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By: Charles W. Boatright
How the golfer can tap into their dominant baseball swing twin to go from practice to performing instinctively!
It is no mistake that I have on the Minnesota Twin’s baseball jersey in my training photograph, showing how to use the baseball bat on the tee box at my golf course. I was trying to emphasize the golfer’s dominant baseball twin that can be used as a huge potential for the golfer in making effortless golf shots from tee-to-green on the golf course and reach a single-digit handicap.
I’ve had this Minnesota Twin’s baseball jersey ever since one of my favorite American League player’s played center fielder for the Minnesota Twins, and this was the late Kirby Puckett. He was a phenomenal player and athlete. He reminds me a little of another great athlete, Bo Jackson, who played both baseball and football.
Who can forget the time that the Oakland Raiders were playing the Seattle Seahawks, where Bo Jackson ran over Brian Bosworth on November 30, 1987. Or, Bo Jackson throwing out Harold Reynolds at home from left field without a relay. Harold Reynolds had to go into the locker room to see it for himself, as he couldn’t believe it.
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Comparing the Baseball Swing to the Golf Swing
I made two photographs where I marked my shoeprints on the tee box to make sure that I had the same position for both the practiced baseball swing and the golf swing. Then I took both photographs with a computer program, and I was able to overlay the baseball practiced swing over my practiced golf swing, just before impact. I used a high-speed camera to capture both swings right before my wrists unlocked from the preset position.
I’ve done comparisons before of time-lapse photography of both the golf swing and the baseball swing for a Kinesiology research paper that I was doing in 2007. But, I never had the equipment or photo program to overlay them like I have done in the featured photograph above.
The golfer’s subconscious mind treats our golf swing like a self-preservation survival instinct skill. Due to this self-preservation instinct, our subconscious mind won’t perform a new technique without proof or an existing motor skill. This is one reason we, as golfer’s, can’t take our golf swing from practice mode into performance mode. Our subconscious mind is responsible for 90 percent of our golf swing on the course.
Using comparisons like in Figure No. 1, like I have here, will help the golfer convince their subconscious mind to perform a new technique. Unless you can convince the subconscious mind with images and repetition, the subconscious mind will disregard all of those hours and weeks of working on the practice range, backyard, or in your garage.
This the reason that I use video in my coaching sessions, because viewing video heavily influences the subconscious mind. That’s why I mentioned Bo Jackson running over Brian Bosworth; you can remember it, like it was last week. Mental imagery is a very effective self-coaching technique to use, especially since most people have I-phones.
Tapping into Your Dominant Baseball Player Swing
Eighty (80) percent of the golf swing is how we use existing techniques to properly preset the wrist action in the golf swing. Like I have mentioned before, all of your fine motor skills are established before the age of eight (8) or 12. So your subconscious mind won’t support any skills on the course after this period of childhood development. This is the very reason why we all can’t be Tiger Woods. Tiger Woods and his dad start playing golf before Tiger Woods was eight years old. But we aren’t out of options yet, we still have our baseball swing!
On Golf Channel, Charlie Rymer did an excellent interview with David Duval on how he set up his wrist action in the golf swing. Charlie Rymer was so impressed with David Duval’s wrist action in the golf swing that Charlie dubbed it That Wrist Thing. If you get a chance to watch this interview you need to take the opportunity.
Not only will I explain the preset wrist action in the golf swing, but I will also demonstrate the preset wrist action in the golf swing in a few YouTube Videos based on the baseball-type swing. What’s good about YouTube Videos is that you don’t have to make them public. You can make them private, or where just your group can review them. I highly recommend that you put your training sessions on YouTube. They are easier to send as an attachment.
The Palmer-Dorsiflex in the Preset Wrist Action in the Golf Swing
For a right-hander, shown in Figure No. 2, if you’ve ever prepared to throw a baseball with your right hand and threw a baseball with your left hand, like I demonstrated in Figure No. 2 above, you’ve performed the Palmer-Dorsiflex wrist action in the golf swing. The Palmer-Dorsiflex will automatically preset the wrist action in the golf swing into what I call the Lock and the Unlock Position, shown in the feature photograph. The actual name is Palmar Flex, but in honor of Arnold Palmer and to help people remember I referred to if as The Palmer-Dorsiflex.
The reason the Palmer-Dorsiflex is significant to the golfer is first- it is SIMPLE, second- it is INSTINCTIVE, and third- it is REPETITIVE. We can throw a baseball without even thinking, which is key for pitchers and golfers alike. We’ve already got the Palmer-Dorsiflex in our RAM, or Random Access Memory, which is our subconscious mind for athletes. The key word here is Random. We use our conscious mind to establish a very defined and an instinctive golf swing sequence during our practice sessions.
The Palmer-Dorsiflex wrist action in the golf swing will take the golfer from the tee box-to-the-green. This is one reason I personally like using my training facility or, in most golfers’ case, the garage, right where I practice putting. I put together a self-coaching regimen for the golfer to use right in their garage to build and develop reps. This regimen is entitled The Golfer’s Q-GRIP APP Making Practice Permanent.
The term APP stands for Apperception, where an athlete can take permanent motor skills they’ve developed at a young age in one sport (i.e., baseball swing) and apply these same permanent motor skills to another sport (i.e., golf swing). This is the very reason why I put together the superimposed baseball swing over the golf swing photograph.
If you, the golfer, perform what Charlie Rymer referred to as That Wrist Thing, your golf game will not only improve, but, more importantly, become more consistent, both on and off the golf course with more distance and control.
Along with these four (4) YouTube Videos below, the golfer can purchase my QATR-408- The Palmer Technique (Wrist Action in the Golf Swing). This Download goes along with the following YouTube Videos below. If you, the golfer, want to improve your golf swing- Learn how to take your golf swing from the batter’s box to the tee box!
My Quad Apperception Training Sports Performance YouTube Video Library:
Bunt-Rap-Rip Golf Swing Video
Verifying THE QATSPY Golf Swing Medicus Club
TICK-N-TOCK Putting Technique
The Golfer’s Q-GRIP APP Making Practice Permanent
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Southern Heritage Air Foundation ■ Vicksburg Tallulah Regional Airport ■ 175 Circle Airport Rd ■ Tallulah, Louisiana 71282 ■ (318) 574-2731
While traveling through North Louisiana, South Arkansas, visiting The Vicksburg Military National Park in East Mississippi or The Civil Rights Museum in Jackson, MS, The Southern Heritage Air Foundation is a must on your list of Museums to visit for people of all ages. This is a Museum featuring operational aircraft, such as the North American P-51 Mustang, shown below:
As an operational Aviation Museum, the Southern Heritage Air Foundation provides cockpit ticket flights that can be purchased by visitors for a rare opportunity to fly in vintage aircraft, including a World War II P-51 Mustang, featured above. I have flown both fixed and rotor wing aircraft that provides the ultimate adventure and photo op to document your flight. The Sight & Sound of a flight provides a once-in-a-lifetime experience you won’t forget.
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You might have flown first-class commercial aircraft before, but you might not have flown in the cockpit before.
Flight Direction to Southern Heritage Air Foundation
Take Exit No. 182 off I-20 to LA State Route 602 North (Duckport Rd) to Vicksburg/Tallulah Airport on your left.
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