backswing
Speech parts
1. backswing - Noun
2. backswing - Verb
Meaning
backswing (plural backswings)
(sports) The preparatory stroke preceding that which produces contact with the target. Normally associated with sports using an implement such as a bat, club, racket or stick.
Antonym: follow through
backswing (third-person singular simple present backswings, present participle backswinging, simple past and past participle backswung)
To swing backward.
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Sometimes my backswing gets long, and I get in bad positions. The club also can get behind me coming down, so I have to flip my hands to catch up to my body.
My dad's a scratch golfer and I've got the knack of seeing something and then replicating it. I saw my dad swing a club and I worked out how to do the same thing. My backswing and follow-through have been basically the same since I was two.
And the fact that Woods can swing in excess of 120 mph, but his clubshaft isn't parallel to the ground at the top, proves that you don't need a long, unwieldy backswing to generate real power.
Bengough accordingly stepped back to avoid being struck by Cobb's backswing.
She took a giant backswing, and this gave fans a view of her ample cleavage in her low-cut outfit.
Flip When a player tries to attack a ball that has not bounced beyond the edge of the table, the player does not have the room to wind up in a backswing.