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Why anatomic golf?
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Playing golf is a lesson in cause and effect. Since your body controls the club, a shortcut explanation of proper anatomical relationships during the swinging motion coupled with an understanding of the laws of physics as they apply in nature should prevent you from performing some aberrant action. Breaking down the swing into three sensible body areas works and is reproducible with a little practice. Using the three anatomic components as I've outlined explains why things happen and with understanding there is no longer any need to memorize various body positions and club movement actions.
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How much flex should be in your knees?
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Just enough to feel your balance equally in both legs. Too straight and you can't feel the subtle interplay between muscles and tendons. Then during the swing you easily can overstress your sense of balance (swing center). Too much flex causes you to overact your leg and thigh muscles. Heightening stress through this part of your turn anatomy distracts from swing feel. A little practice should confirm that a slight flex creates a stable turn.
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How about practice swings?
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Most pros only take one or two, the exception being when they have to manufacture a shot with other than a full swing. For those of us who are more athletically challenged, I suggest enough to confirm shoulder, turn, and hand action while feeling the club momentum in your hands. In other words, about three to five.
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Who is a good pro to watch?
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Justin Leonard has a nifty preshot routine over the ball in which he seems to be checking body movement against feel. Plus, Justin is a very deliberate golfer and he putts in the manner I describe in the video. Ben Crenshaw is another pretty fair putter to watch in this regard.
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When do you release the club?
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When you no longer have to hold it. But since you probably are referring to something that you have been told to do during the swing, I'll explain my belief. Anatomic relationships are a continuum and undergo no deliberate change at any given point in the swing. Any "release" or turning the forearms from right to left through the hitting area should be a deliberate act for a specific effect such as drawing or hooking the ball. Taking a strong grip (palms rotated right) will encourage this type of rolling over action imparting counter clockwise side spin on the ball thus drawing the ball. I prefer to think of release as being applied to swing center location after impact.
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What causes a slice?
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The club head comes across the ball imparting clockwise side spin. There are many different ways to do this. Most commonly if using a driver, the ball is being played too far forward. In such a configuration while making a coordinated swing, hand eye coordination will cause one to "reach for" the ball while doing the turn back to the left during the fore swing.
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Where did you come up with "fore swing?"
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Traditionally the swing has been described as back swing, down swing, and follow through with the latter being applied after impact. Why not combine the latter two and think of them as being a continuum of motion. Of course there is a little transition that fits in between. And by the way, you don't generally hear up swing. A two part swing is better visual imagery.
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What do you mean by setting your shoulders?
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Positioning them properly to begin the swing. Traditional golf instruction has always been lacking in this regard, using imprecise terminology such as letting your arms hang down loosely. There is a process to confirm correct positioning in the video with more than adequate explanation why doing so is absolutely essential to the golf swing. Make it part of your pre-shot routine!
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Would I ever want to vary my shoulder set?
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Perhaps in order to get creative on a particular shot but that would be after becoming an accomplished practicioner of the sport.
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What is a reverse pivot?
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To be honest I don't know, but it is common jargon and has no defined anatomic basis. If you move your swing center either to the left or right, then fore swing action causes a particularly ugly and ineffective swing owing to hand eye coordination causing compensatory movement as you try to strike the ball. The swing cannot be coordinated and the golfer appears to spin out of position and lose balance. The ball might go just about anywhere and might even be whiffed. The effect is that the golfer appears to spin out of position.
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