Swing training assembly for swing sports including golf, baseball, tennis or hockey
A swing training assembly includes a shuttle, a shuttle travel track, a tensioner, a shuttle displacement line and a shuttle pulley. The shuttle resides in the shuttle travel track and the shuttle pulley and shuttle displacement line are adapted to linearly displace the shuttle to different shuttle positions within the shuttle travel track in response to displacement forces applied to the shuttle pulley by a user pulling on the shuttle displacement line. The tensioner provides an opposing counter-force to control the rate of shuttle displacement. The swing training assembly may also include body positioning limits to maintain proper body alignment while the user pulls on the shuttle displacement line.
1. A swing training method performed while swinging a golf club, wherein a user performing the method has feet, hands, a trail buttock, a lead buttock, a trail hip, a lead hip, a lead shoulder and a lead arm, the method comprising the following steps:
addressing a real golf ball or a phantom golf ball while said feet are planted on a horizontal surface, said trail buttock is in contact with a trail buttock contact surface on a posterior limit aligned substantially perpendicular to said horizontal surface, said trail hip is in contact with a trail hip limit mounted on said posterior limit and aligned substantially perpendicular to said posterior limit and said lead hip is free from contact with a lead hip limit mounted on said posterior limit and aligned substantially perpendicular to said posterior limit;
performing a backswing stage of a golf swing, thereby raising said hands to a height above said trail shoulder while said trail hip remains in contact with said trail hip limit, said trail buttock remains in contact with said trail buttock contact surface and said lead hip remains free from contact with said lead hip limit and said lead shoulder remains free from contact with said lead shoulder limit; and
performing a downswing stage of said golf swing, thereby lowering said hands in a downward arc to a height below said trail shoulder while drawing said lead hip into contact with said lead hip limit, drawing said lead buttock into contact with said lead buttock contact surface, drawing said trail hip away from contact with said trail hip limit and drawing said trail buttock away from contact with said trail buttock contact surface.
2. The swing training method of claim 1 further comprising addressing said real or phantom golf ball while said lead shoulder is free from contact with a lead shoulder limit aligned substantially perpendicular to said posterior limit, performing said backswing stage while said lead shoulder remains free from contact with said lead shoulder limit and performing said downswing stage while drawing said lead shoulder near or into light contact with said lead shoulder limit.
3. The swing training method of claim 2 , wherein the method further comprises,
initiating a follow-through stage of said golf swing having a follow-through swing path, thereby drawing said hands in an upward arc and said lead shoulder into full contact with said lead shoulder limit without laterally linearly displacing said lead shoulder limit,
continuing said follow-through stage of said golf swing to an intermediate point of said follow-through stage, thereby contacting said lead shoulder limit with said lead arm and initiating rotational displacement of said lead shoulder limit in an upward arc away from said follow-through swing path, and
completing said follow-through stage of said golf swing, thereby raising said hands to a height above said lead shoulder while said lead arm rotationally displaces said lead shoulder limit out of said follow-through swing path and free from contact with said golf club and said user.