Follow-through is more important than you might think. The motion forms a part of a single motor memory in the brain.
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Siji
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I think follow-through also helps because the swing takes technique and practice, however a follow through is simple. It can help you perfect your stroke by consistently finishing with the same follow-through. So although it doesn't affect the ball, it will in the long-run perfect your technique.
It makes so much sense that your follow-through is an important part of the muscle memory of your swing. Your brain understands the different parts of a swing as one memory. So, if your change one part of your swing, your brain keeps track of that adjustment as an entirely different swing. I would never have thought that making a little change would make it so much harder for me to master my golf swing. Now I know why my coaches want my swing to be constant.
This was a great article.Being a baseball player you need some knowledge on follow through because you do it on a pitch, swing, and a throw. It was especially interesting to know that it takes a longer time to practice more follow throughs. For example, if you were playing golf and one coach told you to follow through a particular way, and then two others told you to follow through a different way, it would be more difficult for you. This is because you have to memorize the technique for more than one follow through. I do agree on how the follow through is important. When you finish a pitch, if you don't have the correct follow through then if the batter hits it back at you, you will not be ready to field or catch the ball. Also, Owen brought up a great point about the coaches. I agree, I understand why they want you to practice one particular thing at a time. As I mentioned earlier, the more consistent your swing or throw is the easier it will be to do when you are in a game situation. Great article!
I thought that this article was very interesting. I never knew how important the follow through is for any sport. This is very important, because in most sports there are follow throughs. In basketball, tennis, golf, baseball, and a lot more. I also liked learning that it is easier to learn just one type of movement than two. If you switch coaches and one does the follow through one way, and your new one does it a different way, then it will be harder for you. This is because your brain has to memorize one type of follow through, and when you do a different kind, your brain changes that follow through. I agree with Owen on that it helps a lot for your swings or hand movements or whatever you do in your sport to be consistent.
I think that the team mentioned here has reached an enormous scientific revelation, one which I believe could revolutionize the education system. Throughout the entire article, it keeps on repeating the same major point: repetition is key. Currently, in most American public schools, teachers often explain an entire subject to their protéges within the course of a week, maybe 2. They never follow up on this subject, and before the day of the test, children often cram to get quick, easy results. If you asked them one of the questions which they answered correctly on the test as little as 2 days later, they would have completely forgotten. I believe that the U.S. should instate a new policy, which requires schools to give recall tests after a week away from the subject. This would force kids to legitimately learn from the textbooks that they would be reading, otherwise they would be penalized. This recollection test would have a few special rules in addition to it's other properties, the most major one being that if you scored lower on the second test than you did the first, you would retain the lower score. While some will most definitely object to this practice, claiming that it makes school to pressured for kids, take a look at the current numbers. Only 40 percent of working age Americans have finished college, a number far to small to compete with other more academic countries. Thank you for listening! Please reply with a rebuttal or other ideas!
I think follow the through is a strange thing because even though the golf ball has already left your club, your follow through matters strangely. Also it is really strange that the muscle memory of one follow through is a lot easier that not having a follow through because then it takes it even harder to perfect. Overall, I think this was brilliant.
This was an extremely informative article. I have always wondered why you need to follow through in tennis, or golf. I wonder though if the follow through has to be perfectly consistent if you are to succeed. For example, if you are throwing a pitch in baseball, do you need to use the same exact leg movement when you are pushing off every time? I did some research http://baseballcamps.com/alltips.cfm, and learned that you don't have to have a perfectly consistent follow through to do the same thing. This means, that if you kick you leg with a slightly different angle every time in baseball, you are likely to get mostly the same results. Overall, I loved the article and will try to follow through more in baseball.
Just asking Siji when you say that the follow threw is part of the technique and that helps I would think other wise. While think that following threw has no negative impact I do not think that it has any positive impact on your form because if like they said motor memory is reacting than it should not change your form because your form was the same to start. Yet at the same time I do understand the perfectly good logic that you used to get to that result. Quickly commenting about Richie's let me just say I do agree with your point that it doesn't matter what sport you are in it helps any way. A third reference is that I also agree that it could be the key to change schools for the better.
Ohhhh! Now I get why my basketball coaches are always like, 'You've got to do the follow through every single time.' I think it's really interesting that the brain can actually kinda control what happens to the ball even after you let go! It's kinda like telekinesis, which is amazing!
It is really cool that the follow-through is an important part of you muscle memory of your swing. I never new that the follow through of the golf swing is so important. I did know that it can lead you to a strong and nice shot. Even though, I agree with Owen, that I did know it was one of the most important move because you can get so much momentum. It is cool that it helps your performance. Also I agree with Richie that it is cool that you need to practice the follow-through even more then anything else. I agree with Richie and Owen, that is why the coaches drill you so hard on this. For example in tennis if you want almost perfect and really good shot you need to practice the follow-though for the momentum. I really enjoyed this article!
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I think follow-through also helps because the swing takes technique and practice, however a follow through is simple. It can help you perfect your stroke by consistently finishing with the same follow-through. So although it doesn't affect the ball, it will in the long-run perfect your technique.
It makes so much sense that your follow-through is an important part of the muscle memory of your swing. Your brain understands the different parts of a swing as one memory. So, if your change one part of your swing, your brain keeps track of that adjustment as an entirely different swing. I would never have thought that making a little change would make it so much harder for me to master my golf swing. Now I know why my coaches want my swing to be constant.
Sorry, consistent not constant.
This was a great article.Being a baseball player you need some knowledge on follow through because you do it on a pitch, swing, and a throw. It was especially interesting to know that it takes a longer time to practice more follow throughs. For example, if you were playing golf and one coach told you to follow through a particular way, and then two others told you to follow through a different way, it would be more difficult for you. This is because you have to memorize the technique for more than one follow through. I do agree on how the follow through is important. When you finish a pitch, if you don't have the correct follow through then if the batter hits it back at you, you will not be ready to field or catch the ball. Also, Owen brought up a great point about the coaches. I agree, I understand why they want you to practice one particular thing at a time. As I mentioned earlier, the more consistent your swing or throw is the easier it will be to do when you are in a game situation. Great article!
I thought that this article was very interesting. I never knew how important the follow through is for any sport. This is very important, because in most sports there are follow throughs. In basketball, tennis, golf, baseball, and a lot more. I also liked learning that it is easier to learn just one type of movement than two. If you switch coaches and one does the follow through one way, and your new one does it a different way, then it will be harder for you. This is because your brain has to memorize one type of follow through, and when you do a different kind, your brain changes that follow through. I agree with Owen on that it helps a lot for your swings or hand movements or whatever you do in your sport to be consistent.
I think that the team mentioned here has reached an enormous scientific revelation, one which I believe could revolutionize the education system. Throughout the entire article, it keeps on repeating the same major point: repetition is key. Currently, in most American public schools, teachers often explain an entire subject to their protéges within the course of a week, maybe 2. They never follow up on this subject, and before the day of the test, children often cram to get quick, easy results. If you asked them one of the questions which they answered correctly on the test as little as 2 days later, they would have completely forgotten. I believe that the U.S. should instate a new policy, which requires schools to give recall tests after a week away from the subject. This would force kids to legitimately learn from the textbooks that they would be reading, otherwise they would be penalized. This recollection test would have a few special rules in addition to it's other properties, the most major one being that if you scored lower on the second test than you did the first, you would retain the lower score. While some will most definitely object to this practice, claiming that it makes school to pressured for kids, take a look at the current numbers. Only 40 percent of working age Americans have finished college, a number far to small to compete with other more academic countries. Thank you for listening! Please reply with a rebuttal or other ideas!
Conor, I read the article and agree with you but I think you put it in the wrong place.
This was very interesting. I never what exactly follow-up was. I am very interested in the brain and how it works, so I'm glad I read this article.
I think follow the through is a strange thing because even though the golf ball has already left your club, your follow through matters strangely. Also it is really strange that the muscle memory of one follow through is a lot easier that not having a follow through because then it takes it even harder to perfect. Overall, I think this was brilliant.
This was an extremely informative article. I have always wondered why you need to follow through in tennis, or golf. I wonder though if the follow through has to be perfectly consistent if you are to succeed. For example, if you are throwing a pitch in baseball, do you need to use the same exact leg movement when you are pushing off every time? I did some research http://baseballcamps.com/alltips.cfm, and learned that you don't have to have a perfectly consistent follow through to do the same thing. This means, that if you kick you leg with a slightly different angle every time in baseball, you are likely to get mostly the same results. Overall, I loved the article and will try to follow through more in baseball.
Just asking Siji when you say that the follow threw is part of the technique and that helps I would think other wise. While think that following threw has no negative impact I do not think that it has any positive impact on your form because if like they said motor memory is reacting than it should not change your form because your form was the same to start. Yet at the same time I do understand the perfectly good logic that you used to get to that result. Quickly commenting about Richie's let me just say I do agree with your point that it doesn't matter what sport you are in it helps any way. A third reference is that I also agree that it could be the key to change schools for the better.
Ohhhh! Now I get why my basketball coaches are always like, 'You've got to do the follow through every single time.' I think it's really interesting that the brain can actually kinda control what happens to the ball even after you let go! It's kinda like telekinesis, which is amazing!
It is really cool that the follow-through is an important part of you muscle memory of your swing. I never new that the follow through of the golf swing is so important. I did know that it can lead you to a strong and nice shot. Even though, I agree with Owen, that I did know it was one of the most important move because you can get so much momentum. It is cool that it helps your performance. Also I agree with Richie that it is cool that you need to practice the follow-through even more then anything else. I agree with Richie and Owen, that is why the coaches drill you so hard on this. For example in tennis if you want almost perfect and really good shot you need to practice the follow-though for the momentum. I really enjoyed this article!
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