Ready to shop for new golf clubs? Whether this is a replacement set or your very first, it's important to find the perfect fit. Golf club fitting is the way to do it. Length, weight, and grip size are just a few of things that are taken into consideration when you get a golf club fitting. You can fix a slice, correct a hook, or just have a more comfortable game, all with a custom golf club fitting.
The first thing that will be considered at your golf club fitting is grip size. Your personal grip size depends on many things. The first thing is, of course, your hand size. But grip size can also be used to correct parts of your game, such as a slice. A slightly different grip size than you are used to might be all the difference in your golf game.
Another thing that will be taken into consideration at your golf club fitting is length. The length of your golf clubs is very important considering your unique dimensions. The measurements that will affect your personalized club length are height, arm length, and how much you bend at the knees when you swing. The perfect length for you will help you to not only have a better swing, but a safer one as well.
In addition to grip size and club length, your golf club fitting will focus on customized shafts. The object is to determine the right shaft flex for you. The shaft of your clubs bends as forces are applied to it, therefore your shaft flex depends on what type of swing you have-fast, slow, smooth, or jerky. There are five ratings of shaft flex. These rations are extra stiff, stiff, regular, senior and ladies. Finding the right shaft flex to keep your shots aligned is, as you can imagine, quite the science, and a very important part of golf club fitting.
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I want to explain the reasons why I am such a big fan of people who quit smoking cold turkey. It is not because they are heroes, able to overcome the evils of nicotine and tobacco without help, it is because it is the best way to quit smoking.
Statistical evidence from both Australia and the United states indicates that of all the smokers who have ever quit smoking, over 85% of them have done so successfully by using the quit smoking cold turkey method.
For all of the magic pills and potions available out there, it seems they account for only 15% of all the successful long term quits. This may seem strange given that the quit smoking cold turkey method boasts such a low success rate when compared to the other solutions.
Nicotine replacement therapy allegedly boasts a doubling of success rates in quitting smoking. Zyban apparently trebles the rate and chantix apparently quadruples the rate. Whilst this looks like great news for smokers, it hides a dirty little secret. These methods are successful in the short term, but in the longer term, there is growing opinion based on statistical evidence that these ex-smokers fall back into a life of cigarettes more easily than cold turkeys!
Just a side note here - the company that manufactures Chantix, Pfizer, claims a 44% success rate but it is clear that this is not the case as independent analysis of their data and independent research proves the research was heavily biased in favour of the drug!
My argument here is not that these methods don't increase your chances of success, my point is that long term success is more important than short term success. To quit smoking cold turkey gives you a better chance of long term success than using chemical intervention.
If I told you that you could have $10,000 now and never again or $100 every month for the rest of your life, I hope you would take the latter option.
When we choose to quit smoking cold turkey, we are taking the boring, un-flamboyant but ultimately successful approach as opposed to the glamorous, substance-less short term glory of pills and potions.
At this point you might be thinking well, I'd rather have a better chance in the short term in the hope that you can achieve long term success. You might be thinking that NRT and zyban and chantix offer this to you, but they don't.
To quit smoking cold turkey merely means to not use any chemical interventions such as NRT, zyban, chantix, hypnosis, acupuncture, nicocure, laser therapy, herbal remedies or whatever other miracle cure is being offered at the moment. When you chose to quit smoking cold turkey, you should not do it using brute will power, you should do it using your positive attitude and a whole lot of education about how to quit smoking.
Here is the thing - most people when they think of the quit smoking cold turkey method think it means just stopping smoking - it doesn't. Get yourself educated and learn how to quit smoking before you do it - the success rate for people who quit smoking like this is in excess of 40%. Sure there is a ton of information out there about eating healthily, setting a quit date and all that other stuff about making quitting smoking a big deal. In my opinion it is rubbish simply BECAUSE it makes quitting smoking a big deal
The bigger a deal you make out of quitting smoking, the harder it gets. Buying a can of soup is easy and it isn't a big deal and there aren't support forums littered over the internet for buying cans of soup. Quitting smoking should be treated the same. Learn how to do and then get on with doing it and forget about it. You weren't born a smoker so you sure as hell can return to being a non-smoker.
Whilst I clearly condone education as the best method to quit smoking cold turkey, if you must, try the other methods and remember, any method is only successful if it is 100% successful to you. Good luck and never stop trying to quit.
Would you like to learn how to quit smoking before you try to quit smoking? Pete Howells is the author of the EasyQuit System available only online at http://easyquitsystem.com He also blogs, post articles and videos at http://easyquitsystem.com/blog
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Hollinshead and Kirkham, originally of Burslem in Staffordshire, moved their pottery works to nearby Tunstall in 1890. They catered mainly for the middle class end of the market and, in the main, produced a range of conservatively designed dinner ware. However in the economic slump following the First World War the company needed to do something to address their falling sales. Designer Harold Growcott was their White Knight.
Growcott came up with a range of designs for hand painted porcelain that tapped into the growing interest in all things Art Deco. The designs featured an abstract painted background of two or more colours on which bold fruit or floral designs were hand painted. The result was bold and exciting.
The Delicious Dozen as it came to be known was actually a range of 14 designs, but lets not be pedantic about a good nickname. The designs were applied to many of the existing pre-war shapes, to give them a new lease of life, as well as some fresh new shapes more in keeping with the Art Deco style. Due to its similar subject matter and large bold painting style H&K has also been dubbed Poor Mans Moorcroft but if the prices I have had to pay for some of my pieces are anything to go by, thats not a title that fits todays collecting market.
This is the major collectible area for this pottery. Hey made many dinnerware designs, many of them very attractive but none of any real collector interest (except, of course to people who have a set handed down to them from their grandmother). But the Delicious Dozen have become extremely popular in recent years and if you come across a piece you will understand why.
Karen Bellamy is a digital as well as a traditional scrapbooker from Australia. She writes the Scraps of Mind blog which she describes as:
A feast of Scrapbooking information and tutorials for both the Digital Scrapbooker and the Traditional Paper Scrapbooker. Seasoned with Antiques & Collectibles, Music inspired, and Blog Presentation articles to add some extra spice. All served up with a light hearted and fun style.
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