Friday 7 April 2017

Stretch band exercise for flexibility



Just a simple band can improve your flexibility with these simple movements. A few reps of these a week and you will see the benefit and gain strength in your golf swing. Great for all ages.

Custom fitting facts

Swingweight - degree to which the club balances toward the club head. Has a direct impact on your distance, feel and consistency a lighter swingweight will increase your swing speed.

Shaft with tip stiff and flexible butt combined with low loft will work better for players seeking a lower penetrating ball flight. The shaft will bend less during the downswing. The opposite applies for players wanting higher ball flight and distance. Shaft with stiff butt and flexible tip with higher loft.

Torque- this is the twisting of the head at impact. The further away the centre of gravity is from the shaft, higher the twisting. 
The greater mass more twisting occurs. Higher the torque the more the club head will twist with a fast downswing, which will result in inaccuracy at impact.

Balancing the driver.
The flex of the driver is crucial to distance, accuracy and trajectory. If distance is your priority, consider a slightly softer flex, which will enable the golfer to load the shaft more, which in turn stores more energy to increase power in the swing. If accuracy is your priority, a firmer shaft will give more control over the release and face angle at impact.

Adjustable drivers.
Sliding weight drivers - moving weight from side to side is not new at all. Mizuno did it first but not patent for it.
First time it was done was in 1995. It wasn't heavy enough though to have any affect.
Tom Wishon researched this back in the late 80's, early 90's and found you have to move at least 25 grams to have any affect on the shape of the shot, heel to toe, toe to heel. At 20grms of toe heel movement, only the the very best ball strikers will see a slight change in draw to fade shape of shot.
Moving weight from side to side in a driver is NOT a means to reduce a slice or a hook. You can only do this by changing the face angle with length reduction. These SLDR  drivers are only for making slight reductions to a nagging fade or draw. To do this consistently requires the golfer to be very consistent in the delivery of the face to the ball in his/her swing path.
E.g if you are a golfer whose swingpath varies from swing to swing 5 * outside to 1* outside in, that's enough of a high to low range that a movement of the weight to the extreme heel side of the head will not bring about a reduction in his/her slice that is going to be visible at all. On the other hand if the golfers swingpath from swing to swing varies by 2* or less, then fine, moving weight side to side will show up.

But again, these weight movement  drivers, no matter whose it might be are for TWEAKING the draw or fade tendency of a shot by 3,4,5, yards, not 20 to 30 yards and for more consistent players too