Basic Body Movements You Need To Learn 
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The Perfect Posture For Your Golf Swing (Part 1) 
 
You have arrived at your ball on the tee or on the grass. Now: 
  • How far over do you bend at your hips? 
  • How much do you bend your knees? 
  • Where are your arms supposed to be? 
  • What about your back and head positions? 
  • What did that guy on TV say about parallel lines, anyway? 
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    In this article you will learn some information that will improve your golf swing dramatically. Some of my golf students get amazing improvements to their golf swing simply by being in the correct posture before they carry out their swing motions. 
     
    When you are in your best possible posture you can almost feel a good swing before you actually do your swing. 
     
    This article is in four parts. It will: 
    1. Describe a routine that you can do in front of a mirror to train yourself how to be in most of the correct posture angles without using a golf club. Pt. 1 
    2. Show you how to have perfect body alignments. Pt. 2 
    3. Show you how to achieve all of the correct posture angles with a golf club. Pt. 3 
    4. Describe a quick way to ensure you are in the correct body angles during your round of golf or while practicing. Pt. 4 
     
    1. The Basic Training Routine 
     
    Here are the steps to get into a good posture. Do them in front of mirror so you can get feedback of the movements you make and the positions you achieve. Below the photos you can read some comments about how some of the steps prepare you for parts of your actual golf swing. 
     
    To learn about your video swing analysis opportunity.
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
  • Stand at attention with your feet about shoulder width apart. 
  • Reach out your arms so that your hands are almost straight out from your shoulders. 
  • Grab your left thumb with your right hand (right thumb with left hand for lefties.) 
  • Firm your whole body to maintain body control for the coming movements.
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  • Lower your arms until you feel the top of your arms touch your ribs just under your armpits. 
  • Snug your arms lightly downwards and inwards to your ribs. 
  • See notes below about the touch.
  • I remind golf students of this step with one word — TOUCH. 
  • By maintaining this touch position in the arc of your return swing to the ball you will avoid many of the bad swing results golfers experience. But, the “one wrong thought” I wrote about in a previous article makes most golfers lose the control and precision that this “touch” provides. 
  • Maintaining this “touch” is one of the “don’t moves” which I teach. It is at this point that I tell golf students that “there is power in no movement”. 
  • Future articles and my golf lesson modules will provide more detail of what this “touch” will give to your golf swing. 
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    Tilt your left thumb downwards as far as you can. 
    See photo below for this angle
  • Lefties are to tilt your right thumb downwards. 
  • Do not twist your hands or your wrists to do this step. 
  • You will feel a noticeable stretch in your left forearm. 
  • This stretch sets you up to swing any club you use so the club does not dig into the ground behind the ball. 
  • More detail on this will be available in future articles.
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    Bend forward at your hip joints. 
     
  • Try several bend angles at your hips when you do this step. 
  • Keep your back as straight as it was before you bent forward. 
  • Keep your head from drooping downwards 
  • More on this step in the part where I describe the same steps using a golf club.
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    Bend your knees forward until the muscles just above your kneecaps start to firm up to prevent you from falling to your knees.
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    Several of my golf students bring their hips forward with their knees. You must avoid this as it brings your hips under your shoulders causing your balance to move backwards onto your heels. Think of some of these thoughts when bending your knees: 
  • Bend your knees forward and reach your hips backwards. 
  • Get into the ready position common to most sports. 
  • Get into the position you need to push a vehicle out of a snow bank or mud-puddle or to move a sofa/couch to vacuum the floor. 
  • If you are familiar with any kind of baseball then you make the bend of the knees the same as the back catcher starting the squat position. 
  • If these thoughts don’t help you get the knee bend correct then — picture yourself beginning the first movement of sitting on a toilet seat. (My junior golfers love that tip.) 
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    Correctly doing this move will usually place your shoulders slightly forward of the front of your shoes. It will also place your hip joints over or slightly behind your heels. 
     
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    Side Posture Video Clip 
    Facing Posture Video Clip 
     
    Practice the 4 main steps above facing the mirror and standing sideways to the mirror. In fact, do so in both sideways positions. 
     
    End of Part 1       Click here for Part 2 
     
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    Many of my golf students come to me for a low-cost intro to golf. Another reason they come to me is that they are intimidated by the very good abilities of the "golf pro". As well, they often are confused by the golf "lingo" and "cliches" which have evolved into golf conversation and instruction. I stay away from those terms. 
     
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    Here is a partial list of my series of articles: 
    Basic body movements are fundamental to a good golf swing. 
     
    Basic body movement is essential in any sport. Basic body movement also means limiting movement to the essential movement for what you want to do. We control the desired movement. We prevent unwanted movement. Find out more
     
    You develop some good golf swing skills and you hit many good drives at the driving range. You arrive at the golf course but your good swing and good hits stayed at home. The golf course scenery can cause this in an unusual way. One logical but wrong thought... Find out more
     
    This article is an overview of the various steps you could follow to hit your next golf ball. By following this method you will progress towards thinking of very few things to do. Find out more
     
    4. One Piece Takeaway (includes pictures and video clips) 
    One conscious move for your backswing? Wow! Most of my backswing can be done with one simple movment? Read on to learn some needed understanding of how this can be achieved. 
     
     
     
     
     
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