Blog Archive

• ZenoLink – Progressive Skills Training (PST)

  
  

  Training the body in ways that duplicate or utilize activity specific pattern/movement has the greatest impact on improving activity specific coordination.

  To truly harness a body’s functional capacity for strength, mobility, power and achieve significant gains in golf swing performance, a golfer’s physical ability must be shaped into a more efficient and effective coordination. The principles of specificity of training must be applied. Simply stated, the closer an exercise is to producing the actual demands of the activity the more impact it will have on performance.

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• ZenoLink 3D Motion Analysis and Progressive Skill Training

  
  

  

  I am delighted to announce the addition of ZenoLink to my training programs. Golfing students will now be given the opportunity of accelerating the learning and improvement process using 3D Motion Analysis and Progressive Skill Training Program designed by one of the worlds most renowned and most respected figures in the field of Sports Biomechanics Chris Welch.

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  ZenoLink is a cutting-edge component to the holistic approach to golf performance, enabling the instructor to more effectively teach swing mechanics and adding sport-specific Progressive Skills Training to the golfer’s fitness regimen.

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• Tom Wishon’s 12 Myths That Can Wreck Your Golf Game

  
  

  A must read for any golf enthusiast looking to improve their game and the performance of their equipment.

  12 Myths That Could Wreck Your Golf Game is a 32-page booklet of key excerpts from Tom Wishon’s award winning and best selling book, The Search for the Perfect Golf Club. Intended as a teaser for the full Search book or as a means for busy golfers with a short attention span to glean the key information from the Search book, the 12 Myths booklet is a quick resource for learning the most important facts about golf clubs today.

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• Precision Golf – Pro Shop – by Mark Smith

  
  

  Situated in the heart of Hong Kong Island, Precision Golf Pro-Shop offers members and Visitors of the South China Athletic Association Golf Driving Range a full range of professional golf services including custom club fitting using the world renowned Nakashima Golf Studio fitting method, club repair and refurbishment as well as the sale of golf training aids and accessories and of course golf instruction. Precision Golf is putting the Pro back in the name Pro-Shop with the only solely owned Golf Professional Pro- Shop in Hong Kong. Come and find out how we can help you to reach your golfing goals.

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• Mark Smith Golf lessons go digital with V1 GOLF

  
  

  Mark Smith Golf has joined forces with V1 Golf – the leader in golf swing anlysis software to allow online transfer of video used during your lessons and your own online locker to store videos that can be viewed wherever you have an internet connection.

  Giving lessons a Digital Life
  Instantly receive YOUR V1 lessons to your computers, Smartphones (iPhones, Blackberry and others) and Facebook™ pages where you can easily share your videos.

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• Q – I’m interested in fitting my clubs but I’m not sure if my swing is consistent enough. How do I know if my swing is stable enough for club fitting?

  
  

  A – Club fitting is about engineering a set of clubs or a single club relative to your physique and individual swing. For newer golfers it is more about getting the correct club length and lie angle to allow you set up in an athletic stance and matching a shaft flex, and weight and a clubhead design and loft to aid getting the ball airborne. Further characteristics such as grip size will aid in improved control of the golf club. For intermediate or advanced golfers it’s more about dialing in on characteristics such as shaft deflection point and spin rates particularly in the woods and driver club to maximize carry distance and incremental difference in distance between clubs.

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• The Power of the Launch Monitor in Club Fitting

  
  

  Perhaps the biggest development in golf club fitting in recent years is the addition of the launch monitor. The launch monitor provides vital data of both the golf ball and club head prior to, during and following ball impact.

  The following data is compiled by the launch monitor after each shot.
  - Clubhead speed
  - Ball speed
  - Dynamic loft (loft of the clubhead at ball contact)
  - Launch angle (the angle the ball is launched when leaving the clubface)
  - Club head path
  - Clubface angle
  - Angle of attack of the clubhead
  - Rate of ball back spin and side spin
  - Displacement of the ball during and after flight
  - Carry and total distance
  - Efficiency or smash factor

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• Equipment paths the way for junior golfers

  
  

  Choosing the right clubs for your child to golf with is an important step towards their love or hate for the game. I see too many junior golfers in the driving range and at the course using clubs that are too long, too heavy, too upright in lie angle, and too stiff in the shaft.

  Parents often buy clubs thinking that their son or daughter will grow into them just like buying clothes however, with golf, growing into your clubs is a very painful and unrewarding experience. Trust me – I’ve been through it.

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• The lesson before your first golf lesson

  
  

  So you’ve just picked up golf and thinking of finding an instructor and facility to try your hand. There are a number of considerations you must make before booking your first lesson.

  Firstly you must know that Hong Kong is not the exactly the easiest place in the world to take up the game, however if you don’t mind to travel about a bit then you’ll be fine.

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• The five elements of golfing performance

  
  

  
  Are you serious about effective learning and game improvement?
  Regardless of your ability, new golfer or professional golfer, strong consideration must be given to each element of the game.

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