How To Easily Achieve “Rock-Solid” Posture For More Power In Your Golf Swing

How To Easily Achieve “Rock-Solid” Posture
For More Power In Your Golf Swing
Written By
Mike Pedersen
Golf Swing Trainer & Body Golf Specialist
Creator of The
Effortless Golf Training System

Have you ever had your golf pro tell you that your golf posture is poor and that you need to have a correct spine alignment if you want to maximize your driving distance?
Or, you are practicing your golf swing in front of a mirror, and you get that side view and see this big hum in your back?
No matter how hard you try to straighten it out, you just can’t get it to stay straight, especially after a couple of holes during your round. In fact, the more you try, the harder it is, and the more frustrated you get.
Why is this?
Throughout the years, we’ve been sitting for 8 or more hours at our jobs, then we go home and sit for a few more hours, and if you’re honest with yourself, your posture during all these hours is not very good.
As the years go on, your muscles get both tight and weak, causing this sometimes dramatic curve (hump) in your upper back. You cannot fix this through thought.
What I mean is by trying to keep it straight. This is a “physical” issue and needs some simple, easy and very quick exercises you can do anywhere to fix this debilitating golf swing restriction.
If you don’t read this  report and implement the simple exercises I’m going to show you, your golf swing will continue to lack power and consistency.
Let me explain, to help you understand the biomechanics of your golf swing.
Your golf swing is a rotary movement. Picture your spine is this rod that you have to rotate your body around, and this rod is very, very straight and rigid. Imagine a rotisserie on a barbeque. Your spine is this rotisserie.
If the rotisserie is straight, it spins perfectly, around and around. If it’s bent, it wobbles much slower and will not cook the chicken as well as it should, and it will take much longer to cook.
Let’s get back to your golf swing!

If your spine is curved, this will dramatically limit your ability to freely rotate back and through in your golf swing. Have you sometimes felt like you just can’t make a full turn no matter how hard you try?
This is the reason why!
Until you get your spine in alignment, you will continue to hit weak drives that very rarely go straight.
There are two main reasons why you can’t correct this through thought and effort. One, you have a very restricted chest and front shoulder area, which is pulling your shoulders forward causing the rounding of your upper back, and second over the years your upper back (spinal erector) muscles have weakened to the point of them being elastic and not firm.
Take a look at the picture below. The side view picture shows the accentuated curve in my upper back (white curved line).

And take a look below at this picture from the front. I am maintaining the incorrect curve in my back and trying to make a backswing.

Look how I can only go a little bit without coming out of my posture. This is one of the MAIN reasons older golfers can’t make a turn.
Now take a look at this side view (below). This is what you’re posture’s going to look like after you apply the information in this report.
See the line I’ve drawn to show you how straight the spine is here? Believe it or not, I’m not having to put much effort into achieving this position, and neither will you very shortly.

Look at the turn you’ll soon make after you get this corrected (see below). This is something you can definitely achieve, but need to implement the below 2 simple exercises daily to get there.

Now here comes the EASY solution!
This will take you less than 2 minutes, but will make a dramatic impact on your power, distance and consistency.
The first exercise (see picture below) is a SIMPLE stretch you can do several times every day. Find a doorway in your home office (anywhere), or in this picture I’m using a corner wall that you can leverage your upper arm against to stretch out the chest and front shoulder arrow.

This stretch feels SO GOOD, and you should do it multiple times a day! Make sure to do both sides for a 10 second hold. You’ll soon feel your chest area “opening up”, which will not only help you with your upper back posture, but give you more width in your golf swing.
The second exercise is using some tubing you can get anywhere (even Target). Notice in the picture how I’m pulling my hands out to the side to contract the muscles in my upper back?

This is the MOST targeted exercise to strengthen your spinal erector muscles that will give you that straight upper back. You’ll want to pull your hands back until the tubing touches your chest. Repeat this 10 times and you’re done!
The combination of the simple stretch, and easy exercise is your ticket to a near perfect spine angle and many years of fun golf!
Now I can’t cover all the techniques in this FREE report, but I can tell you there are several MUCH more effective golf swing training drills that will quickly and easily get you making a FULL turn and adding 10,20 and maybe even 30 yards to your drives depending on your starting point and initial restrictions.
It’s amazing to me… how simple techniques you can do right in your home, can make such a dramatic difference in your golf swing power, consistency, and accuracy.

Congratulations on taking the first step to making a better backswing!
You’re now one step closer to hitting longer drives.

Concept Golf is golf instruction

A Lesson with John
By John Toepel

Concept Golf is golf instruction. It is golf instruction that is based on principles not mechanics. It is an opportunity for the golfer to develop his very own unique swing. With the golfer developing his own swing, he has nothing to remember, nothing to practice and nothing to fix. It is a swing that will be all his for his entire golf experience. He is not conforming his swing through extensive mechanical instruction to some great but obscure golfer’s swing.

All the golfers on the Champions Tour have their own unique swing. They are as distinctive as the individual. You can recognize the player by his signature swing from a great distance. Because they have always had their own swing, they are still playing at the highest level.

Because Concept Golf teaches with principles and not mechanics, our golfers have nothing or little to remember. They understand the principles and then are able to apply those concepts to their swing and shot-making in the way that makes sense for them. Now they are in possession of the tools that make golf a simple game with a simple swing.

It has been a long road to discover the principles that make golf and its swing simple. And that is what the principles do. With an understanding of the principles, ALL the desired swing effects automatically belong to the golfer. Shot quality is at a high level. Scores start to recede, enjoyment increases, frustration and embarrassment diminish near zero.

Today I want to share with you what its like to have a lesson with John Toepel.

A lesson with John

In all the lessons I have taken as an amateur and a Tour Professional, only one teacher, Jimmy Ballard, explained the big picture of the swing before we went to the range. With a complete picture in mind there was a chance to incorporate the individual parts of the swing into the whole and make sense of the changes.

For some time now, I’ve understood that the only way to positively impact a better player’s game is to play golf with the student, in order to identify the golfer’s true problem areas so that they can be corrected.

The assumption has been that to fix the swing is to fix the game. Golfers’ problems originate in their thoughts and must be corrected there. However, our first job is to accurately identify the trouble, and that will only reveal itself on the golf course. The problem may be in the swing, but why? The problem may be in the short game, but why? The problem may be in management, but why? Taking a look at the golfer’s swing on the range will show me his swing in a very low-pressure situation, but will tell me nothing about him as a golfer and how I can help him improve his game.

In my eyes, you and all my students are par golfers. You are not a poor golfer trying to get better, except in your own eyes. If I, as your teacher, see you as an untalented golfer trying to become the model of consistency, I’m not going to be able to help you and you are not going to improve. My job really is to open your eyes to the reality of you being a par golfer at this moment.

Concept Golf teaches people to be better golfers so they can have fun playing the game. We begin with an hour conversation to learn about each other. I need to know a lot about you, both as a golfer and as a person. My questions are designed to learn how you see your golf game, your swing, why are we here, your handicap, your goals, your golf strengths and weaknesses as you see them, your golf history, other lessons, family, other sports, employment, how committed you are, how much time you have for practice and golf and whether you can you use golf in business. At this point I determine our next step. If you are relatively new to golf or if there is a lot of confusion about the swing idea, we will probably go to the range. If you are a more accomplished golfer, we will play golf so I can learn about your golf game and see for myself the problems in your game that cost you strokes.

When we go to the range it’s reasonable that you hit some wedges and seven irons so you can get the butterflies out of your stomach and I can see your “range” swing. Once I see your swing with a couple of different clubs and understand how you think of the golf swing, we can begin to give you the right ideas. Your swing will tell me what you are thinking about the swing, and the interview will tell me how the instruction needs to be structured so that it makes the most sense to you.

I will explain the five swing fundamentals of Concept Golf so you have a complete idea of the swing rather than just the disjointed parts and pieces. In order for you to have an effective swing, you need to have the correct, total understanding of the swing. That is the starting point. The total concept of the golf swing is presented in a logical manner so that the ideas are reasonable and make sense rather than nonsense. When it does make sense to you, you will be willing to accept the principles that will give you a swing that works. You will make great progress during the first lesson, hitting the ball further and more effortlessly than ever before.

Eventually we will play some golf. We will talk at the end of our round and agree on a direction for your improvement. Often golfers do not know where or why they are losing strokes. As an outsider and teacher it’s easier for me to identify and pinpoint the problem area or areas. A case in point is a friend of mine in Pennsylvania.

Rick Troutman called me one day and said he wanted to lower his average score from 73 to 69. He asked if I would come to his home and see what I could do. I’ve known Rick for several years and have played several rounds of casual golf with him. He’s a good golfer and hits fairly long shots. When I arrived, we had a talk on the way to the course. The one thing he was quite blunt about was that I was not to work with his swing. I had no intention of working with his swing, just his game.

We played 18 holes the first day, then 36, 18, 18 and 18, spending no time on the range. He was hitting it to the right some of the time, and he did ask why. I gave him a one-sentence answer; that was the extent of my swing instruction. We worked on his pitching and talked about his putting, but the rest of the instruction was about course management and Rick-management.

He called two weeks later after winning a tournament and was very happy with the improvement and the instruction. He continued to play better and better. About two months later he called to tell me his average score was now 69. Most golfers do not need swing instruction to have lower scores.

Concept Golf has the goal of making you a better golfer with lower scores, not just improving your swing. As you become a better golfer, you probably will have a new, correct and understandable picture of the golf swing, but don’t be limited to that. We will also need to look at your short game, course management and self-management.

John Toepel is a Veteran PGA Tour Player, instructor, author, and professional speaker. He is also the discoverer of Concept Golf, the quickest way to immediate, life-long lasting improvements to anyone’s golf game. To learn more about Concept Golf, including the most comprehensive golf instruction system ever, “The Concept Golf Perfect Shot Making System”, please visit http://www.conceptgolf.com/PSMS.htm and Discover the Par Golfer in You!

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Golf Swing Tips : Improve Your Golf Swing Technique

Often the problem with a person’s swing is there ability to
over-complicate the golf swing tips they have seen before. Because
there are so many golf swing tips around these days, people often try
to implement them all in one swing, and it’s just not possible.

The
tips I have outlined below are the key tips that myself and thousands
of golfers before you have successfully implemented to improve their
swing to the point of consistent didtance and accuracy, which is what
you want right? Just read on to improve your golf swing.

Choose the correct Golf Club

One of the most helpful tips to remember is that just because you hit a
ball harder does not mean it will travel a further distance. In fact,
the harder you swing golf clubs at the ball, the more difficult it is
to keep the ball in play. First of all, the harder you swing the club
at the golf ball, the more off balance your body will be as a result of
the harder down swing. Secondly, you will start to develop an
inconsistent swing throughout your golfing round, making it very
difficult to maintain and repeat the good swings. To make the game
easier, take a four-iron instead of a five-iron or a three-wood instead
of a five-wood and so on. By making a nice smooth swing with one extra
club, your shots will feel solid and ultimately yield much better
results. All you need to remember is that straight is always far.

It’s not all about your arms

Don’t think about your arms and swinging the golf club backwards. Try
to think of the back swing as turning your back to the target. Don’t
think of swinging the golf club up into the air. Instead think of just
putting the golf club behind your back. It like the backswing is you
winding up a spring, before you release.

It’s all about coiling up your body

To perform an efficient back swing, it’s all about coiling up your body
while creating muscle tension or torque needed to release a powerful
downswing. This perfected, will mean an excellent downswing technique
and ultimately will lead to a more accurate direction on the golf ball.
Also remember that resistance is created between the turning of the
upper body and shoulders and the lesser turning of the hips and lower
body.

Don’t be hasty!

For the backswing, you must not be in a hurry. A hurried backswing
doesn’t make the downswing any faster. It may in fact be the opposite.
You must remember that somewhere at the top of that backswing, you have
to stop at the top of the backswing of the golf club and change and go
the exact opposite direction into the downswing.
The speed of the backswing should be at a steady rate, not real fast or
real slow. The tendency is to go too fast. Any time my golf swing
begins to break down; the first correction is usually to slow down your
backswing and relax and take your time.

Use the “waiters” arm position

In order to make sure that your right elbow is in the correct position
at the top of your backswing, imagine that you are carrying a tray like
a waiter would with a drink on it. Your top of the backswing position
and the “waiter’s” arm position should be exactly the same.
This will make sure your right elbow is in the correct position and
will also make sure that the golf club is swinging on the right swing
plane with the proper clubface angle.
If you remember this tip while on the golf course, it will mean you are
on the way to a perfect golf swing!

Don’t grip the Golf Club too tightly!

We
all know that in most exercising activities it pays to hold on very
tightly — lifting weights or hanging from a trapeze.
But in golf, you don’t want to grip the club too tightly. Grip pressure
is a big factor in your golf swing and one that’s often overlooked. If
you grip the club with a death lock, chances are you won’t allow the
club to properly release. That not only robs you of power, but it also
prevents the club from squaring up at impact, causing all sorts of
directional problems.
There are lots of good analogies you can use to help get anidea of the
right amount of grip pressure. Holding a baby bird or holding a tube of
toothpaste without squeezing out any paste are a couple I like. If you
were to try to quantify it on a scale of one to 10,think of 10 as being
as tight as you can hold the club and one as just barely hanging onto
the club. You want to hold the club with a grip pressure of about four.
That will give you a solid connection to the club and still allow you
to swing properly.

Try hitting the side of the golf ball

It’s very common to see most golfers trying to hit the centre of the
golf ball when hitting full shots. It is easy to understand why they do
it because it makes sense to hit the ball in the middle if you want to
make it fly straight; however in reality, excellent full shots actually
strike the ball on the inside quadrant of the ball, not the centre.

The ideal swing path is elliptical (egg shaped). When the golfer hits a
fine shot, the golf club hits the inside quadrant of the golf ball and
the face is actually in a slightly open position. This is not noticed
by the golfer. The golf ball and the clubface stay connected for a
brief second of time. When the golf ball separates from the clubface,
the face has rotated to a square position. The face continues to rotate
and thus the ball flies relatively straight with a slight draw spin
(right to left for right-handed players). Slices occur when players hit
the outside of the ball, and the clubface and the ball separate in an
open position. Use a plastic range bucket or a second ball to learn how
to hit the ball on the inside quadrant. You will hit powerful shots
which will end up down the middle when you strike the ball on the
inside quadrant.

The finishing swing position

One of the best finishing tips for a great golf swing is after you
swing the club, your finishing position should be where your weight is
balanced on your front hip, your back toe firmly paced on the ground,
your hands and forearms should be up above your front shoulder while
your chest and back knee should be facing the hole or where you need
the ball to go. If any of these things are not happening to you, then
you need to correct your position and practice swinging and ending up
in the proper finishing position. By working on your stance and
finishing position, your golf swing is on its way to giving you a
perfect game.
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Remember; Patience is a Virtue

One of the main phenomena in people’s attitude toward golfing is that
many expect to see fast improvement in play after the shortest length
of time. A lot of the same people would not even raise an eyebrow or
bat an eyelid at the length of time it takes to learn to play an
instrument or to sing a certain song. The thing is most people forget
that anybody can sing that song or play that instrument, but not
anybody can do it to the level where you become famous for your style.

Golf
is all about learning a technique or art that may take years to master
just like an instrument. You cannot expect to know how to hit golf
shots like Tiger Woods overnight! However, you can do it reasonably
well in say, 6 months if done correctly.
If you have been playing golf for a very long time and are still
shooting in the mid 80s or 90s, you must realize that you are doing
something in your golf swings wrong. If you can recognize an incorrect
golf swing on your part, then that is the first step to playing the
best golf in your life. If you decide to change your swing technique,
it will feel as if you are learning to swing all over again. This is
only temporary as you will initially hit some very poor shots but will
get the hang of the new golf swing and be on your way to better, more
accurate golf shots.

Always try to remain optimistic and keep in mind you are only getting
rid of a bad golf swing habit…from here on in the future of your
golfing will be very bright indeed.
Also, never expect to learn your new technique by yourself, this is
impossible. Try to get a professional to stand and watch you and tell
you how to do it as you will learn faster this way and won’t get bored
as quickly. Make sure you practice what the instructor teaches you,
this is extremely important. Do this in your own time as well as with
the instructor. And above all, be patient!

Give Your Elbow The Elbow

A lot of successful players on the professional tour are seen to swing
with their elbows flying out, and some of them swing with their elbows
tucked in, both of which are proven to be successful. But which is the
best golf swing technique to use? Well, many people who have studied
the biomechanics of the golf swing have seen that people who have a
flying elbow in their golf swing tend to see a fade of their balls
flight. However, people who tend to keep their elbows in on a golf
swing tend to see a draw.

Now….those of you who struggle with their slice or want to see a
power hungry draw, the elbow position could be the solution, or the
problem for that matter. When you let your trailing elbow fly out has
the tendency to raise the trailing shoulder, which leads to all hell
breaking loose on your shots.

The key for a good full golf swing is to erase the awkward
shoulder tilt and the trailing elbow position at the top of the golf
swing. The best position for the trailing elbow for getting rid of
slices and promoting a draw is just on the inside of the seam running
down the right side of your t-shirt. Because the elbow is placed in
this position it allows the shoulders to turn on a level axis with the
spine, which allows the club to come down on the inside of the
downswing and will therefore improve both your power and your control.

Power From The Body

Every good golfer knows that power comes from the body, not the arms.
To learn to power the club with your body instead of your arms and
hands, put the club behind the ball at address, with your body in a
dead-stop position. Without taking a backswing, try to drag the ball
into the air. If you’re a player who uses his or her hands to control
the club, you’ll probably struggle at first. However, you’ll quickly
find that once you start moving the club with your body, you’ll begin
to get the ball in the air more consistently. This helps you turn fully
through the ball on the downswing.

Swing doctors cash in as Baddeley joins quick-fix gospel’s band of disciples

“He is the messiah and I ought to know. I’ve followed a few in my time,” said John Cleese, leading the hordes to worship Graham Chapman’s Brian in Monty Python’s Life of Brian. Golfers are notoriously fickle in their search for the latest saviour who can promise them instant karma on the course and the perfect swing. Golf psychologists are the latest gurus to milk millions of pounds by teaching mantras of the bleeding obvious to golfers short on confidence and the ability to think for themselves.

Swing doctors have been preaching back-breaking mumbo jumbo for decades. And the latest quick-fix reading making a buzz on practice grounds across the US Tour is the Gospel According to Plummer and Bennett, two thirtysomething self-appointed soothsayers from Kentucky and New York. And 26-year-old Aaron Baddeley is their highest profile disciple.

Andy Plummer and Mike Bennett’s profile (and stock rating) has risen throughout the week at the US Open as their Australian shot his way into the last group with Tiger Woods. They weren’t looking quite so cocky after Baddeley triple-bogeyed the 1st and plummeted off the leaderboard.So what is the pair’s secret? Well, actually Plummer and Bennett carry it around in a scruffy ring-binder folder and it is not for sharing. The hire of their services is rumoured to cost $30,000 a year. It is golf’s version of television evangelism.

Plummer and Bennett are hawking their unique “Stack and Tilt” technique. So how does it work? OK, deep breath, pay attention, here goes. “As the torso stretches to a finish, the arms can extend and the hands don’t drop over the left shoulder.” Got that? “As the club re-cocks, forming a 90-degree angle with the forearms, the speed of the through-swing is absorbed.” Nurse! Bring the screens.

Put simply, there are two basic moves. Tilt back on the backswing and make a standing stretch on the followthrough. So there you have it. Stack and Tilt. Or Shake and Vac to put the freshness back. Or something like that. The Swing Whisperers, as some are calling them, now have about 20 disciples on tour including the 2003 Masters champion Mike Weir, the Ryder Cup player Brad Faxon and Tommy Armour, a regular practice-round partner of Tiger Woods.

It is an association which clearly does them no harm. Plummer and Bennett’s teachings are heavily influenced by a book called The Golfing Machine, a manual written in 1969 that requires an advanced physics and maths degree to understand. But what causes many to be cynical about Plummer and Bennett, who are failed mini-tour pros, is that they too were once disciples of an eccentric teaching guru.

They hooked up in Palm Springs with Mac O’Grady, whose 20 years on tour included two victories and 16 failed attempts at the Tour’s qualifying school. O’Grady was a student of The Golfing Machine, and famously took Seve Ballesteros out into the desert in the early 90s to search for his missing golfing mojo.

Thanks to Plummer and Bennett’s bible, driving ranges on the US tour are suddenly beginning to resemble a giant game of Twister as Stack and Tilt disciples practise their miracle moves. But Plummer and Bennett have a rival coach whom even they might struggle to compete with. Baddeley has God on his side, too, and God is on a roll his year after guiding Zach Johnson to his first green jacket at the Masters. But not even God could stop Baddeley’s bleeding at Oakmont. And the Swing Whisperers had left town.

Understanding the Stack and Tilt Golf Swing

Understanding the Stack and Tilt Golf Swing

Understanding the Stack and Tilt Golf Swing by Rick Hendershot

In a recent issue of Golf Digest (June 2007) a “new” golf swing has been described as the hottest thing on the PGA tour, and its proponents, Andy Plummer and Mike Bennet, have been hailed as the newest golf gurus. The new swing is called the “Stack and Tilt” swing.

In describing the Stack and Tilt swing, Peter Morrice, the author of the article, indulges in a bit of overstatement when he says “Their secret…contradicts almost everything being taught in the game today.” But is this swing really that unique?

The Key Difference

The major difference with the “Stack and Tilt” swing is that it encourages the golfer to keep his weight on his or her front foot during the entire swing. In other words, it does away with the idea that there should be a “weight shift” during the backswing. With the Stack and Tilt swing the golfer starts with about 60% of his or her weight on the front foot, and actually shifts more weight to the front when taking the club back.

Some older golfers will think this looks like a “reverse pivot” where the golfer seems to be leaning towards the target at the top of the swing. Teachers of the typical modern swing have their golf students draw the club back and stack their weight over their back leg when the club hits the top of the swing. But Stack and Tilt encourages the golfer to lean towards the target while the club is taken up.

Subtle Differences

It may be hard for many golfers to spot the differences at first, but some of these differences are significant. For one thing teachers of the typical modern swing want the back leg to remain slightly flexed at the knee. But with the Stack and Tilt swing the back leg straightens out as it pushes back towards the target. See the photos featured in the Golf Digest article on page 122.

As a result the front side of the body is “stacked” over the front foot, and the trailing side of the body is “tilted” towards the target.

For a comparison with the typical modern swing look at photos of Tiger’s swing of the last few years, or see the photo of V.J. Singh’s swing on page 43 of the same issue of Golf Digest. Singh’s upper body is “stacked” over his back leg at the top of the swing, and the trailing side of his torso is perpendicular to the ground as he pushes his weight back over his back leg. This is quite different from the way the torso is angled towards the target with the Stack and Tilt swing.

Lessons from the Past

If you are familiar with the teachings of most modern golf coaches this may sound like a radical departure from golf orthodoxy. But the fact is, there have always been alternative schools of thought which questioned the simplistic “weight shift” idea. In particular, look at old photos of Jack Nicklaus, Ben Hogan or Sam Snead. None of these golfers make the major shift over the back leg like you see with Tiger Woods, for instance.

Or look closely at the famous 1930s teaching videos featuring Bobby Jones. He does not shift his weight to the back either. He remains centered over the ball throughout the swing and has a much more obvious focus on rotation around the center point rather than the lateral weight shift promoted by most well known modern teachers.

Points of Interest

There are several interesting points made by the the Stack and Tilt advocates which may help the average golfer hit the golf ball more squarely and (perhaps) more powerfully.

The first is the idea of keeping your weight on your front foot. Shifting one’s weight to the back inevitably promotes a shallower swing at the same time as turning the ball into a moving target. This increases the chances of bottoming out too early. Depending on the golfer and the course conditions this can either result in fat shots or thin ones. Pressing into the front foot as you take the club back is a good way to force a steeper approach to the ball and a way to eliminate topping the ball. It also results in a lower trajectory since it results in de-lofting the club face. Unfortunately it also puts more strain on the front knee.

The second point is that Stack and Tilt promotes a flatter swing. A flatter swing is less vertical and more rotational, and is the way Stack and Tilt compensates for being more on top of the ball when the downswing is begun.

The third point is the not-much-discussed idea of the “pelvic thrust” which the Stack and Tilt guys claim is necessary in order to get the club approaching the ball correctly. With Stack and Tilt, since one’s weight and shoulder position are forward, the approach to the ball will be significantly steeper than normal. The pelvic thrust helps to “shallow out” the swing. You achieve this by whipping your hips around and thrusting your lead hip up and towards the target. In other words you have the sensation of jumping up and striking the ball while on your toes. For examples of this see photos of Natalie Golbus or Sergio Garcia, or a younger Gary Player.

If these seem like technical points that are beyond your level of expertise, just give the “weight forward” idea a try. All you have to do is start with noticeably more weight on your front foot, and then press into that foot as you take the club up. You will probably find that it feels quite different from what you are used to. This move should result in fewer thin hits. But it may also result in more pushes, especially with the longer clubs, so you may have to adjust the positioning of the ball. You may also find it more physically taxing – requiring more body contortions – and for most of us that is not a good thing.

Rick Hendershot is an avid golfer who blogs about golf swing theory and exotic and not so exotic golf destinations. Read his blogs called The Weekend Golfer.

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Stack and Tilt

June 18th, 2007
By Gary Slatter
Golf Digest has a good story about the latest Swing Doctors – Stack and Tilt, something that Mark Evershed has always been preaching based on The Golfing Machine. Dresses, aka Aaron Baddeley, is one of the latest disciples of the system and its two gurus Andy Plummer and Mike Bennett. So apparently is Mike Weir (nice to claim two superb proven golfers as devotees although both also call on a higher authority quite often). The new Swing whisperers have around 20 PGA TOUR players-mostly golfers a bit short on confidence and searching for the Answer. Sure worked well for the first 54 holes for Baddeley, he will rebound in the next event, although Seve Ballesteros has never come back after taking the original Stack and Tilt course from Mac O’Grady. I witnessed their meeting on the back of the range at TPC Scottsdale, felt sorry for the most natural golfer since Moe Norman. Why can’t great pros trust themselves, why do they have to have gurus? Lee Trevino’s answer to me when I asked him about Ben Kern – “great golfer but he’s working on a new swing every tournament. Came on the tour with a great game, be gone by fall”. At the time I heard that Trevino was helping Ben, but so was everyone else.

Best line at the US Open “There are some golfers who have psychologists, I Smoke” Angel Cabrerra, winner.

best coverage of the US OPEN – Geoff Shackleford’s Blog. other winner Oakmont GC, can you imagine how much fun that course would be without any rough? I think it would be almost as hard to score, but a lot more fun if it was like St.Andrews with little rough.

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Alpha isn’t Bad

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Let’s start right off by saying that “Alpha” behavior is NOT bad.
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There are a lot of guys out there sending conflicting information regarding what it is and isn’t to be “Alpha.” As in “Alpha Man” or “Alpha Male.”

Let’s start right off by saying that “Alpha” behavior is NOT bad.

It is NOT what you see animals doing in their nasty time in the zoo. It’s NOT attacking a tribe and killing all the young, or any weird stuff like that.

Look, “Alpha” just means the dominant male (and sometimes the female) in a group.

It’s the one that is most likely to procreate and get its genes into the next round of the “Keep the species alive” game.

So it really does make sense to get successful with women if you think about it like this. If you don’t find a woman to mate with and create little teeny versions of you, then it all ends with you.

Do you deserve to have your genetic legacy carried on into the next generation? I hope so. And more importantly, I hope you believe so.

So don’t listen to a lot of this garbage and double speak out there regarding “Alpha Men” and what they should or should not be.

Here are a few things an Alpha IS:

Clever/smart/cunning
Ambitious
Excited
Honorable
Dominant (not aggressive, but demonstrating superior social skills)
Stable
Fit (healthy lifestyle)
Curious
Balanced
Natural Here are a few things an Alpha is NOT:

Aggressive
Angry at women
Verbally abusive
Arrogant
Obnoxious There seems to be some confusion (and most of it is created by other guys hoping to cash in on your confusion) about what it means to be a STRONG and persuasive man in today’s society.

I’m not even going to throw you more of that evolutionary stuff because it really doesn’t matter. When you think about it, it just makes sense that we want people who appear or demonstrate more social value than us. It’s because we naturally want to latch on to their power.

Again, it all comes back to power.

So being an “Alpha” doesn’t mean you’re dragging women back to a cave. Or that you’re being an aggressive, pushy jerk. Or that you’re being forceful and mean. Or that you’re inconsiderate. Or that you’re acting like a brutish animal.

It means that you understand the basic primal reasons a woman is attracted to a man, and you’re not afraid to BE a man. Not a cardboard, one-dimensional wimp that’s afraid to let women know he desires them.

You see, there are only two motivating forces in life: Desire and Fear.

That’s it. We are motivated purely by what we feel we WANT, and what we feel we most want to avoid.

Fear is a stronger motivator for humans because it helped us survive potentially life-threatening situations. You’re smart to fear wild animals, or large trains heading toward you. You can’t afford the luxury of analysis in these situations. A delay could cost you your life.

On the other hand, in our modern society, there isn’t much you need to fear. In fact, we fear too much already.

And the fear that is most crippling is the fear of LOSS.

Everyone’s favorite short green dude, Yoda, even said it in the latest Star Wars flick… “Fear of loss leads to the dark side.”

And so it does. It leads you down a path where you never gain because you’re too afraid of losing what you have.

An Alpha Man understands that the only way to live is to wake up each day and understand that everything you have was just given back to you today. And when he goes to sleep at night, he gives it all back.

Lose this attraction to your possessions before they possess you…

Whoah, I’m getting very philosophical here.

What I’m trying to get across to you here is that you should avoid becoming attached, even to TERMINOLOGY.

When someone tells you that being an Alpha is bad, or it’s this and that, remember that they’re trying to color your perception. They’re trying to steer you away from a path of understanding and enlightenment.

Trust your own intelligence to figure out what an Alpha Man REALLY is.

He’s already inside of you. It just takes a little work to let this instinct out so that you can become the COMPLETE you.

There are a lot of guys out there who haven’t been able to open themselves up to letting out this TRUE nature inside them. They hide it behind “Politically Correct” BS about not hurting other people’s feelings, or being sensitive.

It’s really a fear to let other people see the REAL you. The man that wants to achieve. The man that wants women in his life. The man that wants monetary success. The man that wants power over the forces of life that seem to control him.

Forget about all this “Alpha” talk and just open your mind up to finding this part of you that isn’t held back by fear, and is ready to reach out for understanding that could – and will – change your life for the better.

So on one hand we have the lowly AFC, or non-Alpha. He’s a little insecure, possibly low self-esteem, but WANTS to grow and change.

On the other hand we have the Alpha, the confident and assertive man with healthy communication and self-esteem.

There is only one direction of growth here, and it’s from the AFC to the Alpha. And what is the Alpha? He’s a MODEL.

He’s what YOU need to be.

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Carlos Xuma is a well-known expert in the dating-seduction related field and an author of bestselling titles such as “Secrets of the Alpha Male”, “Approach Women – NOW!” and “Alpha Immersion”.

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Golf Swing Techniques

 

Golf Swing Techniques

Medicus Golf makes some of the best-loved and most highly respected products in the world for improving golf swing techniques. Our Medicus Dual Hinge golf swing trainers are renowned for helping pros and amateurs alike perfect their swings. Thousands of professionals and half a million amateurs have benefited from the Medicus golf swing trainer, making our Dual Hinge Driver the best selling golf training aid of all time. When you consider how the market is flooded with golf aids, being number one is an even greater distinction.

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Stack Tilt – The Truth About the Stack & Tilt Swing

Stack Tilt – The Truth About the Stack & Tilt Swing
By Dan DeRoeck 

 

The concept is rather easy, stack your weight and tilt to the target. The Stack & Tilt swing has convinced many, that this method holds the key to more consistency and power. But is this swing for everyone? Let’s look at this swing closer and what type of golfer would most benefit.

Stack & Tilt innovators Andy Plummer and Mike Bennett have pioneered a concept that is truly revolutionizing the golf swing. They have rolled out a method that has convinced some of the best golfers in the world to change their bread and butter… their swing. Not an easy task! The results have been quite astounding. Many PGA players are now either using, or considering using this swing with the same thing in mind. To gain consistency and power.

For the better player, it holds many possibilities to improve the swing. But for some, it may not quite hold as much promise…

If you are thinking of trying this swing and struggle with an “outside-in” path, a problem that plagues many beginners, you may want to reconsider. A player that struggles with a fault that results in an “over the top” swing path would probably only exaggerate the problem by changing swings. You would be better off trying to correct the fault before making such drastic changes.

If you are a better player that “hangs back” and struggles with pushes and hooks, read on. This swing definitely holds opportunities for improvement.

For the better player that already has a solid foundation and only wants to gain more distance or better control for his irons, the Stack & Tilt may be just the ticket. The swing emphasizes the “position at impact” to help improve ball striking consistency. Because the conventional swing uses a weight shift to both sides during the swing, players very often get “caught” with their weight on the back foot. This causes mis-hits and tops.

The Stack & Tilt centers your weight over the ball and promotes minimal weight shift, continually remaining centered is the goal. The result is a steeper angle of attack with a flatter and more rotational swing. This provides an element of consistency, especially with irons where your angle of attack needs to be steeper.

So if you struggle with an “over the top” swing path, correct the problem before moving onto this swing methodology. If however, you are a better player that struggles with the occasional push and/or hook, you will want to seriously consider the Stack & Tilt swing. It provides you the opportunity to add an element of consistency you may not find in the conventional swing.

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How to Learn the Stack and Tilt golf swing

If you’re having trouble hitting consistent golf shots with your irons (i.e. “fat”, “thin” or weak shots), the “Stack and Tilt” golf swing may help!

While not for everyone, it basically involves keeping your axis centered over the ball (”Stacked”) and then rotates around this axis (”Tilt”), with the weight starting slightly forward at address, and continuing to shift forward throughout the swing.

Removing the shift of weight from back to forward may help eliminate problems associated with a “reverse pivot” or incomplete weight shift, and result in more consistent ball striking — and oftentimes more distance

 

STEPS

Set up with the golf ball positioned in the center of your stance. You may find you need to adjust this location depending on personal preferences (such as moving long irons slightly forward), but it is a good starting place.

Your hips, and shoulders should be centered over the ball and there should be no significant lean.

Weight should be approximately 55% to the front foot.

On the backswing, the head remains centered over the ball, and weight increases to approximately 65% over the front leg. The front leg will flex while the back leg will straighten slightly natural move to allow loading of weight to continue forward.

The natural tilt of the spine at this point will feel like the body is tilted forward — but from the straight-on view is actually centered over the ball. Turn the shoulders on a steeper angle and keep the lead arm across your chest as you approach the top of the swing (the lead shoulder will be close to the chin). Keep the elbow of your trailing arm close to your body. This will help prevent you from leaning back too much.

On the forward swing, the weight continues to move forward and through with the hips pivoting strongly and pushing forward (like the feeling of a standing long jump).

At the finish (like the traditional swing), the torso will have moved forward and the butt will tuck under the picture the golfer in the PGA Tour logo.