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　　很多选手没有多考虑他们的后摆，他们专心于击打母球。但是要想打出高质量的击球，你一定要有好的后摆。说的清楚些，我所指的后摆是在最后击球时的后摆，而不是在出杆前的热身。

　　我们先来看看“高质量”和“击打”母球，对于我来说，好的基础——击打、姿势、对齐等等就是要学会传递稳定、精确、顺畅的击球。我们要能够让母球非常精确的沿着瞄准线运动，而且要带着我们需要的旋转（或者没有旋转），还要刚好是我们计划的速度。击球的质量就是我们能够多么稳定、精确、顺畅而直的把球打向瞄准线。

　　而击球的概念总是会影响很多球手，一想到“击”球，有人会认为是“击打”母球，而试图将球杆停在杆头触及母球点附近的某个地方。或者说，他们想把球杆头停在原来母球占据的空间内，而不是自然的跟进延伸。这是戳！

　　这样会在击到球之前减速的！戳球怎么能稳定呢？当你打棒球时，会在打到球时停下吗？在打高尔夫球时是怎么样的呢？当然不是这样，人们的摆动是穿过球的。显然，我们应该完成一个高质量的摆动。

　　如果我们正确的摆动，那么球应该刚好在在摆动的路程上，如果球不在那里，球杆会飞过球的位置。球是刚好在球杆的路上。在我们头脑中，摆动的思路不应该是要击打球，而是要完成我的摆动。很好的移动球杆，而且试图完成摆动。这样一来，我们为什么要讨论后摆呢？在打高尔夫的时候，要把球杆向后摆动，后摆和向前摆动是在同一平面内。这样才能有高质量的击球。是后摆建立起击球的动作。如果我们后摆时有急拉的动作，或者没有对齐，离开了摆动的平面，击出好球的可能性会大吗？

　　在练习中，尝试非常慢、非常顺畅的后摆。在后摆的最后点要有停顿。感受肌肉是如何将球杆自然的拉向后，而击球向前摆动的肌肉又是如何作好准备随时发动的。你会发现，你从停顿开始，仍然可以击出你想要的任何速度。就好象后摆是在拉伸什么东西，积聚了势能，而想要释放出来向前飞行。

　　有一个比较形象的画面可以帮助我们理解，就是射手拉弓的过程。射手把弓弦直直的拉回，缓慢的、精确的，从来不做任何会使箭离开瞄准线的动作。在一本非常有名的箭术书里面，作者的师父教他如何释放箭的时候说，有目的的或者说从思想上太多注重怎么放手，会影响身体完美的瞄准和平衡。相反的，弓弦从手指滑落，就象雪压在松枝上，松枝被压弯，雪自然的滑落的这种感觉。从实际和物理的角度，我建议大家练习缓慢的、顺畅的、笔直的后摆，仔细的注意你是如何开始、向后拉、停止。如果你的后摆将你的球杆拉离了瞄准线一点点，就有可能会在新的错误的线上击球。真正的专注，要发现自己的晃动、急拉等动作，找出正确和不足的地方。还要注意击球时手臂、手腕以及手部的对齐。这里在后摆时能够感受出来的很小的改变就可以让你在击球摆动上得到很大的进步。如果没有很好的后摆，是很难打出高质量的击球的。


原文：

Most players don't give much thought to their backswing. Their focus is primarily on hitting the ball. But to hit the ball with good quality, you have to have a good backswing. To be clear, I'm talking about the backswing on the final stoke, pulling back to hit the cue ball (not your warm-up strokes).

Let's begin by looking at the idea of "quality" and the idea of "hitting" the ball. To me, the whole point of good fundamentals of stroke, form, and alignment is to learn to deliver consistent, precise, fluid strokes. We have to be able to send that cue ball down the target line with extreme precision, with our intended spin (or lack of spin), and with exactly the speed we planned. Stroke quality is the degree to which we produce that all-important consistency, precision, and fluidity straight down the target line.

The idea of "hitting" the cue ball is part of the problem for many players. If you're thinking, "Hit the cue ball," you'll tend to stop the stick somewhere close to where the tip touched the ball. In other words, you're likely to stop the tip inside the space previously occupied by the cue ball and not follow through naturally. This is a POKE!

You were slowing down on the way to the ball! With a poke, how can you hope to be consistent? The very idea of hitting is part of the problem. When you hit a baseball, do you stop at the ball? How about when you hit a golf ball? Of course not. You swing through the ball. Obviously, the productive idea here is you want to execute a high-quality swingperiod.

If you do it correctly, the ball lies right in the path of that swing and the bat/club/cue stick flies through the ball as if it weren't there. The ball just "gets in the way" of the stick. Your "swing thought" should not be "Hit the ball." It should be "Hit my swing finish." Move the stick well, and intend to finish the swing. So why are we talking about the backswing? In golf, we learn (hopefully) to take the club back along the same plane in which we will then swing forward. This gives us a higher-quality hit, since it is simpler to do than a swing that loops at the back and comes forward in a new direction. The backstroke sets up the hit stroke. If the backstroke is quick, jerky, or out of alignment, what are the chances the hit stroke will be good?

In practice, try taking very slow, very smooth backswings. Pause at the back of the back swing. Feel how the muscles that pulled the stick back naturally release and your hit swing muscles get ready to go. You may be surprised to find you can still hit at whatever speed you intend, directly from this pause. It's as if the backswing is stretching something, building potential energy that wants to release and fly forward.

An image I find helpful for this is from archery-drawing the bow. The archer pulls the string straight back, slowly, precisely, not doing anything that might pull the arrow off the target line. In the famous little book Zen and the Art of Archery, the author relates the image the master gave him when he asked how to release the arrow. The master told him releasing it "on purpose" would be "doing something" and would interfere with the body's perfect aim and poise. Instead, he suggested that the string releases through the archer's fingers in the same way as snow piling up on a pine bough reaches the natural moment when the branch bends and the snow slides off. From a practical, physical perspective, I suggest you practice the slow, smooth, straight backswing, carefully noticing how you start it, pull it back, and stop it you’re your backstroke pulls your stick a little off the aim line, it's probably going to return and hit down that new, wrong line. Really focus in and find your wobbles, jerkiness, effort, and imperfections. Expand your awareness of your stroke arm, wrist, and hand alignments. Tiny changes here can be felt in the backswing and lead to big improvements in the hit swing. It's hard to deliver a great hit stroke without a great backstroke.