Tag Archives: Hyperextension

“This Simple Move” To Wreck Your Knee & Ankle (Seriously)

We may be approaching Peak Internet with regards to idiotic golf “instruction,” and I really feel for innocent dupes of these charlatans if we’re not.

I feel it’s too harsh to blame people who follow them and go on to injure themselves, but really, did you ever find anything of worth online that you got absolutely free?

You get what you paid for, usually – I give out free advice but it’s mostly limited to telling people what not to do, given the current state of golf instruction.

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The Knees Are The Shock Absorbers – Don’t Hyperextend The Leading Leg

One of the problems you find in the modern golf swing methodology is that whole “straightening the left leg” concept, of course, ostensibly for generating leverage and thus speed and power in the impact phase.

This is leading to a generation of golfers who will suffer from knee ailments as they inflict incremental damage on that leading knee with the hyper-extension you see in many power swingers. Continue reading