Games of Knowledge | Sports and Exercise

Games Guy | April 11, 2011

A sound golf stance will set you up for a great golf swing and a better chance of playing to your target. Get it wrong and it could all fall apart. By building a step by step routine to get your body in place, poised with stability and balance is the key.

Like any routine you want it to become second nature and identical each time to build in the best chance of executing a consistent swing and shot. Whether it is for a driver off the tee, a fairway shot or your short game and putting.

Your golf swing needs stability, a strong base and balance over your center of gravity each time. You want to reduce or even eliminate as much horizontal and vertical movement as you can.

Let’s build your golf stance starting from your feet.

Starting with your address depending on the plane you want to swing on, address the ball with the club face first, then your front foot and lining your back foot to your line. Set your feet slightly wider than your shoulders for added stability and balance.

If you are looking for accuracy and consistency swing from shoulder to shoulder. If you bend from the hips and have a flatter swing plane you will reduce playing with your hands too much. Or up and down movement as in a steep golf swing. Most golfers talk about cocking their wrists and lose control of the club.

Posture is everything in golf. A straight spine, stand tall. Feel stable on your feet. Both feet square to your line. Obviously your line may differ based on how you think the ball will behave in the air and where it lands on the ground. Will it roll, bounce or simply sit up.

Obviously, your feet width will change depending on the length of the club. Clubface square to the ball and your line. Your hands, chest, shoulders, arms and hands an extension of the golf club moving together.

A straight spine is the key to a full rotation around the spine through your backswing, transition, downswing and follow through.

Depending on what club you are playing and whether you want to hit down on the ball in your short game or through the ball will determine your ball placement in your stance. Closer to the front, middle or slightly back of middle. Most golfers end up too close to the ball. Standing tall, bend at the hips till the club face meets the ball and flex the knees slightly.

Don’t bend your back or shoulders. It will cause complications in your golf swing and potential injury. By bending at the hips and maintaining a straight spine and posture to meet the ball you will find you are the right distance from the ball.

Head needs to be centred over the ball and slightly turned away to allow rotation. Your know your head is moving in your golf swing if the ball moves or you lose sight of it at all. Keep your eye on the ball through the golf swing.

Here’s a little trick to stay firmly grounded through your feet, wriggle your toes. Your golf stance is the key to setting up a successful golf swing and developing great ball control with various shots.

Above all build it into your golf routines. Keep it simple, make it second nature. See it, feel it, and notice more and more distinctions in your body of what feels right.

Your golf stance is the first step in setting up a consistent golf swing on your path to golfing excellence.

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Games Guy | September 23, 2010

Confidence is they key to success for any young golfer.  Once a child has confidence there is no limits to what he or she can accomplish on the golf course.Successful repetition builds confidence.There isn’t a better way to build confidence in your child’s swing than through use of the Explanar Jr Training System.

The Explanar Jr Training System is by far one of the simplest and most effective swing aids for children on the market today.Think of the value of having what amouts to a personal coach guide your child through each practice swing.The hoop guide your child as he or she develops almost effortlessly a rote golf swing so crucial to a golfer’s foundation.

Why must the Power Roller be so heavy some have asked?  The answer is quite simple.Really, it makes perfect sense if you take a second to think about it.Training and developing the muscle groups crucial to a golf swing is accomplished by the design of the Explanar Jr Training System.Think of it in terms professional sprinting.  These sprinters do innumerable squats to develop explosive leg speed.The type of explosive muscle power they need to sprint.Much in the same fashion, the Explanar Jr Training System uses the Power Roller.  In other words “train the way you are going to play!”

Others have asked “Is the Explanar Jr Training System just another swing hoop?” Absolutely not! The Explanar is quite simply the most complete teaching, training and golf fitness system in the world. Designed by PGA Professional, Luther Blacklock, the patented Plane Fin, Radial Stance Mat, Power Roller and sturdy frame, deliver a unique combination that ensures golfers of all standards gain the maximum benefit.

One please customer wrote the following,”The Explanar an excellent golf training aid. It really helps you develop a consistent swing plane and will help you with golf fitness as well. I can tell you that it is helping me develop a solid on plane swing that I can repeat which is vastly improving my enjoyment of the game even though I haven’t broken any course records just yet. Without a doubt, I’d buy it again.”

You really can do no better for your child than the Explanar Jr Training System.

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