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Virtually every PGA playing and teaching pro knows that ball flight is primarily controlled by five
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Swing faults are to be expected when a player’s swing displays characteristics that adversely
affect one or more factors above. The pro consulting with the player will identify the aspects of
the swing producing aberrant ball flight and will then attempt to instruct the player toward
correction. Frequently, two, three, four, five . . . or more adjustments are made, often resulting
in such modifications as altering stance, swing amplitude, hip/shoulder turn ratio, grip and so on.

In the majority of players, these swing changes are necessary to compensate for imbalances in
the musculoskeletal structures of their body. Eventually, the experienced teaching pro finds a way
to trick the system, allowing the player to overcome the swing fault of primary concern; at least
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IDENTIFYING THE ELUSIVE OBVIOUS
No matter how good you are at tricking the system, it is always just a trick, and tricks are
compensations. The more compensations a player learns and attempts to manage to overcome
structural mal-alignment, the more likely they are to experience inconsistency in their game. This
is because the brain is the organizing force behind any bodily movement and works, in a sense,
like a computer; the more windows you have open, the slower it runs. Golf videos Brain computing speed is
crucial when you consider that the movement from the top of the backswing to impact can take
place in as little as 250 milliseconds, yet it takes approximately 300 milliseconds to process a new
movement!

The harsh reality is that the brain processes information in series. Stated simply, when your
clients have more than one thing to concentrate on, they will either be forced to think about what
you are telling them to do, or, hitting the ball. If they concentrate on altering their stance in
addition to one or more aspects of their swing, they are usually lucky if these work to correct the
flight of the ball. And if the swing does improve, this improvement is usually transient! There are
sound physiological reasons for all this.

THE FOUR NEUROMECHANICAL FACTORS THAT GOVERN THE FIVE BALL FLIGHT FACTORS
The body is a complex system of interrelated systems. Those predominantly involved in producing
the swing are the nervous, muscular and skeletal systems, which combine to create the
neuromechanical system.

The player’s neuromechanical system’s state of readiness can always be determined by assessing
the following four physical factors:

1. Muscle Balance and Flexibility
2. Static and Dynamic Postural Stability
3. Strength
4. Power

Each individual has a given level of ability and a specific level of skill relative to the demands of
any given task or challenge; in this case producing a sound swing is the challenge or task at
hand. It is critical that the serious teaching funny golf videos pro learns to identify lack of skill or physical ability in
any of the physical factors as they relate to the golf swing (Table 1). Failure to make the
connection between performance and the neuromechanical system will ALWAYS RESULT IN
SHORT TERM FIXES TO SWING FAULTS!

As you can see by reviewing Table 1, the four factors most critical to controlling ball flight are
under the greatest influence of muscle balance and flexibility plus static and dynamic postural
stability. These factors directly influence both joint mechanics, muscle recruitment patterns and
consistency of movement. I am sure you would all agree that if you had to trade some distance
for a straighter shot you would have a much greater chance of lowering your handicap. Golf babe videos

If physical factors 1 and 2 (Table 1) are not adequately addressed and attempts are made to
improve physical factors 3 and 4, you only get to walk further into the rough!

Table 1
Correlating Ball Flight Factors and Physical Factors
BALL FLIGHT FACTORS PHYSICAL FACTORS
Clubface Alignment (1,2) 1. Muscle Balance and Flexibility
Swing Path (1,2) 2. Static and Dynamic Postural Stability
Angle of Attack (1,2) 3. Strength
Hitting the Sweet Spot (1,2) 4. Power
Clubhead Speed (1,2,3,4)

As indicated here, Muscle Balance (1) and Static and Dynamic Postural Stability (2) are intimately
related to control of all ball flight factors. In contrast, Strength (3) and Power (4) are only of
great influence to clubhead speed. Interestingly, most golfers who condition spend the majority of
their time developing only those physical factors that improve clubhead speed, which is only
~20X responsible for controlling ball flight! Tiger woods videos

NOT ALL MUSCLES WERE CREATED THE SAME
• Joint dysfunction
• Muscle imbalance
• Static or dynamic postural stability problems

All the above are reasons why a player’s swing faults are hard to improve long term. Aside from
blatant lack of skill, muscle imbalance is by far the most common source of altered
neuromechanics and both poor and/or inconsistent swing mechanics. golf swing videos
Teaching pros need to be able to identify and correct length-tension relationships. Length-tension
relationships (the balance between muscles and groups of muscles) represent and dictate both
the real-time function of the working joints and how well the body executes the brain’s swing
command. In the presence of muscle length-tension imbalances, what may be a very good motor
engram leaving the brain often manifests as a swing with notable faults (Figure 1A and 1B). This
is commonly expressed by the golfer as "damn, I thought for sure that was going to be a good
one!" golf videos online

Figure 1A - A player with muscle imbalance is most easily
identified by his/her poor posture. Altered spinal curvatures
disrupt spinal mechanics, leading to compensatory movement at
other joints. As demonstrated above, increased thoracic kyphosis
restricts torso rotation causing faulty swing mechanics; no matter
how well trained this player may be, there will always be
neuromechanical distortion of his swing.







Figure 1B - When the player’s muscle balance and postural
alignment are optimal, there is minimal engram (motor command
sequence) disruption. In this state, good motor programming results
in long term correction of swing faults and minimizes chances of
orthopedic injury.

One of the main reasons for muscle imbalance is the way our muscles are designed. We have
muscles that are classified as TONIC and muscles that are classified as PHASIC (1,2,3). The
physiological reality of how these two muscle types react to both physical and mental stress is
what underlies many chronic swing faults that persist despite having spent large sums of money
on elite coaching and high-tech clubs (Figure 2)!

Today’s golfer will go to any extreme, spending unlimited amounts of money on high-tech
equipment in hopes of gaining a few extra yards on his drive. What the teaching pro, playing pro
and amateur must realize is that the club is only as good as the player holding it! It is failure to
make this realization that has resulted in a sixteen-year stagnation of the average American
golfer’s handicap.

Tonic muscles are ideally suited to postural duties such as holding an address posture and
an optimal swing axis. Tonic muscles react to aberrant physical or mental stress by
shortening and tightening. Phasic muscles are more suited to dynamic movements such as actually swinging and
accelerating the club. Phasic muscles react to aberrant physical or mental stress by
lengthening and weakening.

One of the key reasons for the difference responses between the muscle types is the threshold of
stimulation; tonic muscles have a low threshold of stimulation, while phasic muscles have a high
threshold of stimulation (Figure 3). Additionally, as we age (beyond 40) our phasic abdominal and
gluteal (butt) muscles tend to weaken, further encouraging muscle imbalance.

A - Experienced golfers often have a very good mental image, or consciousness of the ideal
swing, and try with all intent to execute one.
B - Because tonic muscles have a lower threshold of stimulation than phasic muscles and tend to
override commands to antagonistic and synergistic phasic muscles, which have a high threshold
of stimulation, the physical image or expression of the motor command may not represent the
mental image used to generate the movement. Here the tonic lumbar erectors and hip flexors
override the phasic abdominal and gluteal musculature, pulling the player into an over-swing; not
only does the player frequently not realize he/she is doing this, back pain is a common byproduct.

Note that muscle imbalance is most easily identified as poor posture (the key is recognizing what
is poor posture versus good posture!). When a player develops any degree of muscle imbalance,
the swing motor engram that leaves the player’s brain is altered in proportion to the degree of
facilitation (4) and muscle imbalance that exists in the musculoskeletal system. Additionally, each
time a player executes a swing in the presence of muscle imbalance, the engram is progressively
altered and the muscle imbalance is further facilitated golf babe videos.

This is one reason that golfers play for five or even ten years with minimal improvement in their
handicap; even though their understanding of the game is improving, their level of
neuromechanical imbalance is of greater influence on their game!

THERE IS A SOLUTION!
You can make significant gains toward a better swing by simply stretching the shortened tonic
muscles just before you play (Table 2). Using slow static stretching on the shortened tonic
muscles only, you will get sufficient results to see an immediate change in swing mechanics golf videos online.

Don’t be surprised if you develop an unexpected swing response after stretching a few shortened
tonic muscles. This is because you are now seeing a more accurate representation of the
messages leaving your brain, which are frequently chock full of compensatory messages
programmed in by past experimentation and under the influence of a teaching pro that was doing
his best with the knowledge he had at that time golf video.

The good news is that as you restore normal muscle balance in either your client’s body, or your
own, the coaching you receive from that point on has a fighting chance of making long term
changes in your swing!