My ebook, The Alexander Technique Applied to the Golf Technique of Tiger Woods, is published on this website in a PDF format. It is very detailed and practical, and it will give you the physical tools you need to take the limits off of your ability to play golf with ease, power, pain-free, and with accuracy.
This ebook is also for sale on all AMAZON websites in a KINDLE format.
Located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A. (MOVEMENT THERAPY)
Primary Control is the basis of organized coordinated golf playing in the Alexander Technique. When a golfer is playing golf with the most organized elegant movement possible, then the head is leading the golfer’s spine into lengthening, as the arms and hands move from a decompressed, lengthening, diagonally balanced, and aligned spine.
This means that all of the nerves that radiate from the spinal cord have no pressure on them. So, the nerves can send the signals from the brain for movement and/or muscular support, as you play golf, without being slowed down by the vertebrae and muscles pinching the nerves.
The brain and spinal cord always organize the movement that the body produces, but when the Primary Control is interfered with by muscular tension and compression and poor posture, then that organization is poor organization. THE ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE IS ALL ABOUT THE QUALITY OF A GOLFER’S POSTURE AND TECHNIQUE.
The Alexander Technique recognizes that a huge amount of wear and tear and physical pain playing golf is caused by how you play, not by how long you play.
The assumption in the Alexander Technique is that we are born with an innate ability to move with beautiful Primary Control, and that babies crawl with the head leading a lengthening spine naturally, given that the baby is healthy in a healthy environment.
If you were to observe a 1,000 golfers playing, you’d be hard put to see one golfer playing with beautiful Primary Control (given that none of them had done any Alexander Technique work). What does playing golf without a compromised Primary Control look like?
The golfer pivots fully upright with a mobile body (not trying to HOLD a straight head/neck/torso). The golfer’s neck is free and the golfer is aware that the head is leading a lengthening spine lengthening on a diagonal, which means that the golfer is able to see the ball, as the head continues to lead a lengthening spine upward.
This means that the golfer is completely engaged in playing golf without being pulled downward to the ball. This fully upward mobile posture balancing on the legs, gives the shoulders and arms of the golfer a balanced torso to float on and be supported by, so that the golfer can effortlessly generate the power, control, and accuracy that he or she wants from the club.
When the golfer’s shoulders are floating on a fully lengthening diagonal torso, then the shoulder girdle is free to back up the arms and hands as the golfer swings, and the shoulder girdle doesn’t have to tense up to support itself.
When the golfer’s body is organized by the Primary Control, then the golfer is free to place all of his or her awareness on a golf technique that isn’t being compromised by a compromised Primary Control. In other words, if the golfer’s body is collapsed or over-tense with poor head/neck/spine organization, then the pure specific golf technique of the golfer can never be what it would be, since it is not backed up by a balanced body.
WHEN THE FOUNDATION OF COORDINATED ELEGANT HUMAN MOVEMENT IS COMPROMISED, THEN THE SECONDARY TECHNIQUE OF A SPECIALIZED ACTIVITY, LIKE PLAYING GOLF, WILL NEVER BE AS EFFORTLESS OR AS ACCURATE AS IT COULD BE.
