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SteveT
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In reality, a golf swing is a best guess by the brain to execute a swinging motion to hopefully hit the ball with the desired result. It's a best guess trial and error effort that is made consistent through practice.
The golf swing gets complicated when ignorance and incompetence mix in a homemade golf swing consciously attempted. You can't consciously think your way through a golfswing when playing, it must be automatic to be effective.
You think you can feel your golf swing but you can't even see it in your eye's mind. You mostly sense the arms and hands because they are the most brain sensitive parts of the swing. You can't really feel your feet, legs, hips, torso or shoulders in a meaningful manner because the feedback is too insensitive.
Even if you take videos of your golf swing, you will not be able to translate what you see into what you are feeling when you swing. A video is visually objective, a swing is subjective. Conscious change is only done in solitary practice, not on the golf course.
If you believe you can consciously attain a new scientific golf swing motion on your own, you are deluding yourself. What you imagine you have achieved today on the range will have either changed or disappeared tomorrow because you haven't developed secure and correct neuro-muscular pathways within your body. A huge amount of Hogan-like masochistic practice is necessary to make your instant 'magic move' an automatic part of your golf swing. Just because you 'know' doesn't mean you 'can'.
If you still think science will help you with your homemade golf swing think again. What will help you is a golf instructor who understands the sciences that define the golfswing, and can apply it to your swing faults, without even getting scientific about it. Curiously, some golfers believe if they know some scientific solution to their swing problem, they can transform that knowledge into an instantly cured golf swing. Hard to believe such dubious claims and on the internet too!
Only by submitting yourself to a qualified golf instructor/teacher to resolve your problems and who can then observe your golf swing progress can you succeed. An objective pair of eyes plus swing data (Trackman, videos, etc.) enables an experienced golf instructor to analyze your swing in action (kinematics) and then determine what (kinetic) force applications are required to fix your faults.
If you believe swing changes can be made permanent after a few tries, then you are kinesthetically superior to Hogan, Faldo, Woods, others, who when attempting to make swing changes have taken months if not years to attain the changes, and for most under the watchful eyes of their swing coach. No current professional golfer would dare make 'golf tip' swing changes on his/her own without the guidance of a swing coach. Trying it on their own would be risky, idiotic too!
A little bit of (scientific) knowledge is dangerous, because science is an objective not subjective experiment. It's difficult if not impossible to be totally objective about your golf swing in action, even from videos. Scientific miracles are only achieved under highly controlled laboratory conditions.
Brian and his associates are working to develop a more potent teaching method with their scientifically-based Project 1.68 knowledge. Reading about the science is fine, but trying to do it on your own is not advisable. Seek help.
The golf swing gets complicated when ignorance and incompetence mix in a homemade golf swing consciously attempted. You can't consciously think your way through a golfswing when playing, it must be automatic to be effective.
You think you can feel your golf swing but you can't even see it in your eye's mind. You mostly sense the arms and hands because they are the most brain sensitive parts of the swing. You can't really feel your feet, legs, hips, torso or shoulders in a meaningful manner because the feedback is too insensitive.
Even if you take videos of your golf swing, you will not be able to translate what you see into what you are feeling when you swing. A video is visually objective, a swing is subjective. Conscious change is only done in solitary practice, not on the golf course.
If you believe you can consciously attain a new scientific golf swing motion on your own, you are deluding yourself. What you imagine you have achieved today on the range will have either changed or disappeared tomorrow because you haven't developed secure and correct neuro-muscular pathways within your body. A huge amount of Hogan-like masochistic practice is necessary to make your instant 'magic move' an automatic part of your golf swing. Just because you 'know' doesn't mean you 'can'.
If you still think science will help you with your homemade golf swing think again. What will help you is a golf instructor who understands the sciences that define the golfswing, and can apply it to your swing faults, without even getting scientific about it. Curiously, some golfers believe if they know some scientific solution to their swing problem, they can transform that knowledge into an instantly cured golf swing. Hard to believe such dubious claims and on the internet too!
Only by submitting yourself to a qualified golf instructor/teacher to resolve your problems and who can then observe your golf swing progress can you succeed. An objective pair of eyes plus swing data (Trackman, videos, etc.) enables an experienced golf instructor to analyze your swing in action (kinematics) and then determine what (kinetic) force applications are required to fix your faults.
If you believe swing changes can be made permanent after a few tries, then you are kinesthetically superior to Hogan, Faldo, Woods, others, who when attempting to make swing changes have taken months if not years to attain the changes, and for most under the watchful eyes of their swing coach. No current professional golfer would dare make 'golf tip' swing changes on his/her own without the guidance of a swing coach. Trying it on their own would be risky, idiotic too!
A little bit of (scientific) knowledge is dangerous, because science is an objective not subjective experiment. It's difficult if not impossible to be totally objective about your golf swing in action, even from videos. Scientific miracles are only achieved under highly controlled laboratory conditions.
Brian and his associates are working to develop a more potent teaching method with their scientifically-based Project 1.68 knowledge. Reading about the science is fine, but trying to do it on your own is not advisable. Seek help.
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