How The “Golfer Elbow” Can Be Avoided And CuredWritten by Mike Pedersen
The golfer elbow is very similar to tennis elbow and can be a nagging and extremely painful injury that has danger of recurring again and again.The golfer elbow is a rather annoying injury for many golfers and usually greatly disrupts their game. This is because doctors will always advice that you stay away completely from game until injury heals completely. This may take quite sometime. The elbow is a joint and most joint injuries take much longer to heal than other injuries because it is difficult to completely avoid using a joint in our day to day lives. Golfer elbow is usually caused by either sudden movement or continued recurring strain on tendons. A tendon in body usually joins a muscle to a bone. Actually this injury occurs on tendon around elbow area. Apart from medication and rest away from golf, another way of dealing with golf elbow is by carrying out certain stretch exercises. To prevent injury a golfer will have to introduce exercise into their golf training program. The exercises are mostly stretch exercises and strength exercises to improve strength and endurance of key muscles in body that are used in golf game and especially during golf swing.
| | The 6 game situations in TennisWritten by Mark Luyk
Hi, As promised I will talk a bit about six different situations you can be in on a tennis court. Last week I told you it was important first and foremost to develop consistency in each one of them. The six game situations are: 1.Serving................................. This is perhaps most important game situation at least as far as playing matches is concerned. Why? Because every point starts with a serve. Unfortunately, more often than not it is stroke least practiced. 2.Returning serve................. For obvious reasons this is a very important stroke as well. If you can't do anything else, make sure you keep ball in play with your return. In that way you will give opponent a chance to make a mistake... 3.Baseline rallying...................... When beginners first are capable of hitting 5, 6, 7 times over net with me, I tell them: 'You see, it's not that hard! You're playing tennis now!' Usually this happens during first lesson and their faces always lighten up when I tell them. I think this is because basic idea of tennis (to hit ball over net in opponent's court) is expressed so clearly in this situation. 4.Approaching + playing volleys........... When you get to net at right moment (you get a shorter ball and your opponent is [slightly] out of position) and you can play a decent volley it makes game of tennis much more fun. Play can get more exciting and unexpected when one or both players show up at net from time to time.
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