Trail foot
The trail foot dumps; we measure when
A back heel that stays lit after the hands have thrown is not “power.” It is a mill belt that refused to pass the load. The pad timestamps the dump. Everything after that is commentary.
What we stamp
Peak hold, dump clock, edge of escape
Ellis marks three things: how long the trail heel stays above a honest share, the tenth when it finally falls, and whether the escape is toward the instep or the outside. Outside escapes in freeze season are common on Elm grit. They look like a fade problem. They are a shoe-and-ice problem.
New England wrinkle
Mud makes a sticky trail look athletic
April silt along the Merrimack grabs a heel. The golfer feels “planted.” The CoP never migrates. Come January, the same body on hardpan hops because there is nothing for the sticky habit to grab. We see both, or we refuse to spec. A mill bag that only works in mud is a costume for two months.
If you want the long note on dumps, the mill journal keeps a page on Elm Street trail-foot dump. The short version: late is late, even if the ball went far once.