{"id":24596,"date":"2025-04-07T16:29:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T16:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/the-powerful-swing-its-2-types-explained-by-jesica-reyes\/"},"modified":"2025-04-07T17:35:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T17:35:26","slug":"the-powerful-swing-its-2-types-explained-by-jesica-reyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/the-powerful-swing-its-2-types-explained-by-jesica-reyes\/","title":{"rendered":"The powerful Swing, its 2 types explained by J\u00e9sica Reyes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"The\"\"<\/a>The two forms of Swing explained<\/h3>\n

CLASSIC SWING: The rotation of the pelvis and hips accompanies the shoulders. In the final phase a more upright position is maintained<\/strong>, avoiding the “inverted C” position. Apparently less injurious<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

MODERN SWING: (pros and cons) This type of swing, booming from the 60’s and 70’s with golfers like Jack Nickauls and Greg Norman, is presented as a technique that allows<\/strong>, for example, to<\/strong> give more height to the ball<\/strong>. It is characterized by a rigid pelvis behind and a maximum rotation of the trunk and shoulders<\/strong>, generating a maximum distance (factor “x”) between shoulders and hips during the technique, an excessive lateral inclination<\/strong> (crunch factor) and an “inverted C” position in the final phase after the stroke<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

These advantages of the modern swing also seem to be postulated as a greater risk of injury, since the forces of rotation<\/strong>, extension and lateral tilt of the lumbar area are increased<\/strong>, mainly affecting the intervertebral disc, ligaments, intervertebral joints and muscles, among others. The dorsal area is also involved in rotation<\/strong>, although to a lesser degree due to the stability<\/strong> conferred by the rib cage. The hip also plays an important role<\/strong>, requiring great stability from its own muscles (gluteus medius, gluteus maximus). <\/p>\n

The possible negative effects of modern Swing\"\"<\/a><\/h3>\n

In those players with low back pain, it is common to<\/strong> find lesions of the intervertebral disc and joints on the right side (side of the lateral tilt in right-handed golfers). At the hip level, we can find differences in the<\/strong> rotational movement<\/strong> between the hips, with less movement in the left hip in the case of right-handed golfers, compared to golfers who do not present pain<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

\"The<\/h3>\n

The keys to avoid the negative effects of Swing<\/h3>\n

Therefore, it is important<\/strong> that in addition to a good “warm-up” (I like more <\/p>\n

If we call it activation or previous preparation) there is a good (personalized) exercise prescription where the strengthening<\/strong> of the CORE<\/strong> muscles, including the lower back, buttocks and -veryimportant-<\/strong> the deep muscles of the abdomen (transverse abdominis and multifidus) are essential objectives to avoid the appearance of discomfort or pain<\/strong> due to a repetitive, demanding and asymmetrical movement such as the golf swing. We will talk about this and much more in my book “Smart Golf” Training for performance and prevention. <\/p>\n

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The two forms of Swing explained CLASSIC SWING: The rotation of the pelvis and hips accompanies the shoulders. In the final phase a more upright position is maintained, avoiding the “inverted C” position. Apparently less injurious. MODERN SWING: (pros and cons) This type of swing, booming from the 60’s and 70’s with golfers like Jack […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_description":"Discover the two types of golf swing: classic and modern, with their benefits and risks to avoid injuries in practice.","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_focus_keyword":"Swing"},"categories":[129],"tags":[402,387],"class_list":["post-24596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-magazine","tag-magazine-no-276","tag-swing-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24596"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24599,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24596\/revisions\/24599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andaluciagolf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}