Monday, November 16, 2009

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.

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