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Golf Tip of the Month – Golf in Balance and How You Can Improve It?

Posted by Riikka 
· Thursday, July 28th, 2016 
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Golf Performance - Trigger Ball the FootA long-time coach of mine truly believes that the great shots (and golfers) are made in the follow through. Think about it for a moment and it starts to make sense! We are so worried about the take away, the top of the backswing, not to mention downswing …

so the follow through is often the last thing to worry about and often “just happens”! But it all makes perfect sense: if you have any balance, flexibility, posture, core stability or strength issues while swinging a golf club  – you will end up compensating and often these patterns show loud and clear at your follow through. Losing balance, funky-looking and often massive efforts from wrist, elbows or legs to force the club back into plane are the most common tell-tale signs. Your facial expressions after the shot will also be worth a thousand words on how repetitive your swing is and how comfortable your body feels doing it. Have you ever smiled while hitting a shot or even at your follow through? It’s well worth trying, if it doesn’t work for you try something else – a “cool” or “neutral face”, as long as you don’t repetitively grind your teeth and look miserable! Also next time you watch golf (ether live or on tv), pay attention how professional golfers look after they have hit the ball or a putt and it will tell you a lot about what is going on in his/her mind.

Your feet are amazing feel transmitters to your brain – they provide your body the essential information concerning where your body is in space.

Swinging with bare feet often gives you whole new sensation of balance and in fact you are able to feel more what’s going on within your body! When I played on Ladies European Tour I had a habit to do a monthly check up with my swing basics (aiming, ball positioning, etc.) and I often started the day swinging without golf shoes, as this gave me so much information on my weight distribution before the swing as well as the weight transfer during the golf swing. It only takes few minutes so it’s well worth a try!

You can improve the body’s ability to send sensory feedback by very simple trick of massaging the feet with tennis ball. Start standing and placing a tennis ball under your foot. Apply firm pressure (but not agony!) to the ball and try covering all areas of your foot for at least 2 minutes. Massaging your foot also relaxes your Myofaschial Superficial Back line and there for helps your over all flexibility, but more about that on next time!

Have fun swinging barefoot!

Riikka

 

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