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David Leadbetter leads a clinic at LGA Leeds in 2015.

David Leadbetter leads a clinic at LGA Leeds in 2015.

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Chris Parker was born in England in February 1978, he grew up in the West Midlands and began playing golf at the age of 8 influenced by his father who is an avid golfer. It was quickly identified that Chris had a natural talent for the game and progressed quickly competing in many amateur and junior tournaments at club and county level, before attending University of Central England. After having a successful University career it was only natural for Chris to pursue a career in golf, turning professional in 1998. In 2002 Chris graduated from the PGA of Great Britain gaining Distinction in Coaching. It was during this time period that Chris was drawn to the teaching and philosophy of David Leadbetter were he began his Leadbetter Certification. In 2003, Chris began working for The Leadbetter Golf Academy in Germany. Moving in 2011 to The Leadbetter Academy in Munich as Senior Instructor and Head of Training were he coached some of the best amateur golfers in the Munich area and accompanied LPGA tour players such as Sandra Gal at European Tour level.

During his time in Germany Chris has presented golf clinics with his fellow members of the LGA team for the British and German PGA, presented at the Malmo, Hamburg, Cologne, and Munich golf exhibitions and wrote several articles covering all different aspects of the game on behalf of the leading German golf magazines.

In 2013 Chris moved back to the UK where he will be found Directing The Leadbetter Academy on behalf of David Leadbetter at Leeds Golf Centre The Home of Modern Golf.

Most winters, Chris finds the time to travel to The Leadbetter Headquarters at Champions Gate Florida, and has had the opportunity to work with David Leadbetter teaching many European and PGA Tour players such as Fredrick Jacobson, Bernd Wiesberger and Gary Boyd, Champions Tour players such as Andy Bean, Mark McNulty, LPGA players such as Na Yeon Choi, Suzanne Pettersen, Sandra Gal, Jennifer Song and many more.

Through the opportunity to work with David and other leading instructors Chris feels that he is continually learning which can only advance his skills and ultimately help those who he teaches. This is what gives Chris the drive to further educate and develop himself to becoming the best possible golf instructor.


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Tuesday 13 June 2017

How your Lag works during your downswing


The Way you ease up during the Downswing


 Easing up on the downswing is important when it comes to speeding up the clubhead toward impact. We call the indicator for revealing how you ease up on the power "natural uncock."

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From the latest findings in sports science(*), we have learned through the modeling of golf swings as pendular movement that the energy of the arms can be more effectively delivered to the club using the natural acceleration of the club itself. In these models, the natural acceleration of the club is utilized by power in the arms being relaxed during the downswing, causing the club head to accelerate.
Natural uncock shows to what extent the speed of one's arms is releasing power, from its maximum to the time of impact.

The reading will be 0% if no power is released, and when power is released, it will rise in keeping with the extent to which it is. If the reading is below 30%, please give thought to how you use power up to the point of impact and look for a timing that will hasten the head speed. Incidentally, in our data, the average of natural uncock for male pros and female pros are about 40% and about 20%, respectively.

(*) This comment is based on three-dimensional duplex pendulum model.  

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