The Rule-Free Golf Swing: Improve your game with four simple pictures
The Rule-Free Golf Swing: Improve your game with four simple pictures
Price
$9.99
Format
Paperback
Pages
32
Publisher
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Publication Date
November 22, 2017
ISBN-13
978-1979837163
Dimensions
6 x 0.08 x 9 inches
Weight
2.72 ounces
Description
Professor Chris Riddoch was born in Chester, UK, in 1949. He was a scratch golfer in his teens and represented his college (Borough Road) and county (Cheshire). He had two international trials for England (overlooked, alas). He has degrees in Physical Education and Sport Science and a PhD in Sport Physiology. Chris has worked at the universities of Bath, Bristol, Middlesex and Queens, Belfast and has published over 200 scientific articles on sport and exercise science. He lives in Stockholm, Sweden, with his wife Maya. Other books Winning at Sport: Science, Skill and the New Psychology of Outstanding Performance (2016) Expert Putting: The Science Behind the Stroke (2013) The Golf Swing: It's Easier Than You Think (2012)
Features & Highlights
- IMPROVE YOUR GOLF SWING
- SKILL
- A shortened, refocused, version of
- The Golf Swing: it’s easier than you think
- (2012)
- Did you know that the traditional approach to coaching a golf swing is based on the wrong science?
- This practice guide, based on the principles of
- motor skill science
- (the swing, after all, is a skill!), shows how you can improve your swing using just a few simple images. If you want to stop struggling with endless mechanical swing rules, and instead harness the power of your innate skill-learning systems, this book shows you how.
- Here’s what you’ll learn:
- Why trying to obey mechanical swing rules blocks your improvement
- Why trying to obey mechanical swing rules blocks your improvement
- Why forcing your body through endless angles, positions and movements is unnatural and ineffective
- Why forcing your body through endless angles, positions and movements is unnatural and ineffective
- That the swing is a skill performed by a human, not a set of mechanics performed by a machine
- That the swing is a skill performed by a human, not a set of mechanics performed by a machine
- How a skill-based approach is more effective than a mechanics-based approach
- How a skill-based approach is more effective than a mechanics-based approach
- How focusing on your skill allows improved mechanics to fall into place
- How focusing on your skill allows improved mechanics to fall into place
- How to swap dozens of swing positions for just a handful of more effective images
- How to swap dozens of swing positions for just a handful of more effective images
- How to transfer the skill you develop during practice to the course
- How to transfer the skill you develop during practice to the course
- How you will improve whatever your level: beginner, intermediate or expert
- How you will improve whatever your level: beginner, intermediate or expert
- Stop fighting against millions of years of evolution!
