November 4th, 2010

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More Great Information on Strength Grip:

The Golf Grip - How Hard Should You Hold It? by Nick Bayley

Keeping a solid and firm golf grip while swinging is critical to your golfing consistency and success. Now there are many different "ideas" on how hard you should grip the golf club, e.g. hold the grip as though you’re holding a baby bird OR hold the grip as tight as you would a loaf of bread etc., etc. But the bottom line really is not so much how hard you hold the grip but it’s how hard you don’t hold it.

What do I mean?

Well in an ideal world you should hold the golf grip just hard enough so it doesn’t slip or move around when you swing. Now how hard that is for you or me varies greatly on the strength of our hands.

If you have very strong hands then you may not need to hold the golf grip as hard as, say, I would. So the defining line on how hard to golf grip a club is by how much it moves and here’s a great way to determine your golf grip movement.

Line up 6 balls in a row on tees and then start at the first one and hit it and don’t alter your golf grip and then hit the next ball and the next one. And if you come to a point when you can’t hit the ball because your golf grip is nothing like it should be then you know that your golf grip has slipped when you’ve swung. If you can’t hit the second shot because of your grip movement then you’ve got a grip slippage problem that needs fixing fast.

The main key to your grip slipping will most probably be due to your top hand moving. So here’s a simple exercise you can do to help fix this.

Grip the golf club as normal. But just before you swing place a golf tee between the pad of your left hand and the golf grip. Now this golf tee should be securely in place by the pressure that you're placing on the golf grip with your left hand. Once it is you simply need to swing as normal and keep the tee in place.

Naturally this can only happen if you don't move your top hand grip. And this will happen naturally just by you being aware of the golf tee and trying to keep it in place. Then after some practice with this exercise go back and do the 6 ball exercise and see if you've improved your grip security.

I'm sure you will find you have improved it. So try this and see for yourself.

Nick Bayley is a professional golfer who has discovered just one golf swing fault that could be stopping YOU from ball striking consistency and success. But luckily for you, now you can take a simple 2 minute golf swing test to see if you have this swing fault or not. So don't delay! Go here to take The Golf Swing Test now.

Article Source: http://www.earticlesonline.com/Article/The-Golf-Grip---How-Hard-Should-You-Hold-It-/234339

Do you enjoy my poem? if not why?

Legacy

In the empty sardine can
of the 1930’s
great grand dad
ghosted that riverbank each midnight
each midday
bloomed moonshine
hidden in the cross sticks, cat tail, and thickets
enough to save family land.

In the pig iron anniversary of the new millennium
the still sleeps in the attic of the machine shop
tucked tightly in a mouse chewed burlap sack.

On my 30th birthday dad dusts off
the last ancient gallon jug
holding less than
half inch of mash now.

On the back porch
we each take a thimble sip
dad whistles in thru teeth to cool his throat
looks at the corn moon
mumbles
re-corks with machinist strength
grips my shoulder
smiles;

Don’t worry son
if we need to we can always make more.

I did enjoy this poem! i think you have acheived your purpose of showing the reader a family legacy, of setting the right mood. there are some really rich lines and details.

if i can make a few suggestions...the first couple of lines seem awkward to me, maybe use an epigraph at the beginning i.e. dedicating the poem to your great grandfather and dating it there? (the 1930 is disconnected for me as a reader). Possibly starting the first stanza with:
Each midnight,
great grand dad ghosted
the riverbank,
each midday...etc.

also, maybe you can combine stanzas 2 and 3 so there is more flow between them. i.e.
On my thirtieth birthday
the pig iron anniversary...
and then make getting the bottle out one action, your father dusting off the last bottle hidden in the burlap sack...
also, the last two lines, are they too neat? could you end with your father smiling?

thanks for sharing!

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