From my blog dated November 30, 2015 entitled “UNDER-LOADING & OVERLOADING TRAINING TO IMPROVE YOUR GOLF SWING SPEED & POWER! (Part 1),” I describe how the golf baton can be used in your normal golf swing practice to improve your speed and power. This cross-training method can be used during your off-season as well.
Keeping a modified golf club, such as the golf baton, in your hand and using the baton as part of your swing practice is very beneficial to maintain the subconscious muscle memory during the winter months. Muscle memory is key to the golfer’s performance on the course. The overload and under-load method with the golf baton should be integral in developing and maintaining your swing mechanics. Just remember that the amount of weight and placement of that weight are crucial to improving your golf swing. The weight should not exceed 20 percent of the weight of a normal golf club.
To reinforce the golf baton theory, there is a great example that dates back to the last seven-and-a-half years of the Vietnam War. Colonel George Robert Hall, who was a U.S. Air Force P.O.W. held at the infamous Hanoi Hilton, used a similar process during his captivity. Colonel Hall spent every day going through the daily drills of playing his home course in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Before his capture, Col. Hall’s handicap was a four (4). After Col. Hall’s release in February of 1973, he played in the New Orleans P.O.W. Pro-Am Open the next month, in March of ’73. He managed to shoot a 76, his handicap of four (4). He contributed his performance to his mental practice of using his golf sequence, similar to the three simple ones in my book, The ESPY Golf Swing Coach.
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My golf baton is a sawed-off, regular golf club shaft that I found in the trash at my local golf course. The specific length of my golf baton is 22″, with a weight called IGOTCHA® that I placed approximately 8-inches down from the bottom of the grip. The IGOTCHA® weight, plus the sawed-off shaft, weighs 20 percent more than my normal golf club, or 11.52 oz. Using a heavier weight than 20 percent of the normal club will jeopardize your swing mechanics and neuromuscular skills that you’re trying to improve.
This cross-training procedure has a second benefit that will allow you to use the golf baton during your normal course of the day. There is medical research that proves that swinging your arms improves creativity and cardiovascular health.
Swinging your arms increases and improves cognitive activity to make you become more proficient at problem-solving. This is what Tom Cruise did by waggling the baseball bat in the movie, A Few Good Men, as he helped to develop their strategy on the JAG case they were working on in his living room.
Swinging the golf baton not only maintains your golf fundamentals, especially during the off-season, but also increases your mental health and ergonomic exercises. The golf baton is an extremely simple device that the golfer can make and use to improve their golf game and benefit their creativity.
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I would like to recommend a wonderful radio program that I regularly listen to on my I-Heart Radio app to KARN 102.9 FM station out of Little Rock, AR. They air a golf show called “Arkansas Fairways and Greens,” at 7:00 AM CT each Saturday morning, hosted by Bob Steel and Jay Fox. Bob occasionally has on his show a guest named Shawn Humphries, a Professional Golf Instructor from Dallas, Texas. One thing that Mr. Humphries stresses is the mental part of golf, not focusing on the results but the process.