Maintaining balance is often discussed as a key to making a good golf swing, but what you rarely hear about is proprioception. What is it? Tiger Woods' swing coach Sean Foley explains.
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A Lesson In Footwork with Sean Foley-Fitness Friday-Golf Digest
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no need to say too much!! you can just demo some full swings, then we can tell what level you have
Fuck you Foley..
Not a big fan of the dipsy do!!
I love how some of you are too good to be enlightened or even educated on certain things. If you don't understand what he's saying and even some terminology… it takes less than 1 second to google things and expand your knowledge.
If you wanna be treated like a baby… go to the local municipal course and I'm sure some "pro" would love to take your money.
Butch Harmon, said the key to being a good teacher is being able to communicate your message as if you were speaking to a 3 year old. It's the fastest way for a player to improve and to grasp your idea. Common sense and simple. That's one of the reasons you would see Tiger progressively improve throughout the course of a tournament. Butch could help him make an adjustment very quickly and Tiger could adjust on the fly. Nowadays, Tiger's scoring average gets progressively worse each day of the tournament. This guy tries to over-complicates things to absurdity so he comes off as some guiding light or something. Way to overcomplicated terminology for such a basic move. IMO
This guy always discusses the philosophy/concept in his tips but never says how to execute it. Reminds of the coach who couldn't help me improve, so I had to go dig it out of the dirt all by my lonesome. It eventually paid off. Now I can match up a lot of feelings to a lot of philosophies and concepts. Not many people learned the way I did.
He isn't describing balance, he's describing how to use the ground as leverage for power and stability.
This guy's a rock star.
barefoot is good but roller skates are far better
i like to practise naked, that way you know which parts are moving correctly in the swing.
Tibia is a bone foley
What a clown. He is describing such a basic concept in golf (balance) using advanced terminology. WTF is the point of doing so? Only to sound like he is some sort of wizard. I guess if these pros are buying his bullshit….we should all strive to be con artists by using big terminology as well. I studied Kinesiology at one of the countries best univ. for physical education.
There are tibia muscles
you tell me an golf instructor that can potentially make a million dollars a week. he's only got a few years left until he's 50. maybe he will do it after he pokes around on the senior tour a bit, but really, even tiger said stricker fixed his putting. it's not just hearsay.
I heard Sam Snead's comment on bare feet and did so at practice one time… actulayy because I forgot my shoes! I had a little trouble getting it right, partly because I was so self conscious… I felt like a dork hitting in bare feet! :0
loosen up your collar sean nerd foley and use words we can understand. and no one should be walking around a golf course bare footed, bad idea.
everyone needs to stop saying "thank steve stricker". tell me how stricker fixed tiger's putting in 5 minutes which caused him to win the tournament??? if stricker is that good of an instructor he should quit his day job.
Say what you will about Sean "trying to sound smart", describing a golf swing is hard if not impossible. What he says is specific. It's not only what to do but how to execute it. The language and concepts are worth looking up to truly understand what he's trying to convey.
are those nike socks 🙂
i went to medical school. the professor said that the best way to think of proprioreception is to turn off the lights in front of the mirror and make a pose,…walk like an egyptian, spirit fingers, whatever you want…..in the dark you can somehow still sense the position of your joints in space relative to gravity but also relative to each other…..we can feel a 40 degree bend at the elbow versus a 90 degree bend, dont you agree? if you cant, then you should see a neurologist
not necessarily a knock on sean…but tiger can win with any swing. he won at bay hill hitting the least amount of fairways in the field. thank steve stricker for giving tiger that little putting lesson 😉
lol, he's not trying to sound smart. He is smart, unlike somebody on this thread.
tibia is a bone…
haha, yeah i can imagine that. but better than practice without your pants on…lol
I've done it and some kids walked by and saw me and started snickering like I was an idiot. If only they knew that the great Sam Snead learned to play golf barefoot. Hell, they probably don't even know who he is.
You do nto get where Sean is by tlaking smack. Dude has some knowledge of the seing and how the body sorks to perform it. May sound like Latin to most of us but, take the time to understand it makes perfect sense when trying to make a swing efficiant and easily repeateable. Good work Sean, Tiger is a Tournamenet away from #1 agin thanks to you. Sorry Rors, you were only a visitor to the throne.
and why do you think tiger picked him? cheers
only very few people i have seen practice without their shoes….will try more often.
Balance is soo important. How about a review of the CLUBnGO. Why carry all those golf clubs?