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"A correct pivot motion is the Life Blood of any Athletic Swing".
  


This was quoted by David Leadbetter back in 1990 and continues to be reinforced by many coaches in many sports.
  


More recently, the critical role of Ground Reaction Forces (GRF) is now recognised as the underpinning keystone to improving and strengthening the pivot motion for rotational sports.
  


The Swippler© and The Musher© products are designed to enable the individual to better feel how all the muscles and skeletal movement work from the ground up to better control and provide a free flowing pivot motion. By enabling a force presentation which minimises unnecessary muscle engagement the individual can better sense how body motion can be improved and strengthened for general body movement and specifically the rotational movement which is an aspect of many sports.

It is important to recognise that the pivoting motion has the appearance of a turning motion, but if the pivot is not correctly understood then a seemingly correct turn does not provide rotational consistency or rotational power. The pivot needs to be correctly sensed from the ground up which means that the feet need to sense the correct engagement with the ground and then consistently reproduce this feel.

The Swippler range of products include The Swippler (original) and The Swippler GRF.

The GRF product enables the individual to feel the critical initial stages of how the body goes from a preparatory state for generating rotational power to the sequence leading to the full delivery of rotational power through the shoulders and along the arms. The key aspects of the Swippler GRF are that it assists the individual in sensing and developing the core body movements which minimise the incorrect use of the arm muscles and gives a coordinated body sense of how the force of inertia is correctly overcome. The individual focuses on how the feet feel in engaging the ground and the accuracy of a pivoted force delivery for rotational power.

The Swippler (original) product is a light weight device which enables the individual to minimise the instinctive desire to incorrectly use wrist leverage in a swinging motion. By focusing on the correct pivot motion The Swippler enables the individual to feel the power of centrifugal force with a physical “thwack” that can be both heard and felt through the hands.

The Swippler© products are designed to enable the individual to better feel how all the muscles and skeletal movement work from the ground up to better control and provide a free flowing pivot motion. By enabling a force presentation which minimises unnecessary muscle engagement the individual can better sense how body motion can be improved and strengthened for general body movement and specifically the rotational movement which is an aspect of many sports.

It is important to recognise that the pivoting motion has the appearance of a turning motion, but if the pivot is not correctly understood then a seemingly correct turn does not provide rotational consistency or rotational power. The pivot needs to be correctly sensed from the ground up which means that the feet need to sense the correct engagement with the ground and then consistently reproduce this feel.

The most important upper body muscle in the golf swing is the left latissimus dorsi. This large, flat muscle connects the pelvis to the upper left arm.

When the legs drive the hips around during the downswing the latissimus dorsi is stretched and instinctively contracts (like a knee jerk reflex) to produce elastic power through impact.

It is absolutely imperative that the golfer senses this stretch which can only be achieved by the golfer maintaining the back muscles in a relatively relaxed state throughout the golf swing.

The elastic power of the stretch-shortening cycle is instinctive. The golfer only needs to retain the conditions for it to happen.

The Musher and The Swippler products provide a feel and a resistance which enables the golfer to fully appreciate how this back muscle is imperative for successful golf. The most common problem for golfers is the incorrect involvement of the arms and shoulders. By getting the correct feel of how the back muscles power the golf swing, golfers quickly move to a new level of performance.



The Swippler© takes its name from "swipple," denoting the freely swinging portion of a flail. This nomenclature is not arbitrary; it's a testament to the profound influence of Dr. David Williams' book, "The Science of The Golf Swing." Dr Williams simplifies the mathematical complexities of the golf swing and sports swings in general, unveiling a revelation that the swing of a club, bat, racket, stick is, fundamentally, a "flail" action produced by a pivot motion.

The brilliance of Dr Williams' book is how he relates the physics of a sports swing motion to very understandable concepts for any individual to use. The key aspect of power and consistency in a sports swing lies in the ability for the shoulders to be freely powered through a correct pivoting motion. (www.thescienceofthegolfswing.com).

The Musher products have IP protection under patent number US 12,403,355.