Most all sports crossover. Your body is a pattern machine. It does not know if you are playing golf or tennis or baseball. It is just duplicating or learning patterns. Once you learn a pattern it is transferable to other sports. So any sport that you play has application to golf. And if you play golf it has applications and direct crossovers to other sports. So rather than learn something new why not use what you already know. Most of the motions you make in a swing you already know how to do them. You are doing them every day just moving around and being involved in the universe.
Malaska Golf Certified Instructor, Pepe Cortez, illustrates how his passion for racquetball connects to the golf game.
Do sports really connect? Well, your body is a pattern machine.
Let's talk about fitness, nutrition, and how it all works together.
There are two basic movement patterns:
1. Throw (or Lag in Golf)
2. Hit (Impact)
Baseball and Golf Connect
Tennis and Golf Connect
Basketball and Golf Connect
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Spring Training 2022. Tee it up and start the golf season off right. Learn how baseball and golf connect. Start slow and build up speed.
Loading into the right heel and learning how your right leg works makes it easy to use your hands and arms correctly in the golf swing.
Throwing a baseball and hitting a baseball have the same timing in the lag of the wrist and change of direction as in golf.
Using underhand throwing or tossing a ball will help you learn how to make your golf swing.
How you throw a fastball, a curveball, and a slider in baseball is how you hit a hook, draw, and straight in golf.
Triggering your golf swing starts with force going forward to go back to go forward again in the golf swing.
Learning the lever system by throwing and hitting the ball is the best way to begin and will help build your swing.
The hand action and the lever system with a baseball swing are the same as the golf club in a golf swing.
The throwing action of a baseball, the lag or loading of your wrists, is the same feeling and movement as hitting a golf ball.
Hitting a pickleball is very similar to hitting a golf ball. Mike takes a pickleball racquet and attaches it to a golf club to help explain the similarities.
Hitting a drop shot in pickleball, or a fade in golf are very similar. On the flipside, applying topspin to the ball is very similar to a coming slightly from the inside in golf.
What and when is the transition in pickleball? Similar to golf, when your racquet (or club) goes back, your body moves forward.
Controlling the face, adjusting the path, controlling timing, all come into play when hitting a moving ball. If you can hit a moving ball, you should be able to apply those same skills to a stationary ball.
Mike sits down with MLB Hitting Coach Craig Wallenbrock to discuss the similarities between the golf swing and the baseball swing.
Mike dives in to what foot action from a chair feels like and Craig gives his understanding of how that plays into the baseball swing.
Mike and Craig discuss the importance of arms and hands in golf and baseball.
Mike gives Ron a quick player lesson and diagnoses some of his swing habits.
Mike helps Chris with his grip on the golf club and how to associate his golf club swing with a baseball swing.
