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This article presents our new methodical tips for an improved transfer of energy to the golf ball.

Every day, golfers from all over the world ask me about the ultimate tip for an improved golf swing: “What do I have to do in order to make my golf swing more precise and especially reproducible?”

My response to this question never varies: “Improve your impact angle upon contact with the ball.” This advice is always followed by the golfer’s next question, as to how to achieve this target: “Can you tell me what a perfect impact angle looks like and what I have to do to achieve it?”

The perfect impact angle in order to achieve the best possible transfer of energy from the club head to the golf ball requires an angle of 90° between the ball and the sweet spot of the club face. Minor divergences of a club face that is open or closed by up to 2.5° are within the tolerance zone. Within this ideal range of angles of the club face, each ball hit well should land on the fairway.

I employ the following training concept during my work with tour professionals in order to teach these players an improved impact angle in a step-by-step process.

1^st Step:

Training and training sessions with amateurs and tour professionals alike are preceded by a health plan. A reproducible healthy golf swing is the only way to ensure highest performance levels in the long term. For me, this includes, at all times and without exception, use of the “Easy Turning Shoe” (ETS) with its intelligent swiveling mechanism in the sole. The swiveling mechanism reduces by up to 99% the harmful torsional strain placed on the musculoskeletal system, and on joints in particular, during the downswing and after impact.

2^nd Step:

My pupils always use the “Easy Turning Shoe” when playing golf. It is now possible to achieve simple improvements in motor functions: Reduce the weight shift during the backswing until you achieve a feeling of balance during the set-up-backswing-downswing phase. In order to monitor your balance; simply place each of your feet on separate scales while training. You are well-balanced when each set of scales displays the same weight. At our national performance center for health in golf, biomechanics and performance enhancement, we use modern electronic foot pressure measurement equipment and the Golf Balance Trainer as motor function aids when training tour professionals.

3^rd Step:

Passive legwork becomes active legwork: Having created a feeling for body balance within the Free-Release method during the Balance 1 swing phase (set-up-backswing-downswing), we can now address the next task. It is now important to accelerate the rotation of the hips towards the target during the swing on the basis of active legwork. Active legwork and hip rotation enable the transfer of energy onto the golf ball not only from the arms, but also from the leg muscles. Active legwork begins at the same time as the downswing starts. The right big toe joint provides the impulse through a dynamic turn. The work of the gluteal and leg muscles leads to the rotation of the hips via the dynamic turn, directed towards the target. Active legwork can be trained very effectively using the Golf Balance Trainer.

Practicing in accordance with this training concept will enable you to improve your precision, the transfer of energy and at the same time physiological aspects of your golf swing.

Summary:

1. P using the Easy Turning Shoe and the Free-Release method.

2. No negative weight shift during the backswing.

3. Accelerate your hips on the basis of active legwork.

4. Improve your impact angle.

5. Monitor your impact angle and the transfer of energy using radar measurements.

Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have further questions: dro@free-release.com

Best regards,

Frank Drollinger
# 1 in Golf Biomechanics
(based on measurable results)

http://www.golfdigest.com/golf-instruction/2009-03/injuries?currentPage=2

…yes there is a solution…Easy Turning Shoe and the Free-Release-Method

I am not looking back what Golfers have don; i am not the one who adjust the past; i am the one who looks to the future and want to say: all this is not necessary – there is a alternative: The ETS and the Free-Release-Method……in other sports like Sking they have changed from “Hypermobil Stress Motion Swing” …to the “Carving Swing”…also they optimized the hardware form normal ski to carving ski….the FR-System has the same biomechnics principals…….The spirit of the game and the IOC Charta say that we have to act  in the healthy direction………read the following article which was pupliced at golf.com and you will understand what are the aftermath of ……..torsion……friction…….stress……..torque………during the old “Ben Hogan Swing”….the past was the best we was able to do..but know we know it better…think about the health future of our kids…

Best Frank

(Resource Golf.com) Tiger’s doctor charged with giving PEDs to NFL players

The Canadian doctor who treated Tiger Woods’s injured left knee was charged with unlawful distribution of drugs, including human growth hormone (HGH), to NFL players. U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced the charges on Tuesday.

Federal prosecutors filed a criminal complaint Tuesday at the U.S. District Court in Buffalo charging Dr. Anthony Galea, 50, of Toronto, with making false statements to federal officials, smuggling, unlawful distribution of HGH, introducing an unapproved drug (Actovegin) into interstate commerce and conspiracy to defraud the United States. In total, Galea faces as many as 28 years in prison for the charges and millions in potential fines.

The crux of the complaint involves Galea’s treatment of three NFL players who are not identified. One of the NFL players allegedly received injections of Actovegin from Galea. Actovegin, which is calf’s blood extract used in the treatment of circulatory disorders, is not banned by the NFL, but its use is not approved by the Food and Drug Administration. Another NFL player allegedly had two kits of HGH delivered to his home at Galea’s direction. The third player is alleged to have been treated by Galea numerous times in the United States.

Galea’s billings to these three athletes totaled approximately $200,000, the complaint said.

According to prosecutors, Galea repeatedly entered the United States to treat numerous professional athletes from 2007 to September 2009, including athletes from the NFL, Major League Baseball and the PGA Tour. According to a witness cooperating with prosecutors, Galea is not a licensed doctor in the United States and he understood that treating patients inside the United States was unlawful. The witness accompanied Galea to the Untied States numerous times to treat athletes, according to the complaint.

“The medical procedures described by the cooperating witness that Dr. Galea performed in the United States included but were not limited to a plasma rich platelet (PRP) injections, injection of drug mixtures or ‘cocktails’ into athletes’ knees; IV drips; and ultrasounds and injections of drug mixtures into the sites of muscle tears,” the complaint said. “The PRP procedure involved withdrawing blood from a patient, spinning it in a centrifuge, and re-injecting the plasma into the patient’s body at the site of an injury. The cooperating witness said this procedure was designed to speed the healing process. The cooperating witness said injections into the sites of muscle tears contained Actovegin, as did the IV drips. The cooperating witness also sad Dr. Galea would at times inject a cocktail containing HGH into an athlete. The cooperating witness said HGH injections were designed to help regenerate cartilage growth.”

Several reports identify the cooperating witness as Galea’s former assistant Mary Ann Catalano. According to ESPN, Catalano identified 23 athletes during interviews with U.S. and Canadian authorities whom she said Galea treated in the United States.

At the Masters in April, Woods said that federal investigators had contacted his agent, Mark Steinberg, about the Galea probe, but had not asked to interview him. During that same media conference, Woods unequivocally denied taking any performance-enhancing drugs and said that Galea was treating his left leg after Woods’s knee surgery in 2008.

“(Galea) never gave me HGH or any PEDs. I’ve never taken that my entire life. I’ve never taken any illegal drug, ever, for that matter,” Woods said, going on to explain that Galea had given him “platelet-enriched plasma treatments,” the blood-spinning technique described in the complaint.

In a recent interview with The Golf Channel, Woods’s ex-coach Hank Haney said he witnessed Galea treating Woods’s knee and said that the procedure was legitimate.

“I was there and watched the whole procedure,” Haney said. “There was never anything that went into Tiger Woods’s body that didn’t come out of his body. They take blood out, they spin it, they inject the plasma back in. I totally believe that Tiger Woods has never taken any performance-enhancing drugs.”

Tiger Woods insists there’s “zero connection” between the neck spasms playing havoc with his golf swing and his Nov. 27 car accident.

Woods said during a news conference Monday that his neck started bothering him two weeks before the Masters, his first competition in five months. He brushed it off as “no big deal” and believed he could play through the pain. That changed on Sunday at The Players Championship, where Woods’ creaky neck locked up. That prevented him from making his usual forceful turn on the ball on even a routine shot, and he was forced to withdraw after six holes.

“I’m at a point now where I just can’t go anymore,” he said.

“I want to practice, I want to play, I want to compete, but this is not allowing me to do the things that I need to do on my golf swing to hit the proper shots. I need to get to where I can do that again.”

Woods said he’s been taking anti-inflammatory drugs, but they have not helped. He plans to have an MRI when he returns to Orlando, Fla

We do a lot of sportmedical research in relation to Golf-Biomechanics….again torsion, torsion, …solution: EASY TURNING SHOE

By Frank Drollinger #1 Golf Biomechanics

The good news: you will find your best golf in the future. I have developed the Free-Release-Method. “Free-Release” means that your swing has no resistance during the motion. I have optimized some main functions of body motions as recorded by Ben Hogan 80 years ago.

1. Set up:

In the set up your body weight is divided equally between both feet. You are perfectly balanced; your head stays in the middle and moves only after your club has hit the ball.

1. Backswing:

Start your backswing with the right hip and shoulder, and rotate around your spine; slowly but under pressure; your body weight stays 50:50, keep your left arm stretched. Do not turn your hip more than 45 degrees.

1. Downswing:

Start your downswing with the right big toe. The goal is to speed up your hip. If you can watch the moment of impact, have a look at your hip position. If the hip is in the same position as at the set up you will create no power. Your hip should be already turned 15 to 30 degrees towards the target.

Attention: an ideal active hip rotation is very difficult; you need a very good workout program for this; I recommend a daily training of 5 minutes with the Golf Power Trainer. I developed this training aid especially to help golfers to improve their active leg work.

4. Shortly before impact:

Perform a positive body weight transfer, your wrist will speed the club through the ball. Attention: I recommend wearing the Turning Shoe, because this technique will reduce the strain placed on your joints, cartilage, bones, ligaments, spine and disks.

1. After impact and finish position:

After impact, turn using the mechanical joint in the Turning Shoe. Your eyes focus on the ball towards the target.

Advantages of the Free-Release-Method: less lateral hip movement, no hypermobile point of gravity, repeatable and high end impact quality, improved energy transfer, improved precision, optimal ball spin, perfect ball flight. If you use the Turning Shoe you will not exert stress on the body, and you will have more fun and a better health. Incidentally, the Free-Release golf swing is four times simpler than the old Ben Hogan Method.

Frank Drollinger #1 Golf Biomechanics is the successor to Ben Hogan, because he has optimized the main functions in the swing method that is more than 80 years old. He has optimized the energy transfer to the ball and measures these results with double radar. Tour players are able to improve their game by up to 10 % – amateurs by up to 20 %. Drollinger has created an education program with a 100% money back guarantee. He has also developed the Turning Shoe in order to reduce the strain, protect joints and the cartilage – for golfers of all ages and especially for golfing kids. The Golf Power Trainer is the first training tool with which the student is able to train active leg work, stabilize the central axis and achieve a repeatable swing plane.

Drollinger is based in New York USA and Stuttgart Germany. dro@free-release.com