alex noren golfer on the move

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  Not Open???

  2009-12-24 I like Christmas but seriously, what's the reason for all the snow and the cold:) It's fun hitting balls indoors for a while but I am, to say the least, a little frustrated now. Yesterday, I brought a golf club out while taking a walk, and today I am, along with Kotte, a little pissed that neither the indoor golf center nor the gym is open. Just beacuse it's Christmas!? Come on. The whole Christmas thing starts at 3 P.M. Before that there is loads of time. Especially when someone else takes care of all the Christmas preparations...Thanks Mom!
  
  Although, I love golf I find other sports amazing too. Skiing for example. Seeing all the snow outside now makes it even harder to not go up to the mountains and try the skiis again. I'm not particularly good at it but it's such a nice feeling to hit the slopes. Got even more motivated when I watched the 2008 World Champion Henrik Windstedt's new ski film "Exploded View". It's an amazing documentary film about his life as a freeskier and the film maker Fred Arne Wergeland made the film look extraordinary. I remember making a short commercial film for Peak Performance last year with Fred Arne and at first I thought he was a bit crazy trying to get the right angles and such but the film looked cool when it was all done.  Here is the trailer for "Exploded View":
  
  
  
  Hope you all are having a great Christmas and a Happy New Year! But let's make it fast so we can play golf again...
  
  Alex
  
  
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  We are going "V"

  2009-12-23 Just got the new wedges! So happy to get them before heading out for the training camp. Although, I'm getting more and more sad that we're gonna loose a lot of spin with the new wedges. The "V-grooves" on the clubface are reducing the spin bit I don't know how much yet. We'll see soon. Since, I like fooling around with my lobber this might make take some joy out of that but maybe it's just another challenge.
  
  
  
  The 60 degree needed some extra weight so the Callaway guys put on some heavy led tape. Look spretty cool I think!
  
  
  
  
  
  The "V" stands for the "V- grooves".
  
  Out for a day in the snow. Sucks that I can't try these out yet...
  
  
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  Tips for the backflipper

  2009-12-22 Here is a link of the "Australian Dream Team" trying to hit the backflipper shot. They amost pulled it off! A tip is to try to back off the shot a touch so the shaft is behind the ball. Look at my video in slo-mo to see how to do it. My body moves a little different in this shot compared to a normal shot.
  
  
  
  Another great day in the indoor golf center combined with some meetings about some fun stuff that might come up and also an interview for the local newspaper, Mitt i! Feels good to do interviews in Swedish as a change. Now I´m trying to find out some new shots that I can try tomorrow. Any ideas???
  
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  Wey!!!!!!

  2009-12-21 Never had this much fun playing golf:)
  
  
  
  Yiiha!
  
  Back with some more serious golf sometime soon:)
  
  
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  Overtrained

  2009-12-20 Just experienced what being overtrained feels like. I tried all I could in the gym yesterday but couldn't even sniff my normal weights. I really needed a day of rest, I have needed it for a long time. I easliy get addicted to training, especially the gym training so I've been going too many days in row. But today, finally, I did NOTHING. It was a great feeing and such a nice day! No plans and I just did whatever I felt like. A nice change. I love training more than anything but sometimes a day off can be super to recharge your batteries and get ready for better and harder training.
  
  Already looking forward to tomorrow's training and trying to keep good quality throughout the day. We'll see how that goes!
  
  Alex
  
  
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