Many therapists offer Sports Massage on their ?Massage Menu? yet few understand what Sports Massage is about. When a client comes in requesting a Sports Massage Yann Sommer World Cup Jersey , some therapists merely react by going in deep. Sports Massage is so much more.

Whilst Sports Massage does have some aims in common with other forms of massage therapy, the usual experience in conventional massage is to aim to restore the normal function when someone is injured. But in sport there is no ?normal? and athletes are always looking to improve and gain a competitive edge. Most athletes aim to reach a level of performance they can never achieve.

A Sports Massage therapist has great potential to assist the athlete to become better, rather than merely normal. In striving to be better, the athlete attempts to systematically increase the level of training and thereby subjecting the body to gradual and controlled overuse. This overuse can often create imbalances and problems in the soft tissues, which if ignored may become chronic. Clearly this may hinder the athlete?s performance andor rate of improvement. Sports Massage can become a key ingredient in an athlete?s success and this is why top competitors incorporate it as an integral part of their training regime.

So what is Sports Massage? McGillicuddy(1) defines Sports Massage as ?the specific application of massage techniques Xherdan Shaqiri World Cup Jersey , hydrotherapy protocols, range of motionflexibility protocol and strength-training principles utilized to achieve a specific goal when treating athletes?. He considers that there are three principles that are vital to understanding what type of Sports Massage to apply to an athlete at any given time. These principles are:  Timing  Technique and  Intent

The timing of Sports Massage is related to when the massage is applied, is it pre-event or post-event, during a maintenance period or possibly post-injury when rehabilitation is required. The technique refers to what massagestretchingstrengthening methods the therapists employs to attempt to achieve the intent, the desired outcome.

The intent of pre-event massage is to warm up the muscles and to get blood flowing through the muscles. The massage techniques generally used are petrissage Valon Behrami World Cup Jersey , vibration, percussion, compression, muscle broadening strokes, etc. With post-event massage Steve von Bergen World Cup Jersey , the intent is assist in the recovery process by increasing venous and lymphatic circulation to assist with removal of metabolic by-products and thereby decreasing muscle soreness so that the athlete can return to full training faster. The massage techniques would include effleurage, compression, petrissage, passive movements and light stretching. The intent of maintenance massage is to keep the athletes muscles and tissue in optimum condition and is generally scheduled at a regular frequency (be it weekly or fortnightly), closely married to the athlete?s training program.

Thus Sports Massage is not about going deep nor it is learning one technique. The requirement for the therapist is to apply the appropriate treatment at the appropriate time Stephan Lichtsteiner World Cup Jersey , which takes education, skill and experience.
Golf is a game of inches, you might have heard that term before but there is the theory of golf that is equally as important as the mechanics of the game. I will start with some history followed by golf terms and meanings.

The first game of golf for which records survive was played at Bruntsfield Links, in Edinburgh, Scotland. The word golf was first mentioned in writing in 1457 on a Scottish statute on forbidden games as gouf Shani Tarashaj World Cup Jersey , possibly derived from the Scots word goulf meaning to strike or cuff.

But there is an even earlier reference to the game of golf and it is believed to have happened in 1452 when King James II banned the game because it kept his subjects from their archery practice. The origin of golf is open to debate as to being Chinese, Dutch or Scottish. However, the most accepted golf history theory is that this sport originated from Scotland in the 1100s.

The word golf derives from the Dutch kolf meaning stick, club or bat. The oldest playing golf course in the world is The Old Links at Musselburgh Racecourse. As early as the 15th century, golfers at St Andrews Roman Burki World Cup Jersey , in Fife, established a customary route through the undulating terrain, playing to holes whose locations were dictated by topography.

In 2005 Golf Digest calculated that there were nearly 32,000 golf courses in the world, approximately half of them in the United States. A typical golf course consists of eighteen holes Ricardo Rodriguez World Cup Jersey , but many only have nine. Every game of golf is based on playing a number of holes in a given order.

A hole of golf consists of hitting a ball from a tee on the teeing box, a marked area designated for the first shot of a hole called a tee shot, and once the ball comes to rest, striking it again. A hole is classified by its par, the number of strokes a skilled golfer should require to complete play to the hole.

For example Nico Elvedi World Cup Jersey , a skilled golfer expects to reach the green on a par four hole in two strokes, one from the tee called the drive and another stroke to the green called the approach. Once on the green the player rolls the ball into the hole with two putts. Traditionally, a golf hole is a par-three, four or five. Par-six holes exist, but usually are not found in traditional golf courses.

In many countries Michael Lang World Cup Jersey , courses are classified, in addition to the course par, with a course classification describing the play difficulty of a course and may be used to calculate a player handicap for that given course. The par scoring system can be seen as a way to facilitate the comparison of a golfer and his progress around the course in stroke play by providing a common reference score.

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