I’m spending 2-3 hours each day editing and reviewing my golf instruction transcripts. I like to have everything specified before recording. Reading, writing and editing the transcripts is a fascinating experience.

Imagining the Golf Swing

I find that I have to imagine the movements and the golf swing dynamics as I write. This detailed imagining has effects on my posture and movement just as if I had done the sessions. I expect this type of experience when creating Feldenkrais-based sessions. However, the golf transcripts have a much greater affect than the other products that I have created.

Perhaps because many of the golf sessions are done in a standing posture? Perhaps because a golf swing is such a complex movement? Perhaps because it is winter and I am not near a course – having to imagine every detail of the golf environment?

I’m not quite sure, but I am intrigued. I have 6 session so far, each done with a golf club and each working on a different sensory motor movement patterns related to the swing. Next, I will design 6 “floor” sessions, each designed to work with swing dynamics outside of our usual vertical relationship to gravity.

More to come – Ryan

This week, I have been working on updating my golf swing instruction mp3’s. I’m starting with a series of 6 transcripts, each of which is based on a crucial movement pattern related to golfing.

Improve Your Golf Swing

Not only is the golf swing a very complex movement, but many of us learned to swing under non-optimal conditions. That is, we learned it via imitating someone else, through copying or through an external “authority” telling us how to swing and critiquing what we were doing.

Golf From The “Inside”

Those type of learning techniques do have some small utility. But the best way our bodies learn is through feeling the movement from the inside out. That is, feeling, sensing and and adjusting, based on our own unique movement patterns. Learning to improve your golf swing in this way, is similar to how you learned to crawl and walk as a child – you learned it from experimenting. You didn’t read a book called, “Crawling For Dummies.” You learned it by being in a situation that required you to learn.

My golf swing instruction mp3’s have a similar focus – putting you in safe, yet challenging situations in which you and your body and mind can learn new ways of moving and coordinating your swing.

Stay tuned.

And for those of you who are practitioners of one kind or another, I will be selling not only the golf mp3’s, but also the transcripts. That way, you can more easily begin to offer your own golf workshops.

cheers! – Ryan

Swinging Away In Paradise.

Welcome to the relaunch of mygolfmp3.com. We have a 3-year history, interrupted by several months of downtime. More to come – Ryan