Our goal is to present a potential massage chair buyer with an unbiased evalution and review of a given massage chair. We have developed a 5 category system to evaluate a massage chair. We give equal weight to each category and give 0 to 20 points rating and then add them up to present an overall score. Our categories include Warranty & Customer Service, Comfort/Ergonomics, Ease of Use, Features and Massage Therapy. This systematic approach forces us to a disciplined method of evaluating a massage chair to help guide anyone looking at massage chairs. The Omega Montage Elite shiatsu massage chair price is in the Luxury range of $4,000 to $5,000.

Warranty & Customer Service: First is how the manufacturer rates in both warranty coverage and customer service. The manufacturer needs to stand behind its product. Omega gives a 5 years on the frame, 3 years on parts, 3 years labor and 90 days in-home service. Unlike, the electronics company's like Panasonic or Sanyo, Omega's standard warranty is equal to these companies extended warranties which, of course, cost extra. Service and technical competence are high. Overall Rating for the Omega warranty and customer service is 18.

Comfort & Ergonomics: Comfort and ergonomics are important design characteristic with a shiatsu massage chair. Omega designed the Montage Elite for comfort and relaxation. This shiatsu lounger is wheel chair accessible accommodating those that may have trouble getting in and out of the chair. Omega included the first wireless remote control with a lanyard allowing users to not have to get up to change the controls. The Montage Elite can accommodate taller users up to 6' 6" allowing most Americans to fit in the chair. The comfort and fit of this shiatsu lounger is very good. Omega has accommodated many important ergonomics into this massage recliner. The Montage Elite is a 19 in Comfort & Ergonomics.

East of Use: Ease of use is defined as how intuitive the controls and how simple are they to use before having to read the manual. Omega integrates an advanced LCD graphic and has a wireless sub-remote control. In fact, this is the first wireless remote on a massage chair. The wireless age has arrived! The Omega Montage Elite has an intuitive main remote controller and the graphics on the LCD are descriptive to show what the chair is doing. The music controls for the MP3 Player and the music/massage synchronization button is front and center on the control The Omega Montage Elite Shiatsu massage chair geta and overall rating for ease of use is 19.

Key Features: The most prominent features of the Omega Montage Elite are the Lower Body Traction and Footflex Reflexology foot massage. Omega built in a traction function to gently stretch out your lower back, hips, knees and ankles. The footrest is raised horizontally; the airside activates to hold your ankles and then lowers successively to 3 positions. As the footrest lowers your muscles and tendons are stretched throughout the lower body. The Footflex reflexology uses airbags to hold and gently squeeze your foot at the arch and the heel at your reflexology points. Omega has brought the lower body air massages up to par with the back massage technology. Omega has a thorough array of massage for the back, neck, shoulders and base of the skull. The Montage Elite is a 19 in Key Features.

Massage Therapy: The Montage Elite has both automatic and manual massage settings. Omega incorporates 5 full body automatic courses, 4 manual massage courses, and 4 massage speed settings for a total combination of 64 manual massage courses. The manual massage techniques include Kneading, Tapping, Finger Press, and Kneading & Tapping (Shiatsu). The kneading and tapping speeds can be individually control in the shiatsu technique. For instance, you can have slow kneading combined with fast tapping or vice versa in 8 combinations. The lower body massage of this shiatsu massage chair is thorough and invigorating. Activating the lower body traction with the full lower body massage and full back massage can only be topped with the music-massage synchronization function. The Montage Elite is a full body therapy and relaxation machine providing a full sensory experience. The Montage Elite massage chair is a 20 in Massage Therapy.

We just reviewed 5 categories ranging from warranty to features to ergonomics. How does the Omega Montage Elite Score? Based on the 5 categories the total score for the Omega Montage Elite is a 95/100. The Montage Elite provides a thorough, comprehensive and full body massage therapy. The technology and simplicity of this shiatsu massage chair is what the luxury category is all about. Omega has one of the strongest warranties providing protection for the customer. The Montage Elite has brought all elements from music to foot massage to lower body traction into a wide range of massage therapies and sensory experiences. If you are looking at a luxury class massage chair, the Montage Elite is of the strongest contenders.

If you are looking for the absolute best massage recliner for your money, then discover more regarding the Montage Elite. Omega designed this recliner for your total massage therapy needs. You can find regarding all the Omega Massage Chairs at our website. We have massage chair reviews of Omega, Sanyo, Panasonic and Human Touch.

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Golf is a sport game which is played all-round the world by ladies and gentlemen alike. To play the sport game you will need to have a collection of golf clubs. A golf club is used to hit the ball across the fairway and onto the field so that you can get it into the hole.

A golf club is a metal club that has a head on it that you strike the ball with. There are a number of dissimilar versions of golf clubs offered to golfers.

The first type of golf club that any golfer will want to add to their collection is a wood. Woods are clubs that you use to hit the ball very far. For example, you might want to use this when you are first teeing off.

A wood golf club will traditionally have a larger head than other clubs as well as a longer shaft so that when you hit the ball it will receive more force and speed. This is what you want so that your ball will go further.

The next golf club that you want to add to your collection are some irons. These are clubs that have a flat angled face to them. Depending on how steep the angle is will determine how much loft your ball will get when you hit them.

Whilst the angles get sheerer, you will eventually run into a wedge golf club. This kind of stick is particularly designed to strike the ball a short distance, but with a lot of lift. Clubs like this are a excellent way to evade a sand trap or round an obstruction.

Perhaps the most favorite type of golf club is the putter. The stick is specifically created to be applied on the green to hit your ball into the hole. Frequently , you will see versions of these on mini golf courses.

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(This golf article is followed by a drill, and a link to that drill on video.)

Have you ever noticed that while the golf courses the pros play are getting longer, their golf swings are getting shorter? Tiger's done it. Sergio's done it. Phil's done it. Why? How can players who depend on dominating long golf courses give up distance by shortening their golf swings? Well, guess what? They're not. Not giving up distance that is.

One of the most important things to remember playing golf is that the #1 variable in swinging a club - that directly relates to distance - is clubhead speed. In my teaching experience most golfers don't realize this, or wrongly associate size of swing with clubhead speed.

It's really this simple: given that clubhead speed equals distance - with all else being the same - if my swing is big yet slow and yours is small and fast, you'll get more distance than I will. The added bonus is that your shorter swing is likely to be far more consistent than my big one.

In my articles I have talked a lot about - and tried to explain away - many myths about the golf swing. One such myth is the supposed need to get the shaft to horizontal at the top of the swing. Why should the golf club get to horizontal? Why is this such an ideal position? What is the physical reasoning for this? Because it is parallel with mother earth? What if it is a little short of horizontal? What if it goes beyond horizontal (see Mr. Daly)? Getting the club to horizontal is an arbitrary instruction that cripples far too many players in their efforts to get it there, and distracts them from the primary ingredient of the golf swing, which is the downswing. What if I came along and told you it did not matter if you got the club to horizontal or not? What if I told you you don't need to be a contortionist to make a backswing? Wouldn't that lift a big burden in playing golf?

There is irony in the fact that most of us try to make a big backswing, while telling our friends to slow their swing down. What if you were told it was okay to speed up? Should speed up? While many will claim that even on the Tour there's nearly as many different golf swings as players, there is one undeniable common denominator among them, and that's acceleration.

Every good player accelerates the golf club to impact. Many a struggling player makes such a big swing that they either get themselves into a position from which acceleration is difficult, or they feel so out of control that they unwittingly decelerate in order to try to gain some control by the time they reach impact. Either way the result usually does not produce the distance desired, or the contact required. Deceleration is contrary to centripetal force while acceleration contributes to it. Suffice to say, two swings that were 90 mph at impact are not the same if one was accelerating from 80 to 90 at impact, while the other was decelerating from 100 to 90 at impact. Consider the racecar driver (or yourself depending on your driving habits) who slows before a curve in the road, and then accelerates into it. Then consider an occasion when you were going too fast for a curve and had to slow down. Remember feeling the difficulty of maintaining control of the vehicle as you encountered the turn? The golf swing is no different. A decelerating golf club cannot remain on its intended path and usually veers wider. This creates a wider arc, the bottom of which is now behind the golf ball. Hello fat shot. Even if your club was going 200 mph before it hit the ground, hitting the ground will have slowed it down immensely, not to mention all the other negative aspects of hitting the big ball (earth) before the small ball (Titleist). The answer is not slowing down.

Acceleration is. Interestingly, while a big backswing tends to promote deceleration, a short backswing does the opposite. A short backswing promotes acceleration. Your ideal win-win. It's as if you do not believe the short backswing will do the trick, so you accelerate to make up for it. Hello good shot. Being it was so good, you then become willing to try it again. And it works again. The next thing you know, rather than trying to attain difficult physical positions (such as getting the club to horizontal at the top of the backswing) you're practicing accelerating the club. Imagine practicing something good. Bingo.

And there's a bonus to the bonus. Practicing leads to muscle memory. And muscle memory leads to speed. Think of anything you do that requires muscle memory and that which you do on an ongoing basis. Whether it is tying your shoelaces, or your tie, or calling home, you do it faster now than when you first tried. I doubt that since you mastered phoning home, you started trying to phone home harder. I highly doubt that since you mastered tying your tie, you began trying to tie much bigger ties. And I highly doubt that since mastering tying your shoe laces, you began trying to tie bigger laces. Okay, so I am pushing the point. But I think you see the point I am trying to make.

Surprisingly, Tour players don't enjoy one luxury that we do. They do not have the luxury to mess around with their golf swings. We can mess around and only our recreational hobby suffers. They mess around, and suddenly their day-to-day subsistence suffers. Ian Baker-Finch will tell you. Tour players have learned that by shortening their swings and working on acceleration they can attain just as much (or more) distance than they used to, and improve ever-critical accuracy and consistency - two staples to life on the Tour. That is why we are seeing, and will continue to see a growing trend of shorter backswings on the long golf courses of the PGA Tour.

Clive Scarff, a teaching professional, is also the author of Hit Down Dammit! More information can be found at www.hitdowndammit.com.

Drill: The Right Hand Thrust Drill

The Right Hand Thrust Drill can be found on "Hit Down Drills!" - one of four DVDs in the Hit Down Dammit! Golf Instruction DVD series available at www.hitdowndammit.com. This drill's goal is to develop acceleration from a shortened backswing position. While harder than it looks, the results will surprise you.

Repeatedly swing your club back to waist-high, pause a split second, then use your right hand to "thrust" the clubhead toward the ball. In doing so, you may find you have created sufficient speed with the clubhead that it follows through to the target automatically, leaving you in a finish position whereby the clubhead is pointing at the target, the toe is up, and the shaft is roughly horizontal (waist-high) and parallel to the target line. This position should roughly mirror your top-of-backswing position.

As you get more proficient at this exercise, you will create more clubhead speed, the momentum from which will see a follow-through that "naturally" swings through a little higher than the height of your backswing. It is important this follow-through is natural - neither forced or abbreviated.

(To see this video drill just visit: http://www.hitdowndammit.com/#Drills)

For more articles, or further information, please contact Clive Scarff at clive@hitdowndammit.com

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