Struggling Waist

"I had paid attention to everything that I knew, I was swinging fine and hitting good shots, what is going on now?!" Golf likes to throws puzzle at me from time to time, out of the blue.

I was swinging and hitting ball badly, disappointed and disturbed. All a sudden a sensation of muscle spasms from lower back snapped me. On other days, I would have not noticed what the difference was, but on that particular moment, doing the painful practice repeatedly had put a lot of strain on the muscle group and it alerted me. I realized then I had a problem of stretching the lower back muscle properly. Even though I cautiously trying to maintain my spine angle and hips rotation, a discomfort lower back muscles had forced me to think I was doing the right movements which were actually improper.

Golf is interesting; it helps me to understand a lot about body movements which I never knew before. What I noticed then was that like any rubber bands, stored energy in muscle group is lost when it is over stretched. How did I know I sprain too much on the lower back muscle? I tried a simple torso rotation; I could not do it smoothly without consciously controlling my upper shoulder turns. This consciousness confused the swing rhythm of my body and hand synchronization. As a result I was not able to maintain a constant spine angle, even though I thought I did and rotated clumsily even though I thought I didn’t.

I have heard over stretching limbs and over swinging turns, perhaps I should add this new vocabulary of over stretching lower back to my little-white-ball’s dictionary.