In Golf, it’s not “What” but “How” that makes you better

I want to thank everyone for their kind comments here on the blog.

As I was reading them, a thought stopped me in my tracks. I realized I was falling into a trap that many instructors are caught up in and taking many innocent golfers with me, so let me apologize and get you back on track before too much damage is done.

Reading the comments on the video of Sergio, I realized that there is an underlying issue that seems to always creep in and I wanted to nip it in the bud. It’s probably my fault because in my analysis, I am talking too much about WHAT Sergio does and not enough about why or most importantly, HOW to fix this issue. I’d like to correct that now so golfers understand the real goal of the Ultimate Golf System.

When you look for help and an instructor tells you that you need to swing the club a certain way, do you ever notice another question in the back of your mind?

The teacher may correct your backswing or some other part of your swing and you hit it well during the lesson, but the next day or maybe next week, you can’t seem to repeat the correction. What question goes through your mind?

Maybe you’re out on the course and you were hitting the ball well on the range, but now you feel as if you have a small tree in your hand rather than a golf club. What is the real question behind the frustration?

The question is HOW do I know if I am doing it right so I can repeat it!

If the instructor is beside you, he can place you in the right positions. If you are looking in a mirror,or a video of your golf swing, many times you can see what’s wrong, but on the golf course, how can you really know?

You see, when things go bad on the golf course, it’s easy to blame the golf swing, because that’s what you use to hit the golf ball. The swing is the problem, but too often, golfers look at their own golf swing as if it is a machine they are operating rather than their own body which is controlled by their own mind.

So instead of asking HOW DO I make it work, many golfers go to the instructor for a lesson to “fix” the swing as if it was an object, something that is detached from the golfer in some way.

So, what if this instruction doesn’t work?

Well gee, there are more types of golf swings to try… pick one. Every instructor has another theory about what you must do to swing the club in a more efficient manner, and they design more swing types every year. This year it’s the Stack and Tilt. Ultimately, someone gets the system to work and voila, it gets credibility!

Hey, I went through this myself for a few years before I got wise.

I woke up one morning and saw the weight loss commercial where the strange looking girl was yelling, “Stop the insanity!” I didn’t need to lose weight, but the message made sense.

I was doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result.

That was insane! I stopped and analyzed the situation and realized that I wasn’t the only golfer who had fallen into this elaborate trap. I looked for answers… for a long time.

Golf Swing Control was never about making a certain “type” of golf swing.

If you follow the routines, your own golf swing emerges. It is the swing meant for your body. It might be one plane or two plane. It might not look pretty, although it usually does, but it works for the individual golfer given their individual situation.

Imagine having three vertebrae in your spine fused.

Do you think your swing will look like the pros?

But if you can play consistently in the 70′s or low 80′s, would you be happy, given the condition? The golfer I’m talking about certainly is, because until I helped him, golf was painful and frustrating. We used routines to find what his body wanted to do within his limitations and now he can enjoy golf.

Everyone has some sort of limitations. Every person is slightly different in their body build. Because of that no two golf swings are alike, and they shouldn’t be. The golf swing has to come from within your body. So the question is, HOW do you find that magic swing?

The golf swing starts in the mind but it happens in the body.

You know what you want to do, but the question is HOW do you know if you are doing it right? To answer that question there has to be a link between the mind and the body that will tell you whether you are doing it right or not. That link is Dynamic Balance Feedback.

You might argue for muscle feedback (or muscle memory), but as muscles get used, their state changes. They go from stiff to loose and back to stiff. They go from cold to warm to overheated. As their state changes, the signals they send to the brain change, so the feedback needs constant adjustments in interpretation if it is to be used accurately.

The Balance sensors in your body, on the other hand, respond to GRAVITY.

They guide the body to react when you are out of balance. If you trip, your body responds instantly. Balance feedback is consistent and reliable and it is the connection between the body and the brain that will answer the real questions about your swing that is causing all of the frustration.

This is important but nobody is saying it. To play golf well, you have to know what’s happening in your body first. You need a way to “check in” and find out if you’re making the natural swing for you. Balance Feedback gives you a way to do this.

If you have Golf Swing Control System, make sure you start using balance feedback for every shot. If you don’t have a copy of Golf Swing Control or The Ultimate Golf System, ask a pro about balance feedback. If he or she can’t answer your question, come back and look at the free videos we have provided for you and watch closely for the references to balance.

You can start working on your balance by viewing these free videos.

There’s more to come, but this is where the secret to unbelievable golf begins. Stay tuned…

Hit’m well,

Tracy

P.S. What are your thoughts? Questions? Please post your comments below…

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