Friday, February 11, 2011

Golf Swing Comparison with Software Possible

Swing comparison using multiple windows, lines, curves, swing path, colors, layers, easy trim... I'm quite surprised at the diversity functions at an affordable price. It is all there. It is easy to draw and comparing with pros is easy too. The Player's Notebook reminds you about your previous lessons. It helps you progress rapidly. And I'm amazed that this software keeps getting better with each release. I believe this tool is perfect for teaching pros and everyone who quests for a good swing

Golf Swing Video Analysis Benefits

If you want to improve your skills as a player or as a coach then you need video feedback. The use of a video camera is an effective tool to help you improve your golf swing technique. More and more golf professionals are using video and analysis software as a teaching aid to depict faults. Both golf swing analysis software and video camera will help you make the most out of your time at the range. Normally it's difficult to correct a fault, even if you know what you should be doing. This is because you don't see yourself in action. When you watch yourself you can study your golf swing technique in depth, frame by frame, building a picture of what you are trying to achieve.

Friday, June 4, 2010

Golf Swing Improvement: Learning new golf swing and forgetting the old

If you have ever tried to fix a persistent problem with your golf game you will know how true that is.

Like when you last tried to change your grip, correct your putting action or make a swing change, you had to concentrate hard; you made more errors; it took so much time due to mental confusion; and the experience was frustrating and unpleasant.

Thankfully, all those skills coaching sessions appear to be paying off. You practice and practice and your technique on the range shows obvious improvement.

However, as soon as you are out on the golf course and under the stress of competition, your game falls apart and you revert to those old, wrong, ways.

You wanted to change but your brain would not let you change. In the case of your ingrained golf technique problem, you were the prisoner of habit. By a process of psychological interference, your old learning has disabled your new learning.

Cognitive science tells us that whatever we have practiced and learned is protected from change. When the new golf swing you are trying to learn is different from the old swing, your brain instantly detects this conflict and generates habit pattern interference to protect and preserve the old swing.

That's why old habits die hard!

Eventually, you will succeed and make the change over to the new swing but biomechanical experts say that it can take up to 2,000 practices before the new swing consistently replaces the old one. This is called the “adaptation period” and we have all gone through that misery.