Learn to analyze your golf swing

When you play golf, besides the results, you must also be aware of our condition. Is our golf equipment suitable for us? The golf course flat or not. How could we enhance our ability? You should learn how to analyze your golf swing.

The golf swing is one of the most critiqued motions in all of sports. There are many forms or methods taught every day on how to play. The one thing that golf instructors or gurus have in common is they break down the swing into components to analyze.

Significance
Great golf clubs are of great significance. And in order to make a proper change to your golf swing, there must first be an analysis. When a swing is analyzed, positive and negative aspects are pointed out. There are also cause-and-effect relationships discussed. A swing analysis can be done with the naked eye, mirror, or video and computer technology.

Video Use
Video analysis has become the norm for most golf academies and top teachers. Video will give the student a visual idea, and a clearer understanding of the lesson. Modern swing analysis programs allow the teacher to slow down the swing into still frames and use computer-generated graphics to analyze. They can tell you if you use your golf clubs properly.

3-D Systems
The most modern form of golf swing analysis uses 3-D images and calculates specific angles and speeds of the body and golf clubs. A particular putting system uses ultrasound to measure the putter’s motion; full swing systems use motion sensors and reflective markers to measure the body motion.

Common Angles
When viewing a swing with video or in the mirror, the best viewpoints are from “square angles.” To view body motion, the best angle is from face on. The best angle to view the club face angle and swing plane is from the “down the line” angle, looking down the ball to target line, or the shoulder line.

Models/Comparisons
A big part of any type of swing analysis is presenting the preferable motion or technique. A golf lesson will start with an analysis of the student’s current swing, then there may be an analysis on a desired model swing, a previous swing from the student or a demonstration from the teacher.

We can buy golf clubs for sale, but we can not make our attitude for sale.

What we should wear in winter golfing?

In winter, should we just give up playing golf and find another substitute? The answer is NO! When we learn how to swing with our golf clubs, we also should how to wear when we play.

When the days get shorter and Canadian air cuts across the course like a knife, serious winter golfers do not quail. They just play a softer ball—perhaps an orange one to stand out against the frosty grass—and pile on strange clothes to brave the elements.

This is a subject this column likes to harp on since we tend to play with our golf equipment more often in late fall and winter, when tee times are readily available and courses tend to be empty. In other words, ideal conditions. Fortunately, apparel makers these days are not only good at making cool, lightweight clothing; they also have perfected fabrics and designs that insulate the player from wind and cold. Here are a few items worth considering in terms of winter survival. Let’s put aside our golf clubs and see what we can choose.

Beginning at the bottom, Nike’s Zoom Bandon boots are kind of an amazement. With their ankle-high fit, they look like Beatle boots or basketball shoes, but they are completely seam-sealed, with a zipper-shroud enclosure (no laces to get wet or dirty). In every other respect, they are stable, balanced, high-performance golf shoes. The Nike Bandon boots (everybody seems to be invoking Bandon Dune Golf Resort, along the rain-swept Oregon coast, for weatherproof clothing) are suitable for all kinds of wet weather, warm or cold.

What sort of jacket or sweater you wear depends on conditions. Perhaps more critical is what you wear close to the skin when you swing your favourite Taylormade R9 Driver. A moisture-wicking compression layer that moves sweat away from the body is essential. Many companies make such form-fitting undergarments. Adidas’ ClimaLite Thermal Compression Mock combines the muscle support and reduced friction benefits of a compression layer with a thermal fabric.

If conditions are frigid, an even more radical choice is Mizuno’s Breath Thermo X-treme shirts (left, $75), which actually grow warmer when wet. We have always been intrigued by Mizuno’s Breath Thermo fabric, a pink fluffy substance that resembles the insulation between the walls of your house. Somehow it works. If you work up a sweat in the beginning of the round, the garment will convert it to heat, thus preventing sundown chill.

Finally, you want to keep your head warm but still look like a golfer. To top things off, try a golf-cap ear band ($12.50), an innovative accessory from a non-golf outfitter, Duluth Trading, the blue-collar workwear company in Minnesota. This simple fleece design goes over your regular golf cap, through a slot cut for the brim, but keeps the ears protected from the biting cold. How’s that for “lobal warming?”

Like looking for the best discount golf clubs, there are probably plenty of other clever ideas that northern golfers use to keep themselves comfortable in the cold.