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| Your general thoughts are appreciated.
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Expert Yogi
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| It's good. 
OK - a bit more  Golf is a one-sided sport and yoga promotes balance in the body. Golf requires strength with flexibility and co-ordination - yoga provides this. Golf requires focus, concentration and the ability to block out external stimuli - again a perfect match with yoga.
More specifically, I know a local player who benefitted immensely from practicing yoga. |
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| I believe a saw a book at Barnes and Noble with that title. |
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| I read that David Duval practices regularly. It is awesome for balance, flexibility, and especially for improving range of motion. And of course, mental focus!
BE THE BALL! |
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| I believe there were a few references to pro golfers in "Real Men Do Yoga."
One of the key components in a long drive is being able to generate a strong force on the ball. Force is a function of distance over time. By increasing the Range of Motion (ROM) you effectively increase the distance the club travels. Therefore you are able to increase the distance variable. Also learning to relax the muscles and connect the different muscle groups is helped by imprinting greater neuroendocrine stimuli on the body through coordinated functional movements, like those found in yoga. Therefore, you move more relaxed and efficiently, i.e. faster. Thus decreasing the speed variable.
Greater distance over faster speed equals greater force which translates into longer drives.
Edited by YogaGuy 2005-03-29 1:30 PM
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| for all you CNN viewers...there is a program called "living golf"- i hope that is right!
this week's episode is on YOGA! CNNj is on a different time schedule (it is on monday here - so i think that it will air on sunday in the states...but you can always check their website) |
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| The reason why I was asking is I have been asked to conduct a class for golfers at a local gym. (Which I have begun, and the students are great)The facilitator of the program is a local golf pro who is under the impression he and his partner originated the idea. Truth be told, people have been coorelating golf with sports for years now as we all know. What's interesting was the shock when I shared with him my findings on the net, and with other sources of just how many people practice yoga to improve their game in lots of games. It just always suprises me when speaking with people how little they know about what a huge community yogi's have with one another and how we're sharing our love of the practice in many forms. I'm still undecided on my view of teaching outside of tradition, but everyone starts somewhere, right?
Be well, and thank you for your input.
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Expert Yogi
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| How are you teaching out of tradition? Maybe I should ask what tradition you teach from  |
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yoga for golf....
