Controlled Body Movement: The Key Essential For Your Golf Game

Written by Glen Osborne


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How I Developed My Understanding Of Basic Body Movement

I taught physical education from Grades 1 to 9. In one short span of time I could seerepparttar development of movement in all stages of growth. I could also seerepparttar 133253 physical and mental effort carried out by these children as they learnedrepparttar 133254 skills andrepparttar 133255 games which I taught.

I used to teachrepparttar 133256 various Grades a level of a game which they could handle. I taught positional play in slow motion and then introduced body movements which enabledrepparttar 133257 students to move fluently up and downrepparttar 133258 playing surface. They quickly learned this and asked for more. That is when I taughtrepparttar 133259 various skills. The game was taught first; and then camerepparttar 133260 skills.

In golf, there are a number of games played during a round. * We try to get a better score than someone else. * We try to get a personal best score during a round. * We try to play againstrepparttar 133261 golf course to get a par round or better. * We try to get a better score than par on each hole.

BUT, usually forgotten isrepparttar 133262 game of playing each golf shot as good as we possibly can. It is this last "game" which I teach in my golf lessons.

The free articles combined withrepparttar 133263 instruction modules will teach you how to win "the game" of playing each hit during your round of golf.

Relating this to teaching golf swing skills I emphasize basic posture, alignment, control, and body movement. Arm and hand activity do not get taught until my students learn basic movements. Because of this, beginners and students who had never hitrepparttar 133264 ball inrepparttar 133265 air soon hit draws with even their short irons when they hitrepparttar 133266 ball over a fence.

You, The Ground, And The Golf Ball

We stand onrepparttar 133267 ground. The golf ball rests onrepparttar 133268 ground (er, usually). Before we try to dislodge that golf ball from its place onrepparttar 133269 ground we should learn a good method of relating what we do from our "perch" onrepparttar 133270 ground.

Between our connection torepparttar 133271 ground andrepparttar 133272 ball's position onrepparttar 133273 ground we have a lot of body mass and joints along with that "stick" thing. We need movement to makerepparttar 133274 golf ball move. Therefore, we swing back and forth to makerepparttar 133275 golf club moverepparttar 133276 ball. But, those joints want to do all sorts of contortions during our golf swing efforts.

We need to develop an understanding of how to move atrepparttar 133277 fewest possible joints and how to control or prevent movements ofrepparttar 133278 rest of our joints. This is basic to anything we do. It is very important to this "confusing" skill calledrepparttar 133279 golf swing.

Glen teaches his golf program for Ladysmith, BC Parks & Rec. Free articles and info about affordable live lessons, lesson modules, and video based lessons are available at: http://basicbodymovementforanygolfswing.com mailto: golflesson@basicbodymovementforanygolfswing.com


One Wrong Thought You MUST Eliminate From Your Golf Swing

Written by Glen Osborne


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The next message in this series will show you a basic step-by- step process of playing any golf swing or putt. I call it "the phases of playing a golf shot". You will learn to focus on a task, change your focus to another task, focus onrepparttar next task, and so on.

This routine will eliminaterepparttar 133252 feeling you might have of trying to remember 20 or 30 things before you swingrepparttar 133253 golf club.

By following a regular process of playing a golf shot you will soon develop a new subconscious thought so that you can rid yourself of that one wrong thought.

Oh yeah. Before I forget. What isrepparttar 133254 **one wrong thought**? A quick story, first.

A few years ago I witnessed a young woman take some golf lessons fromrepparttar 133255 local Pro over a 2 year period. He did a good job at showing her some very good swing skills. But, I saw her continually hittingrepparttar 133256 ball outrepparttar 133257 right and she could not hitrepparttar 133258 ball as far as she was capable. Atrepparttar 133259 beginning ofrepparttar 133260 third year she came for another lesson. I could see from her hand movements that she was saying something like, "I'm still hittingrepparttar 133261 ball outrepparttar 133262 right!"

She had a lot of good swing mechanics fromrepparttar 133263 previous instruction. I watchedrepparttar 133264 teacher try to figure which ofrepparttar 133265 mechanics was breaking down. The problem was not solved. My experience as a Grade 1 to 9 physical education teacher gave merepparttar 133266 background of body movements whereby I could see that there was something else besides breakdowns in swing mechanics.

What was happening in that woman's swing which caused her to hitrepparttar 133267 ball slightly torepparttar 133268 right despite very good swing skills?

Answer: The ball is at point A. The green, flag, and hole are at point B. Logical, subconscious thought tells us that we want to smackrepparttar 133269 ball from point A to point B. This same thought also convinces us to create movements at some stage of our swing which will cause a forward motion ofrepparttar 133270 golf club throughrepparttar 133271 ball so that it can go from A to B.

But, these forward motions occur at various stages of our swing which cause such a variety of poor results. Forgotten in this thought process isrepparttar 133272 most important part ofrepparttar 133273 swing.

And that is ---- APPLY A BLOW TO THE BALL so that it can firstly be put in motion to leaverepparttar 133274 vicinity of point A.

The coming lessons will teach you how to carry out movements which respond to your new focus of makingrepparttar 133275 ball move — and move correctly. Prior to these lessons I will have more articles which will prepare you to focus entirely onrepparttar 133276 instructions.

P.S. There are a few "tips" roamingrepparttar 133277 world which leave wrong ideas inrepparttar 133278 minds of new golfers. Some of these blatantly interfere with good body movement. Future articles will show you some ofrepparttar 133279 wrong movements used by you or other golfers. You will learn WHY each wrong movement is produced. You will discover why and how to replace these wrong movements with better moves.

P.P.S. You, or someone you know, will be very interested in how body movement faults can cause back injuries. My methods actually brought a man back into golf so he could golf with his grandson. He felt so good about his new swing that he was able to return to golf with his former golf buddies. I hope to do a series of articles about this usingrepparttar 133280 help of some people I know who are inrepparttar 133281 physical health field.

P.P.P.S. I will seek your input about what resources and sources you would like to learn about. Fellow subscribers will be able to provide many of these answers. I will not publish them all in this Website but I could compile a lot of them into a free ebook or series of ebooks. Ideas will come for this and other subscriber interests and needs for better and more enjoyable golf experiences.

P.P.P.P.S. There are 2 or 3 lesser faulty thoughts for certain golf situations such as hittingrepparttar 133282 golf ball over a hill or a tree. Future articles will cover these topics.



Glen teaches his golf program for Ladysmith, BC Parks & Rec. Free articles and info about affordable live lessons, lesson modules, and video based lessons are available at: http://basicbodymovementforanygolfswing.com mailto: golflesson@basicbodymovementforanygolfswing.com


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