Tiger Woods withdrew 12th of Mai after he played the first 9 holes with a result of 9 over at TPC Sawgrass. He had a sprained left ankle and knee. As we remember, he had also 4 knee surgeries, a broken tibia on his left leg and an inflammation at his cervical vertebra.
Tiger is not alone with these injuries. Thousands of golfers suffer because they hurt themselves. And nearly all Tour Players are injured. The Center of Excellence for Golf Biomechanics owned by Frank Drollinger has made a file with Tour Players who withdraw because of an injury or who has published their injuries.
The question we have to ask is: what are the reasons for these golf injuries?
Frank Drollinger had the same problems like Tiger. This was the reason why he analyzed the biomechanics of the golf swing and all the hardware. Drollinger had a 20 year long education in biomechanics and also in management systems like “kaizen”.
Frank knows that it is necessary to fix the current status and to cooperate with high qualified research organizations, which are able to measure the stress during one traditional golf swing and the sport medical conclusions.
Frank Drollinger found out that there are two reasons causing stress to the body of golfers:
First main reason are the traditional golf shoes with spikes on the soles. They prevent the natural motion of the construction of the human body during the swing torque.
Drollinger placed a research order at the University of Tübingen in Germany which is an expert in measurements of Newton-Meter during motions.
They found out that each golf swing creates 14 Nm/kg (5lbs/pound) stress because of torsion in the body. Hereby the main stress during the traditional golf swing arises between 0,2 and 0,7 sec. after the ball impact.
These measurements have an additional relation to the individual body weight and club head speed of each golfer. So there is a bandwidth and individual number of stress to the body. But Tiger Woods has more stress because of his peak club head speed of 128 mph, plus his body weight, which is more than the PGA Teaching Pro who was the test person in Germany.
This was the reason why Frank Drollinger looked for a solution which discharges the stress of torsion like a lightning conductor. So he developed a shoe with a fixed sole and a moveable shoe-shaft which is able to turn up to 32 degrees.
The sole moves after the ball impact and therefore has no influence to the ball’s flight. It is useable with every swing philosophy. The University in Tübingen / Germany measured again with the same PGA Teaching Pro and they figured out that they are able to reduce the stress up to 99%.
So Drollinger named his shoe innovation “Turning-Shoe Health Promotor”. The Turning-Shoe has three health advantages:
1. health protection
2. health promotion
3. therapy after injuries.
So this Turning Shoe would not only help Tiger Woods, it helps millions of golfers consider their health as valuable. Drollinger ckecked also the rules of golf. They say, that you are not allowed to injure other golfers. The conclusion of this is therefore that a golfer has to play under a human ethical spirit – so a golfer is not allowed to injure himself. Also the prupose of Anti-Doping has the purpose to promote golfers health. So it is also in an direct relation that we have to pursuit an motor healthy swing way. Last but not least golf is since 2009 under the big picture of the Olympic Spirit. This emphases claims of The Rules of Golf. The IOC has an special Medical Code. April 2011 the Medical Commission has had an World Conference with 940 attendies with the main headline of “Injuriy and illness prevention in Olympic Sport. Drollinger said also Tour Players and Teaching Pros are sportmedical examples for all golfer. So all what they do is under the duty to care about the health of the game.
The second reason of golf injuries is the kind of the traditional swing motion. The great Ben Hogan has fixed this motion more than 50 years ago. In Drollingers opinion Ben Hogan was the greatest golfer in lifetime. But the evolution moves in all areas of human activity. Drollinger has the experience in paradigm changes in Alpin Ski Sport. They changed the traditional swing to the Carving Ski Swing System with a lot of performance advantages.
So Drollinger knows how to describe a method. He was educated to use the method model of Prof. Dr. Göhner, a well know sport scientist. So Drollinger shared the traditional golf swing in all his main functions, which was necessary to permute the total swing motion. Frank find out that there are some motions which are unhealthy and avoid an high end energy transfer quality to the ball. One of this motion parts are the lateral motion of the hip during the backswing and also the lateral motion during the front swing. The first lateral motion has the result that we find 85 % of the body weight on the right foot. So every biomechanical expert, physicist, or technical engineer will conform that during this static situation, the muscles are not able to work active. So the arm motion in the downswing is faster that the passive legwork. This has the result, that the big muscles of the leg has no energy influence to the club head and ball speed.
So Frank Drollinger, who self has the claim that his active swing method he named Free-Release, is the follower method of the great Ben Hogan, changed the lateral motion during the back swing to an rotational motion around the core point. The advantages of this swing evolution are huge. First the golfer is able to use his main muscles for additional swing energy. Also he is able to fix his core nearly up to the ball impact. The result of fixing the core – Frank use foot preasure plates to measure this core quality – is the possibility for an repeatable ball impact. Frank measures this quality by the ankle position of the club head in relation to the parallel ball axis to the target horizon
And further advantage using this swing method is that the possibilities for swing motion mistakes are reduced by a factor of 4. This has the good news for golfers that the learing progress will rise 8 times faster. This means that a student who use the “Golf Active Method Free-Release” will need 8 times less time to learn. So students save a lot of money.
Therefore the “Golf Acitve Method” is able to improve the performance of each golfer up to 35%. Tour Players up to 20% in energy transfer to the ball and measureable precision.
Drollingers method supports also health promotion, because this really new method reduces the unhealthy stress to the body significantly.
So there is not only hope for the health of Tiger. There is hope for millions of injured golfers and millions of golfers who despaire of the difficulty of the old unhealthy “Torison-Swing-Method”.
Tiger is unguilty – his “old shoe system” and the “Torsion Swing Method” are responsible for his injuries and swing problems.
The “Golf Acitve Method Free-Relase” is a multiple weapon for golfers health and swing quality.
About Frank Drollinger:
48 years old and was trained 20 years in biomechanics, motion- and motor failure analysis.
He was able to develop a really new golf-swing-method called “Golf-Active-Method FREE-RELEASE ®” due to his education to become an evaluator and his studies of management systems like “Kaizen” in addition with his sport scientific education. It’s the only follower method of the great Ben Hogan, based on the methodology of Prof. Göhner.
• He is publisher of the Bookazin “Golf Biomachanics”,
• the DVD and the iPhone App “Golf-Power-Axis”
• the audio-book “FREE-RELEASE ®”,
• inventor of the “FREE-RELEASE Golf Shoe “Health Promotor” which conducts the stress caused by torsion after ball impact.
• Drollinger also invented the “Golf Balance Trainer” which is the first training gear which combines the training of active legwork with the training of swing balance.
• His book “Golf-Aktiv-Methode FREE-RELEASE®” will be published in June 2011.
• Drollinger is initiator of the research program “Golf-Biomechanics” at the Uni Tübingen, Germany
• of the case studies at the “Rennbahnklinik Basel”, Swiss;
• field tests with 4000 golfers about the topic ankle position of hip and shoulder at the X-Factors 1,2,3.
• As head of the “Center of Excellence Golf Active Method FREE-RELEASE ®”
• As a head of the “Golf Biomechanics Academy Frank Drollinger”
• he also invented the Golf-Balance-Check and “Motoric Taping”
• and trained more than 250 medical experts of orthopaedics to become a “Golf-Medical-Coach”.
• Drollinger is considered to be initiator of the implementation of a health management system in golf.
• Furthermore Drollinger teaches top-coaches of tour players and tour players in Europe, Asia and America.
• He offers a biomechanical long term training with the aim to become a tour professional especially for talented young people.