Showing posts with label golf swing instruction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label golf swing instruction. Show all posts

Sunday, January 3, 2010

Does Your Golf Swing Slip Away On The Golf Course?

Maybe you've been here...

You know you have a big match coming up this weekend, so you spend nights at the driving range refining your golf swing. You practice your short game and your putting. You know in your mind that you can play better than you have so far this season and this week you're going to be ready.

Although you were nervous, you pulled off a great drive on the first hole. On the golf course, you're playing like a well oiled machine. It's the best round yet and then...

A routine shot goes a little sideways and you try to shrug it off. You scramble and save a bogie, but that's to be expected now and then...

The next drive is a little loose and you get that feeling... Oh no, not again!

Then the approach shot; 100 yards, your favorite distance and chunk!

What the!!!

Have you been there? I think we all have. I've even seen pros chunk seemingly easy shots.

But that doesn't make it any easier to face the rest of your foursome.

The question is: If you're playing well, what suddenly changes to cause this type of breakdown?

What do golfers usually do when this happens? They usually go to the driving range to work it out. Sometimes they have some serious anger to vent. I've seen golfers do some pretty crazy things after experiencing a meltdown on the golf course, none of which could possibly fix the problem.

Why? Because the problem is where they aren't looking. The problem is in their mind.

IT ISN'T A MENTAL PROBLEM THOUGH...

No, it's HOW they are using their mind. Let me explain.

What do you do when that first shot gets a little squirrely? You wake up and try to focus a little more on each shot...

But that seems to make things worse? So where can you turn if your increased focus makes things worse?

You know the feeling...

That's the feeling of despair that haunts golfers because there is nothing left and things are getting worse. That's when many golfers start drinking.

I once saw a golfer shoot a 43 on the front 9, get so drunk he could barely speak and turn in a 31 on the back 9 for a total 74. Unbelievable!

Instead of thinking, he took his mind completely out of the picture and ran on auto-pilot... He quit TRYING to focus and let his mind do it naturally.

You see, when you
try to focus, you actually think more and focus less. Let me explain.

Real focus comes from the subconscious, where
trying to focus makes you think more consciously.

This is important because the subconscious brain controls the body's movement, something the conscious mind can't do very well.

So what should you do? Well I don't recommend getting drunk. It rarely works.

The subconscious controls movement by thinking visually, in pictures. That is the secret of focus, thinking in pictures.

But there's still a problem. If you've tried visualizing your swing or maybe the shot without great results, there is a good reason it may not have worked as good as it should have.

You see, the mind also monitors feedback from the body to make sure that the movement is correct. For visualization to work, it must connect with the body's bio-feedback that the brain is using to moderate its movement.

Sounds complicated, but once you see how it works, it's actually easier than any other way of creating consistently accurate shots on the golf course.

What's even better is that once you get in touch with your Bio-feedback, the corresponding pictures come up automatically because your brain already does this for your normal everyday movement.

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Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Duped by the Vast Golf Swing Instruction Industry?

There is a better way to learn and memorize the golf swing. It's not rocket science... Well not any more.

Of course, you'll disagree because you've probably been wondering how the pros make the golf swing look so easy while you try everything in sight and still can't get the results you want.

Are those guys gifted? Were they born with the golf swing gene? No.

But they have something you don't. It is the crucial information that makes the difference between a struggling amateur and the PGA Tour... And they don't want you to have it!

Have you ever heard the term, "Golf Instruction Industry?" Doesn't it make you wonder how it got that way?

Golf is like a drug that you get hooked on, except the drug is self improvement. That's the good news. The bad news is that once you get hooked, you spend an average of $1000 per year to support your habit... Which is why Golf Instruction is now an Industry!

As long as you keep searching for the secret, they know you'll keep buying... I think it's the biggest conspiracy since prohibition... or maybe the "New Coke" fiasco that eventually made Coca-Cola a bunch of money.

Every year, new gadgets come out to help you play better, new instruction "systems" (which by the way is a marketing "hook") come out to give you new hope that you may one day conquer the game and play par golf like the pros... And golfers buy in droves.

As long as golfers keep feeding the machine, there will be a Golf Instruction Industry! Such a travesty!

But I'm not done! You see, they aren't misleading you with bad information. (In most cases) The information they give you will work, but you need one more piece of information, which they leave out.

Worse yet, many golf teachers have no clue that they are doing it! This has been going on so long that the newer teachers are just repeating everything they were told without question as to whether there is a secret.

Feel used yet? You should. You're not off of the hook on this either. If you buy the magazines every month and run out to try the latest tips, you're feeding the machine too. I have an archive of over 20 years of golf magazines. I quit buying them years ago when I saw that they were recycling old tips from ten or so years prior. They are running out of "new discoveries" to sell magazines every month, so they simply give the old ones a new spin. They get away with it because golfers allow it.

Here are the facts: The golf swing has changed little in the last 200 years. Other than adjustments to allow for newer technology and better physical conditioning, they body still moves the same way and biomechanically there is still really one "best" way to swing the club.

So my question to you is: "Why do you keep feeding this giant money sucking golf instruction machine?"

Want to stop? You just need one bit of information. The famous Ben Hogan swing secret. But like everything else, you've been duped on this one too. Hogan did have a secret... But it WAS NOT a physical part of his golf swing!

Hogan's secret was in the mind. It was how he was able to REPEAT consistently his "special golf swing."

That's why until now, it has never been discovered. But as long as the story seems logical, golfers will continue to fall for every Ben Hogan secret that the gurus sell you.

Why can I say this? Because I was in your shoes! I made the journey, but with one difference...

I found the secret and I have demonstrated that it works by getting results from golfers in 35 countries. Yet, because it is not the easy tip that most golfers are looking for, this secret remains a secret to 99% of the golfing population... Because they don't have an open mind!

The secret is in the mind and it is a process your body is already using 24/7! It's right in front of you. It's almost too simple.

So what is it? It's not sports psychology...

Let me know your thoughts...

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Monday, February 19, 2007

The Weak Link in Golf Swing Instruction

What is the weak link in golf swing instruction?

Think about what aggravates you most on the golf course. For me, it's always been inconsistency with my golf swing. There's always one part of the game that isn't working, the irons, the woods, the putter, or the short game. Until I learned better, I always blamed my golf swing for every bad shot and I paid dearly in terms of shear aggravation for years.

Sometimes you learn a new technique during a golf lesson and days later, you can't hit the ball like you did when you learned the technique.

Do you blame the golf instruction or the golf teacher? You should!

Blame them because they really don't care about you! To them it's just an income...

The truth is it's not the golf teacher's fault unless he is a "guru." Why? Because gurus should know better than to give you average or worse instruction knowing you will not be able to recreate the same golf swing even a week later.

Your average golf teacher doesn't have time to do the research he needs to do to solve your problem. If your instructor doesn't realize his methods won't have a lasting effect, he either hasn't been teaching long, or his students don't come back.

Yeah, it's kind of harsh, but if you spent your time constantly re-teaching the same basics to the same students over and over again, wouldn't you look for a better way? If you cared about your students you would!

Well, let me explain what I discovered that leads me to these seemingly vicious accusations and then you tell me what you think...

First, why is it that your golf swing is a little different every time you swing the golf club? The way the swing is memorized is the very reason the swing is never the same. The reason is muscle memory. Every time you swing the golf club, the muscles send feedback to the brain. The idea is that the brain will remember the feedback and use it to recreate the next golf swing. There is one glaring flaw with this system.

Every time you use your muscles, their dynamics change. For example, swinging the club causes the muscles to react by growing, tiring, or getting stiff. As the dynamics change, so does the feedback that the muscles send the brain. So every swing sends different feedback, which means every swing looks different to the brain. Which swing does the brain remember?

Why is this so important? Because for the body to repeat any movement, it has to have some kind of internal map to follow. That map is created based on internal feedback from your body. With Muscle Memory, the internal feedback is never the same, so is there a better way?

Yes, but I'll let you in on it after I hear your thoughts...

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