Over the past 5 weeks I have taught myself to play and practice golf to a decent capability. I have done this by researching the skills and techniques on how to drive a rubber golf ball 60 to 100m, which I have achieved. I have applied knowledge from biomechanics, anatomy and sport psychology. A big part of helping me to achieve this unit was the the goal setting and visualisation aspect of sport physiology. This helped me from the start to see what I wanted to achieve as I strived to reach my goal.
In first day of practising and baseline testing, I had no apparent knowledge of how to successfully hit a golf ball and did not have any of the skills I have since learnt. My swing was extremely unnatural, no follow through, no weight transfer …show more content…
Over my next lot of training sessions I focussed individually on the techniques using mainly part learning with distribution training to train muscle memory of the skill. This is autonomous learning. When working of each skill, sport psychology techniques such as mental rehearsal, goal setting, confidence and self talk played a big factor. Distribution training where one one hit was made and then improved by feedback, adjustments to the shot and videos taking a up a few minutes to make ten shots(give or take). From watching videos online I had a certain visualisation and mental rehearsal of what a good drive looked like and what it would will look like when hit well. This was a difficult and slow part to improve on as you don't know if you are doing it right. The solution to this was to go back and forth between cognitive and associative learning phase to slowly develop the technique. I acheived this by filming myself and watch it after so I knew how well I was doing with each technique. Point of contact is where the club hits the ball and gives it its angle of release (AOR) and initiates its trajectory of the shot. Mastering this skill was difficult and is a skill I needed to further work on if I was to continue improving my golf swing hit. This skill required a …show more content…
Summation of forces is the use of the right muscles in the correct order to get the best most efficient result. This is achieved by using big muscles before small muscles, from the initial start of the swing too the follow through phase at the end. This was applied to golf through sequenced movements to accelerate my swing and hit the ball with as much velocity as possible. Ideally larger muscles such as quads and hamstrings will be used first and then progress into smaller muscles like biceps and triceps. This principle is applied is called inertia. Inertia states that larger and bigger masses take more to get moving than smaller masses but will be a larger force once going. This also mean that large forces/masses will be harder to stop one going. This is Newton's law of motion where F(force) = M(mass) x A(acceleration). Applying this to summation of forces in a golf swing has to do with larger and smaller muscles in the body. When working the muscles together, the larger muscles must be applied first as they take more to get going and then sequentially progressing into smaller muscles. With an incorrect summation of forces will interfere with the inertia being applied acceleration of the club before hitting the ball resulting in the ball not being hit as
In first day of practising and baseline testing, I had no apparent knowledge of how to successfully hit a golf ball and did not have any of the skills I have since learnt. My swing was extremely unnatural, no follow through, no weight transfer …show more content…
Over my next lot of training sessions I focussed individually on the techniques using mainly part learning with distribution training to train muscle memory of the skill. This is autonomous learning. When working of each skill, sport psychology techniques such as mental rehearsal, goal setting, confidence and self talk played a big factor. Distribution training where one one hit was made and then improved by feedback, adjustments to the shot and videos taking a up a few minutes to make ten shots(give or take). From watching videos online I had a certain visualisation and mental rehearsal of what a good drive looked like and what it would will look like when hit well. This was a difficult and slow part to improve on as you don't know if you are doing it right. The solution to this was to go back and forth between cognitive and associative learning phase to slowly develop the technique. I acheived this by filming myself and watch it after so I knew how well I was doing with each technique. Point of contact is where the club hits the ball and gives it its angle of release (AOR) and initiates its trajectory of the shot. Mastering this skill was difficult and is a skill I needed to further work on if I was to continue improving my golf swing hit. This skill required a …show more content…
Summation of forces is the use of the right muscles in the correct order to get the best most efficient result. This is achieved by using big muscles before small muscles, from the initial start of the swing too the follow through phase at the end. This was applied to golf through sequenced movements to accelerate my swing and hit the ball with as much velocity as possible. Ideally larger muscles such as quads and hamstrings will be used first and then progress into smaller muscles like biceps and triceps. This principle is applied is called inertia. Inertia states that larger and bigger masses take more to get moving than smaller masses but will be a larger force once going. This also mean that large forces/masses will be harder to stop one going. This is Newton's law of motion where F(force) = M(mass) x A(acceleration). Applying this to summation of forces in a golf swing has to do with larger and smaller muscles in the body. When working the muscles together, the larger muscles must be applied first as they take more to get going and then sequentially progressing into smaller muscles. With an incorrect summation of forces will interfere with the inertia being applied acceleration of the club before hitting the ball resulting in the ball not being hit as