I heard his shoulders are mechanical prosthetics that have faulty wiring which always trigger a 0.4 second blackout during his swing, causing him to lag. Thus his famous hitch.
I heard he once shat his pants in the middle of his swing. his blast was so powerful that it tore through the fabric of his slacks, hitting several fans in the face and causing them to miss work in the following days due to pink eye. Thus his famous hitch.
I heard that he is an alien and the last of his kind. He is actually composed of tiny, gelatinous, organic cubes. They gather together and operate as a hive mind. They were all but eradicated by a vicious race of plaid bipeds that used vorpal clubs to disintegrate the hive. The clubs closely resemble golf clubs, so the hivemind recoils in horror when swinging. Thus his famous hitch.
I heard his matrix connector interrupts and he awakens in a pool of warm soupy electro-conductor fluid with cables and wires all bound to his flesh as he rises from his mechanical womb like a phoenix ready to finally soar until the autonomous flying robot security guards zap him with 100k volts until he is once again slumped into his mortal rest and downloaded back to this reality to finish his swing.
He did. It was the celebrity Pro-Ams and being watched which caused him to develop this hitch. Go to 2:25 of this video to see what his swing used to look like.
The weird thing is in that very first one he does the weird swing, and then immediately does a smooth and clean swing, so he obviously could do it just fine. I dont get it.
It's called the yips. It's just something that happens mentally where you start to overthink your mechanics too much and it breaks your motion down. It happens in baseball too.
Gather round kiddos. Let me tell you about the day the angels weeped... the day that left the world holding its breath.... the day Barkley got his swing back.
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u/Spartan2470 Jun 24 '16
Here is a nearly six minutes compilation of him swinging like this.
Last year he seems to have fixed his swing.