Liam Robinson is the European coach telling golfers to stop chasing positions and start moving like athletes. But does his “movement-first” philosophy actually hold up in real swings, or is it just another trend?
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Let me know who’s next. 👇
Which coach or method should we break down next episode?
and i don't even release it properly yet. next thing that he needs to fix
he is my coach. he is brilliant and very different to many coaches i have seen before. Crunching shots properly now
Can you review Good Golf Coaching? His material is completely different than what you normally hear on YouTube
It actually comes from an Australian coach Gary Barter who is coach of Matt Jones who has won on the PGA tour and went across to LIV.
I subscribed to his methods a few months back. Playing the best golf of my life, but like you said I'm naturally athletic with good movement/hand-eye so maybe that is why it's successful for me! Now if I could only putt well…lol.
It just makes sense what his says and it works
Liam has been coaching me this year. I'm 65 and he has got me to play my best golf. I won our club championship by 6 shots! He's brilliant….
Liam is ok but too technical.
These days I hold up garlic and a silver stake when a coaching video comes on 🦇 to my stream so can't help you their. Yes it looks like a slipped disc for some of us or in my case collapsing right knee and ankle if I tried his drills 🩼🩼 yours in ⛳
I like warren Bennett's swing . His YT channel is excellent too .
His drills can make for a more athletic swing and are worth giving it a try. He believes in moving more laterally than I prefer, so I don't follow that piece of advice. What do you think Tony?
Love Liam’s use of towels.
"Instagram slow-mo's don't lie" is a true statement indeed.
I am very adept at compensations. Every damned round, I search for which one of the multitude of compensations I've thought was the golden key in the past will produce pure contact and consistency. I have resigned myself that my key to distance will forever the forward tees and the cart path.
Have you analyzed Overhand Golf yet? https://youtube.com/shorts/6HHE15chQgw?si=yOMi8aFEAzdpyEkq
Divots are a good indicator of where your swing is going
For me the Towel Wacker is one of the best out there But unless you can be bothered to put the effort in to learn to bounce a ball on a wedge dont bother
Have you ever done World class golf instruction, Craig Hanson and Dr Robert J Neal, he's got a massive following, based on tour pros stills and positions.
Great stuff again Tony from the UK.
Im a fan of Liams motion based concepts.
Not everyone seems to know that Liam was also a DP Tour player for a while.
Unfortunately, movement first will not shallow the club for many people struggling with Ott o>i swing, cause they often have a visual misunderstanding what the arms do in the downswing and pull lead arm diagonal to the ball.
So imo this concept only can work if you have the right idea about a golf swing (in context to the arms)
How about Mike Dunaway protege of Mike Austin?
I would be curious to hear your analysis of Emanuel Da La Torre and his mentor Ernest Jones teaching methods. They focused on club movement rather than body positions.
Golf is a sport, game and exercise. Some people will laugh at the exercise label. Robin Williams was excellent at that. But even though we scoff at the idea, deep down golfers get it. It’s exercise. Pilates and yoga are generally considered exercise. Swimming blurs the line between sport and exercise, as does running 🏃. So the question is what do you give priority to? Do you prioritise the game? These golfers 🏌️ often excuse their slow play by calling it a Game. Do you prioritise the Sport aspect? Is being there on day four so important you will live on pain killers just to get to the first tee. Or do you place the exercise part first. For example, a weight lifter enjoys the effort, the accomplishment of lifting huge weights, but technique MUST take priority over the fun 🤩 or shit 💩 don’t stick like it should. Golfers 🏌️ ignore the exercise aspects of golf ⛳️. There’s rarely a balance between left and right. Lifters will NEVER just work their right hand arm and shoulder… but golfers do it all the time. Lifting weights makes you strong for lifting weights. This can help golf ⛳️. But in my experience it masks problems that surface later. Then we get operators to fuse joints and stuff. Just ask TW… Golfers 🏌️ need to prioritise the exercise aspects of golf. Listening to your body when you swing. Swing both ways to balance the exercise. Watch your swing when you can to balance it. I’m boring you… Bruce Lee had it worked out. His 1” punch is about the exercise and the balance of of the body working in unison. Treat golf ⛳️ as an exercise, and the rest will come with relaxation. 🤣
I love his METHODS such as using towel drills to get mind and body out of static habits
FWIW @liongolfacademy, you, GRF golf, and liam robinson are the only youtube golf channels I pay attention to. Great to see the honest breakdown. I trust Tony for the setup advice and understanding cause and effect (and for just being a Dude), and the other guys for learning how to feel an effective motion (with consistent messaging, unlike 'tip of the week' type youtubers).
thanks Tony, got my fix of your humor and irrefutable logic lol! I'm 62 I started golf at 16 I had 2 awesome teachers who pretty much only taught me grip-aim-alignment from the beginning and so I have always had a pretty orthodox swing that worked well but those 2 fine gents plus the teacher in chief at Golf Digest (when magazines and books were popular) Bob Toski were "arms swing body follows" so that is what I did, then, in my late twenties I became a sports biomechanist (not golf but sprinting) and of course went down the Kinetic chain, kinetic link principle, Sequential Segmental Rotation rabbit hole of legs drive the sequence torso arms and wrists speed it up but now I make sure my posture is primed ready at address (much of what Ben Hogan espoused) for me to just swing the handle and helped massively with ball and equipment progression and 40 years of training I definitely hit the ball better now. So gone full circle but thank goodness I had teachers that ingrained the fundamentals as boring as I thought that was "Just tell me the secret swing thought …..PLEASE"