bottom and gets more logarhythmic at the top. I think the old curve tried to do this, but the middle was off. Now if you take 6 moves from the bottom, you are almost exactly in the center.

  You have less avatar movements now, especially  at the top of the range. At first, this might cause you to think you'll have less "precision" now, but actually the opposite is true. I'll try to prove this postulate a bit later, no time right this second....

   

   

   

• YankeeJim 25,827 Posts

  Fri, Sep 30 2011 5:29 AM

  Woodoworkery:

  Bird I agree, but I am only getting 11 movements, this explains why I put 2 balls in the water at St Andy being only 40 something yards away from the hole. Have to re-calibrate all my clubs

  Count the top of the swing as the 12th. 

• jaderoks 571 Posts

  Fri, Sep 30 2011 5:45 AM

  YankeeJim:

  Count the top of the swing as the 12th. 

  Exactly YJ. Just like there was 19 movements before and the top was 20

• gsoup 2,929 Posts

  Fri, Sep 30 2011 6:46 AM

  zagraniczniak:

  red line is that putt up there on Hilversumsche....

  that is an awesome line it takes, if you get the right distance all ya got to do is hit it and it will go in. amazed i was even close

  -G 

• birdwell 561 Posts

  Fri, Sep 30 2011 7:16 AM

  jaderoks:

  YankeeJim:

  Count the top of the swing as the 12th. 

  Exactly YJ. Just like there was 19 movements before and the top was 20

   

  oh that's so funny! I swear it was 18 before - 17 plus the top!

  it was hard to count them for me, a lot of the ticks seemed really close together. 

   

• outlaw1234 92 Posts

  Sat, Oct 1 2011 6:20 PM

  Birdwell, nice diagram, but too complex for me.  I've been using new numbers, based on 12 increments, and for the most part, it seems to be working.  My confidence was completely gone before my last round.  There's a bit more room for error with 12 increments, as the gap between increments is longer, but with more practice, it'll get better.

  Good luck fellow avatar increment players.  We'll all adjust in time.

• chiefxyz 58 Posts

  Sat, Oct 1 2011 8:43 PM

  do what? I'm totally corn fused

   

• YankeeJim 25,827 Posts

  Sun, Oct 2 2011 11:55 AM

  chiefxyz:

  do what? I'm totally corn fused

   

  LOL. Don't be, if you don't use avatar movements this won't affect you.  :-)

• eurantia 318 Posts

  Mon, Oct 3 2011 4:33 AM

  I use a ruler on the meter,calculate the % play the wind and hit the ball!  it works just fine for me.old adage  K.I.S.S.  keep it simple........ and no i'm not going to finish the acronym.......don't want hate mail with people saying i called 'em stupid....And if you think birdwell's chart has anything to do with this game then I have property for sale. call  1-800-GULLIBLE!!!!  its not good to over think sometimes,,,the game is difficult enough.As far as using avatar movements,that method always drove me nuts,it didnt seem consistent to me.My hat is off to you guys that have made that work! You have more patience than I .

• chiefxyz 58 Posts

  Mon, Oct 3 2011 8:19 PM

   i do avatar movements  on my putts works great  i cant seem to figure out the movement on the 100 ft meter though