Sunday, August 19, 2012

Golf Swing Fundamentals

Golf is definitely a game where an individual's discipline, determination, and heart can be measured. While others tend to see the game, when watching golf being played, as completely boring, this sport can truly reel you in. You just need to get ahead with your golf swing.

While the basics are the same for everyone, the differences in body types and mentalities bring forth a multitude of differences in the game that can cause confusion for most beginners. As such, one must adapt to his/her body in learning how to perform the perfect golf swing. While the perfect golf swing is there, it is elusive as it is different for every individual. Practice and knowledge are the keys to success in golf, and muscle memory is what you are trying to ingrain into yourself. Once you have the proper golf swing in your system, confidence in your game and calmness of mind shall follow.

Basic Principles

One of the most fundamental principles that can be applied for immediate improvement in the golf swing is to keep your head still and eyes on the ball. This is to straighten your spine's alignment and to aim at the ball properly. The spine is the axis that you are to swing with, so you have to keep yourself straight in order to achieve any positive result. Keep your head straight by raising your nose up. Your left shoulder should be under your chin by the time you are to swing. Tucking your head into your chest is not the way to go. The best way is to keep everything straight so that you can hit the ball dead center.

Keeping your head straight and with eyes on the ball will definitely help those who have constant problems with their golf swings. The next step required is to assume the correct position of knees and feet. The feet have to be planted onto the ground and the knees are to be straight while allowing pivoting to occur. Bend a little bit forward at the waist and look right at the ball. Minimize hip rotation to prevent swaying and do not overdo your backswing. This way, your left shoulder should hit your chin upon swinging.

Prevent this by lifting your head a bit until your shoulder doesn't hit your chin anymore. In this position, slowly do your backswing and downswing while staying focused on the ball. A practice swing is best done first before actually hitting the ball. Practice your golf swing by focusing on straightening your head and keeping your eyes on the ball.

Position and balance are the most crucial points of a golf swing, leading to consistency and good power. Another thing that needs to be focused on is relaxation. Being tense can only make one's golf swing worse. By relaxing your muscles, you can maintain your balance and flow with the swing as smoothly as possible. Practice this while maintaining your position. While this can be daunting at first, you can make things easier for yourself by breathing at a relaxed pace while maintaining the position without tensing your muscles.

Hold this position for around 15 seconds before doing your swing during practice. Keep your weight even on both feet and try to not tense yourself. This is a good way to improve your golf swing.


PLR@2010

Sports Recreation: Relieve Stress and Have Fun



The world we live in is growing increasingly fast-paced, stressful, and filled with responsibility. Because of this, everyone needs some time to relax and have some recreation. Our modern way of life also tends to be sedentary, and the meals we eat are often not very healthy. Exercise is a very important component in renewing us. For these reasons, sports recreation activities are some of the best recreation we can choose. There are many options for hobbies to provide sports recreation. You may even want to learn some new recreational sports skills.

Courses to learn new sports recreation skills can be found online and in larger cities. You can learn and participate in team sports through the local Y and other organizations. Team sports recreation activities you might like to participate in include softball, baseball, basketball, and sometimes soccer for younger people. Another team sport you might enjoy is bowling. Regardless of your skill level you can find a bowling team to have fun with.

Individual sports recreation activities you can learn and participate in include golf, tennis, running, aerobic dance, gymnastics, and horseback riding. Don't overlook bicycling and weight training too. Many of these sports can be learned at the local Y as well. For some of these, you'll want to have a friend to play against or share the exerience with. Many runners, for instance, like to run with a friend. And games like tennis and handball really need cooperation for best results.

If you'd rather, you can learn about sports recreation skills online. You can find courses to teach almost any sport or activity you can think of including underwater hockey, fly-fishing, and para-gliding in the Alps! Of course, unless you can get some hands-on experience you'll only have the theories of the sport. Still, online courses are a good way to get a taste of different sports and recreational activities you might someday want to try out.

A really fun sports recreation game you might get a chance to play is ping pong. Ping pong, or table tennis as it is sometimes called, is played on a table with rubber coated paddles and extremely lightweight plastic balls. You must hit the ball with your paddle so that it strikes the table and clears the net before your opponent strikes it and bounces it back to you. One way to become more adept at ping pong and increase your chance of winning is to sometimes hit the ball harder than at other times. This keeps your opponent guessing what you will do next.

Sports recreation activities are a great way to get exercise and relieve stress. They are also a lot of fun. Whether with friends or alone, everyone needs a favorite sports recreation to take part in.


PLR@2010

Thursday, May 10, 2012

Buying Your Golf Cart

Golf is a beautiful game and golf carts add to its beauty. Though the usual tradition is to rent golf carts on golf courses, you can actually buy your own golf cart if you can afford it and deem it necessary.

A golf cart’s main use is to transport you on the golf course so that you can have a stress free game. With golf carts you don’t have to travel up and down the course while playing golf, they make the game simple and easy. But this is not its only use, golf carts can also be used to transport yourself round your local community and to the golf course if it’s not too long a distance. You can make your golf cart street legal in conformity with your local laws. The truth is there is no federal law against driving golf carts on the streets, such laws are determined by states and cities.

The popularity of golf carts is quite profound with players living in a retirement community especially one with a golf course. In such communities, golf players simply drive their golf carts down the street straight to the club house and onto the golf course, saving time and labor. In such cases, golfers make their golf carts road worthy by outfitting them with necessary accessories and equipments. These include lights, brake lights, safety belts etc.

These days some country clubs allow their members to buy and customize their golf carts and use them when playing on the golf course. So getting a good golf cart to buy should not really be a problem. The major decision you will have to make is deciding whether buying a golf cart is worth your while. That is a personal decision and is up to you, how much you love the game, if you can afford it, how often you play etc are some of the things that must be considered in making the decision to buy your golf cart.

If you’ve decided that buying a golf cart is a labor and time saving device worth your while, you can get good golf carts easily. There are different brands of golf carts these days, and with so many to choose from you can get the right golf cart for you. Remember that no matter how similar golf carts look, they differ one from another. How they drive their controls etc are part of the things you must familiarize yourself with before making  purchase. That’s the benefit of taking a test drive. Make sure you take your intended buy for a test drive before making a purchase.

There are also many golf cart dealers around, just find one in your general area and check them out to see if they have what you want. The internet comes in handy in finding and buying the right golf carts for you without stress. Make proper use of the internet and you will be able to buy your golf cart easily. If you can afford it, it can serve your needs and it’s worth your while why not go for it?





SUMMARY
Golf carts make playing golf easy. If you can afford it and is worth your while you can buy one easily. Use the internet, find a dealer in your area, check out the golf carts, test drive some and go for one that suits you.

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