Building and Improving Your Golf Mind, Golf Body, Golf Swing

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The quintessential manual for golf instructors, coaches and curious minds of any sport. This manual, filled with powerful photos and drawings, is a must for any serious golfer's bookshelf. Each of the 3 sections is a manual in and of itself. Hebron shares a lifetime of extensive research on the sports mind and body, then relates the information to the golf swing. By understanding the roll of each moving and thinking part in a motor skill, readers are placed in a position to build a golf swing (or any motor skill) that is controlled, repeatable and permanently learned. Hebron, who holds one of the first PGA Master Professional designations for golf instruction, has been recognized for his achievements through such prestigious awards as The Horton Smith Trophy, PGA Teacher of the Year, Golf Magazine's Top 50 Instructors in America and voted by his piers as one of the Top 5 Instructors in America according to Golf Digest. 420 pages (8 1/2" X 11")

Excerpted from Building and Improving Your Golf Mind, Golf Body, Golf Swing by Hebron, Michael. Copyright © 1993. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved
Golf Mind-Golf Body-Golf Swing, by Michael Hebron(c) GOLF MIND CHAPTER SAMPLE THE CONTEXTUAL MODEL TRANSLATED FOR LEARNING GOLF Past Assumptions &Suggested New Approaches Approaches For Learning GolfFor Learning Golf Treatment of symptomsSearch for patterns and root of poor golfcauses plus treatment of symptoms. Look for one cause.Integrated concerns with the whole learner and swing. Emphasis on a quick fix.Emphasis on long range goal. Poor golf and causes arePoor golf and causes are wholly negative.information about conflict, disharmony. Primary intervention withMinimal intervention and drills, lessons, and practiceonly with "appropriateattempting to teach motortechnology." Supporting skills.non-invasive techniques that support the learning process. Body and swing seen asBody seen as a dynamic machine in good or badsystem and swing and field repair.of energy, within other fields. Poor performance seen asUnderstanding the difference poor learning.between learning and performance, and not evaluating performance when learning. Emphasis on eliminating.Emphasis on achieving maximum potential. Learner is dependent onLearner is (or should be) instructor.responsible. Professional is authority.Professional is therapeutic partner and support system. Body and mind are separate.Body/mind are not separate. We must improve and treat both equally. Mind is secondary factor inMind is primary but coequal in body and swing dysfunction.all body and swing dysfunction. Placebo effect shows thePower of Suggestion shows power of suggestion.the mind's role in both dysfunction and healing. Primary reliance on swingPrimary reliance on objective information.information, including learners. Objective laws of learning, laws of motion, biomechanics and physics. Progress based on swingProgress is synonymous with information, drills, andwholeness, work habits, practice.relationships, goals, body-mind spirit, swing information, diet, exercise, drills, and practice. All influence progress. GOLF BODY CHAPTER *The human body is built for range of motion advantages not force advantages. 0A lever creates a mechanical advantage. The body is basically a Class III Lever System where the force (motive) is greater than the resistance from the momentum of the system. The resistance arm will be moved very fast and great distances when the motion force moves slow and a short distance. 0The upper body is designed for reaching and throwing, the heavier more stable lower body is designed for weight bearing. 0The thorax, vertebra column and pelvis make up the trunk. 0Probably the most significant functional unit of the body, from the biomechanical point of view, is the vertebra column. It provides the foundation for most movement of the body and its extremities. 0Small amounts of rotation of one vertebra is passed to the next to make it possible for a fairly large amount of trunk rotation. 0During striking activities, the vertebra movements function not only to contribute force for the movement, but also to position and reposition the extremities. 0The prevalent movements of the vertebra column are transverse rotation of the trunk and lateral flexion. 0Training programs for striking skills should include strength and power training for the transverse rotation of the vertebra column. 0Transverse rotation for the vertebra column combines with pelvic medial rotation to initiate acceleration of the arms. This rotation has also been shown to play a major role in producing high velocity of digital end links. 0The "S" shape curves in the vertebra column are not present at birth, they develop as infants crawl and begin to walk. 0The muscles that can produce rotation of the pelvic at the hip are the same ones that can produce medial rotation of the thigh. GOLF SWING CHAPTER THROW-AWAY Any breakdown of a flat left wrist before or during impact will cause a loss of power (club head throw away). Until a player knows how to avoid this condition (consciously or subconsciously) power golf is impossible. Working on anything else is a waste of time. Some reasons for throw-away are: * The urge to move the club head from the wrist often caused by poor rotation (ex.: when the handle of the whip stops rotating the whip passes the handle). * Over Acceleration - when acceleration is not constant, excessive hand speed throws the club head into release orbit prematurely. Proper speed may feel incredibly slow, especially from the top. A surprising low sustained acceleration of the lever system is what's needed. * Trying to line the club face up at impact from the wrists false wrist action forces the left wrist to bend (stop) and the right wrist to flatten. * Any straightening of the right (elbow) forearm before impact causes the right wrist to flatten and left wrist to bend. * Trying to have the club face square to the target at impact will cause the left wrist to bend. * Trying to impact the back of the ball at impact will cause the right wrist to flatten and the left to bend. * Trying to move the clubhead in a straight line before or after impact causes club head throw-away.


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