The reason I asked is that one of my students, who is a habitual long-distance swimmer, seems to have difficulty in "memorizing" the swing pattern ("Swinging" basically) learned from the lesson. He was usually fine at the end of the lesson, but fell right back to his old right-side dominant "Hacking" at the beginning of the next one (I believe he went to swim, despite he said no or less often), like a brand-new beginner. I was wondering if his intensive swimming activity (on top of the lack of regularly-scheduled lessons) keeps neutralizing what he learned from the lesson, as well as his old one?
My personal experience couple years ago also suggests a "yes". But my pattern back then relied heavily on timing and coordination, like lateral pivot slide and snapping release, and needed a lot of practice. I believe I'm less affected by (or even can benifit from) the same activity by adapting a rotational pivoting and Automatic Release, which is much less asymmetrical and timing-dependent (need to check on this, though).
So I suspect swimming, which is a symmetrical body activity and can theoretically neutralize an asymmetrical one, may either be benifical or detrimental to a golf swing, depending on the pattern applied or the stage of learning.
It would be interesting, anyway, to conduct a research on that topic, or even other sports.
__________________ Yani Tseng, Go! Go! Go! Yani Tseng Did It Again! YOU load and sustain the "LAG", during which the "LAW" releases it, ideally beyond impact.
"Sustain (Yang/陽) the lag (Yin/陰)" is "the unification of Ying and Yang" (陰陽合一).
The "LAW" creates the "effect", which is the "motion" or "feel", with the "cause", which is the "intent" or "command".
"Lag" is the secret of golf, passion is the secret of life.
Think as a golfer, execute like a robot.
Rotate, twist, spin, turn. Bend the shaft.
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