Frank and the video of his swing

Frank a sheet metal worker had taken a few golf lessons. Each lesson went the same, I would give my instruction and then Gus his friend would give him either his version of my lesson or tell him ten mechanical things to do.
One day Frank walks into the shop and tells me that he had seen pictures of his swing and that it looked terrible. He said, his club would come straight up and it looked like he wasn’t taking the club away long enough, said he was going to try and take the club away slow and low for the first foot.
O.K., “I said, how long do you intend to do that? How many buckets of balls are you going to hit in next few weeks to fix that pesky problem?
“I hit a few buckets a week”.
Did you know that according to the PGA it takes up to forty- hours to change muscle-memory? Three buckets a week would take you over twelve weeks to accomplish that. What are you going to do when you forget to do it?
“I won’t forget to do it”, he said.
“How do you know if you are doing it correct if you don’t have the camera on you videoing every shot you take? How do you know if you are not correcting one thing and screwing up another?”
A mechanic named Bob was listening in. I turned to Bob and asked, “If I looked at an engine or listened to an engine would I be able to determine what is wrong or right with my car”.
Bob said, “you should be able too”.
I told Bob, “I’m not a mechanic”, and that, “I didn’t understand the first thing about such things.”
Bob said, “well, then you might have a problem”.
I said, “Bob would it be easier for me, as a layman, to feel the performance of the car rather than trying to fix something I know little of? Isn’t it easier to tell if the car is out of alignment then it might be to determine any real malfunction of the vehicle?
Frank understood where I was going but then again Frank likes to tinker with “things”, you could see it in his eyes.
Oh well?


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The moral of the story:

Remember the movie staring Tom Cruise, Rolling Thunder, he didn’t know a thing about cars but he knew how to drive fast. As a player, it might be better to think of yourself as the driver of the car rather than the mechanic. Beside, didn’t Cruise get the girl?

The Trappings of Mechanically based cause and effects golf lessons.

Question: What is a pro really doing through CAUSAL approach to golf lessons?

Answer: Manipulating the structure of your body to produce "the proper swing path", to “time” the clubface to meet the ball squarely. When the Golf Professional adjusts timing through mechanics without telling the student how to do it or what is happening S/he leaves the student dependent on endless adjustments.

The problem with this logic: the professional did not learn this way. S/he was born to do it, to hit a golf ball with a stick toward a target, in the same way you were born to be a computer analyst, a doctor, a sleezy lawyer, a writer, a painter, a truck drivier, a carpenter.

-You do not have the Professionals athleticism
-You do not have the Professionals timing and rhythm.
-You do not have the Professionals talent
-You do not have the Professionals hand-eye coordination
-You do not have the Professionals work ethic
-You do not have as much time to put into the game of golf as did the professional.

BUT most golf professionals TREAT YOU AS IF YOU DO!

And it is not because they are trying to take advantage of you...they just don’t know any better. They don’t have the training I do in NLP or Hypnosis.

I am sincerely sorry, but unlike what the NIKE commercial may say;

you are not Tiger Woods!

So then what do you have to do..,What do we have to do? What does a golf professional have to do to get you to hit the ball better, to play better golf?

Show you how the tools work, the tools being:

The Clubs
The Ball
The Course
and you...that’s right the pro has to show you how you work; what your habits are, what the path of least resistence is...in your particular instance and then...


Talk your language. It does you little good if the only one that understands anything in said during the lesson is the pro.

Just because the pro knows how doesn’t mean he can communicate how he does it.

More about this later...you can just read something my buddy Twenty Twenty wrote for me a few days ago... tomorrow or the next day.

just checked out my google analytics...

I find all this 'stuff' fascinating. I have gotten over a hundred hits on my website and only one sale.
Most people and especially internet marketeers would find that number maybe a little skinny.
I find it more than a bit humorous.

Here is the throw down:

I have a challenge for you. Let's say you go to my site because you are curious about who the ungolf pro is or what the ungolf pro is all about and you look around and quench your curiosity. That is fine.
I have little issue with it.

Actually, I have little issue with what any of you do.

Just like when giving private sessions of golf to my clientel I am not attached to the outcome.
One of the many things I have leaned from playing golf.

non-attachment.

Now, if you are interested in playing better golf. If you are a baseball player and want to play better golf and are too cheap to buy this $12 product then I can't help but laugh because it would be the best thing you eve did for your golf game.

The lessons are simple and they are doable.

I would place this type of communication against anyone in the world.

Hey, my fantasy golf lesson is with Charles Barkley. I would not fix him as would all the other golf professionals.
That is just not where my head is at.

I am not into fixing anyone. God knows how many golf professionals not to mention girlfriends have attempted to fix me.

Just frustrates the hell out of me.

What I would do is talk to him.
Notice what his tendencies are...
and move to the path of least resistence.

That's the best anyone can do.

Look at what Hank Haney put Charles through.

A matter of fact, if anyone knows Charles Barkley I will bet $10,000 I can show Charles how he works best so that he can play competent golf in one session. The session would be no less than 1 hour and no more then 3 hours.

I am not into torture after all. I am a golf pro not Vlad the Impailer.

But I degress...

If you are into learning about golf and you are a baseball player than go to my webpage and download the free lessons and try them out.

See if they work. If they do not then stop right there, do not pass go, do not collect $200, but if they do then do yourself a favor and buy the books.

12 bucks isn't going to change my life. 12 bucks just might change your golf game and how you perceive the world.

ciao

Golf Sessions Vs. Golf Lessons

While giving a 14 year old student of mine a golf lesson she blurted out something about, Perfect practice makes a perfect swing or whatever that axiom is...

So I laugh and being the sensitive girl she is says, what’s the matter you don’t believe in that?

I said, No, but there is way too much wrong with that idea.

She said, Like what?

I said, For one.., you cannot see yourself so...

And then unless you feel what you are working on...but then there is another axiom, “feel and real or often different” so...

The other is that is takes repsonsibility off of the instructor. I have actually heard a pro say something like this to a student: Well, if you didn’t practice perfectly or enough or whatever then the onus is on you not the instructor.

And then she says, “information is power”.

I laughed.

She siad, “What you don’t believe in that either?”

I said, “No that is a wonderful idea but axioms usually end at then end of the sentence where the period is.”

She questioned what I meant. She asked what I meant.

I said, with axioms, just like with most advice the action usually doesn’t move beyond the flapping of the lips; and they are soon forgotten or cloud or manipulate the issue.
Just like, you need to practice perfectly. What you need to do is to have fun and feel.

Then we felt the clubhead throughout the swing and...good things happened.