Most golfers spend years trying to build somebody else's swing. They copy a professional they admire, they take a lesson built on a model, and they work patiently against the way their own body wants to move. Then they wonder why the good rounds never repeat. Grounded and aerial in the swing A grounded golfer stays low, keeps pressure into the ground and builds the swing from the feet upwards. Their rhythm is generally slower to start and their power comes from resistance aga

Land midfoot. Raise your cadence. Lean from the ankles. If you run, somebody has given you this advice. Some runners hear it and improve within a week. Others follow it to the letter and end up slower, heavier and more tired than before. The advice is not wrong. It is simply written for one kind of runner. Two engines, one sport A grounded runner spends longer in contact with the ground, drives backwards, and generates power through the hips and thighs. They tend to feel stro

Two people can be taught the same movement, practise it for the same number of hours, and still end up moving very differently. Not because one of them tried harder. Because their bodies were never going to organise that movement the same way. What a motor preference is A motor preference is a spontaneous way of organising movement: the posture you fall into when nobody is watching, the foot you push off first, the way your weight travels when you reach for something. It sits