Posture and Potential Paul Chek What is posture??The word?posture?is commonly used by teaching and playing pros. The implication being that good posture is something to aspire to. Yet interestingly, the books written by top players and teaching pros are littered with examples of poor posture, often in pictures of high level players posing as models. Watch a tournament on TV and it will only take a few seconds to find a top player with forward head posture, increased thoracic kyphosis (middle back curvature) and either flattened or excessive lumbar curvatures (Figure 1A & B). ?????????????????????????? ????????????Figure 1-A???????????????????????????????????????????Figure 1-B Poor posture - forward head posture,????????????? ?Good Posture increased thoracic kyphosis