In this EBook I cover:

  1. How to find the Wright Balance® 8 inch stance width range by Core Zone
  2. Heel to toe balance changes by Core Zone
  3. The origin of Power Spots
  4. The origin of the macrocosm of propagation of force through each Core Zone

Please note that the purpose of this EBook is to provide specific instructions on how to determine the Wright Balance® 8 inch Stance Width Range by Core Zone. This 8 inch range is for Wright Balance Professionals in fitting their students and to introduce NON Wright Balance® professionals and players to Wright Balance® Technology. A large part of this technology is a result of the impact of Power Spots on Core Zones.

Wright Balance® professionals are able to go directly to the 3 Stance Widths of the Dominant Zone as defined by the 8 inch Stance Width range. Testing each of the 3 sub-regions within the Dominant Zone is followed by grip sizing within that Zone. The following illustration shows the 9 Stance Widths (sub-regions) of the Core Zones. Only one Zone needs to be tested once the 8 inch Stance Width Range is determined.

These Stance Widths represent one sub-region of the Core as shown here on the horizontal plane. These numbered sub-regions correspond to the 9 numbered stance widths.

These sub-regions appear on both the horizontal and vertical planes and on the left and right sides of the Core.

The vertical plane images are shown below. Notice the numbered sub-regions in this illustration. These numbered sub-regions also correspond to the numbered stance widths.

HOWEVER: unless the Wright Balance® 4-Way Express is done, Grip Size will move the player's balance heel to toe and the hips will open or close. IF the Wright Balance® 4-Way Express is done, grip size no longer matters. If tape is worn on 1 fingertip or toenail, stance width no longer matters following the Wright Balance® 4-Way Express. I cover that phenomenon in subsequent EBooks with proof of concept at every step.

What Does 8 Inch Stance Width Range mean?

Every person has a Wright Balance® Stance Width Range of 8 inches depending on their playing Zone (Anterior or Upper; Interior or Middle and Posterior or Lower).

When one piece of tape is placed on one Upper Core Power Spot on either hand the hips will square in a Wright Balance® 8-inch Stance Width Range.

The Anterior Zone (red) will have the narrowest 8 inch Stance Width Range (8 to 16 inches); the Posterior Zone (blue) will have the widest 8 inch Stance Width Range (12 to 20 inches) and the Middle Interior Zone (black) player will have a Stance Widths between their Anterior and Posterior Zone ranges (10 to 18 inches). The Playing Zone can easily be identified by a Wright Balance Professional. Proof of concept is simple and the outcome of each of the 8 inch ranges will be expressed in a constant heel to toe balance, hands hang the same; center of mass and lead knee position in the motion drills; a square club face within the 8 inch range and hip rotation outside the 8 inch range.

Playing Core Zone

What is A Playing Core Zone? This video illustration shows the Core Zones. Note that the Anterior Zone is Red; the Interior Zone is Black and the Posterior Zone is Blue. Each phase of this content will cover how to recruit each of these Zones by handle Size and a single Stance Width when doing the Wright Balance 4-Way Express. This 3D illustrations identifies these Core Zones.

Finding the Stance Width Range

Finding the Stance Width Range is a very quick process. The Wright Balance® 8-inch Stance Width Range you find impacts multiple setup variables. These variables include poature; how the clubface is aimed at address; heel to toe balance; the path the club will take in the backswing; shaft lean at address; the shaft plane; the amount of hip / shoulder turn in the backswing; the trail arm ELBOW placement on the body; the Center of Mass (COM) and orientation of the lead knee at the top of the swing; sequencing of motion; and the probability of center face impact.

Every person has a Wright Balance® 8 inch Stance Width Range that matches their playing Core Zone and the Core Sub-Regions within that Zone. The playing Core Zone can be identified by anyone. Within this Wright Balance® Stance Width Range your hands hang exactly the same at your sides; your hips will remain square and, when you add knee flex, your weight distribution in your feet will match the balance of your playing Core Zone.

Note: The stance width ranges by Core Zone are a predictable mathematical progressions. The beginning inch mark for each Wright Balance® 8 inch Stance Width range by Core Zone is as follows. Simply add 8 inches to the first inch number where the hips are square and you have the 8 inch range for that Zone. The following shows the range of the Wright Balance® Core Zones when a finger sleeve or tape is placed on the Upper Core Power Spot of one hand as shown here...

The finger sleeve or tape on this spot evolved from the Wright Balance® research of years past.

The following shows what the hips squaring at 8, 10 or 12 inches will create in each of the 8 inch Stance Widths.

If the hips square at 8 inches your players Core Dominance is in the Anterior Zone (aka Upper Core)
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The Anterior Zone (red) 8 to 16 inches

This is what the heel to toe balance will feel like in the 8 to 16 inch range of the Anterior Zone.

If the hips are not square at 8 inches but square at 10 inches your players Core Dominance is in the Interior Zone (aka Middle Core)

Interior Zone (black) 10 to 18

This is what the heel to toe balance will feel like in the 10 to 18 inch range of the Interior Zone.

Posterior Zone (blue) 12 to 20 inches

If the hips square don't square 8 or 10 inches, they will square at 12 inches Your player's Core Dominance is in the Posterior Zone (aka Lower Core)

This is what the heel to toe balance will feel like in the 12 to 20 inch range of the Anterior Zone.

These patterns will tell you exactly what the Dominant Zone is for your student. Again, if after placing a a piece of tape or finger sleeve on the Upper Core Power Spot and their hips DON'T square on inch 8 or 10 and the pelvis squares at inch 12 and remains square through inch 20, your students strength is in their Posterior Zone (Blue).

Be certain to leave the finger sleeve or tape on the UPPER CORE Power Spot as you continue testing.

If your student's pelvis DOES NOT square on 8 but squares on inch # 10, your students strength is in their Interior Zone (Black).

The Dominant Zone is also the Zone where their life's Core Load has been located. Injury and fatigue will be found in this Core Zone the majority of the time.

Similarly, if your student's pelvis squares at inch 8 and stays square through inch 16, their Dominant Zone is the Anterior (Red) as shown in the following illustration.

The following video shows how to cover the first pad of any finger and determine the dominant Core Zone.

If you viewed the entire video you will notice how you can make subtle changes of balance within each Zone by moving the sleeve or tape on any finger to a different Power Spot. As noted toward the end of the video, this movement of the tape to a different Power Spot has implications for how you place your hands on the club across Power Spots and subtle changes in heel to toe balance which will also change how you use the ground in your swing.

What? Most of my students are asking 2 questions at this point.

  1. What are Power Spots? The short explanation is in this EBook link:

https://instructions.wrightbalance.com/how-to-set-test-the-grip-power-spots-by-core-region/

You can "drill down" in this EBook to get a glimpse of the Wright Balance Power Spots, their discovery and testing for Proof of Concept.

2. How can pressure on a singular point on one finger (Power Spot) create changes in the Pelvis and how the arms and hands hang at my side?

It “appears” that the Power Spots on the fingers are a "macrocosm" of work done by researchers from Harvard Medical at the cellular level. These Researchers applied a mild pressure to a focal point on a cell and they were able to observe the propagation of force through the cell.

I believe that the application of a mild pressure on a particular point on a finger propagates through the Core to create changes in Core symmetry / balance depending on the location of the focal point of force and the Core Zone that is being recruited. I discovered, tested and documented those focal points by Core Region in the fingers in multiple videos and Ebooks. This discovery is easily replicated for proof of concept. This EBook will show you proof of Concept for each Core Zone.

Go to the end of this EBook for further review and references to the original Harard Medical articles on the propagation of force at the cellular level.

Review

Fast Track to Finding the Wright Balance® Zone Dominance

To determine the Wright Balance® Zone dominance, use the testing for the 8 inch Stance Width range. Place a piece of tape or finger sleeve on ONE Upper Core Power Spot on One finger of either hand.

...you are about to determine the Dominant Core Zone for yourself or your student.

Place a yardstick on the floor. Begin testing the 8 inch Stance Width Range with one Upper Core Power Spot covered on one finger of one hand. If the hips square beginning at 8 inches, the Anterior Zone is their dominant Zone; if their hips don't square at 8 inches but they square at 10 inches, the Interior Zone is their dominant Zone; if their hips don't square at 8 or 10 inches but they do square at 12 inches, the Posterior Zone is their dominant Zone.

Testing Each 8 Inch Stance Width Range: Proof of Concept

Within the 8 inch range you have determined for the player, have them add knee flex and ask them where their weight is heel to toe. Have them change stance widths within their 8 inch range and retest adding knee flex, holding that position and noting their heel to toe balance. This is what you will find.

When they step to 7 inches or less or 17 inches or greater, their hips will rotate.

If your player's hips did not square at 8 inches but squared at 10 inches, their Core dominance is their Interior Zone. This is the balance they will experience between 10 and 18 inches. They will be just behind the balls of their feet and forward of the center of their arches.

When the Interior Zone player steps to 9 inches or less or 19 inches or greater, their hips will rotate.

If your player's hips did not square at 8 or 10 inches they will square at 12 inches, their Core dominance is their Posterior Zone. This is the balance they will experience between 12 and 20 inches. They will be over the center of their arches.

When the Posterior Zone player steps to 11 inches or less or 21 inches or greater, their hips will rotate open or closed.

Setting the 8 Inch Range Post the Wright Balance® 4-Way Express

The Wright Balance® 8 inch stance width range is also observed before or following the Wright Balance® 4-Way Express while the fingertips are covered.

The fingertips or toenails, when covered with tape, recruit all 3 Sub=regions of the dominant Zone or the Zone that was recruited by the last handle size used during the Wright Balance® 4-Way Express.

For example, assume I have been measured as a Posterior Zone player. My 8 inch stance width range has been determined to be 12 to 20 inches confirming my Posterior Zone dominance. If I have fingertips covered when using an Anterior Zone handle size and I do the Wright Balance 4-Way Express at 14 inches, I am recruiting my Anterior Zone and the 3 sub-regions( RED: 7, 8 and 9) of that Zone as shown here.

Subsequently, my 8 inch stance width range has moved from 12 to 20 (Posterior Zone) to 8 to 16 (Anterior Zone). My weight has moved from the center of my arches (Posterior Zone) to the balls of my feet (Anterior Zone).

Other Tests of the 8 Inch Range

Grip a golf club while standing within your 8 inch Stance Width Range. Hold the club parallel to the ground. Notice the square face. Keep the club parallel to the ground and step wider or narrower OUTSIDE the 8 inch range and notice the club face rotate open or closed and then square again as you step inside the 8 inch range.

When you begin your swing motion in the correct sequence for your Core Region, you will note how you will use the ground in your swing. Within your 8 inch Stance Width range you will be able to practice your sequencing of motion without a club and understand why there is only one way to start your swing motion to use the ground most efficiently for the greatest power and least stress on your body.

When the Core is Balanced by "ZONE" using the 3 handle sizes, the 8 inch Stance Width Ranges are present. However, each Zone is different and follows a predictable, mathematical progression with Fibonacci numbers.

Outside the 8 Inch Range?

If the player sets up and putts or swings outside their Wright Balance 8 inch Stance Width range, their hips will open or close and the path with the putter will be outside in or inside out and their ability to use the ground for power in the full swing will be compromised.

AND

  1. Sequencing of Motion is Compromised

  2. Center of Mass no longer will match Core Region Swing at the top of the swing.

  3. Impact and ball flight will also be compromised.

  4. The club will move "behind" the player as the swing progresses to the top.

  5. The club face will open or close. Note in the following photo that Colin Montgomery is out of his 8 inch Stance Width Range and his club face closes.

  1. In many players we see that the trail hip is higher at address when observed from behind, often when the hips are open. When the trail hip is higher than the target side hip at address as shown here in LPGA Tour Player, Laurie Rinker, this hip position impacts rotation and increases the chance of muscle strain and injury.

Following the Wright Balance® 4 Way Express Exercise, note how Laurie's trail hip is lower. NOTE: This trail hip position cannot be corrected by just finding the 8 inch stance width range. The Wright Balance® 4-Way Express must be done to correct the trail hip.

The Wright Balance® 4-Way Express exercise requires body measurements and a handle size that fits the Zone being recruited. This process is covered in a later EBook.

THE ORIGINS OF RESEARCH ON ****PROPAGATION OF FORCE

In 2005, in the referenced article below, researchers demonstrated "Action at a Distance" where the long-distance propagation of force was demonstrated at the cellular level when pressure was applied to a focal point of the cell. This propagation of force was observed and measured at points throughout the cytoskeleton. The cell here is viewed as a tensegrity structure. This is an illustration from that article.

"Action at a distance" is well understood in biophysics and quantum mechanics. However, the precise mechanisms of “Action at a Distance” at the cellular level or total body is a still a mystery to scientist in all disciplines. The tensegrity model is a common explanation. I covered tensegrity at length in another EoBook.

Long-distance Propagation of Forces in a Cell Ning Wanga,*, Zhigang Suob Physiology Program, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 2115, USA b Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 328 (2005) 1133–1138 This article is available online at www.sciencedirect.com In 2014

The same Harvard research group wrote following article summarizing a discipline of Cellular Biophysics as related to tensegrity and a process of propagation of force via what is referred to as “Mechanotransduction”.

Tensegrity, Cellular Biophysics, and the Mechanics of Living Systems: Donald E. Ingber, Ning Wang, and Dimitrije Stamenović

HTML link:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4112545/

ABSTRACT
The recent convergence between physics and biology has led many physicists to enter the fields of cell and developmental biology. One of the most exciting areas of interest has been the emerging field of mechanobiology that centers on how cells control their mechanical properties, and how physical forces regulate cellular biochemical responses, a process that is known as mechanotransduction. In this article, we review the central role that tensegrity (tensional integrity) architecture, which depends on tensile prestress for its mechanical stability, plays in biology. We describe how tensional prestress is a critical governor of cell mechanics and function, and how use of tensegrity by cells contributes to mechanotransduction. Theoretical tensegrity models are also described that predict both quantitative and qualitative behaviors of living cells, and these theoretical descriptions are placed in context of other physical models of the cell. In addition, we describe how tensegrity is used at multiple size scales in the hierarchy of life — from individual molecules to whole living organisms — to both stabilize three-dimensional form and to channel forces from the macroscale to the nanoscale, thereby facilitating mechanochemical conversion at the molecular level.