[Music] When anybody comes to me for a first golf lesson, the most important part that I feel that has to be introduced, it isn’t to correct their golf swing. Sure, I’ll video their golf swing. I’ll take a look and see see kind of what’s going on, but it’s to clarify the true perception and intention of the golf motion. And I like to use the analogy of reaching the most because it’s the most simple and basic thing. It gets us away from the idea that there’s something I’ve got to do with this foreign object and gets me familiar or gets me kind of reintouch with the way my body naturally moves. And when it comes down to hitting a golf shot, actually, it really is going to be the dynamics of the way we reach towards something, not what we think as this swinging forceful motion, but something that actually is quite effortless and natural. So, that starting exercise that I start with everybody is is I take a range I take a range basket like so, and I just kind of put it on the ground in front of them. I say, “Hey, get in your basic kind of golf setup.” And I ask them, “Okay, can you just simply, you know, touch the basket?” And after a while, you know, sometimes they the first thing they do, they’re very cautious with it. But as I just have them keep doing it, what generally starts to happen is it goes from this kind of linear cautious motion to a more relaxed, easy motion. And the more I ask them to do it a little quicker, the more naturally the body actually responds. So when we reach, we allow something to surge ahead. And we don’t pull on anything and we don’t pull push on anything. This is the dynamics of movement in the gravity of earth that our body is instinctively good at doing. It allows the natural pressure in our body to create a reaching extending movement. Okay? And it’s never in a line. It’s always in a curve. [Music]
Related Posts
