The Golf Swing is Invisible? How the Effects of Intentions are hard to see
What I do isn’t always what you see. What you do isn’t always what I see.
The golf swing is basically invisible. All we ever see are the effects.
A lot of golf development happens at the “effects layer,” which is why it so often fails. The key is to go to the roots of what you do.
In old-school golf, it’s all about how you aim your brain’s intentions towards the engine of the club, hands and arms. This holy trinity, propelled correctly, will make the body react and move by itself.
As an example. The pressure in the ground is a pillar to act upon. When you get you weight over to the lead side in the backswing top position or early downswing you’ve efficiently created more potency for your intentions. You act intentfully towards and with your engine and the rest reacts.
I leave space for momentum (I act sooner than you think in the downswing) to make the club work properly — allowing it to create the desired effects on my body without me having to force it. This is the secret to effortless golf. Work in the inner layer, and you can truly make things happen. Work only in the observable effects, and it only works for a short time.
I’m fully into old school golf swing mechanics and I get them to work through simple intentional concepts. This is what shapes my motion. Find out more:
Check out the Forgotten Master Moves homepage here.
The FMM Project – the swing style that I teach – has it’s overview page here.