Hi Guys,

Just so you know, I have been in the bodywork industry for the past 13 yrs rehabilitating injuries and postural conditions. So please understand that my comment come with education and experience about the human body.

The guy who wrote that article is extraordinarily uneducated about human movement. He may be very experienced in playing golf, maybe even teaching people how to play, but as far as anatomy goes he has got it wrong on many levels. So I wouldn't give it a lot of time and take it with a grain of salt. Isn't it funny how when someone starts quoting anatomy with what they write about it suddenly sounds like it is of much greater value.

The one thing I did notice in his examples of "grippers" was that it is the same elbow position advocated by Jim Hardy for a one plane swing. One of the other characteristics of the one plane swing is "passive arms". So I don't understand where he gets this idea of cumulated trauma in the arms from. I have not been involved in golf long enough to be able to tell you if all those people he quoted have a one plane swing or not but maybe someone else can comment.

Also myself being new to golf, as yet I have not encountered someone with the "yipps" yet. I am very interested to personally work with someone to get a better insight, but I suspect it involves the nervous system far more then the musculoskeletal system.

Anyway thats my rant.

Christopher