It's often said that you shouldn't have any tension in your swing. , There's Nothing Better Than Custom Fitted Clubs This isn't true. You need tension, the thing you don't need is strength. There's a big difference between the two, and if you can't distinguish between them, it may be stopping you from reaching your potential.
To get the feeling of both tension and strength, simply stand up and hang your arms , Collectible Clubs And Putters: A Great Hobby For The Golfing Enthusiast at your side. To feel tension, extend your arms , 3 Sure Fire Ways to Generate More Power off the Tee downward to the ground as far as they go. As you do this, you will feel tension in your arms , Facts and Fallacies of Strength Training for because they are stretched to their longest point. Now to feel strength, make two fists and squeeze as hard as you can. These are two totally different feelings that have two totally different affects on your swing. , Principles versus Mechanics
This feeling of strength is what most inexperienced players , Exercise For A Great Game And New Body In 2006 feel when they hit , Unlock Your True Power the ball , 3 Swing Tips For Instant Results and they mistake it for tension. They get this feeling because they're trying to hit , Getting Started in : Learn, but Enjoy Part 2 the ball , Equipment - The Most Expensive Is Not Always Correct For You so hard that their arm , 3 Swing Tips For Instant Results muscles lock up. This feeling of strength is deceiving though because it also gives the person the feeling of power. If this feeling of strength is removed, the inexperienced player , Finding The Right Equipment Is Important then thinks that they are not going hit , 'Fore' Success the ball , Want to Play Extraordinary ? as far so, they immediately they tighten up again.
This feeling of strength in your arms , How to Get out of a Bunker with a Buried Lie will do two things to destroy your swing:
1. It will narrow your swing , Ball Diving arc because the feeling of strength makes your arm , Finding The Right Equipment Is Important muscles contract or buckle through and past impact. , Principles versus Mechanics The narrower your swing , Exercise For A Great Game And New Body In 2006 arc, the slower the club , Mastering The Inner Game of will swing. , How To Play Better ... It's Not What You Think
2. It will inhibit the hinging and re-hinging of your wrists also resulting in a slower clubhead , Do You Have A One-Plane or Two-Plane Swing? speed. The harder you hit, , Exercise For A Great Game And New Body In 2006 the tighter your wrists will which will also slow the club , Tips For Swing - Make Your Game Better down.
So how is the clubhead , Mastering The Inner Game of speed increased if you feel tension?
1. To achieve the tension I am talking about, you must allow the arms , Do You Have A One-Plane or Two-Plane Swing? to be stretched out to their fullest through and past impact. , 3 Swing Tips For Instant Results To stretch them out means your muscles cannot be turned on. You have to keep them loose. To understand the increase in arc width, imagine that your golf swing , How to Drive a Ball is like picking up a weight , The Worlds Elite Courses and swinging it in a circle on a piece of string. The weight , What Do You Do When Your Game (Swing) Leaves You represents your club, , There's Nothing Better Than Custom Fitted s the string is your arms, , Mental, Physical, Nutritional, and Biomechanical Preparation for Your Game and your body is your hand that is twirling it. As the weight , Equipment - The Most Expensive Is Not Always Correct For You swings, the piece of string will get tense. This is because the weight , Principles versus Mechanics is stretching it to its longest point. This maximizes its arc. It's this wide arc that allows the weight , 3 Sure Fire Ways to Generate More Power off the Tee to swing , Getting Started in : Learn, but Enjoy Part 2 its fastest. Remember, feeling strength in your arms , How Instructional Videos Can Take Your Game To The Next Level pulls the clubhead , Hybrid Clubs or Fairway Woods? closer to you because it contracts your arm , How To Implement Fitness Exercises Into Your Swing Improvement Program muscles. If your arm , 'Fore' Success muscles contract, it would be like the piece of string getting shorter as you spin the weight , Tips For A Better Swing not longer. The shorter the piece of string, the slower it will swing. , 'Fore' Success
2. Loosening up the arms, , How To Play Better ... It's Not What You Think and keeping the muscles turn off, will also loosen up your wrists. To understand how the wrist hinge will help to create clubhead , Exercise For A Great Game And New Body In 2006 speed, imagine opening a door with rusty hinges and one with well oiled hinges. Obviously, the well oiled hinges will allow the door swing , How to Get out of a Bunker with a Buried Lie open and closed faster. If your wrists were "well oiled" it would result in more clubhead , What Do You Do When Your Game (Swing) Leaves You speed as well. To get the feeling of wrists that are too tight (rusty hinges), try clenching your fists again. This time pay attention to your wrists and how locked up they become when you feel strength in your arms. , Quickly Improve Your Game With Swing Software So allowing the arms , Core Strength For to stretch out through and past impact , Feel in Putting not only maximizes the arc width, but it also loosens your wrists.
Now that you know how detrimental strength is to your swing , Tips To Travel With Your Clubs Easily as opposed to tension, take a look at a few areas where you are likely to feel it:
1. The first area is your grip. , The Callaway Club Your grip , Ball Comparison - How To Select The Right Ball pressure at set up should be 2 out of 10 where 10 is the tightest.
2. In your set up you should feel like your arms , Getting Started in : Learn, but Enjoy Part 2 are just hanging and there is no strength in them. If you don't start with them stretched out how are they going to stretch out through and past impact?
3. The takeaway is the next area to check. If you take the club , Tip #3: Where Do You Go To Improve Your Game? away fast, you are turning on your arm , How to Get out of a Bunker with a Buried Lie muscles. You should take the club , How to Unleash Your True Potential (Part 1) away slow and smooth to avoid this arm , How to Use A Free Swing Video To Improve Your Game strength. To feel this, just flip the club , Mastering The Inner Game of upside down so you are gripping the club , Core Strength For where the clubhead , Collectible Clubs And Putters: A Great Hobby For The Golfing Enthusiast is (flipping the club , Warming Up To Improve Your Game this way makes it really light). Now as you take a few practice , The Callaway Club swings, you can immediately tell if your arms , Tips For A Better Swing are tightening. Make sure you take the club , Equipment - The Most Expensive Is Not Always Correct For You back slow enough that you don't feel your arms , Hybrid Clubs or Fairway Woods? turn on then apply this same feeling to your actual takeaway (once you flip the club , Imitation s around to the correct position).
4. The next area is just as you are going to start your downswing. Remember, human nature is telling you to hit , Feel in Putting the ball , Quickly Improve Your Game With Swing Software hard. If you follow you instincts, you are guaranteed to feel strength in your arms. , Exercise For A Great Game And New Body In 2006 So from now on, don't think about hitting , Practice: Establish Appropriate Expectations and Goals for Your Practice Time anything. A great way to achieve this is to imagine you have a magic marker taped to your clubhead , How The Risk Of 'Golfer Elbow Injury' Can Be Reduced and there's a huge piece of paper you are swinging against. Your objective is to draw the widest circle you can on the piece of paper as you swing , Tip #3: Where Do You Go To Improve Your Game? down and through past impact. , Warming Up To Improve Your Game If you can think of this image you will definitely increase the width of your arc and feel the tension in your arms , Unlock Your True Power from the club , Imitation s pulling them out.
5. The final area is just before contact. People feel they have to give the shot just that little extra help to get it in the air. In doing so, they also turn on their arms. , Principles versus Mechanics Remember to keep the image of the weight , How to Use A Free Swing Video To Improve Your Game swinging on a piece of string in your mind as you swing , The Callaway Club your club. , Tip #3: Where Do You Go To Improve Your Game? The weight , Collectible Clubs And Putters: A Great Hobby For The Golfing Enthusiast swings freely around an axis pulling the string to its longest point. Your club , Warming Up To Improve Your Game should be allowed to swing , 'Fore' Success freely around your body so it too, is allowed to swing , Mastering The Inner Game of to its widest point. You don't have to help the ball , The Callaway Club get in the air.
The next time you go to the practice , Principles versus Mechanics range, try to get this new feeling of tension that I have described. If you're doing it properly, you can tell because you will probably hit , Core Strength For the ground behind the ball , Club, Do You Know Which One is Most Important? a few times. Don't avoid these fat shots. If you try to avoid them, you will do so by tightening your arms , The Worlds Elite Courses again. Just keep hitting , Quickly Improve Your Game With Swing Software shots (even if the club hits , Improve Your Swing And Driving Distance With Stretches the ground behind the ball). Within 20 balls, , Mastering The Inner Game of you'll get used to your new, wider swing , Ball Comparison - How To Select The Right Ball arc and start to hit , Getting Started in : Learn, but Enjoy Part 2 some of the most solid shots of your life!
Until next time,
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