The importance of electrical flow in the golf swing and Goat Humping Part 3.

Goat humpers, listen in, the reason for this is all connected partly to tonic muscles, goat humping is another term for early extenstion or the pelvis pushing towards the golf ball in either the backswing/downswing or both. The buzz word for correcting this is 'STRETCH THE HAMSTRINGS' and this information is partly correct, the reason for tight hamstrings can be linked to a core deficiency (this will require a whole other blog), which would need to be addressed for a long term correction with stretching. So the hamstrings are on the posterior or rear part of the leg and as any anatomy book would show, these muscle are rather large, attaching to the sitz bone which is located on the back end of the pelvis, it is easy to see that a tightness here would tip the pelvis backward (imagine the pelvis as a bowl of water and you are tipping the water out the back), this is the same move that is seen as Goat Humping in the golf swing. The brain hyper recruites the hamstrings pushing the pelvis towards the ball. So the common area of stretching is located at the hip section of the muscle, hmmmmmm.
Testing of the hamstrings should be preformed at the segmental level of the spine, how the spine moves determines the true length of the hamstrings. The biggest mistake out there is a belief that one should stretch the muscles at the hip end only, but the hamstrings are controlled on two separate nerve routes, the peronial nerve and the sciatic nerve, thus either the hip end or the knee end may be tight individually or both. Please note that the hamstring and the gastrocs/calf muscles have an intimate relationship with each other as both ligaments cross the knee joint, if the hamstrings are tight so are the gastrocs, if the gastrocs are tight so are the hamstrings, and don't forget if the gastrocs are tight they all add to the Goat Humping sydrome, any questions please email me and I will be happy to go into more detail.

Happy Golfing ;)